Webinars

We offer webinars as live events, or ready to watch on-demand. All sessions aim to support our communities to gain information, skills, and knowledge the strengthen their work. Scroll through for upcoming webinars and past webinars ready to watch when you are.

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KnowledgeConnect Webinar Series

The KnowledgeConnect series helps build capacity, health literacy, and community connections. Sessions may offer insight into new and innovative approaches to work, new research that will contribute to shared community knowledge, advocacy issues, new community resources, or the social determinants of health that affect HIV and hepatitis C.

 

PAN Presents Webinar Series

The PAN Presents series connects PAN member organizations with provincial Health Authority representatives, provincial and federal funding organizations, and representatives from governmental ministries. You can learn the latest information from these voices, and bring your questions to the table in these exchanges.

 

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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.

Upcoming Webinars

Fighting stigma and offering support for people who use meth

Presenter: Jessica Bridgeman and Shane Dallyn

Webinar On: Thursday, June 18th, 2020 - 10:00 am

Crystal meth is a commonly used drug in BC, so HIV, hep C and harm reduction organizations and advocates may well work with people using meth. What do we need to know about crystal meth’s affects on health and spirit to best support people using it? This webinar will look at the use patterns for… Read more »

Hep C in Focus

Webinar On: Thursday, July 16th, 2020 - 9:00 am

Join us for the special event! Hep C in Focus is a special virtual event featuring presentations, community networking, and resources. Registration provides access to all sessions of the day, which is scheduled to include breaks. You may join any of the sessions using the same registration link. Hep C in Focus is produced in… Read more »

The Hepatitis C Leadership Project

Presenter: Monte Strong, plus a peer with the Hepatitis C Leadership Project

Webinar On: Tuesday, June 30th, 2020 - 10:00 am

The Hepatitis C Leadership Project is about modelling and developing the leadership skills and knowledge of lived experience of hepatitis C in BC. This webinar is an opportunity to hear from some members of the project’s advisory committee that is predominantly led by peers. Topics will include concepts & principles that are guiding the project,… Read more »

Past Webinars

PAN Presents: PHSA Hot Topics

Presenter: Jason Wong, Lauren Allan, Jill Pascoe

Recorded On: Thursday, September 12th, 2019 - 10:00 am

PAN welcomed presenters Dr. Jason Wong, Jill Pascoe and Lauren Allan from the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) to talk about topics chosen by our members. This session provided an update on current epidemiology in BC and PHSA women’s services.   Suggested audience: HIV and hepatitis C organization staff and volunteers, especially those working with… Read more »

Near and Far: the Harm Reduction Landscape in the Interior

Presenter: Cheryl Dowden

Recorded On: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 - 10:00 am

Each region in BC is facing its own overdose crisis within this public health emergency. Each region has its own layout of services, and the sheer land area of each region can make it difficult to support everyone who needs harm reduction services. ANKORS has been providing community care and support in the East and… Read more »

Making Connections for Cultural Safety and Humility

Presenter: Andrea Derban, Cherlyn Cortes

Recorded On: Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 - 10:00 am

For groups that are non-Indigenous but work with Indigenous people, there may be some gaps in knowledge about how to best provide culturally sensitive and appropriate support. In this KnowledgeConnect dialogue the topic was how to advance cultural safety through humility, sensitivity, and skills development. Andrea Derban and Cherlyn Cortes of the First Nations Health… Read more »

Hepatitis C Schooling That Connects: Dialogue with Shelley Taylor of CATIE

Presenter: Shelley Taylor

Recorded On: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 - 10:00 am

World Hepatitis Day is honoured every year on July 28, and this year we presented a KnowledgeConnect dialogue webinar will focus on hepatitis C knowledge and skills that connect people across the country. Shelley Taylor, the Regional Health Education Coordinator with CATIE, shared what brought her to working in hepatitis C and what her work… Read more »

PHAC Harm Reduction Fund

Presenter: Joshua Mann (Senior Program Officer, Western Region, PHAC) and Jeff Dodds (Senior Advisor, Program Delivery for PHAC)

Recorded On: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019

At last year’s PAN fall conference, one of the requests we heard at the ED summit was for PAN to facilitate more conversations and potential collaborations across the network when it came to large national and provincial funding calls. In the weeks before PHAC launched its latest solicitation for the Harm Reduction Fund, we worked… Read more »

Measuring Reductions in STBBIs: Your Input Matters

Presenter: Dr. Jason Wong and Jennifer (Evin) Jones

Recorded On: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 - 11:00 am

Help Shape how Canada evaluates its success in addressing HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and other STBBIs!  Reducing the health impact of sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBIs) is a key goal for British Columbia, for Canada, and globally. To support this goal, the Public Health Agency of Canada released a Pan-Canadian STBBI Framework for Action and… Read more »

Pozcast: Supporting PLHIV in their Health

Presenter: James Watson

Recorded On: Tuesday, June 11th, 2019

During Men’s Health Week we sat down with James Watson, the host of Pozcast. The goal of Pozcast is to connect people living with HIV with HIV research in ways that matter. Episodes on men’s health have included HIV and fatherhood, and a series on drug use in the gay men’s community. But it is… Read more »

Creative, Inclusive, Rooted: Supporting Indigenous Youth with Yúusnewas

Presenter: Amanda Tallio and Larissa Wahpooseyan

Recorded On: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 - 11:00 am

YouthCO has been working to reduce the impact of stigma related to HIV and hepatitis C since 1994. YouthCO’s Yúusnewas program is an Indigenous peer-led program. Their work includes workshops on HIV, sexual health and harm reduction in urban and rural communities; Culture is Healing events by and for Indigenous youth in downtown Vancouver; First… Read more »

Options for Sexual Health: Partners for Impact

Presenter: Michelle Fortin and Nicole Pasquino

Recorded On: Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 - 10:00 am

Options for Sexual Health provides BC communities with comprehensive sexual health services through clinics, education programs, and Sex Sense, their free and confidential sexual health resource and referral service. Michelle Fortin and Nicole Pasquino shared how their work can support PAN members in frontline services, as well as provide professional development for staff and volunteers…. Read more »

Shared Vision; Regional Action: Using Collective Impact to Strengthen Services for Women

Presenter: Molly Bannerman, Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative

Recorded On: Wednesday, February 27th, 2019 - 10:00 am

Molly Bannerman, the Provincial Director  of the Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative (WHAI) in Ontario presented a webinar about WHAI’s work to strengthen communities. The WHAI builds capacity in organizations that provide services to women. Working with coordinators in 15 sites, the WHAI uses a collective impact approach to identify key priorities overall and 3-4 priority… Read more »

Catch the News from CBRC Health Summit

Presenters: Jody Jollimore, Michael Haack, Darren Ho

Recorded On: Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 - 10:00 am

Couldn’t make the Community Based Research Centre’s Health Summit? Share in the energy and change generated. The Community Based Research Centre’s Health Summit is a longstanding source for up-to-date research and community check-in on the health of gay, bi, trans, Two-Spirit, queer (GBT2Q), and other men who have sex with men. Researchers from across Canada… Read more »

Project Inclusion: A Human Rights Approach to HIV, Hepatitis C and Overdose Prevention

Presenter: Darcie Bennett

Recorded On: Tuesday, November 20th, 2018 - 10:00 am

Learn what your organization can do to act on the findings of  Project Inclusion, a human rights approach to HIV, HCV and overdose prevention in BC. Pivot traveled to communities in BC to speak with people coping with poverty, homelessness, and substance use about how programs and policies affect their health. Pivot’s Darcie Bennett shares… Read more »