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SUMMARY:April Provincial Learning Event: Jewish Queer Trans (JQT) Seniors Initiative
DESCRIPTION:  \nREGISTER NOW \nThe JQT Seniors Initiative is a Community Response Network hosted by JQT Vancouver\, a 100% volunteer-run Jewish queer and trans charitable nonprofit. Learn more at www.jqtvancouver.ca \n.The initiative’s mission is to make visible and close gaps in the care of Jewish queer and trans seniors by working collaboratively with Jewish\, 2SLGBTQIA+\, and healthcare organizations in BC
URL:https://bccrns.ca/event/april-provincial-learning-event-jewish-queer-trans-jqt-seniors-initiative
CATEGORIES:Provincial Learning
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SUMMARY:Provincial Learning Event Webinar: Jewish Queer Trans (JQT) Seniors Initiative Training Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register now. \nJoin us this April for a Provincial Learning Event featuring the JQT Seniors Initiative\, a Community Response Network hosted by JQT Vancouver\, a 100% volunteer-run Jewish queer and trans charitable nonprofit. This session will explore the unique experiences of Jewish queer and trans seniors and highlight opportunities to build more inclusive and responsive care. \nThe initiative’s mission is to make visible and close gaps in the care of Jewish queer and trans seniors by working collaboratively with Jewish\, 2SLGBTQIA+\, and healthcare organizations in BC. \nThe workshop will provide: \n\nEducation on the barriers impacting Jewish queer and trans seniors in healthcare\, including antisemitism and queerphobia\nResources such as the BC Jewish Queer & Trans Seniors Resource Guide\, and JQT\nAffirming Care: A toolkit for mental health providers\nRecommendations on making healthcare more inclusive for Jewish queer and trans seniors\, and ample opportunity for Q&A\n\nPresented by: Carmel Tanaka\, MPH\, (she/her) is the founder and executive director of JQT Vancouver\, a 100% volunteer-run Jewish queer and trans charitable nonprofit. In 2020\, Carmel conducted an oral history project collecting stories from Jewish queer and trans elders across BC. Elders were sharing their fears (upon entering long term care) of having to go back into the closet twice-fold\, as queer and also as Jews. This led to the creation of the JQT Seniors Initiative\, which in April 2023\, produced the BC Jewish Queer & Trans Seniors Resource Guide to address knowledge gaps so that community members can make more informed decisions in light of what they can and cannot get access to or plan for as Jewish queer and/or trans people living in BC today. In February 2024\, Carmel hosted a town hall on JQT Dying & Death\, which opened the door to more inclusive Jewish burial practices for trans and nonbinary burials. In May 2024\, the initiative released their Outreach Report\, which revealed critical gaps\, not only in available healthcare services\, but also in awareness and understanding of many issues confronting Jewish queer and trans seniors. Carmel has been offering training workshops to help close these gaps. \nLearn more at: www.jqtvancouver.ca
URL:https://bccrns.ca/event/ple-april-21-2026
CATEGORIES:Provincial Learning,Featured
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SUMMARY:Provincial Learning Event Webinar: Disability Awareness
DESCRIPTION:Register now  \nYou’re invited to join us for our May Provincial Learning Event\, an engaging and thought-provoking session focused on disability\, ableism\, and equity. We encourage you to register and be part of this important conversation. \nPeople with disabilities represent the world’s largest minority\, and the only minority group that any of us can become a member of at any time. And yet they still experience barriers\, prejudice\, and bias on a daily basis. \nThis workshop challenges all to more fully address ableist notions of how we think about\, and label\, our bodies\, minds\, and senses. \nIt also provides the tools to understand what disability is\, the types of disability\, the current language of disability\, what ableism is\, how you can actively work to fight against it\, and tips for disabled people and allies alike to better ensure equity in all that you do. \nLET’S disability workshops are created\, researched and facilitated by disabled people. \nPresented by: Heather McCain (they/them) is founder and Executive Director of Live Educate Transform Society (LET’S)\, a non-profit they started in 2005. \nHeather built LET’S from a small grassroots organization to an organization that delivers workshops and adds their voice to projects and events across Turtle Island (colonially known as North America). \nHeather’s own experiences as an asexual\, disabled\, neurodivergent\, queer\, trans person led them to become a well-known and respected advocate\, educator\, and speaker. Heather works to create equity\, celebrate diversity\, and educate about and implement accessibility.
URL:https://bccrns.ca/event/ple-may-19-2026
CATEGORIES:Provincial Learning,Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260922T103000
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SUMMARY:What’s Not ‘Right’ About My Age? Strategies for resistance and change
DESCRIPTION:We were pleased to host our September Provincial Learning Event\, What’s not ‘right’ about my age ? This workshop focuses specifically on our learned self-ageism and how cultural assumptions about aging shape expectations\, behaviour\, and community responses play a role in our lives. \nAddressing ageism is an important part of elder abuse prevention because cultural assumptions about aging shape how vulnerability is interpreted\, whether concerns are taken seriously\, and how neighbours\, friends\, and family members respond when an older person may need support or protection. \nMargaret MacPherson: \nMargaret is a Research Associate with the Centre for Research and Education on Violence against Women and Children (CREVAWC) at Western University in London Ontario. Margaret designs and develops curriculum and related materials on a number of initiatives including the Make It Our Business\, workplace domestic violence program and It’s Not Right! Neighbours\, Friends and Families for Older Adults and The Wild Flower Way. \nRegister Now!
URL:https://bccrns.ca/event/whats-not-right-about-my-age-strategies-for-resistance-and-change
CATEGORIES:Provincial Learning,Featured
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