Our Impact

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Our 2025 impact in British Columbia

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meaningful interactions ranging from help finding resources to emotional support.

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downloads of our evidence-informed fact sheets, helping people access information they can use to understand pain and advocate for their care.

Pain Canada - our national action network

Progress across Canada’s pain ecosystem

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Nationwide momentum in pain management strategy

9 out of 10 provinces are now creating or updating their own official plans to tackle pain management.

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Rural and Indigenous access to care

Programs such as the South East Grey Rural Chronic Pain and Opioid Care project andPain Care BC’s Tiers of Service module for pain are aimed at addressing rural andIndigenous access to care.

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New pain clinics in Alberta and Quebec

Alberta launched a province-wide virtual clinic, and Quebec successfully tested 6 local, team-based care clinics.

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Tailored tools for youth and veterans

Two research networks focused on dedicated programs for kids and military Veterans created hundreds of practical, real-world health tools

Read our 2025 Annual Report