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

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Incorporating a Palliative Approach into your Primary Care Practice

Presenter: Dr. Erin Gallagher, MD, CCFP (PC) MPH

Date: October 9, 2024

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Journeying Toward End-of-Life: Meaning of Food and Fluids

Presenter: Marlene Benvenuto, RN CHPCN(C)

Date: September 24, 2024

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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

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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

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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

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Journey to the Spirit World: Indigenous Approaches to Caregiving for those who are Seriously Ill

Presenter: Elton Beardy, Cultural Practitioner

Date: October 4, 2022

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Journey Home: Understanding the Grief Experience of Indigenous Peoples

Presenter: Joanna Vautour, MSW

Date: October 11, 2022

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Palliative Care: Westernized Approaches to Caregiving

Presenters: Robert Essex, RN & Sheri Henderson, RN, BScN, CHPCN(c)

Date: October 25, 2022

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Patient and Community Centred Decision-Making and Care

Presenter: Patty Everson, RN

Date: November 8, 2022

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Transitioning Between Systems of Care: Discussing the Discharge Planning Process

Presenter: Dr. Kevin Bezanson, MD CFPC(PC)

Date: November 1, 2022

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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

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Empowering Your Community at End-of-Life: Developing an Indigenous Death Doula Program

Presenter: Elder Diane Boots

Date: June 5, 2024

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How Community Collaborations are Making Meaningful Impacts on Older Adults in Thunder Bay

Presenters: Kassandra Fernandes & Nancy Angus

Date: March 16, 2023

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Using Digital Stories in Compassionate Communities

Presenters: Dr. Mary Lou Kelley, John Cosgrove & Ann Barkley

Date: March 3, 2022

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Visitor Restrictions & the COVID-19 Pandemic

Presenter: Dr. Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio

Date: October 20, 2021

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CERAH Lunch & Learn Archives

The Role of the Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority

Presenter: Kaisa Metcalfe RN, Partnership & Engagement Specialist

Date: February 15, 2023

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Differences Between the 3 “Ds” Delirium. Dementia, & Depression

Presenter: Marlene Benvenuto

Date: January 18, 2023

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Pain Assessment and Management in Palliative Care

Presenter: Dr. Megan Sellick

Date: October 12, 2022

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FAQs for an ACP (Advance Care Plan) Champion Part 2

Presenter: Jill Marcella

Date: April 14, 2022

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Tips on Managing Functional Decline in Palliative Care

Presenters: Sarah Brown, Michael Manzini

Date: February 16, 2022

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Your MAid FAQs Answered

Presenters: Kathryn MacIssac, Amber Skaarup, Michelle Allain, Dr. Margaret Woods

Date: January 19, 2022

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North West Behavioural Supports Ontario Learning Series: Personality Disorders in Older Adulthood

Presenter: Dr. Edouard St.-Pierre

Date: June 3, 2021

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Palliative Symptom Management Kit Update: Supporting Expected Death at Home

Presenter: Kathryn MacIsaac

Date: May 19, 2021

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POA? SDM? DNR? HCC? FAQs for an ACP (Advance Care Plan) Champion

Presenter: Jill Marcella

Date: April 14, 2021

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Palliative Oral Care

Presenters: Lynda McKeown & Heather Woodbeck

Date: March 17, 2021

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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

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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

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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

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Geriatric Mental Health in Northwestern Ontario: One Program’s Response to COVID-19

Presenter: Jolene Morrisseau

Date: October 28, 2020

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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

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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

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Media and Other Knowledge Translation

Providing Palliative Care Virtually in the North

Presenter: Nikita Matichuk, Nurse Practitioner, North West LHIN

Date: February 24, 2021

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