Upcoming
Step Into Your Power: Discover “Who Am I as a Leader?”
Are you ready to explore your leadership journey in a powerful, supportive space surrounded by nature? The Positive Leadership Development Institute will be hosting their Core Leadership Training in-person at Loon Lake, Maple Ridge, BC on Monday June 1 to Thursday June 4, 2026.
This will be an inspiring four-day, in-person retreat-style setting that supports you in uncovering your leadership potential and connecting with a vibrant network of peers.
What’s at the heart of this training? We’ll explore the core question: “Who Am I as a Leader?” Together, we’ll focus on three key areas:
1. Clarifying your personal values and leadership philosophy
2. Building practical leadership skills and confidence
3. Deepening knowledge of community and collective impact
Cost: Thanks to funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), all costs including accommodations, meals, and transportation are covered for successful applicants. There is no registration fee.
This transformative training is only open to those who have not yet completed PLDI Core Training.
Apply by: May 11th at 4:00 PM PT.
For more information, contact Marc at [email protected] or call (604) 569-1998 and leave a message.
Come for the training. Leave with purpose, connection, and clarity. Learn more.
Webinars: Grief Handiwork – Keeping company with grief across the seasons
These four touchstone sessions will give each of us a chance to notice, reflect on, and chart how grief shifts over time; in our bodies, our work, and our relationships.The next one will be June 17. Learn more.
Recent offerings to watch
Tools for Organizations to Reduce Stigma and Improve Health Outcomes
This virtual capacity building event showcased two exciting projects designed to help community-based organizations deepen their impact, strengthen culturally safer practices, and support stigma-free services for people with lived or living experience(s) of HIV, viral hepatitis, mental health challenges, and/or substance use. Learn more.
Public Health Agency of Canada’s STBBI Partners Meeting Speaker Presentations
At the end of October 2025, the Public Health Agency of Canada held their Community Partner’s Meeting. During the meeting, they shared epidemiological updates and PHAC’s progress on the STBBI Action Plan. They have now shared speaker presentations from this meeting: Supporting Decentralized STBBI Diagnostics: Lowering barriers without compromising quality; STBBI Action Plan Update: STBBI Surveillance Division; Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U): Awareness campaign and knowledge mobilization strategy; STBBI Epidemiology Update (October 2025). Learn more.
Virtual series: The Landscape of Grief: Coping, Connection, and Care
In sexual health and harm reduction, grief is woven into our daily work. We experience it, we witness it, and we walk alongside our communities as they navigate it. We strive to offer compassion and care to others—but how often do we pause to offer the same to ourselves? This virtual series explored how grief shows up in our lives and workplaces. Whether your role is direct support, education, management, advocacy, or caregiving, understanding grief is part of the landscape of what we do. Learn more.
Virtual event: Harm Reduction
Two sessions in our harm reduction virtual event presented the past and the future. The shifting sands of harm reduction in BC and Canada looked at recent developments in the context of the continuing toxic drug supply catastrophe and Vancouver’s history of innovative responses to drug-related harms. Towards the future, Interior Health currently has the only health authority based harm reduction team focusing exclusively on youth. Lesley Coates and Heather Lee shared their challenges and learnings as the team works to shift how youth serving organizations approach substance use. Learn more.
Virtual event: HIV and Aging
This event presented dimensions of the physical, mental, and social aspects of HIV and aging. Two sessions are available on demand: Introduction to the Science of HIV and Aging, and Obstacles and Pathways to Accessing Home and Community Care by Older Adults with HIV/AIDS in BC. Learn more.
Virtual event: Building Team Strength From the Ground Up
This 3-part virtual event to help strengthen organizational growth, from understanding where you are at now, and potential for change. Presentations: Build Your Capacity through Nonprofit Lifecycles, Equitable practices to centre people with lived and living experience in your organization, and Community-responsive transition and change. Learn more.
Webinar: Using Concept Mapping for Empowerment and Advocacy
People who use substances often experience stigma and discrimination when accessing health and social services. This failing of the system can lead to folks not accessing and/or disconnecting from care and support. This webinar presented concept mapping, a process that supports community people where they are at to brainstorm, sort, and rate important concepts for health care models. Learn more.
Webinar: The numbers that should drive effective, responsive, and equitable HIV and STBBI services
As part of awareness events around World AIDS Day and during Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week, we hosted a free online webinar featuring presenters from the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). This STBBI surveillance update highlighted the most recent results and trends concerning HIV, hepatitis C and syphilis, and how you can keep track with the latest on the CPS STIBBI and TB dashboard. Learn more.
Webinar: Building Blocks for Hepatitis and Sexual Health Literacy
We were pleased to work with Cherlyn Manderson Cortes to present a session on hepatitis in recognition of World Hepatitis Day. Cherlyn is a Clinical Nurse Educator at the BC Centre for Disease Control. She presented information on the different strains of hepatitis, transmission, prevention, and treatment. Learn more.
Webinar: Understanding and Navigating Long-Acting (injectable) HIV Treatment and Prevention Options in BC
This webinar featured Health Initiative for Men (HIM), and Ribbon Community with an overview of recent changes to the HIV medication landscape in Canada. This presentation provides frontline staff, educators, and community members with information on long-acting HIV treatment and prevention options, advocacy opportunities, and current realities for accessing long-acting medications for priority populations in BC. Learn more.
View full selection of webinar and virtual events on-demand
For general information about any of our training events, please contact Jennifer Demchuk, PAN’s Director of Capacity Building Initiatives, at [email protected]
For more information about the Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) Western Canada, please contact Marc Seguin, PLDI Manager, at [email protected]
For more information about webinars, please contact Emily Taylor-Lariviere, PAN’s Engagement and Capacity Building Specialist, at [email protected]
We greatly appreciate the vision of our government funders and their ongoing commitment to supporting the work of PAN. 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.