[Viva] Fwd: PAN Weekly News October 20, 2020

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From: Janet Madsen at PAN <janet at pacificaidsnetwork.org>
Date: Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 8:52 AM
Subject: PAN Weekly News October 20, 2020
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PAN Weekly News October 20, 2020
Welcome to PAN Weekly News. Share your news, events and postings. Submission
deadline is Friday at noon. Send your pieces to Janet Madsen by email.
<Janet at pacificaidsnetwork.org> We welcome submissions but reserve the right
to publish what best supports our mission and membership.
PAN News
The Year in Review: Rising to the Challenges of Our Times
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Our annual review looks at work to address the COVID-19 pandemic, the
overdose crisis, other systemic advocacy issues, as well as providing
reports from each department. In this Message From PAN Leadership, we look
at the how PAN and our member organizations have realized many successes
and acknowledge how it has also been an incredibly challenging year.

Year in Review reports by focus area:

   - Training and Leadership
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   - Community-Based Research
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   - Evaluation
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   - Collective Impact Network
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   - Resources
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5 Questions with Oralia Gómez-Ramírez, Evaluation Coordinator
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Our team has grown! Meet Oralia Gómez-Ramírez, who will be working with
Janice, Paul, Alfiya and Leanne on evaluation projects.

Reminder: Safe Supply and the Role of Community in Saving Lives and
Changing Systems: A Call to Action with Guy Felicella
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We are honoured to have Guy Felicella as this year’s keynote presenter
preceding our AGM. Drawing from his lived experience, tremendous knowledge
and expertise, Guy will provide a historical perspective of harm reduction
in BC and a way for us to make sense not only of the current challenges but
also the opportunities for change that this time affords us. Register now
for this October 22 event
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Hepatitis C Leadership Project Focus Group for PAN members and community
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We are inviting PAN member and non-member organizations to the Hepatitis C
Leadership Project Focus Group. We'd like your input into a pilot
leadership training program we are building for people with lived
experience of hepatitis C in BC. Join us on October 28 or 29.
Community News
Flu Shot Finder
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Want to know more about flu shots and where you can get one? Read on.

Summit 2020: Register Now!
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Registration for CBRC's Summit 2020: Resistance and Responsibility, as well
as the pre-Summit series, is now open! Summit 2020 is taking place online
from November 4-6, and features three days of keynote speakers, workshops,
and presentations to expand our knowledge and skills for strengthening
equity and inclusion throughout our diverse communities.

Conversion Therapy Survey - please share your experiences
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Researchers at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia,
and University of Victoria want to learn from conversion therapy survivors
about how to best support survivors in meeting their social, mental,
emotional, and physical health-related needs. If you have direct experience
or indirect experience (for example, you know someone who attended
conversion therapy) with conversion therapy, live in Canada, and are 19
years of age or older, then you may be interested in sharing about your
experience by completing an online survey. Collecting responses until the
end of October.

HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund and Harm Reduction Fund Review
Committee Recruitment
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PHAC is seeking individuals who would like to participate as members of
External Review Committees for competitive solicitations for time-limited
project funding under the HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund (CAF)
and the Harm Reduction Fund (HRF). PHAC is looking for people living with
HIV, people with lived or living experience of hepatitis C, individuals
from key populations, individuals who work in community-based organizations
and researchers with a range of expertise in STBBI and harm reduction. Deadline
to apply for committee: October 26.
Substance Use News and Advocacy
PAN provides resources on overdose services, team resilience, governmental
reports, policy recommendations, and more on our Drug Use and Overdose
Response
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page.

For current drug alerts and information on overdose prevention services,
please visit Toward the Heart
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Addressing Violence and Overdose Among Women Who Use Drugs—Need for
Structural Interventions
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To inform robust responses to the overdose crisis, research, policy, and
interventions must carefully consider gender-based experiences, including
the unique harm reduction and addiction service needs of women who use
drugs.

Cut Off: Exploring the so-called “overprescribing crisis”
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In 2015, a Crackdown podcast editorial board member was on morphine pills
for his chronic pain. The medication allowed him to find some stability and
avoid Vancouver’s increasingly dangerous drug market. When his doctor
unexpectedly cut down his medication, he turned to the street. Five years
later, Crackdown's Garth Mullins investigates what happened, and what it
can it tell us about North America’s so-called “overprescribing crisis”

Satellite Sites: Providing harm reduction from the homes of people who use
drugs
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New guide from CATIE: Harm Reduction Satellite Sites: A Guide for Operating
Harm Reduction Hubs from the Homes of People Who Use Drugs. The guide was
developed to be helpful for community-based service providers who would
like to develop this kind of programming, or explore other models of
providing health and harm reduction services to people who use drugs,
particularly in residential and other community settings where they are
most needed.

Comic from HIV Legal Network educates about the Good Samaritan Drug
Overdose Act
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This comic illustrates one of our important findings: that while overdoses
are a medical emergency, police are often attending overdose scenes – with
negative consequences for people who use drugs – despite the fact that
police presence has not been requested nor is it warranted.

Consultation on the development of new regulations under the Controlled
Drugs and Substances Act with respect to supervised consumption sites and
services
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Since the HIV Legal Network’s inception, the organization has advocated for
drug policies that respect, protect, and fulfill the human rights of people
who use drugs, including through effective, equitable access to harm
reduction services. We are pleased to make this submission in relation to
the development of new regulations on supervised consumption sites and
services.
COVID-19 Information and Resources
Pandemic is creating a new type of homelessness, says outreach worker
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A Halifax-based street outreach worker says that since the pandemic
started, he's met more and more people who have likely become homeless for
the first time. But some people, like Raquel, have found relief at a
shelter that opened in her city because of the pandemic.
BC Election October 24
Voting Safely and COVID-19
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Information from Elections BC on making voting safe so that voters don’t
have to choose between safeguarding their health and exercising their right
to vote.

BC leaders' answers on white privilege prompt concerns about their grasp of
racism issues
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CBC journalist Wawmeesh Hamilton pointed out that the only mention of
reconciliation came during discussion of energy projects. "I began to
wonder, with no mention of it, if we reconciled. ... Did I miss something?"
he said. There was also nothing about the unique concerns of urban
Indigenous people, who represent the majority of the Indigenous population
in BC.
Advocacy, Policy, Public Health
NWAC Calls For Provincial And Territorial Health Ministers To End
Discrimination In Healthcare, Root Out Racism In Health Workforces
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Last week Lorraine Whitman, President of the Native Women’s Association of
Canada (NWAC), wrote to provincial and territorial ministers of health,
asking that they take the measures necessary to end discrimination faced by
Indigenous people who seek medical treatment. Ms. Whitman referred the
health ministers to the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission and the Calls for Justice of the National Inquiry Into Missing
and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls that relate specifically to health.

FNHA Virtual Substance Use & Psychiatry Service
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The First Nations Virtual Substance Use and Psychiatry Service provides
individuals with access to specialists in addictions medicine and
psychiatry. This is a referral-based service and is available at no cost to
all BC First Nations people and their family members, even if those family
members are non-status.

Media Reporting: HIV and the Criminal Law
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New guide from the HIV Legal Network (formerly the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal
Network) is an evidence-based resource to assist journalists in Canada in
reporting responsibly and accurately about alleged HIV non-disclosure and
resulting criminal cases.
Funding
Civil Forfeiture Crime Prevention and Remediation Grant Program
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The 2020/2021 Civil Forfeiture Crime Prevention and Remediation Grant
program is now accepting applications for various funding streams. In order
to assist people in developing a grant application, there will be a webinar
on “How to Apply for a Civil Forfeiture Grant” on Wednesday, October 21 at
1:00 PM Pacific time. Application deadline November 25.

PHSA COVID-19 Relief Funding for CBO’s: Round Two
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The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) is offering one-time
funding to community-based organizations (CBOs) in British Columbia to
support their response to COVID-19. This is the second and final round of
Relief Funding, the first of which was offered in June 2020. The PHSA
acknowledges that CBOs face various challenges to offering programming and
services during a pandemic. The total amount of funds available is
$150,000. The maximum that will be awarded per application is $10,000. Deadline
to apply: October 30.

Second Round of the Emergency Community Support Fund
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In May 2020, the Government of Canada announced a $350 million Emergency
Community Support Fund to support charities and non-profit organizations
adapting frontline services to better serve vulnerable Canadians during
COVID-19. Community organizations may apply through various groups. Application
deadline October 30.
Job postings
Health Promotion Case Manager, AIDS Vancouver
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The Health Promotion Case Manager, working within a harm reduction model,
will use an intensive case management model to work collaboratively with
clients to decrease vulnerability and risk for acquiring HIV while
increasing their resiliency and self efficacy through the development of a
personalized resiliency plan. Application deadline October 20.

Case Management Program Manager, AIDS Vancouver
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Reporting to the Executive Director, the Case Management Program Manager is
responsible for the overall management of client case management
services. Application
deadline October 20.
We lead an inspired, strong and effective community-based response to
HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and related health and social justice issues.

PAN, as a provincial organization, gratefully and respectfully works and
partners with Indigenous Peoples in what is often referred to as British
Columbia.

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