Posted On: Thursday, May 8th, 2025
PAN is proud to be part of a province-wide initiative to strengthen leadership across BC’s non-profit and social service sectors: BC Social Care Training. Leadership is essential to a strong and resilient social care sector. That’s why we’ve joined other organizations in developing a new platform that connects service providers with highquality supervisory training, grant… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, May 8th, 2025
In anticipation of the upcoming 4th Annual Canadian Viral Hepatitis Elimination Day, Action Hepatitis Canada (AHC) was joined by CanHepC, CanHepC, the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver (CASL), and Liver Canada in Toronto, Ontario to publicly launch the most recent Progress Report. 2025 Report: Progress Toward Viral Hepatitis Elimination in… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, May 5th, 2025
Civil-society organizations are united in asking for sustainable government investments in Indigenous and community-led initiatives to eliminate STBBI. April 25, 2025: CAAN Communities, Alliances & Networks has allied with Canada’s leading civil-society organizations (CSOs) in our advocacy for sustainable funding for community-led organizations working to eliminate sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBI). Our coalition is… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, April 28th, 2025
Substance Use News provides a monthly collection of news and resources on the social, medical and political responses to the toxic drug supply crisis and harm reduction. To get the latest toxic drug safety alerts, visit Info for People Who Use Substances page from Toward the Heart. Get weekly substance use news by subscribing to our newsletter: scroll… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 24th, 2025
Are you ready to explore your leadership journey in a powerful, supportive space surrounded by nature? The Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) invites people living with HIV (PLHIV) in British Columbia to join us for PAN-PLDI Core Leadership Training — an inspiring four-day, in-person retreat-style setting that supports you in uncovering your leadership potential… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Research and evaluation both offer opportunities for learning and community building in meaningful ways. We see research and evaluation like two different trees with different origins that are intertwined in methods and analysis yet also separate in what they can tell us. We see this relationship as beneficial to both evaluation and research. Read more about… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 10th, 2025
A previous Treehouse piece explored Decolonizing Data Analysis Methods which explored various methods to approach data analysis from an Indigenous perspective with learnings from the Making it Work Project. In this resource, we continue the discussion with some ways to communicate out findings by discussing different approaches to knowledge translation. According to Canadian Institutes of… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Evaluation is the systematic process of assessing the value, worth, or quality of something. While evaluation can apply to events, projects, and services, this article focuses on its role in community-based programs. Rather than rigid rules, the evaluation concepts presented here serve to visually organize and make sense of the complexities involved in program assessment…. Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 10th, 2025
In 2014, GetCheckedOnline set out to improve sexually-transmitted and blood-borne infection (STBBI) testing and treatment by removing barriers to sexual health care. It is British Columbia’s (BC) digital testing service for STBBIs operated by the BC Centre for Disease Control and the BC Public Health Laboratory. It was first launched in Vancouver and is now… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 10th, 2025
The Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) is a leadership development program for people living with HIV. One goal of the PLDI Alliance was to evaluate the program for inclusivity and cultural safety in a deliberate, specialized way. Having this goal resulted in the creation of The Culturally Safer HIV Leadership Training Project. The project took… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Purposes of Community-based Research: Supporting communities driving change In general, community-based research can help drive meaningful change by actively involving those directly affected by the issues in the research process. To name a few examples, active involvement can include being a part of: What needs researching How to conduct the research and what methods to… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, March 27th, 2025
Substance Use News provides a monthly collection of news and resources on the social, medical and political responses to the toxic drug supply crisis and harm reduction. To get the latest toxic drug safety alerts, visit Info for People Who Use Substances page from Toward the Heart. Subscribe to our newsletter for information weekly- scroll to the bottom… Read more »
