MHSU - Sign up for an Education Series
1. Select a title for your engagement opportunity. Ex: Recruitment - Hospital at Home (HaH) Program OR Survey - Home Support Client and Family Guidelines
2. Select an image to represent your engagement opportunity. Images can be selected from the following source for free: https://unsplash.com/ OR images can be selected under a VCH subscription: https://www.gettyimages.ca/ . Include this image in the section below titled 'Project Image" and add the same image to this body of text.
3. Create the body of text to share information about your engagement opportunity. Use the questions below as headings. Under each heading, fill in the required information.
What are we doing?
Tell the audience who, what and why you are doing this engagement. Include the link to register right here at the top.
Ex: Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) will be soon launching a new program called, Hospital at Home (HaH), a recognized care model that aims to deliver hospital-level treatment in the comfort and familiarity of a patients own home. Before launching this program, VCH wants to refine educational materials and service flow of this new program, and are calling on patient advisors to provide their feedback on HaH.
Who should apply?
Provide the criteria for who we would like to hear from - i.e. people with lived experiences, seniors, heart disease patients, etc.)
Ex. We are looking for diverse voices, including:
- A patient advisor who has been admitted to a hospital within the past four years and speaks English as a second language.
- A caregiver advisor with experience caring for someone hospitalized within the last four years.
- An Indigenous patient advisor from an urban Indigenous community, who has been hospitalized within the past four years.
How can you get involved?
Tell the audience how they can contribute or participate in this engagement opportunity. If an honorarium is offered, include that information here.
Ex. Public advisors will be asked to engage with the HaH educational materials and process flow, providing critical feedback from the viewpoint of those who matter most—patients, families, and caregivers. Your input will guide us in making the HaH experience as seamless and supportive as possible.
How can you get involved?
An honorarium of $25 per hour will be made available if you are a patient, client, resident, family member and/or caregiver who may need assistance with respite or childcare to participate in this advisory group, and/or identify as a seldom-heard voice—such as those facing discrimination or bias due to age, cultural background, sexual orientation, disability or income, please indicate this in your application or interview.
Those who self-identify as a seldom heard group member will be offered an honorarium. Our goal is to support equity and equitable approaches to engagement, and to decrease barriers to participating in this committee.
What is the commitment?
How will selected advisors participate in this engagement opportunity? i.e. is this a conversation group, committee, survey? Is it online, in-person, both? Date, timing and location of engagement opportunity.
Ex.
- Duration: 1-2 hours in person at Vancouver General Hospital or 2-3 hours in in person or virtually at Vancouver General Hospital.
- Frequency: The advisory committee will meet up to six times per year for up to 1.5 hours (the duration could then be 1 year membership)
- Timing: To be determined - based on the times shared in the application form that work for the most people.
- Date: Week of December 11 to 15, 2025
How to participate in this opportunity?
Include information about how to apply (i.e. completing the application form below, or completing the survey on this page, etc.), and provide a deadline to apply (If the recruitment timeline is open, please write "Applications are open until filled"). If there is an honorarium
Ex. Recruitment is ongoing until filled. Please apply with your interest using the application form below.
Territory Acknowledgement: Include the following land acknowledgement at the bottom of the body of text:
We acknowledge that our places of work and the Vancouver Coastal Health sites lie on the traditional homelands of the First Nation Communities of the Heiltsuk, Kitasoo-Xai’xais, Líl̓wat, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), N’Quatqua, Nuxalk, Samahquam, shíshálh (Sechelt), Skatin, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Tla’amin, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Wuikinuxv, and Xa’xtsa.
4. Create a Registration Form. Most opportunities will have a registration form, application, expression of interest, or survey on their project page. This will allow interested participants to apply and provide a bit of information about themselves and their interest. Please complete the "Registration Form" at the bottom of the page with your projects information.
5. Complete the Side Bar Information. Please select the sidebar widgets that apply to your engagement opportunity.
- Documents: Include documents that may be helpful to applicants to have more information about your engagement. Ex. Terms of Reference, Posters, Infographics, etc.
- Who's Listening: The key contacts included on the project. This should include yourself, your colleagues on the project, and the Community Engagement leader working with you on this engagement.
- Key Dates: Provide the important dates for your engagement. If these dates are not determined, include "To be determined" until you can update the page with a specific date and time.
- Important Links: If more information is found on another website, add the link to this page for participants to easily access.
6. Once finalized, delete all instructions provided on this template and save your progress! You can preview your unpublished page to see how it will look by clicking the "Preview" button located at the top right of the page. Once ready, connect with the Community Engagement leader supporting you with this work. They can review your project page, offer any suggestions or comments, and if ready - publish your engagement opportunity to the Engage VCH main page and share it with our networks through our weekly newsletter. Please refer to the Project Page Guide provided to you for more information on next steps.
If you have any questions throughout this process, please don't hesitate to connect with the Community Engagement team at ce@vch.ca. Great work!