Westshore Overdose Awareness Day

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August 31, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Free

August 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day. Please join us at Memorial Park (Aldwynd Road, Langford) for a picnic lunch, resource table, speakers, and support. At 1 p.m. a naloxone training and kits will be provided. Free. Everyone welcome, family friendly. Provided by AVI Health & Community Services with support from the Victoria Foundation. This event is taking place on the traditional territories of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.

For more information about this event, please contact Hermione at 250.384.2366 ext. 3111, or hermione.jefferis@avi.org.

Details

Date:: August 31, 2019
Time:: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Cost:: Free
Event Category:: Community Event
Event Tags:: Vancouver Island
Website:: https://www.facebook.com/events/1871668792977025/

Organizers

: AVI Health & Community Services
: International Overdose Awareness Day

Venue

: Veteran’s Memorial Park
: Aldwynd Road
Langford, BC V9B 3S7 Canada + Google Map

From Our Community

Karla Warkotsch

Patient Experience Consultant – Interior Health

The question I like to ask health care employees is ‘Who is this for?’ and ‘Do we have the right people at the table?’ As a health care employee, I see how easy it is to fall into doing for, rather than doing with patients. The voices of the patient, family and caregiver are essential to ensure the patient is central to the direction and focus of the work being done.