Presenter: Jason Wong, Lauren Allan, Jill Pascoe
Recorded On: Thursday, September 12th, 2019 - 10:00 am
PAN will be hosting presenters from the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) to talk about the topics chosen by our members. We asked people to fill out a short survey to learn about their interests, and as a result, this session will provide update on current epidemiology in BC and PHSA women’s services. These webinars… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 is also… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Presenter: Kim Toombs and Ivan Fletcher
Moderator: Janet Madsen
Recorded On: Wednesday, October 17th, 2018 - 10:00 am
We hosted a dialogue-based webinar with AIDS Vancouver Island’s Kim Toombs and Ivan Fletcher on October 17, 2018. Ivan works in mobile harm reduction and Kim is on the Overdose Outreach team. Ivan and Kim talked about lessons from their work and Kim sahred her experiences from the Stimulus conference on drugs, policy and practice, which took… Read more »
