Category: Peer Leadership

Substance Use and Addictions Program Call for Proposals 2023

Posted On: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023

  Via Substance Use and Addictions Program Call for Proposals 2023: Guidelines for applicants   Health Canada’s Substance Use and Addictions Program (SUAP) provides contribution funding to other levels of government and to community-led and not-for-profit organizations in Canada. Health Canada is committed to funding projects that promote diversity and inclusion. Projects that discriminate on… Read more »

Safe, Legal… and Inclusive? Trans Abortion Research Study

Posted On: Monday, October 16th, 2023

Dr. A.J. Lowik is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity. They are currently recruiting participants for their study, “Safe, Legal… and Inclusive?” If you are a trans person aged 14+ and you have accessed, or tried to access, abortion care in Canada, they’d love to hear from you!… Read more »

Share Your Voice: Policing and gender-based violence in BC

Posted On: Friday, October 13th, 2023

Via Battered Women’s Support Services   Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) is excited to announce the launch of our next participatory research project, Colour of Violence II: Race, Gender, and Policing Responses to Gender-Based Violence in BC. We know that police are a primary interface for many survivors of gender-based violence. This project will gather… Read more »

Day of Protest Against Police Brutality: film screening and community meal

Posted On: Friday, October 13th, 2023

You are invited to a film screening and community meal for the Day of Protest Against Police Brutality. On Sunday Oct 22nd, join the Defund 604 Network and #JusticeForJared to mark the annual, international day of protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation! This event is organized by the Defund… Read more »

Summit 2023 Registration Open

Posted On: Monday, October 9th, 2023

Via CBRC CBRC’s annual knowledge exchange and capacity building conference on 2S/LGBTQ+ health research, programming, and advocacy in Canada takes place in Vancouver on November 16-17 at the Coast Coal Harbour Hotel. The Summit aims to promote 2S/LGBTQ+ health care, research, and social services, as well as share best practice applications of, and new research… Read more »

Positive Actions: Breaking HIV Stigma, a new funding opportunity

Posted On: Friday, October 6th, 2023

Via Positive Actions The Positive Actions initiative aims to reduce HIV-related stigma in communities across Canada through the creation of peer-led interventions or positive actions. Our belief is that one small action thas the potential to make signidicant change. The Positive Action you create might be the catalyst needed to break HIV stigma in Canada…. Read more »

Job Posting for NANDU Project Coordinator/ Community Organizer

Posted On: Saturday, September 30th, 2023

  Term: October 15, 2023 – January 15, 2024 Hours: Full time: 35 hr/per wk. Rate of pay: $30/hr.   What is NANDU? NANDU, the Nanaimo Area Network of Drug Users is a membership-led non-profit society. NANDU’s mission is to support, defend and protect the rights of people who use drugs to live free from… Read more »

Substance Use News September 2023

Posted On: Saturday, September 30th, 2023

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 information about alcohol harm reduction. Please check Info for People Who Use Substances to get the latest alerts, and tips on how to stay safe from Toward the Heart. New to… Read more »

2023 AGM and Special Keynote Presentation

Posted On: Friday, September 29th, 2023

  PAN will hold our Annual General Meeting virtually on Thursday, October 19, 2023   REGISTER HERE AND JOIN US FOR ONE OR BOTH PARTS   12 – 1:45 PM AGM Keynote (All welcome!) Keynote Panel on “Safer Supply – what needs to change?” Presentation by Charlene Burmeister (Coalition of Substance Users of the North) and Kurt… Read more »

GLOW Indigenous Health Grant: Guiding Local Opportunities for Wellbeing

Posted On: Friday, September 22nd, 2023

  Via CAAN Communities, Alliances & Networks The GLOW Indigenous Health Grant: Guiding Local Opportunities for Wellbeing is a co-created initiative between CAAN Communities, Alliances & Networks and Gilead Sciences Canada that seeks to advance health equity within Indigenous communities by enhancing engagement in cultural, HIV and viral hepatitis care. Offering a financial commitment of… Read more »

Canada’s Black Justice Strategy: Share Your Views

Posted On: Friday, September 15th, 2023

Via Department of Justice Canada Black people and Black communities continue to live with the effects of prejudice, discrimination, and hatred—from unconscious bias to anti-Black racism, hate crimes and violence. These systemic inequalities have resulted in the overrepresentation of Black people in Canada’s criminal justice system, including as victims of crime. To address these systemic… Read more »

Apply for Positive Leadership Development Institute Core Training!

Posted On: Friday, September 8th, 2023

  The Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) will be hosting an in-person Core Training “Who am I as a Leader?” Thursday October 26th – Sunday October 29th, 2023, on the unceded traditional territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam First Nations in in Vancouver, BC. Please share this leadership learning opportunity widely so that people living with… Read more »