Member and Steward Education and Scholarships
Dear Members, At HSA, we recognize that the workplace has been very challenging for various reasons these last few years and that it is more important than ever to strengthen our sense of solidarity, respect, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace. This includes actively building more supportive relationships in your teams, more welcoming workplaces, and ensuring that workplaces better protect...
Date: June 21-22, 2023 Time: 9am-4:30pm Location: Virtual via Webex How do health care and social services professionals begin to put a dent in the racial inequities that exist in our fields? Join us for a two-day anti-racism workshop and active learning session to explore how we can participate in anti-racist change in British Columbia's health care and social services...
HSA is pleased to offer another opportunity to attend this two-day workshop! DATES: June 13-14, 2023 TIME: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm LOCATION: Virtual – WebEx details to follow This two-day virtual workshop will help non-Indigenous HSA members to develop the skills, compassion, and abilities required to recognize and change colonial systems and practices in their personal and professional lives...
Become a Stronger Advocate for Child Development Centres Upcoming CDC Advocacy Campaign Training Opportunities It’s just been a few weeks since we focused our MLA meetings through the Constituency Liaison program on the need to improve the selection process for Family Connection Centres. In that short time, we’ve had multiple briefing sessions and it’s exciting to see our momentum building...
Registration Information: Stewards may register by logging into My Events Registration. Workshops are listed under Steward Education events. Basic Steward Training (three-day workshop) Stewards play a vital role in the union. This workshop will teach new stewards the skills to enable them to serve confidently in their role. Workshop content includes the role of the steward, organizing your chapter, grievance...
Date: May 11, 2023 Time: 9:00am to 4:30pm Location: Virtual via WebEx Facilitator Vikki Reynolds will differentiate vicarious trauma and burn out from the spiritual and ethical pain that our work engenders when we are unable to provide dignity and social justice to the people we want to help. We'll explore our relationship with hope and how to resist patronizing...
Each year in Canada, one in five people will experience a mental health problem or illness. Over a lifetime, that number increases to one in three. The cost of mental health problems or illness costs our economy more than 51 billion dollars. This workshop will be facilitated by the BC Federation of Labour. Date: May 25, 2023 Time: 9am to...
Date: March 29-30, 2023 Time: 9:00am to 4:30pm Location: Virtual via WebEx How do health care and social services professionals begin to put a dent in the racial inequities that exist in our fields? Join us for a two-day anti-racism workshop and active learning session to explore how we can participate in anti-racist change in British Columbia's health care and...
Date: February 21, 2023 Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm Location: Virtual via Webex HSA is pleased to have Margaret Tebbutt facilitate this one-day workshop to assist members in their interactions with their HSA colleagues and their patients/clients. This workshop helps members gain understanding and build comfort in talking about mental health and mental illnesses. Participants will learn how to...
Supervisors in the Union (two days) HSA is unique in terms of the number of supervisors who are included in the union. Supervisors were some of the founding members of HSA when the Union was first organized. This workshop is HSA’s invitation for supervisors to come and teach each other how to work together as members and as supervisors, as...