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We are so excited to share that the Province of British Columbia has proclaimed that June is "Brain Injury Awareness Month". Why does this matter? BIAM being recognized on a provincial level reiterates the importance of support, education, and advocacy for brain injury survivors and their families. The proclamation highlights the importance of awareness relating to brain injury, stating public education for prevention is crucial in reducing the prevalence of ABI's. #biam #braininjury #braininjuryawarenessmonth #vbis #victoriabraininjurysociety #awareness #proclamation #bcgovernment #government

In this video, Therapeutic Services Senior Counsellor, Julie Wright, explains what to do if your children want to celebrate Mother's Day, but you don't because you're grieving. Read more of our advice here: https://bit.ly/3uXjRIK

In this video, Therapeutic Services Senior Counsellor, Julie Wright, explains what to do if your children want to celebrate Mother's Day, but you don't because you're grieving. Read more of our advice here: https://bit.ly/3uXjRIK

By sharing stories of living with leukaemia, our Patient Experience Advisory Panel has helped nurses and consultants understand the power that living at home and keeping daily routines has on recovery, mental health and even response to treatment. This Panel is just one of the ways we’re working to understand the challenges faced by leukaemia patients. By giving people the power to have their voices heard, we can help to develop solutions and provide policy recommendations which will make a real difference. ⚡ Do you have the power to help us drive change? Find out more about our Policy and Advocacy work and how you can join our panel at https://lnkd.in/eJFXsAsS

Check out this free webinar featuring Safety team members Dr. Brian Van Brunt and Robert Scholz on Deliberate Practice in Suicidality and Self-Harm. They break down the importance of skill-building, maintaining a therapeutic relationship when the stakes are high, and managing our own fears in the room with a person in crisis. https://lnkd.in/e79DwRxi

In her recent patient perspective column, Kat Landis underscores the critical significance of implementing the principle of "assent," particularly in the context of caring for children with rare diseases. This principle entails securing the child's voluntary agreement to actively participate in medical procedures or treatment, even subsequent to obtaining legal consent from the responsible parents or guardians. “As a kid with a headstrong personality and a natural tendency toward assertive and direct communication, I learned how to force providers to stop, explain steps to me, and listen when I stated I needed a break, change, etc. However, that responsibility should not be on the child going through potentially traumatizing experiences. It should be the full responsibility of the HCP to communicate with the child, explain tasks or steps of procedures in developmentally appropriate terms, ask for permission to touch or move their body and pause or stop when they say so. Children with SMA need to know that they have bodily autonomy. They need to know their words are just as powerful as their able-bodied sibling’s legs.” Read more from Kat here ➡️ https://brnw.ch/21wDGIr #PatientAdvocacy #MedicalEthics #BodilyAutonomy #RareDisease #ChildrensHealth #InformedConsent #PatientEmpowerment

Can a prescription reduce depression, anxiety, loneliness and emergency room utilization? It's what we do everyday! Check out our very own Dr. Elizabeth Markle sharing her experience building clinically integrated #CommunityAsMedicine programs that can reverse chronic conditions and foster connection. 👉 👉 👉 Link in Comments #tedtalks #tedx

Grateful for the opportunity to work with Child and Family Focus Inc. prevention education program to present Shattering Stigma: reframing the image of recovery at Swarthmore College supported by the Delaware County, Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Office of Drug and Alcohol. Confronting the overt and covert stigmatization (discrimination) that people who use drugs and those in recovery face is critical to improving our response to this historic crisis and improve the lives of individuals, families, and communities impacted. The highlight of the event was hearing the lived and living experience of the panelists Kelli Murray CPSS, CRS, SUN, Carla Sofronski, and James Sherman as it relates to drug use and recovery stigma. Some areas we explored were: 1. Why its important to discuss drug use and recovery stigma 2. Personal experience with stigma — its impact on the individual, their families, and their recovery journey. 3. Impact of stigma on their view of self, hope, help seeking, and more. 4. Stigma in the healthcare and criminal legal systems. 5. Solutions to address stigma on the individual and systemic levels 6. Their courage to speak openly about their experience and the most effective ways they've found to share their message and change the narrative #pennsylvania #endoverdose #communityhealth #stigma #publichealth #publicsafety #recovery #harmreduction

Today, on International Overdose Awareness Day, we join many friends around the world to remember the lives of people close to us whom we have lost to overdose. BHCHP staff, especially our harm reduction and street outreach teams, often come face to face with overdose situations. Thanks to medical interventions such as Naloxone, we’re able to quickly reverse opioid overdose and thus prevent overdose deaths. At the same time, we also connect patients to resources and provide medical assistance such as medication assisted treatment, connection to detox and recovery programs, behavioral health, wound care, harm reduction supplies, education, etc As the nation deals with increasing numbers of overdose related deaths, we urge everyone to learn more about this serious public health issue and see how you can play an active role in saving someone’s life. Read the latest blog story on this here. https://bit.ly/3L3RzRP