Webinar Category: Professional Development

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 »

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 »

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 »

KnowledgeConnect Dialogue: Mobile Harm Reduction and the Stimulus Conference

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 »

Stigma Reduction Training Tools and Resources

Moderator: Rachel MacLean, Becky Van Tassel

Recorded On: Wednesday, September 26th, 2018 - 10:00 am

This webinar on STBBI-related stigma reduction as presented by Rachel MacLean of the the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) in Ottawa and Becky Van Tassel from the the Centre for Sexuality in Calgary. They have been working in partnership to develop knowledge translation and training resources that support frontline service professionals in the provision of safer, more… Read more »

Exploring Evaluation (Series of 3)

Presenter: Staff from frontline community organizations and Health Authority, and professional evaluators

Moderator: PAN Evaluation Team

Recorded On: Thursday, January 25th, 2018

  What do you think of when you hear the word ‘evaluation’? We want to support you to see evaluation as an activity that can help you learn about your organization and its programs. Simple questions like “What works well?” and “What could we adapt in our organization to make its programs and processes even… Read more »

Using Shared Measurement in Evaluation

Presenter: Elayne McIvor

Recorded On: Wednesday, November 29th, 2017 - 10:00 am

Supporting Organizational Development  Evaluation provides important information about how your organization is doing in meeting its goals. Establishing shared measures can provide a wider, community-based view of what is and isn’t working for organizations who have similar goals. Elayne McIvor talks about the value of shared measures, PAN’s work to establish such measures for the… Read more »

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Webinar Series Coming Soon

Recorded On: Friday, May 26th, 2017 - 3:24 pm

Our 2017 lineup of webinars will include sessions on HCV, community-based research in practice, putting evaluation to work for organizations, and HIV and aging. We will post information about the webinars on our blog as soon as dates are confirmed. View our PAN Ignite webinar series PLDI Peer Evaluators Impact Evaluation Project Positive Living Positive Homes The… Read more »