Education Archives
CERAH provides various educational and knowledge translation opportunities via videoconference, utilizing the web conferencing platforms like “Zoom” – making recording and archiving content possible. The following are archived workshops, educational series, and other educational initiatives that have been offered by CERAH:
Palliative Care ECHO Project
Managing Pediatric Palliative Care Patients in Northern Ontario
Presenter: Vicky Wilton, RN, BHPE
Date: November 13, 2024
Incorporating a Palliative Approach into your Primary Care Practice
Presenter: Dr. Erin Gallagher, MD, CCFP (PC) MPH
Date: October 9, 2024
Journeying Toward End-of-Life: Meaning of Food and Fluids
Presenter: Marlene Benvenuto, RN CHPCN(C)
Date: September 24, 2024
Supporting Vulnerable Patients Who Could Benefit from an Equity-Informed Palliative Approach to Care
Presenters: PACT members, Brittany D’Angelo, Julie Diner, and Natalie McGuigan
Date: May 15, 2024
Supporting Patients Who Identify as 2 Spirit LGBTQ+ Who Could Benefit from a Palliative Approach to Care:
Presenter: Elder Albert McLeod
Date: February 21, 2024
Supporting Journeys to the Spirit World: Embracing a Two-Eyed Seeing Approach to Caring for Indigenous Peoples (6 part series):
Creating Opportunities for Culturally Safer Care
Presenter: Holly Prince, MSW, PhD(Cand.)
Date: September 27, 2022
Journey to the Spirit World: Indigenous Approaches to Caregiving for those who are Seriously Ill
Presenter: Elton Beardy, Cultural Practitioner
Date: October 4, 2022
Journey Home: Understanding the Grief Experience of Indigenous Peoples
Presenter: Joanna Vautour, MSW
Date: October 11, 2022
Palliative Care: Westernized Approaches to Caregiving
Presenters: Robert Essex, RN & Sheri Henderson, RN, BScN, CHPCN(c)
Date: October 25, 2022
Patient and Community Centred Decision-Making and Care
Presenter: Patty Everson, RN
Date: November 8, 2022
Transitioning Between Systems of Care: Discussing the Discharge Planning Process
Presenter: Dr. Kevin Bezanson, MD CFPC(PC)
Date: November 1, 2022
CERAH Speaker Series Archives
Transforming Pediatric Palliative Care: Improving Access and Enhancing Quality Care for Indigenous Communities
Presenters: Kira Goodman, Dr. Dave Lysecki, Joanna Vautour, and Elder Dorothy Keon
Date: December 4, 2024
Empowering Your Community at End-of-Life: Developing an Indigenous Death Doula Program
Presenter: Elder Diane Boots
Date: June 5, 2024
How Community Collaborations are Making Meaningful Impacts on Older Adults in Thunder Bay
Presenters: Kassandra Fernandes & Nancy Angus
Date: March 16, 2023
Using Digital Stories in Compassionate Communities
Presenters: Dr. Mary Lou Kelley, John Cosgrove & Ann Barkley
Date: March 3, 2022
Visitor Restrictions & the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presenter: Dr. Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio
Date: October 20, 2021
CERAH Lunch & Learn Archives
The Role of the Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority
Presenter: Kaisa Metcalfe RN, Partnership & Engagement Specialist
Date: February 15, 2023
Differences Between the 3 “Ds” Delirium. Dementia, & Depression
Presenter: Marlene Benvenuto
Date: January 18, 2023
Pain Assessment and Management in Palliative Care
Presenter: Dr. Megan Sellick
Date: October 12, 2022
FAQs for an ACP (Advance Care Plan) Champion Part 2
Presenter: Jill Marcella
Date: April 14, 2022
Tips on Managing Functional Decline in Palliative Care
Presenters: Sarah Brown, Michael Manzini
Date: February 16, 2022
Your MAid FAQs Answered
Presenters: Kathryn MacIssac, Amber Skaarup, Michelle Allain, Dr. Margaret Woods
Date: January 19, 2022
North West Behavioural Supports Ontario Learning Series: Personality Disorders in Older Adulthood
Presenter: Dr. Edouard St.-Pierre
Date: June 3, 2021
Palliative Symptom Management Kit Update: Supporting Expected Death at Home
Presenter: Kathryn MacIsaac
Date: May 19, 2021
POA? SDM? DNR? HCC? FAQs for an ACP (Advance Care Plan) Champion
Presenter: Jill Marcella
Date: April 14, 2021
Palliative Oral Care
Presenters: Lynda McKeown & Heather Woodbeck
Date: March 17, 2021
Innovative Behavioural Supports Ontario (BSO) Practices to Support Long-Term Care (LTC) Homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Moderator: Katelynn Aelick
Presenters: Kathryn Peever, Janet Plastow, Terri Glover, Kathy Baker, Kim Schryburt-Brown, Nancy Hooper, Heather Hawrelluk-Sirois
Date: March 11, 2021
Advancing Patient and Family Centred Care During End of Life for Indigenous Persons and their Families at Nipigon District Memorial Hospital
Presenter: Judy Harvey
Date: December 2, 2020
Palliative Carelink: What is it? Who should be connected? How can YOU connect your clients/patients?
Presenters: Melora Serediuk, Reegan Bushby, Tricia Jordan
Date: November 18, 2020
Geriatric Mental Health in Northwestern Ontario: One Program’s Response to COVID-19
Presenter: Jolene Morrisseau
Date: October 28, 2020
Palliative Care of Congestive Heart Failure in the Community – A Review of Early Identification and a Team Approach to Care
Presenter: Donald Hutchinson
Date: October 7, 2020
Palliative Care for the Vulnerably Housed in Thunder Bay – An Update and a Work in Progress
Presenters: Cherie Kok, Kim Ramsbottom
Date: September 16, 2020
Media and Other Knowledge Translation
Providing Palliative Care Virtually in the North
Presenter: Nikita Matichuk, Nurse Practitioner, North West LHIN
Date: February 24, 2021