Posted On: Friday, April 17th, 2020
Via the Overdose Emergency Response Centre of the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions To support parents who are essential service workers during the response to novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the Province is launching a new process. This process will match parents, who are working on the front lines of B.C.’s COVID-19 response and have children… Read more »
Posted On: Friday, April 17th, 2020
The BC and Yukon Association of Drug War Survivors is working to ensure the “equitable application of public health protections to vulnerable British Columbians” during the dual public health emergencies of drug overdose deaths (declared April 14, 2016) and COVID-19 (declared March 17, 2020). An open letter has been sent to Honourable John Horgan, Premier;… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 9th, 2020
Call for Immediate Action to use Emergency Powers to House all Unhoused BC Residents Pivot Legal Society has released this letter in coalition with several organizations (BC Association of Friendship Centre Societies, CCAP, BC Poverty Reduction Coalition). The letter requests immediate action to address the threat of COVID-19 for people who are unhoused and inadequately… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, April 7th, 2020
Substance Use News provides a snapshot of news and resources for those working to support folks who use substances. We share pieces on the social, medical and political responses to the opioid crisis, from advocacy to welcome change. See our Drug Use and Overdose Response page for resources on overdose services, team resilience, governmental reports, policy recommendations,… Read more »
Posted On: Friday, April 3rd, 2020
Updated April 14, 2020 Following this posting on April 3, PAN received additional information from the BC CDC on hepatitis C testing in the light of COVID-19. BC CDC has released the following memo, Temporary suspension of non-urgent Hepatitis C (HCV) testing. Most recent information appears in memo and below: All non-urgent hepatitis C testing… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, March 31st, 2020
The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness is offering two COVID-19 response webinars: COVID-19 Response for Unsheltered Homeless People Date: April 1, 2020 Time: 11 AM Pacific time In this webinar, Iain De Jong of OrgCode Inc will offer strategies, tools and advice for providing outreach and support to unsheltered homeless people during the COVID-19 pandemic…. Read more »
Posted On: Monday, March 30th, 2020
Date: April 2, 2020 Time: 10 AM Pacific The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a global health emergency. In Canada, the HIV sector is concerned with how COVID-19 will affect people living with HIV and affected communities. We are also concerned about how to effectively sustain a response to HIV during a period of… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, March 19th, 2020
From the BC CfE website: Learning Series Event Audience: General Public Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:30 PM Location: Register online: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2700549397535263243 Objectives: An update on BC-CfE’s position regarding the COVID-19 pandemic An overview of the COVID-19 pandemic, clinical presentations and prevention Information on what the BC-CfE is doing to facilitate access to ART… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, March 16th, 2020
Please Note This was the first statement we published in response to the worldwide changes COVID-19 was bringing to communities. When we published the statement below, we couldn’t have imagined the course of things to come. Since then we’ve developed a set of resource pages. Please refer to them for ongoing developments in BC, rather… Read more »
Posted On: Friday, March 6th, 2020
Pivot is seeking a full-time Community Educator to coordinate, develop and deliver legal education materials and workshops for diverse audiences. The Community Educator works in direct partnership with Pivot’s legal and campaigner team, acting as a knowledge translator, producing plain-language legal information, and undertaking outreach to directly-impacted communities. About us Pivot works in partnership… Read more »
Posted On: Friday, February 28th, 2020
Substance Use News provides a snapshot of news and resources for those working to support folks who use substances. We share pieces on the social, medical and political responses to the opioid crisis, from advocacy to welcome change. See our Drug Use and Overdose Response page for resources on overdose services, team resilience, governmental reports, policy recommendations,… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, February 24th, 2020
New release: Ending conversion therapy in Canada: Survivors, community leaders, researchers, and allies address the current and future states of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression change efforts. This report was developed following a November 2019 Vancouver meeting of 31 conversion therapy survivors, LGBTQ2S community leaders, researchers, and policy advocates. The report comes as… Read more »
