This is an audio only version of a panel discussion webinar originally broadcast on July 12th, 2021. 

For more information, please visit our website at hsa-bc.ca

What will shelters, housing service providers and other service providers be doing in light of BC's restart plan?

This panel will focus on:
- Updates and context from Dr Daniele Behn-Smith,
Deputy Provincial Health Officer, Indigenous Health
- Worksafe BC guidelines and updates
- plans from shelter and housing providers: capacity, spacing, funding, staffing & programming

This panel is meant to aid service providers and front line organizations as they start to think about how to continue to provide services in the midst of a changing landscape, new rules and proceudres during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Panelists:

Dr Daniele Behn Smith – Deputy Provincial Health Officer, Indigenous Health

Redonna Levis – Occupational Safety Officer, Worksafe BC

Tanya Fader -Director of Housing, PHS Community Services Society

Alison Houwelling – Manager of Education and Community Programs, Turning Points Collaborative Society in Vernon, BC 

BC Housing & Providers: Challenges and Experiences During COVID 19
This podcast is a recording of a webinar panel discussion originally aired on May 5th, 2021. 
For more content, resources and upcoming trainings, please go to hsa-bc.ca 

Topics:

HSABC Webinar Host Sarah Kift speaks with BC Housing, Turning Points and PHS Community Society about the use of hotels and motels as community self-isolation sites & shelter expansions during the pandemic.

In response to the COVID-19, BC Housing worked with regional health authorities, municipal partners and experienced non-profit shelter and housing providers to develop community-based response plans, including the unprecedented use of hotels and community centres.
Join representatives from BC Housing and two shelter providers as they: share data, experiences and stories from the front-lines; discuss the successes, challenges and lessons learned from operating these sites; identify specific tools and approaches that have been useful in transitioning people from motels/hotels to housing; and Q&A with attendees.

Panelists:

• Dominic Flanagan, Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives, BC Housing
• Danielle Scott, A/Director, Supportive Housing & Programs, BC Housing
• Alison Houweling, BA, BSW, MSW, RSW, Manager of Education and Community Programs, Turning Points Collaborative Society
• Tanya Fader, BA, BA Psych, MC, Director of Housing, PHS Community Services Society
• Duncan Higgon, Senior Manager of Housing, PHS Community Services Society

This is an audio only version of an HSABC webinar originally recorded on July 8th, 2020.

For the handouts, video and other resources, please visit us at hsa-bc.ca

The latest research on drug use, the effects on behaviour and skills to help as you support clients with addictions.  This HSABC webinar applies questioning and exploration to understanding, and learning about the physiological effects of certain drugs, including: hallucinogens, depressants, stimulants, anabolic steroids and cannabis.  During this webinar, participants will learn about:

What drugs are being used;
What someone looks like when they are on different types of drugs;
How to assess and manage someone you think is under the influence of drugs; and
How to manage a critical emergency.
The session will give an overview of harm reduction best practices, the overdose crisis and resources available to workers.
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Instructor: Shari McKenzie-Ramsay

Shari McKenzie-Ramsay graduated from UBC as a Registered Nurse in 2015. She works at Lions Gate Hospital as an emergency nurse. Prior to this she was working in Mental Health and Addictions at the Hope Centre (acute psychiatry) and Magnolia House, a mental health transition house. She recently completed a Forensic Nurse Examiner course in Trauma in Health Care through BCIT and is a Take Home Naloxone program educator.

Shari is co-owner of Spiritus Wilderness Medical Training, since 2001, and has been teaching injury prevention since 1992. Shari is passionate about trauma informed care in health care and in a community setting.

This is an audio only recording of an HSABC webinar originally recorded on June 30th, 2020.

For the video recording as well as other resources, please go to hsa-bc.ca
 
Discussion and analysis of the provincial encampment guidelines with Anna Cooper of Pivot Legal, as well as panelists with lived experience of being in a tent city and being displaced. Attention will be given to advocacy, legal rights and considerations, and the stories of those whom these guidelines affect.

Chrissy Brett is an Indigenous activist who has been involved in founding, organizing and running a number of tent cities throughout BC. She fights for the rights of Indigenous homeless peoples to occupy unceded lands. She also stands with homeless settler folks who are forced to live outside. In May 2019 she founded Camp Namegans, which has since become known as “Namegans Nation” – the first urban reserve in Canada. Originally from Nuxalk Nation, Chrissy founded Namegans Nation in recognition that many Indigenous peoples will never know their Nations due to the history of the 60s scoop and other forms of displacement. She was a key organizers at Oppenheimer Tent City and a founding member of Namegans 2.0 (CRAB Park) tent city.
 
Christopher Livingstone is a Mental Health Outreach worker and founding member of the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society (WAHRS), a Director of the Aboriginal Front Door Society, and a previous member of the Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre. Christopher Livingstone is his colonial name. His traditional name is Ukurs Kots’a, that is his traditional hereditary Nisga’a’ name. His work has included doing harm reduction, cultural safety and other supports to  Indigenous Peoples living in tent cities, including at Oppenheimer park. He is also seasoned tent city resident, having lived at the Woodsquat in 2002, Victory Square in 2003, CRAB Park in 2003 and Anita Place in 2019.

Anna Cooper is a Staff lawyer at Pivot Legal Society where she focuses on Pivot’s Homeless People’s Rights campaign. She is a settler lawyer working within the colonial legal tradition to try and advance human rights.

Pivot Legal:

https://www.pivotlegal.org/

This is an audio only version of an HSABC webinar originally broadcast on June 24th, 2020. 

For the video recording as well as other resources, please go to hsa-bc.ca.

Sarah Petrescu, Senior Policy Analyst with the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing walks you through the new Provinicial Guidelines around encampments as well as some practical tips to engage communities and stakeholders, and some history and context for how the guidlines came to be. 

Patrick Pouponneau, with the Portland Hotel Society, will share his experiences around getting people into housing out of the recent Oppenhiemer decampment effort. 

This is an audio only version of an HSABC webinar originally aired on June 23, 2020. 

For the video recording, as well as other resources, please go to hsa-bc.ca


Public health nurse and safe supply advocate Corey Ranger takes us through a review of the last four months and how the sector has changed and adapted in response to the pandemic, and some practical tips and problem solving around a way forward to continue delivering services in this ongoing crisis. 

This is an audio only version of an HSABC webinar originally aired on June 17th, 2020.

For the video recording, handouts and resources, please go to hsa-bc.ca


Residential Tenancy Law 101 webinar reviews the basic principles of residential tenancy law. This Residential Tenancy Law 101 webinar is a learning opportunity that provides participants with specific information about residential security deposits, lease obligations and condition inspection reports. There is also some new materials around the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to laws and moratoriums, etc. 

Presented in partnership with TRAC.

tenants.bc.ca

This is an audio only version of an HSABC Webinar originally broadcast on June 3, 2020. 

For resources, the video recording, handouts and support, go to hsa-bc.ca 


Corey Ranger, Public Health Nurse, and Alynn Gausvik, Senior Director of LA Family Housing, will be on the line to discuss how to safely and compassionately care for people from encampmnets/living outside who are now in emergency housing and hotel rooms being provided by government, and talk challenges, on the ground experience and practical tips for outreach and frontline workers based on their experience with large camps and complex populations in Victoria, BC and Los Angeles. 


Alynn Gausvik has worked in homeless prevention for families, youth housing research and policy development, Housing First for chronically homeless
adults, and now Engagement for families and individuals. She was recently involved in re-homing people from one of Los Angeles' longstanding encampments due to the COVID-19 crisis and is now part of an initiative to house over 700 people in 100 days in L.A. 

Corey Ranger started his nursing career facilitating a blood borne pathogens program in the Edmonton downtown core—since that time, Corey has worked on the Harm Reduction team in downtown Calgary, implemented and coordinated HIV programming in rural Alberta, as well as the take-home naloxone project and supervised consumption services in Medicine Hat. Corey is highly driven and passionate about ethical and evidence-based approaches to public health problems. He has a wealth of experience in both formal and informal education, having acted as instructor/coordinator for the practical nursing program at Medicine Hat College. Most recently, Corey has moved back to Vancouver Island and has taken on the role of project manager for the Provincial Peer Training Curriculum project with the government of British Columbia.  He has most recently been involved in advocacy, systems and frontline work in Victoria's two homeless encampments. 

This is an audio only version of an HSABC Webinar recorded on May 27th, 2020. For the video, handouts and other resources, go to hsa-bc.ca 


This presentation provides the employer information regarding restart of business in BC specifically.  The information includes specific resources and tools to help the employer established policies and procedures in accordance with WorkSafeBC, PHO, and BCCDC.  The focus of the presentation are the tools developed by WorkSafeBC in order for the employer to safety resume work activities for the Phase 2 of BC Restart process and WorkSafeBC’s role during the re-opening of businesses.

Officer Redonna Levis is an Occupational Safety Officer for over 7 years.  She was a healthcare worker for 17 years in California specializing in Occupational Medicine.  In 2007, she moved to Vancouver BC and went to BCIT to pursue OHS Diploma.  Since then, she worked in large organizations as an Occupational Health and Safety Advisor.  In 2013, she became a Board Officer at WorkSafeBC.  Her portfolio specializes in healthcare, community and social services, corrections for adult and youth, and general industry.