Upcoming Trainings

Positive Leadership Development Institute

 

PAN and the PLDI Training team will host the next Positive Leadership Development (PLDI) training event February 28 – March 1, 2020: Bored? Get on Board!  This event is open to graduates of the Core Leadership Training (formerly known as “Level I”).

Learn about Bored? Get on Board!

Learn  more about the Positive Leadership Development Institute

 

Workforce Development and Skills Training Events 

Educators’ Forum: Promoting Effective STBBI, HIV, Hepatitis C and Harm Reduction Education with Indigenous People of BC

PAN presents the Educators’ Forum in partnership with the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA). This is a professional development opportunity that gives participants skills and cultural competence in a variety of topics. CATIE, Vancouver Coastal Health, and YouthCO/ Yúusnewas are also partners on the Educators Forum.

The 2019 Forum took place on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Learn more.

The 2020 Educators’ Forum will take place March 3 – 4, 2020.

Regional Training

We provide focused training in partnership with regional health authorities and local community-based member organizations to develop regional-specific skills training.

Learn about our Regional Training that took place in the Interior in the spring of 2019. Our next Regional Training will be on Vancouver Island.

For more information about regional training events, please contact Stacy Leblanc, PAN’s Director of Program development, at [email protected] or 604.968.3160.

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Read summaries of Regional Training events.

 

KnowledgeConnect Webinars


Our webinar series provides ongoing training and information to strengthen organizations and mentor community leaders all over BC. Webinars fall under one (or more) of the these categories:

Advocacy, Policy, Public Health

Health Determinants

Professional Development

Research and Evaluation

Schedule and archives can be viewed on the Webinars page.

 

 

We greatly appreciate the vision of our government funders and their ongoing commitment to supporting the work of the Pacific AIDS Network. In particular we gratefully acknowledge the Public Health Agency of Canada – HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

  • All Program and Projects
  • Positive Leadership Development Institute
  • Training and Leadership
  • Community Based Research
  • Evaluation and Program Science

  • PAN’s Partnership with REACH

    The Research and Evaluation work at Pacific AIDS Network is funded through a partnership with the CIHR CBR Collaborative, a program of REACH 2.0.  REACH 2.0 is “a nation-wide, innovative, virtual laboratory for intervention research, participatory evaluation, and applied program science in HIV, hepatitis C, and other sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections.” The PAN Research and… Read more »

  • What is Community-Based Research?

    “Community-based research is research that is conducted with and for, not on, members of a community.” (Kerry Strand. 2003. Community-Based Research and Higher Education: Principles and Practices, p. xxi) Community-based research (CBR) is a methodological practice that places community partnerships at the forefront. promote an interdisciplinary framework that recognizes the multiple social, economic, political and health… Read more »

  • Community-Based Research at PAN

    PAN’s Community-Based Research (CBR) program facilitates and supports community-based research initiatives and partnerships to address HIV and HCV  in British Columbia and across Canada.  This program is possible thanks to our partnership with and funding from the CIHR Centre for REACH in HIV/AIDS. Through CBR  we work to help foster CBR in the province by linking… Read more »

  • Positive Leadership Development Institute

    One of the key pieces in our Training and Leadership program is the Positive Leadership  Development Institute (PLDI). The purpose of PLDI is to support people living with HIV/AIDS to realize their leadership potential and increase their capacity to participate meaningfully in community life. PLDI features three modules to engage people at various stages of… Read more »

  • KnowledgeConnect Webinars

    As part of our Training and Leadership program, webinar topics are  developed with community input gathered at our annual meeting with people from across BC, through our annual Members and Stakeholder Surveys, and by following public health trends and emerging issues. Our goal is to provide member organizations and the community information they can use… Read more »

  • Evaluation at PAN

    PAN works to facilitate, support and grow participatory evaluation initiatives and associated partnerships that address HIV, HCV and and related issues in British Columbia and across Canada.  This work is made possible through our partnership with and funding from the CIHR Centre for REACH in HIV/AIDS. PAN works within a participatory and community-based evaluation framework: we work to build… Read more »

  • 2017 Fall Conference, PLHIV Forum and AGM

    Each year our Fall Conference focuses on key issues in HIV and HCV work in order to educate, support and connect people working across BC. The annual meeting, Executive Directors’ Summit and People Living with HIV forum also identify and prioritize advocacy issues for PAN to address.  The 2017 event will be October 25 and… Read more »

  • PLDI Leadership Training

    The Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) supports people who are living with HIV to realize their leadership potential and increase their capacity to participate meaningfully in community life. Developed in partnership with the Ontario AIDS Network (OAN), these learning modules have supported many people to go on to pursue paid and volunteer work with new… Read more »

  • How Does PLDI Change People?

    Going on a weekend training with peers who have HIV can be life-changing. People arrive to meet other attendees and often feel nervous and uncertain about what to expect and how they will do. When the weekend program is finished, people  don’t want to leave. But what does happen when people leave? How does PLDI training… Read more »

  • PLDI News

    The Positive Leadership Development Institute News blog covers information about the multi-module PLDI training as well as information about PLDI grads. Some have gone on to work in the HIV sector as researchers, educators, support workers, and more. Read stories on what it’s like to work in community-based research work from someone with lived experience; read… Read more »

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