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• BCAPOP's Member-Only Community of Practice: Syphilis Prevention through Awareness, Resources and Knowledge (SPARK) Training

  • When
    November 19, 2026
  •  
    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Complimentary access is available to Non-members for this learning event! 
  

  This session will provide education about syphilis in pregnancy and congenital syphilis tailored to Pregnancy Outreach Program staff in BC. This will include information about syphilis prevention, testing, and treatment in pregnancy, strategies to approach conversations about syphilis, and answers to specific questions that pregnant women and people may have. I will present the Syphilis in Pregnancy Toolkit for Community and Outreach Programs and share how the toolkit can be used to navigate complex and uncomfortable topics using plain language and focusing the person at the centre of these conversations. Attendees will leave with knowledge and resources to support prevention, early detection, and timely treatment of syphilis in their communities.

  Presenter: Emma Karlsen, Research Manager 

  Emma Karlsen is the Research Manager for the Reproductive Infectious Diseases Program at the University of British Columbia and BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre. She oversees all the program’s research projects, including studies of HPV vaccination in women with HIV, maternal vaccination to prevent infant infection, and the vaginal microbiome. Since 2024, she has facilitated the ongoing REACT-Syph project which aims to reduce maternal and congenital syphilis in Canada, by supporting national public health data collection and co-leading the development of knowledge mobilization tools.

  
  

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• BCAPOP's 28th Annual Perinatal Conference (Live/In-Person/Richmond)

  • Start
    April 26, 2027
  •  
    4:30 PM
  • End
    April 28, 2027
  •  
    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Westin Wall Centre, Vancouver Airport in Richmond, BC
  • Spaces left
    104

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  LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

  We respectfully acknowledge that our conference is held on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Musqueam People.

  
  

  ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

  This annual event draws more than 150 perinatal professionals and helping peers from BC and features three full days of opportunities, including a pre-conference session, Networking Reception and a two-day main conference.  Attendees will experience a program full of inspiring speakers, best practice updates, skill building sessions, and the strengthening of a provincial network that drives perinatal professionals and helping peers to improve outcomes for perinatal people and their families. 

  This conference is for perinatal professionals and helping peers:  pregnancy outreach workers, nurses, physicians, child welfare workers, family support workers, social workers, health/social service students, outreach workers, shelter workers, detox workers, treatment centre workers, midwives, doulas, birthworkers, childbirth educators, peer support workers and anyone else who supports perinatal people.

  FEATURE SPEAKERS

  • Dr. Jennifer Charlesworth, Representative for Children & Youth and Jennifer Dreyer, Executive Director of Systemic Advocacy, First Nations, Metis, Inuit Research - Collective Responsibility Begins Before Crisis: Family Support & Early Years, Lesson from Don't Look Away 
  • Alixandra Bacon, Registered Midwife, MA - Neurodivergence in the Perinatal Period: The latest evidence and strategies to create an affirming practice
  • Wendy Hall, PhD, RN  - Twenty-five years of studying fathers' parenting experiences - has anything changed?

  FULL PROGRAM HERE 

  
  

  PRE-CONFERENCE SESSION BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! | ADDITIONAL FEE & PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED | MONDAY APRIL 26th 1:30-4:30PM (ONLY 30 SEATS AVAILABLE)

  We Can All Make A Difference With Prenatal Education

  Presented by: Christine Sexauer, Childbirth Educator

  This pre-conference session will provide an essential introduction to prenatal education for perinatal professionals and helping peers, particularly those new to the field or developing their practice. We will review what expecting families, professionals and helping peers need to know such as: 

  • stages of labour 
  • the importance of staying home in early labour 
  • understanding your values and preferences 
  • informed consent 
  • medical interventions that may be recommended and/or required 

  In addition, this workshop will explore your own biases and provide an opportunity to reflect on your own experiences and feelings about birth. Attendees will learn how we all have a role in shaping positive birth experiences, reducing generational trauma, and that an educated birth is an empowered birth.

  NETWORKING RECEPTION | OPEN TO ALL | MONDAY APRIL 26th 4:30–6:30PM 

  TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATION

  The conference will be held at the Westin Wall Centre, Vancouver Airport in Richmond, BC. You are responsible for your own travel expenses and/or hotel accommodations, which are not included in your conference registration fee.  The Westin Wall Centre is offering a limited room block rate of $279.00/night plus taxes & parking for BCAPOP conference attendees. This rate is available until March 25th, 2027 or until sold out, whichever comes first.

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  EXHIBITORS

  • Douglas College

  • BCAAFC - Doulas for Aboriginal Families Grant Program

  • BCW Reproductive Mental Health and Substance Use

  • The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver

  • Karis Support Society

  • First Nations Health Authority 

  • BC Centre on Substance Use 

  SPONSORSHIP & EXHIBITOR OPPORTUNITIES

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  GROUP RATES

  Please email admin@bcapop.ca for group rates of 5 or more registrants. 

  
  

  REGISTRATION IS NON-REFUNDABLE 

  Tickets are transferable to another individual, please email admin@bcapop.ca for any name substitutions. Registration is not complete until payment is received.

  PAYMENT DEADLINES

  Payment on pending registrations must be received within 30 days of registration, otherwise registration will be cancelled. For registrations made within 30 days prior to the event, payment is due immediately

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• Exhibitor Opportunities at BCAPOP's 28th Annual Perinatal Conference

  • Start
    April 27, 2027
  •  
    7:00 AM
  • End
    April 28, 2027
  •  
    4:30 PM
  • Location
    Westin Wall Centre, Vancouver Airport, 3099 Corvette Way, Richmond, BC (In-Person)
  • Spaces left
    26

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  Photo credit: www.albertlaw.ca
  

  LAND ACKNOWLEDEMENT

  We respectfully acknowledge that our conference is held on the ancestral, traditional and unceded territory of the Musqueam Peoples. 

  ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

  This annual event draws more than 150 perinatal professionals and helping peers from BC and features three days of opportunities, including a pre-conference session, Networking Reception and a two-day main conference.  Attendees will experience a program full of inspiring speakers, best practice updates, skill building sessions, and the strengthening of a provincial network that drives perinatal professionals and helping peers to improve outcomes for perinatal people and their families. 

  EXHIBITOR OPPORTUNITIES

  

  GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR EXHIBITOR PACKAGE 

  As one of our valued Exhibitors, you will have many opportunities to engage and network with our attendees, share updates and information about your products and/or services.

  • Exhibitor tables will include one skirted 6’ table and two chairs. Please advise us if you have any requirements or special requests for your table and contact us if you require shipping information to the venue.
  • Set up schedule and conference agenda will be distributed closer to the event date.
  • Lunch and breakfast break presentations are subject to BCAPOP approval.
  • BCAPOP is not responsible for attendance levels at sponsored events.
  • Exhibitor benefits are subject to change at BCAPOP’s sole discretion.
  • BCAPOP will not share attendee lists. You are welcome to gather these at your exhibitor table from willing attendees.

  For the full BCAPOP's 28th Annual Conference Exhibitors & Sponsorship package: 

  CLICK HERE!
  

  
  

  TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATIONS

  The Westin Wall Centre, Vancouver Airport is offering a limited room block rate of $279/night plus taxes for BCAPOP exhibitors & conference attendees until March 25, 2027 or until sold out.  You are responsible for your own travel expenses and/or hotel accommodations, which are not included in your ticket price. 

  BOOK ACCOMMODATIONS
  

  PAYMENT INFORMATION

  Payment is due within 30 days of invoice. No refunds or cancellations, however substitutions are permitted. Please email admin@bcapop.ca for substitution requests. 

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• BCAPOP's Online Conference for Helping Peers (Recorded Video)

  • When
    January 31, 2028
  • Location
    Recorded Video

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  BCAPOP's Online Conference for Helping Peers

  You will have access to the recording once you receive your confirmation email. 

  This recorded conference is FREE and open to all helping peers in BC who support pregnant, postpartum or early parenting people who have a history of substance use.  Please join us for insightful learning, self-reflection, and skill development.
  

  Conference Highlights

  

  
  

  FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM AVAILABLE HERE 

  Originally recorded January 13th, 2026. 

  
  

  In order to preserve registrants' confidentiality  and anonymity, BCAPOP used Zoom Webinar and registrants' video profiles were disabled. This free recording will be available until January 31, 2028.

  
  

  BCAPOP gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the Provincial Perinatal Substance Use Program, BC Women's Mental Health and Substance Use Programs + Initiatives for this event.
  

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