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The Home Care and Community Health Support Pocketbook was created to bring awareness to several health and safety issues faced in home and community care.
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In long-term care it is increasingly apparent that who is on shift is just as important as how many staff are on shift. Quality care is difficult to achieve when we do not routinely engage with one another in a positive, or civil, manner.
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Leading from the Inside Out provides a safe space for leaders in continuing care to share their challenges and learn self-care practices.
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The Provincial Violence Prevention Curriculum is recognized as best-practice in violence prevention training for health care workers.
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WorkSafeBC’s healthcare and social services planned inspection initiative focuses on high-risk activities in the workplace that lead to serious injuries and time-loss claims.
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WorkSafeBC is releasing a discussion paper with proposed amendments to the Current Rehabilitation Services and Claims Manual that guide wage rate decisions related to short-term and long-term disability compensation. Recommended amendments include: These changes may affect your claims costs. Click here to view the proposed changes and offer feedback to WorkSafeBC – The deadline is 4:30 p.m. on Friday, […]
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Demystifying and destigmatizing suicide

This session will explore some common suicide myths, how to use destigmatizing language when talking about suicide, and some essential tools to respond to someone who discloses thoughts of suicide.

Join us for this informative, one-hour webinar where we will demystify and destigmatize talking about suicide. This session will explore some common suicide myths, how to use destigmatizing language when talking about suicide, and some essential tools to respond to someone who discloses thoughts of suicide.

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Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division as the Associate Director, Suicide Prevention and Life Promotion
Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Maria Weaver is a skilled and enthusiastic leader, educator, and facilitator with many years of experience across sectors including higher education, non-profit, and community health. With her experience working front-line and later managing a crisis line, she is adept and compassionate in providing crisis de-escalation, mental health promotion and suicide prevention training and education. Maria works for the Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division as the Associate Director, Suicide Prevention and Life Promotion.

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