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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 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 and launched on International Women’s Day 2021 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 will 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 LinkRecorded webinars for researchers on patient engagement from the CPN.
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 downloadable handout on helpful apps and online resources for kids and youth with pain.
Text LinkThe Atlantic Mentorship Network- Pain & Addiction (AMN-P&A) is designed to provide an ongoing clinical resource for primary health care professionals to develop core knowledge and skills to deliver high-quality care in community to individuals with pain and/or addictions.
Text LinkKnowledge translations tips and tools for pain researchers from the CPN.
Text LinkThese tips have been put together to help guide researchers’ and/or trainees’ preparation for research conversations with CPN patient partners. Rather than call these ‘presentations’ we are calling these ‘conversations,’ emphasizing that we anticipate the format to follow a dialogue/discussion approach instead of a lecture-style presentation.
Text LinkIf you're a pain researcher who has never worked with patient partners or caregivers in your research before (or even if you have!), the CPN Patient Engagement Committee and Network patient partners have some ideas for you to consider.
Text LinkThe Canadian Journal of Pain is an open access journal that publishes research from all disciplines involved in the study of pain, including the clinical and basic sciences, epidemiology, and health policy and health systems. The Canadian Journal of Pain is the Official Journal of the Canadian Pain Society.
Text LinkThe Guide to Chronic Pain in Students: An In-School Resource for students and teachers. A downloadable guide to supporting kids with pain at school.
Text LinkThis online, self-paced course will help physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other movement professionals gain knowledge and skills to lead therapeutic movement and relaxation classes for people living with chronic pain. It is free for health care providers in BC
Text LinkGain improved competence in providing complex pain care through free monthly virtual learning and mentorship sessions led by an interdisciplinary team of pain specialists and other community health care providers. This program is free to access for health care providers in BC.
Text LinkThis practical, compact course allows physicians and nurse practitioners to develop clinically relevant approaches to chronic pain management, including non-pharmacological treatments and prescribing best practices. Learners will develop a strong grounding in pain science to support further exploration. It is free for health care providers in BC.
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.