VCC Health for All World Cafe

All are welcome to join Vancouver Community College nursing for their yearly Health for All World Cafe to celebrate and explore ways that nurses (and interdisciplinary health and social service providers) can collaborate with health promotion specialists and Indigenous and non-profit, civil society partners in population health promotion to enable health equity. Special table being hosted by the BC Health Coalition to share about their province wide listening campaign to improve our health care system in B.C.

Location: 1230-1:40 Key Note speakers from 1230-1:40pm HYBRID format: Zoom and Broadway Clark campus in our Event B 1 space Health Sciences Building (Building B). **Members who RSVP will be sent a zoom link an hour prior to this event. ZOOM LINK: https://vcc.zoom.us/j/62050684524

1:40-3pm In person World Cafe table dialogues Broadway Clark campus in our Event B 1 space Health Sciences Building 1st floor (above Blenz Cafe)

Baked goods and coffee hosted by VCC nursing program

Networking Display Table: Examples of VCC student population health promotion projects will be showcased at our Display Table. All community partners are welcome to bring brochures and information regarding their health promotion work to share on our Display Table.

Introducing guest speakers:

John Millar (he/him) Former provincial health officer, B.C. will share about his leadership with the Public Health Association of BC's Policy, Advocacy, Research and Communications team in developing an inter-sectoral policy platform to promote truth and reconciliation and climate and social justice in Canada.

Chantelle Spicer (she/they) works as the Campaign Manager for the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition. They have been a long-time advocate at the intersections of Indigenous sovereignty, anti-violence work, affordable and accessible education, and healing justice. Through her work, she is particularly interested in building and participating in solidarities that transform the way we imagine justice in our society. When not engaged in advocacy work, Chantelle can be found reading or with her hands in the earth in the garden.

Audrey Guay (she/her) has been an organizer with the BC Health Coalition since the fall of 2020. She has an undergraduate degree from Queen's University in Health Studies and a Masters of Urban Studies from Simon Fraser University. Born in Montreal to a French-speaking family, Audrey spent most of her childhood in Bamako, Mali, She moved to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in 2015 and got involved in community organizing efforts. She's grateful to live with her partner and daughter on the unceded and occupied Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. 

**We are also very excited also to share updates on the Intersectoral Action Fund of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) grant to implement a 1-year project titled BECOMING AN INTERSECTORAL NETWORK-OF-NETWORKS: Leveraging the Health Promotion Canada platform to create an intersectoral and interdisciplinary space for promoting collaborative action on the social determinants of health and well-being.

Program:

1230-1240pm Opening with Elder John

1240-1245 Welcome by Rosie Gosling, VCC Bachelor of Science in Nursing Department Leader

1245-1:25pm Guest speakers:

John Millar: the Polycrises and addressing the social determinants of health through Just Economic Transition work

Chantelle Spicer: Coalition building in poverty reduction as health equity advocacy work: Insights from the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition's Housing as a Human Right campaign

Audrey Guay: The importance of organizing among health workers and diverse publics to promote meaningful work places for nurses, responsive health services, and to address the social determinants of health

1:25-1:40 Orientation to World Cafe Process where VCC nursing students will present on their population health promotion projects in collaboration with inter-sectoral partners and all will be engaged to explore holistic and equity-oriented health care.

1:40 to 2pm Dialogue Session 1

2pm to 2:15pm Networking break

2:15 to 2:30pm Dialogue session 2

2:30 to 2:45pm Dialogue session 3

2:30-3:00pm Closing Insights from World Cafe Tables

Dialogue Table Presentations IN PERSON:

Dialogue Table A:

·     Improving Clinician Competencies in Substance Use Darcie Gardiner, David Acland and Kateryna Mazurok in collaboration with the BC Centre on Substance Use

·     Supporting Older Adults Holistic Health and Wellness Flora Mak and Theresa Hua in collaboration with Kitsilano Neighbourhood House

Dialogue Table B:

·     Early Childhood Education with Kitsilano Families Fiona Brady, Ravneet Dulai, Samantha Nelson in collaboration with Kitsilano Neighbourhood House

·     Empowering Inclusivity: Developing an Accessible Tip Sheet with TransCare BC Faye Rubin and Raveen Chu in collaboration with Transcare BC

Dialogue Table C:

·     Advancing Housing as a Fundamental Human Right with Housing First Arren Ramos, Karenn Pedalizo, Livia Tai in collaboration with the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition

·     Social media scan to explore public opinion and myths to inform critical health literacy regarding basic income policy Anmol-Kaur, June Melton and Preetinder Kaur in collaboration with Basic Income Canada Network

Dialogue Table D:

·     A Story of Community Health Centres Told Through Archival Advocacy Chris D. Zanatta, Felicia Ortega and Katherine Wiebe in collaboration with REACH Community Health Centre

·     Public Participation and Community Engagement in Health Policy with B.C. Health Coalition Gurkiran Sekhon and Hannah Bauman in collaboration with the BC Health Coalition

Dialogue Table E:

BC Health Coalition: Overview of provincial listening campaign to improve B.C.'s health care system

Suggested readings to join our dialogue include:

Public Health Association's Health focused Green New Deal policy platform

Engagement of Sectors Other than Health in Integrated Health Governance, Policy, and Action by Evelyne de Leeuw

The World Health Organization Commission on Civil Society

For an update Health Promotion Canada's recent renewal work

Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion

Population Health Promotion: An Integrated Model of Population Health and Health Promotion

Suggested videos:

Let's Start a Conversation About Health...and Not Talk About Health Care at All by Public Health Sudbury and Districts

The Ottawa Charter as an effective health promotion framework

Health Promotion and the Ottawa Charter - Creating Healthier Populations

The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion @ 35: From Ottawa to Geneva including Dr Evan Adams co-Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Public Health First Nations Health Authority