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This learning series is presented by ECHO at UHN. 

The goal of ECHO Chronic Pain is to support primary care providers in diagnosis and management of their chronic pain patients. 

# Program Learning Objectives

• Interpret comprehensive assessments to make an accurate and timely pain diagnosis, plan treatment and follow-up. 

• Employ assessment techniques to determine origin, track evolution, and support treatment of chronic pain. 

• Self-regulate attitudes and beliefs about patient presentations to provide safe and effective chronic pain management. 

• Develop comfort level, self-efficacy in managing chronic pain. 

• Develop ability to mentor and be mentored by colleagues in a community of practice that ultimately benefits the patient. 

This is a professional learning activity which provide up to 60 hours of Continuing Education for Family Medicine Specialists (CFPC), Royal College Specialists (CFPC) and all health professionals. CPD certificates will be emailed to participants at the end of each cycle.  

Detailed curriculum and schedule here. 

# Case Presentation  

• Do you have a challenging pain patient case?
• ECHO offers access to interprofessional, specialist and community input to gain practical tips to best care for your patient, without the wait time. 
• All patient cases are anonymous. Please do not share any patient identifying information. 

ECHO Patient Case Form

This course is presented by Centre for Community Based Research

This webinar is presented by the Alliance for Healthier Communities with guests from Transform Practice.

Evaluation does not need to be alienating and boring! Join us for an invigorating dialogue with coauthors of this recent EPIC News feature and  research article. This webinar is open to all; however, it will be of particular interest to health promotion staff, managers, and community members as well as scholars with an interest in health promotion and community-based evaluation.

# Join us to: 

• Peek into participatory approaches that favour deeper community relationships and reciprocity.
• Remind yourself that joyful community engagements enhance team effectiveness.
• Discuss how evaluation choices impact your team’s healthy equity goals, and community accountabilities.
• Recharge your strategy for negotiating top-down funder requirements. 

This event will include plenary conversations and breakouts.

Note: In order to ensure a safe space for discussion, this webinar will not be recorded. However, a written summary will be shared with all participants.

# Presenters

Gillian Kranias (They/She) has contributed to dozens of equity-centered community development, community planning, and systems change initiatives. Each was stronger from investments in collaborative, creative, and participatory evaluative learning activities. Gillian is proud author of two practical, accessible resources on participatory evaluation: The Power of Reflection, and Participatory Evaluation Toolkit. Gillian’s foundations are an MES in Community-based Organizing for Environmental and Social Change and over three decades of ‘learning through action’ alongside powerful leaders from diverse equity-seeking communities. Today, they contribute to change as a co-director with Transform Practice Cooperative and as Manager, Learning and Evaluation at the Canadian Women’s Foundation. 

Julia Fursova, PhD (She/They), School of Leadership Studies, UNB, is an academic partner, co-director, and co-founder with Transform Practice not-for-profit co-op. Julia is a community-engaged scholar whose research program has been influenced by their lived experience as an immigrant, continuous dialogue with community members and a commitment to anti-oppression and decolonization in research and action. Julia’s previous roles in CHCs include community engagement worker (Lawrence Heights CHC, Toronto), health promoter and case coordinator (Unison HCS, Toronto), and Guys Can Cook! Project Co-ordinator (Four Villages CHC, Toronto). Most recently, Julia worked as a consultant supporting a participatory evaluation of Black-Focused Social Prescribing program with CHCs.