Posted On: Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
Community Action Initiative is inviting all community organizations in BC that provide some form of mental health and / or substance use services to participate in our new 2017 Community Mental Health and Substance Use Sector Survey. We need your help to build upon results from the 2016 survey (results are available here). Findings from… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
Welcome to Project Inclusion – A human rights approach to HIV, HCV and overdose prevention! At Project Inclusion we believe that stigma and exclusion are not inevitable. One key way to prevent HIV, Hepatitis C and overdose is to advance the human rights of people who have been excluded or stigmatized in society as a result of homelessness,… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, January 23rd, 2017
The BCCDC education team is working on the development of an HCV online course for BC health and social care providers. They invite you to complete a 5 minute survey to: · help us assess the demand for an online hepatitis C (HCV) course for health and social care providers in BC · identify and… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
Candice is a mother of three beautiful children (2 biological) ages 21, 4, and 3. She is an aboriginal woman from the Cree/Dene nation. Candice happens to be in recovery from substance abuse going on 7+ years. She was diagnosed as being HIV+ 22 years ago when pregnant with her now 21 years old… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, January 12th, 2017
image by Gabe Boothroyd, The Mainlander, May 31, 2016 The Positive Living, Positive Homes (PLPH) study invites people with experience in the HIV and housing sectors in Greater Vancouver to complete a short online survey. We are particularly interested in hearing from people living with HIV, health and social service providers who work with HIV-positive… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, January 4th, 2017
Darcy joined PAN in the summer of 2016, as one of the new Peer Evaluators working on the PLDI Impact Evaluation team. He comes from a varied career background and is currently a licensed educator and thespian (for anyone who might recall his 2015 Fringe musical – LOCO HERO JOE). Darcy is pleased to have… Read more »
Posted On: Friday, December 16th, 2016
The Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI), a three-module leadership training program led by and for people living with HIV (PLHIV), has delivered 20 sessions of leadership training to over 167 participants in BC since 2009, when PAN’s partnership with the Ontario AIDS Network was established. The purpose of this highly-valued series of three- and four-day… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
On November 2, 2016 Dr. Mark Tyndall, Executive Medical Director of the BC Centre for Disease Control, gave a presentation at AIDS Vancouver Island’s Annual General Meeting outlining the facts about supervised injection sites and what they mean to our communities. His presentation was called Moving Forward with Supervised Injection Sites … Busting the Myths and… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, December 12th, 2016
How could the response to STBBI in Canada be strengthened? We want to hear from you! The Public Health Agency of Canada would like to invite you to complete the following online questionnaire, on potential concrete actions and promising practices to address sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBI) in Canada. This questionnaire was developed… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, December 6th, 2016
Heather is a former staff member of PAN. Heather was hired as a contractor in October 2016 to support PAN’s Evaluation and Community Based Research Programs, thanks to funding from the CBR Collaborative Centre and REACH. Collaborating with PAN staff and the Peer Evaluators on the Positive Leadership Development Institute’s impact evaluation will be a… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
Do you have an Episodic Health Condition? Participate in our Survey! People with episodic disabilities face significant employment and income support issues. Recurring periods of ill health make it difficult to work, especially full-time. Most people with episodic disabilities must rely on health and disability benefits. And due to the strict definitions and policies that… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, October 31st, 2016
What does Stigma mean to you? [easy-image-collage id=19124] The BC People Living with HIV Stigma Index (the Stigma Index) is a dynamic research project in British Columbia, born out of a community-identified need to turn the tide against persistent HIV stigma and discrimination. Linked to the international HIV Stigma Index initiative, it is the first… Read more »
