B.C.’s refreshed Provincial Violence Prevention Curriculum will update mandatory training for people working in healthcare to reflect current and diverse work environments, grounded firmly in cultural humility, diversity, trauma-informed understanding, and other best practices. It will also provide one provincewide program with expanded access to public and private care staff, physicians, nurses, contractors, security personnel and students.

Learn more in this article from Canadian Security magazine. SWITCH BC CEO Victoria Schmid and a B.C. paramedic share insights into the work and the need. Check out a further interview featuring Victoria Schmid at the Focus on Healthcare Security Summit 2022.