Pain BC Highlights
In a first for our team, we will soon begin advertising on this Chinese-language messaging platform to promote our new programs and resources available in Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
What is WeChat?
This year alone, our team has connected with 128+ professional associations, societies, governing bodies, and groups in our efforts to promote this Pain Canada program.
What is Managing Pain Before and After Surgery?
Pain BC and Pain Canada each have a presence on these social media platforms.
What are Facebook, Instagram/Threads, LinkedIn, and Youtube?
This Pain Canada campaign has garnered more than 20 million social media impressions since 2022.
What is the National Pain Awareness Week campaign?
Last year, our team promoted recruitment for 11 of these.
What are external research studies?
Last year, we distributed more than 9000 of these to BC hospitals, clinics, and primary care providers.
What are promotional brochures and print collateral?
Our team supported this new pain non-profit to develop their branding and website in 2024.
What is Pain Ontario?
We quietly defected from this single letter social media platform in spring 2025, while launching accounts on Instagram and Threads.
What is X?
Collectively, more than 100,000 unique individuals visited these communications-maintained channels in 2024.
What are our three websites?
Our team has provided input on the creation of these types of materials to groups including Health Canada, BC's Ministry of Health, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, and Canada's Canada's Drug Agency.
What are public awareness and education resources?
In spring 2025, we developed micro-sites to centralize our resources for these six languages.
What are Arabic, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Punjabi and Spanish?
Health Canada often uses this tool, developed by our team, to keep tabs on the implementation of the recommendations in their Action Plan for Pain in Canada.
What is Pain Canada's Action Plan Tracker?
The Communications portfolio maintains these three-and-a-half websites.
What are PainBC.ca, PainCanada.ca, LivePlanBe.ca, as well as the non-instructional pages of LivePlanBe+?
Sign me up! Our team has drawn more than 12,000 subscribers to these in-demand outputs.
What are our newsletters?
No comma-splices or harmful phrases here — our team creates these documents to keep all organizational materials clear, non-stigmatizing and consistent.
What are our communications style guides?
We recently supported this online clinical resource to re-design its Chronic Pain Pathway, an ‘algorithm’ for best-practice in pain assessment and management in primary care.
Who is Pathways BC?
Last year, we made a customizable advocacy toolkit for Pain Canada partners to use during which important democratic event in their own provinces?
What are provincial elections?
We develop and distribute 22 of these per year.
What are newsletters? (Six Pain BC general newsletters, four HCP newsletters, six English Pain Canada newsletters, six French Pain Canada newsletters).
Now that's exposure – Last year, exactly 617,426 people saw at least one of these comms-produced beauties.
What are our social media posts?
In the first half of this year, we wrote applications to 21 of these groups.
What are granting-awarding foundations and groups?
Last fall, our team developed briefing packages for all 93 of these decision-makers.
Who are BC's newly elected MLAs?
Last year, our team provided communications consultation and advice to these Pain Canada partner organizations.
Who are the Chronic Pain Network, Pain Ontario, Pain Care BC, and the People in Pain Network?
Wave goodbye - In 2024, our team demised this communications channel, although its archived content is still publicly available.
What is the Pain Waves podcast?
In the first half of 2025, we participated in conferences with this many collective attendees.
What is 10,000+?
Our team sends donor thank-you messages when we publish our annual report and on these two holidays.
What are Valentine's Day and Thanksgiving?