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Pain Canada and its partners offer a wide range of continuing education opportunities to increase skills and knowledge on pain assessment and management among health care providers of all disciplines, and other interested professionals such as teachers and coaches. These programs, courses, webinars, and resources are evidence-based, informed by people with lived experience and free to access.
This free online course for health care providers covers clinically relevant strategies for managing pain before and after surgery, with an emphasis on self-management strategies patients can use.
Text LinkThis toolkit is designed for family physicians and other providers to help navigate the journey of care for patients with vulvodynia. From diagnosis to initiating management of symptoms for patients with vulvodynia, this toolkit is your go-to resource for step-by-step compassionate care.
Text LinkThis evidence-informed common core curriculum serves as a foundational resource for self-management programs within tertiary chronic pain programs and other clinical settings.
Text LinkThe CARD system provides strategies that can be used to help cope before and during vaccination and needle procedures for children. The system consists of resources such as videos, handouts and activities that will help to prepare parents and children for childhood vaccinations.
Text LinkThe Youth in Pain: Solutions for Effective Opioid Use project is one of SKIP’s most recent initiatives and was established in response to Health Canada’s Action Plan for Pain in Canada (2021), and guided by SKIP’s 2020 Opioids and Our Children national scoping meeting. The project’s overall aim is to share evidence-based solutions for the medical use of opioids to address short- and long-term pain in youth.
Text LinkThis standard guides the delivery of quality pediatric pain management. It focuses on how organizational leaders and dedicated teams should provide care based on the needs, goals, abilities, and preferences of children and their families. It does not prescribe a particular approach or intervention to pain management.
Text LinkEffective Prescribing of Opioids for Chronic Pain (formerly “Safer Opioid Prescribing”) is among the longest running opioid CPD programs in the country. It was the first accredited program to offer a curriculum that reflected the updated 2017 Canadian Guideline for Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain. Through engaging discussions and practical activities, the program’s three webinars and capstone workshop ensure that physicians and health care providers have the most up to date skills to effectively support people who live with chronic pain who are prescribed opioids.
Text LinkThe Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Survey was developed with the goal of eliciting a stronger understanding of patients’ experiences and identifying information gaps across different stages of life. This report on the survey's findings aims to help help organizations in continuing to raise awareness and advocating for better care and health outcomes for women+. The insights and testimonials provided will also help guide the development of programs and resources to support the community.
Text LinkAn archive of webinar recordings on patient engagement in research from the Chronic Pain Network.
Text LinkProviding care in the clinical areas of chronic pain, mental health and substance use, either alone or as co-morbidities, can be challenging. The BC Adaptive Mentorship Network for Pain, Mental Health and Substance Use (BCAMN) aims to build primary care capacity to support British Columbians living with chronic pain, mental health and substance use conditions.
Text LinkThe aim of the Veteran and Family Well-Being series is to provide education on the evolution of pain management and current best practices in evidence-based interdisciplinary care. Presented in an accessible manner, the target audience is veterans, their families, health care professionals, case managers, and researchers.
Text LinkA Saskatchewan-based podcast that aims to bring together those who live with pain, health care providers who treat chronic pain, and researchers working on topics that affect people living with pain.
Text LinkThe Atlantic Mentorship Network is a non-industry-funded, multi-faceted organization whose goal is to improve the capacity of community-based primary care providers and allied health care professionals to provide evidence-informed, compassionate care to people living with chronic pain, substance use and/or mental health through adaptive mentorship. It maintains Provincial Networks in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
Text LinkPain BC's Pain Support Line provides free information, support, and a listening ear to people wanting to talk about their own pain or that of a family member or friend. In addition to supporting people living with pain, the Pain Support Line also responds to enquiries from health care professionals and other organizations. This service is only available to people living in British Columbia.
Text LinkWebinars on pain and pain management for veterans and others with pain, their families, and their health care providers.
Text LinkGuidelines, resources, and practical advice to help guide pain researchers’ and/or trainees’ meaningfully engage patient partners in their work.
Text LinkDo you run or work in a community-based organization such as a recovery house, a community centre or a primary care clinic? Do you want to offer accessible pain self-management programs for the people with pain you serve? Through Pain Canada, organizations across the country can get support to run Making Sense of Pain (MSOP), an evidence-based, low barrier, pain self-management program, in their own settings. The ten-week program runs in a group format, teaching the fundamentals of pain science as well as practical skills that enhance well-being while living with pain.
Apply for funding support and training through Pain Canada
If you would like to offer MSOP in your organization but need financial support to do so, you can apply to Pain Canada for a subsidy. Subsidies are expected to be available in summer of 2022 for training and delivery in the fall.
Your role as a delivery site is to:
Pain Canada will provide all other required program materials.
Pain Canada-funded MSOP sites commit to running at least one more MSOP program cycle at your own cost after the initial funded program; once facilitators are trained, the costs for the program are minimal and limited to facilitator time, participant handbooks and other print materials, group refreshments and barrier-reducing supports like travel and childcare subsidies
Purchase training and program materials using your own resources
Organizations that have their own resources to pay for facilitator training, program materials, refreshments and travel and childcare-subsidies are encouraged to do so. Depending on the degree of consultative support needed to run the program, program costs range from $2,000 to $7,000.
Program materials covered by the fee include access to the self-directed facilitator training (a seven-hour online, self-paced program), and electronic files for participant handbooks, promotional materials and evaluation tools. The site is responsible for printing program materials.
If you would like to apply for financial support to be a MSOP delivery site or purchase the program for your clinic or organization, please contact us.