Kelty Meet & Greet: To participate: What Child & Youth Mental Health Resources are Available in BC? DATE: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 TIME: 12 --- 1PM Wondering about child and youth mental health resources across the province and in your community? Looking for support for your child and family? Want to learn more about the...

Register now! (https://cdpac.webex.com/)  NOTE: This webinar will be presented in English only. Presentation slides will be made available in both English and French. Want to know more about the status of mental illness in Canada, including national trends? An upcoming webinar will highlight recently-published information from the Public Health Agency of Canada and provide: *...

On behalf of the Fall Prevention Community of Practice, I’d like to invite you to an upcoming webinar that highlights the significant role the Social Determinants of Health play in injury risk and prevention. Information on the webinar content, presenter Diana Daghofer, and how to register can be accessed by clicking here. Registration is limited...

The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) has launched a NEW and EASY way to find active transportation policies in Canada. Visit our Prevention Policies Directory landing page and use the new “tag cloud” of active transportation policy terms to quickly access your specific area of interest. A free, one-hour webinar will be offered on January...

Nothing About Us Without Us: Practices and Tools to Build Community Engagement and Participation   CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Engaging community members in the planning and development of healthier communities can be at once the most difficult and most rewarding thing to accomplish. Join us for this session on the promises and perils of community engagement,...

Calling all change-makers, community leaders and SFU students with a passion for social change! We are offering a FREE workshop for Surrey-based organizations, community members and SFU students working on complex social issues. This workshop will be a dynamic Q&A designed for people who want to learn more about the Collective Impact model or those...

A Global Perspective: Work across Sectors with Positive Results Looking for a framework to guide research or collaborative change in your organization? Seeking ways to engage many sectors to invest in health as a resource? ...Introducing the Circle of Health – An integrated framework that resonates across cultures and sectors and provides a practical application...

Seven days away! The Circle of Health online workshop series for working across sectors with positive results. Don't miss your opportunity to engage in professional development through e-learning to enhance your skills in partnership development, collaborative planning, knowledge exchange and facilitation. 'A Global Perspective: Work Across Sectors with Positive Results' is a five-part online workshop series, conducted by The Quaich,...

We invite you to join First Call and Trevor Linden in celebrating young people and advocates working to improve our foster care system. We are thrilled to be partnering with the Vancouver Foundation’s Fostering Change initiative and the Trevor Linden Foundation to highlight this important issue. EVENT DETAILS! What to Expect: Our Annual First Call...

PHABC is proud to co-sponsor: Children, Youth and Equity in Northern BC What is Health Inequity? Health inequity is when some groups of people carry an unequal burden of illness and disease in comparison to others that is seen as unfair and unjust. Why is it important? It impacts everyone in our community, especially those...

This online event will be offered at no charge. More details to come. www.icid.com

What are gay men hearing and saying about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)? How are they making sense of this information? Is it changing their sexual behaviours? What are the implications for public health practice? ‘Resonance’ is a community-based research project that asked gay men and their service providers what they understood about this new HIV prevention...

Registration https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7983957822254494722 Register with our Virtual Immunization Community for updates and slides Moderator: Dr. Joel Kettner, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FRCPC Medical Director, International Centre for Infectious Diseases; Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba Disease outbreaks and vaccine coverage: How does Canada measure up?   Dr. Julie Bettinger, PhD, MPH Associate Professor in Pediatrics, University...

CRFAIR, in collaboration with the Young Agrarians, has another great Farmer2Farmer conference lined up for you this year. >> Register Here << In addition to the keynote panel that will address the theme with exciting examples of farmers working together for success, we're thrilled to let you know about the amazing set of workshops we...

The focus of this webinar is to provide a high-level overview of the manual and to help teams/groups to start thinking about how they will apply the manual to assess retail food environments in their community or region. Teams will take what they learn from this part and begin thinking through how they can implement...

Injury Syndromics: Modernization of the CHIRPP injury surveillance system  Register and more information at: https://cdpac.webex.com/mw3000/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=cdpac This webinar will review the process undertaken by the Public Health Agency of Canada to modernize the CHIRPP (Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program) injury and poisoning surveillance system. The CHIRPP has been transformed into e-CHIRPP with the ultimate...

Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies 2016 Over the last 20 years there has been an explosion in research in areas of child development, child welfare, infant mental health, and family support. The 2016 conference will continue to lead the field to improve skill development, practice and systems. View the brochure: http://interprofessional.ubc.ca/HealthyMothersHealthyBabies2016/hmhbbrochure.pdf Learn more about registration: http://interprofessional.ubc.ca/HealthyMothersHealthyBabies2016/registration.asp...

Hosted by the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health Frameworks are often used to visually represent complex ideas or concepts. Numerous frameworks exist to help explain the relationship between the social determinants and health experiences and outcomes. The Canadian Council on the Social Determinants of Health, a multi sectoral council commissioned a review of...

A three-part webinar series on lead and public health The drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan has raised public health concerns about lead exposure, the U.S. water supply infrastructure and the authority to enforce safe and sanitary conditions. Join the leadership of the American Public Health Association in a webinar series about the impact of...

Continuing the conversations from the Changing the Menu National School Food Conference, this webinar is an opportunity to continue to work together to change the menu for school food in Canada. This webinar session will provide an opportunity to learn about: - Role of policy to support changing the menu - Policy development for sustainability...

The focus of this webinar is to discuss any challenges that might have arisen, the knowledge translation component of the manual, and additional resources available to communities. Register and more info at: cdpac  

iCON is an exciting initiative that promotes communication between community members and health professionals across the province through interactive public health forums on chronic disease prevention and management as well as the dissemination of culturally-relevant patient educational materials. Please visit www.iconproject.org for more information. This interactive forum will bring together community members, health professionals, and...