6th Annual QWQHC Summit
Mark your calendars!
Join us as QWQHC’s 6th Annual Summit moves west to Vancouver, British Columbia at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel on March 1-2, 2012. The Summit will once again provide an opportunity to share ideas, innovations, and practices from a network of colleagues, all engaged in building healthy work environments and improving quality of worklife in healthcare.
The draft Program and Call for Submissions will be available in early Autumn 2011. In the meantime, feel free to visit the QWQHC website at www.qwqhc.ca for more information about our mandate and to hear what participants had to say about the 2011 Summit.
If you have any questions about the Summit, please contact Sally Clelford from Face 2 Face Events Management (conference secretariat) at sally@f2fe.com.
Proposal for Funding: CPA, HEAL and Dr. P. Hausdorf (CSIOP)
The CPA, on behalf of a subset of the Health Action Lobby (HEAL) member organizations and associations, and with Dr. Peter Hausdorf, Chair, Canadian Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (CSIOP), submitted a proposal for funding to Health Canada. The goal of this proposal was to develop a web-based survey that would allow for the assessment of the work-related health and well-being of Canada’s health professionals. CPA was recently informed that Health Canada would not be providing funding for any additional projects. The CPA is pursuing other funding options.
5th Annual Quality Worklife-Quality Healthcare Collaborative (QWQHC) Summit
The Quality Worklife-Quality Healthcare Collaborative (QWQHC) held its 5th Annual Summit this past March 2-3, 2011 in Mississauga, Ontario. The theme for this year's Summit was: Integrating Perspectives: Healthy Work Environments, Healthy Outcomes, Healthy People.
Mental Health of Federal Public Servants
CPA has initiated a series of meetings with the federal government about the mental health of its human resource. Recent reports in the Ottawa Citizen indicate that approximately 40% of the disability claims of federal public servants are mental health related. CPA hopes to work with communities of interest in addressing the primary, secondary and tertiary mental health needs of Canada’s workforce. CPA hopes to engage its communities of experts and be able to lend assistance in meeting these needs and in promoting the system change necessary to enhancing access to psychological services when these are needed. Contact Drs. Cohen or Service at CPA Executive Office for more information (executiveoffice@cpa.ca).
Ontario Psychological Association Early Career Psychologist Project
This document is a practical organizational guide for Psychological Associations about how to develop and maintain the membership and involvement of early career psychologists in their Association. It is a compilation of the efforts and strategies of the Early Career Psychologist Taskforce in the Ontario Psychological Association (OPA). Many of the ideas and strategies can be broadly applied and modified to meet the needs of both small and large Associations. Click here to download the guide or contact the OPA for more information.
Supply and Demand Task Force
There are a number of pressing issues which need to be addressed regarding the supply of and demand for psychologists. A large proportion of the psychology workforce is approaching retirement. Who will take their places? How many people do we need to train? How should we plan to ensure that there are enough psychologists in areas such as prevention, health promotion and rehabilitation? Will we have an adequate number of psychologists to conduct research, train future students, and develop programs? We have data about the number of students entering and graduating from psychology programs, but little about the nature of their training, and even less about their career paths after graduation. We lack information on how many psychologists are actively practicing in the jurisdiction in which they are licensed, how many are publicly versus privately funded, how many are in health versus correctional versus school, how many are full-time versus part-time, etc.
In 2008, CPA struck a task force to examine issues related to the supply of and demand for psychologists in Canada.
View the Spring 2009 issue of Psynopsis for an article on supply and demand issues and the task force.
The task force’s final report was submitted to and accepted by the CPA Board in November 2010. Click here to view the report.
G7
CPA is a member of this group of national health care associations outside of medicine and nursing organized to advocate for the needs of this important health human resource that operates both within and outside of the public health sector. The G7 recently met to establish an advocacy agenda for the group around access to service and is working collaboratively to develop common datasets among provider groups to collect information about Canada’s health human resource.