• Follow the evidence and ensure topics are informed by those we serve through ongoing engagement with people with lived/ living experience
• Share current and emerging evidence that has the capacity to improve care and advance practice within mental health and substance use across the province
  
• Identify and address system-level issues that are barriers to people with mental health and substance use issues having their needs met 
• Engage interdisciplinary teams across our provincial mental health and substance use system in learning together and facilitate knowledge exchange of mental health and substance use programs and practices across the province
  

Schedule for 2023 Learning Rounds 

February 9: Adjusting our response to drug poisonings, presented by Cherlyn Cortes, clinical nurse educator with the STBBI and Harm Reduction teams, BC Centre for Disease Control and Corey Ranger, public health resource nurse for BC Centre for Disease Control and  President of the Harm Reduction Nurses Association.

February 23: BC Corrections, Programs and Services in Provincial Correctional Centres,  presented by Dr. Maureen Olley, Director Mental Health Services, BC Corrections, Leanne Kristofferson, Deputy Warden of Provincial Programs and Services, BC Corrections, Carrie McCulley, Director of Programs and Interventions, BC Corrections  

March 23:  Living in the DTES - Understanding and addressing acquired brain injury - presented by Dr. Will Panenka, investigator, BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services Research Institute, investigator, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, and assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia

April 6 

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