Kamloops This Week | It's important to talk about suicide September 7, 2023
TRU social work assistant professor Rebecca Sanford talks about suicide and grief in advance of World Suicide Prevention Day on Sept. 10. Read more
TRU social work assistant professor Rebecca Sanford talks about suicide and grief in advance of World Suicide Prevention Day on Sept. 10. Read more
Anyone interested in theatre or therapy is invited to a four-day workshop at TRU on Playback Theatre, which combines the two. CBC Kamloops' Shelley Joyce…
Theatre meets caring professions in Playback Theatre, a new workshop this fall. A group of first responders on the 10-year anniversary of 9-11. People in…
Two Indigenous children endured abuse in a region with abysmally low safety compliance rates. “There had to be either a total catastrophic breakdown in that…
Surrounded by friends, family and the Thompson Rivers University (TRU) Kamloops community, 30 Indigenous graduates entered the Brown Family House of Learning, HL 190, on…
Alum Derek Godin, who pursued the Human Service Diploma through Open Learning, finds working with youth a rewarding career. Read more
An initiative co-founded by TRU faculty to support conversations with youth and young adults about consent, communication and sexualized violence prevention leads to a pilot…
Dr. Rod McCormick, a member of the Mohawk (Kanien’kéha) First Nation, believes in speaking up for change. Trained as a psychologist, the professor and BC…
When someone dies by suicide, their friends and family can experience grief, loss and shame — and so can their colleagues and care workers. Research…
Waste not, want not. Thompson Rivers University (TRU) faculty member Dr. Bala Nikku and his team are addressing pressing societal challenges by examining ways to…
How can communities better prepare and respond to natural hazards and disasters? In what ways can community science empower community members to build disaster resilient…
As the weather is getting colder, a long-time advocate for marginalized members of the city of Kamloops is speaking out about the homelessness crisis and…
Shay Pearson, who earned a Bachelor of Social Work at TRU in 2006. is a finalist for the Premier’s Innovation and Excellence award. The Peter…
A TRU faculty member living on the North Shore is working to make his neighbourhood better prepared for fires. Bala Nikku, an assistant professor with…
TRU faculty member Bala Nikku offers his perspective on rebuilding Lytton as a place which is safer, stronger, smarter, resilient, but also culturally appropriate and…
TRU Associate Professor of social work Wendy Hulko and University of Windsor Associate Professor of nursing Noeman Mirza studied early media coverage of the COVID-19…
Natalie Clark, a faculty member at TRU, suggests ways that RCMP officers can better connect with Indigenous people, particularly when there is a situation of…
Radio NL talked with Lorry Ann Austin from TRU's School of Social Work and Human Service about the importance of social workers during the pandemic.…
TRU's Oleksandr Kondrashov, who teaches in the School of Social Work and Human Service, has completed a map of houses in Kamloops with notable holiday…
How has working in a pandemic impacted the mental health of frontline health-care workers? For those who are coping well, what has made them resilient?…