UBC HOPE
6133 University Blvd V6T 1Z1 Vancouver, BC, Canada

We're so grateful to Net2Van for featuring us on their blog! Take a read to learn about our exciting new initiative! https://net2van.com//a-helping-hand-for-growing-non-profi/

The non-profit branch of HOPE is excited to announce a new initiative - the HOPE for Community Program! Want to learn more? Visit https://campsite.bio/ubc_hope or send us a message!

There are a lot of common misconceptions about people experiencing homelessness! Understanding these myths is a helpful step in getting a fuller understanding about issues that contribute to homelessness. With this knowledge and by listening to the stories of unhoused people, we can better learn how to combat these problems! #unhoused #WarmthOfWinter

Once upon a time, we were all just smiling babies bouncing on someone's lap. We implore you to remember this when looking at people going through challenges in their lives and use an empathetic eye. How do you remind yourself to be empathetic? (this picture was taken pre-covid-19, hence the lack of masks )

Although we can’t do our typical Warmth of Winter events, we’re still constantly pushing ourselves to learn more about people experiencing homelessness and combat some of the systemic issues that contribute to people becoming unhoused. Part of how we can all help is by using people-first language when talking about these issues! Please note, people first language is a guide not a rule! Try to mirror the language someone uses to describe themselves, or ask them for their preference! #PeopleFirstLanguage #PeopleExperiencingHomelessness #unhoused #WarmthOfWinter #UBCHope #WoW

DR. VIVIENNE LAM is an instructor at the University of British Columbia. She currently mainly teaches 1st and 2nd year Biology courses, and is the coordinator for BIOL 200! Her B.Sc and Ph.D were both completed at UBC, so sh have lots of experience about what it's like to be both a student and an instructor here. She’s happy to answer the questions that you might have about taking courses here, and especially about how profs teach during COVID times! KYLE GOODERHAM is a PhD ...student in the Department of Psychology. He works to understand how lifestyle behaviours affect cognition, and how those relationships can be leveraged in support of public health. Kyle is an experienced Teaching Assistant, and serves as the TA Development Coordinator for the Psychology Department, as well as a facilitator with the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology. In his spare time Kyle is the co-host of Brain Buzz Podcast, a show that makes research fun, accessible, and engaging for everyone. Dr. MICHELLE TSENG is a professor of insect and aquatic ecology at UBC who teaches general ecology, insect ecology, and Arctic ecology. Her lab team researches how global warming is affecting the natural world around us. They use experiments to investigate how ecological communities have already changed, and will continue to change, with climate warming. She was a science consultant on a CBC kids nature show, and has just started working with the David Suzuki Foundation to help bring more science to their citizen science programs. DR. DAVID BIRNBAUM’s decades of experience span microbiology, infection control and hospital epidemiology, science journalism, and public health informatics. He worked in both the private and public sector in the United States and Canada, for various employers and as a consultant. He holds academic appointment in a university School of Population and Public Health, and a School of Health Information Science. His research has been published in journal articles and book chapters; he has served on the editorial advisory board and as a contributing editor for several journals, and as the senior editor for the International Journal of Health Governance.