BC Centre for Palliative Care

BC Centre for Palliative Care Advancing palliative care through best practices, innovation and collaboration.

Happy Holidays from BC Centre for Palliative Care!As always, all of us at the BC Centre for Palliative Care are deeply g...
12/24/2025

Happy Holidays from BC Centre for Palliative Care!

As always, all of us at the BC Centre for Palliative Care are deeply grateful for our funders and partners who worked alongside us towards our shared vision: ensuring people impacted by serious illness across the province receive the compassionate, high-quality care they deserve.

Whether we are developing new resources, expanding research, growing palliative care education or creating new networking opportunities, our success rests firmly on a foundation of collaboration, fuelled by creativity, collective energy and diverse points of view.

Our deepest thanks to all of you – our partners and collaborators – for your contributions over the last year. Working together, we can continue to make a meaningful impact on the lives of British Columbians affected by serious illness, caregiving and grief experiences.

As we approach the end of 2025, we hope that you will have a season filled with light and joy, spent with those you hold dear.

Flex your Core (competencies that is) with us in these virtual sessions starting Jan 15thOur foundational series for all...
12/19/2025

Flex your Core (competencies that is) with us in these virtual sessions starting Jan 15th

Our foundational series for all Health Care Providers, these sessions follow the palliative core competencies and offer a multi-disciplinary learning opportunity to discuss incorporating the palliative approach to care into your daily practice in any clinical setting. Sessions are 60mins.

Find out more and register for upcoming sessions: https://www.bc-cpc.ca/echo-project-new-home/ #1675118097589-919f747d-42d75552-ec7d

This week, we remember and honour individuals experiencing homelessness who have passed away. Here are a few ways to mar...
12/18/2025

This week, we remember and honour individuals experiencing homelessness who have passed away. Here are a few ways to mark

Join the Homeless Persons' Memorial Day virtual event to reflect, remember those who have died and to resolve to work for a world where no life is lived or lost in homelessness.
🗓 Today, Dec 18 @ 1 pm CST (11 am PST)
https://events.zoom.us/ev/AieKyJpBhtc18w5BipmRTua2C3f5gpfITnBxEP-QO2V6rx_dDSpi~Ak4Fx7JahDUnOGakxWvuU1VH4dlumvPeQuN4fpKWEfmopjD-M8n14b4PUQ

Or hold your own event on Homeless Persons' Memorial Day, observed each year near the winter solstice. he events often include readings of names, candles, prayers, personal remembrances, marches, and moments of silence. Find more info here: https://nhchc.org/consumers/events/homeless-persons-memorial-day/
🗓 Dec 21

🎥 Learn about No Fixed Address: The — a powerful documentary about grief, loss, and resilience in the context of homelessness, and explore supporting resources including toolkits and grief support.
whitecart.ca

December CentrePoint is live! Highlights include:• New pediatric palliative care support guide released• Last call for S...
12/18/2025

December CentrePoint is live! Highlights include:
• New pediatric palliative care support guide released
• Last call for Seed Grants funding — apply by Dec 31!
• What people are saying about ECHO
• The White Cart film screenings
• Healthy Aging CORE funding
• Celebrating volunteers at the heart of compassionate communities
• Upcoming education & ECHO events

Read the full newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/bc-cpc/centrepoint-december2025?e=1bf5223710

12/08/2025

The holiday season can be hard to navigate while grieving. Our past ECHO session explored grief and bereavement during the holidays with Pam Bilusack (BC Bereavement Helpline).

This session is for anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of grief and bereavement to support themselves personally or in their professional careers.

Watch the full session, including the Q&A, personal stories from those with lived experience and how they found support navigating loss during the holidays on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOKhfcKhFXU

Health Canada is highlighting the key role health and social service providers play in supporting people living with ser...
12/04/2025

Health Canada is highlighting the key role health and social service providers play in supporting people living with serious illness and those closest to them through their palliative care and grief awareness campaign.

The campaign encourages providers to start conversations early and offer emotional, physical, social and spiritual support through a palliative approach to care. It also recognizes the importance of helping patients and caregivers navigate grief during illness and after a loss.

Organizations can find updated tools and resources, including posters, infographics, videos and fact sheets to share with colleagues and other partners.

Find all the awareness tools here: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-services-benefits/palliative-care/awareness-tools.html

Implementing the Serious Illness Conversation Program in the East Kootenays🗓️ December 17, 2025Join us to learn about a ...
12/03/2025

Implementing the Serious Illness Conversation Program in the East Kootenays

🗓️ December 17, 2025

Join us to learn about a practical, evidence-based tool enabling clinicians to have more, better and earlier conversations with people.

Presenters will share about the Serious Illness Conversation Program (SICP) Implementation toolkit pilot within a rural community in Interior Health. We will share how this toolkit was developed to support identifying barriers and facilitators to SICP implementation and lessons learned from this pilot that can be applied to other care settings and regions.

Register: https://echo.zoom.us/meeting/register/hYrd457cQb2hHq4q4dVz6w

This seed grant cycle focuses on Seeding and Connecting Compassionate Communities. That means we are looking for project...
12/03/2025

This seed grant cycle focuses on Seeding and Connecting Compassionate Communities. That means we are looking for projects that:

Engage Individuals with serious illness, those approaching end-of-life, family caregivers and/or people experiencing grief or bereavement, especially after a loss in long-term care homes

Support rural communities (10,000–40,000 residents), remote communities (

11/28/2025

🚨ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT!

The Spectrum of Grief in Nursing event will address & explore the diverse & often unspoken experiences of grief across the nursing profession — spanning career stages, specialties & life circumstances — through a rich panel discussion.

Register: RNAO.ca/events/the-spectrum-of-grief-in-nursing-a-panel-discussion

We've revised our Dyspnea Symptom Management Guideline. You'll find comprehensive evidence-based, practice-informed guid...
11/28/2025

We've revised our Dyspnea Symptom Management Guideline. You'll find comprehensive evidence-based, practice-informed guidance for those caring for adults with dyspnea related to advanced, life-limiting illness and those caring for people experiencing dyspnea.

https://bc-cpc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/12-BCPC-Clinical-Best-Practices-colour-Dyspnea.pdf

New with this update:
- A summary document outlining the key recommendations, with associated IDSA-ESMO Levels of Evidence and Strength of Recommendations.
- Links to specific education materials to support safe and effective management of shortness of breath for the individual and their family.

This revised guideline is the product of tremendous support from our expert reviewers.

Over five Seed Grant cycles, BCCPC has:- Invested $510,000 ($4000 per project on average)- Supported 120 compassionate c...
11/27/2025

Over five Seed Grant cycles, BCCPC has:
- Invested $510,000 ($4000 per project on average)
- Supported 120 compassionate communities
- Reached tens of thousands of British Columbians
- And more than 50% of these initiatives are in rural, remote, or First Nation communities.

Are you helping to build compassionate communities? Seed Grants Cycle 6 is now open!

Non-profits can apply for up to $4,500 to continue successful programs, adapt existing services or launch new initiatives for emerging needs.

🗓️ Applications open now until December 31, 2025.

Learn more and apply: https://www.bc-cpc.ca/all-resources/seed-grants-cycle-6/

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