Pain and Comfort Management Patient and Family Resources
Resources for patients who experience a high incidence of pain, and their families.
- MyCarePath is an online resource developed to support youth, young adults, and families across BC in understanding and managing chronic pain
- The Family Resource Pain Guide helps patients and families to learn about pain, and approaches to support comfort
- Pain Management & Comfort Policy (PDF): Defines the expectations for pain assessment and management within BC Children's Hospital and BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre
- Kelty Mental Health helps families across the province navigate the mental health system, connect with peer support, and access resources and tools to support well-being
- Pain BC aims to enhance the well-being of all people living with pain, through empowerment, care, education and innovation
- Foundry is a resource for children, youth and young adults aged 12 to 24 needing mental health support and resources
- Pain Care BC Health Improvement Network is a provincial health improvement network dedicated to working with health-care partners to optimize health outcomes for patients living with pain, and to improve the quality and coordination of pain services across BC. It provides patient and family pain resources
- Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) is a non-profit organization that makes sure knowledge about how to manage children’s pain is shared effectively with every area of Canada, at every level
- ChildKind International works to reduce pain in children by educating, evaluating and recognizing health-care facilities that have developed the highest standards in pediatric pain care
- The Canadian Pain Task Force provides advice to guide the federal government toward an improved approach for preventing and managing chronic pain