Pandemic Response – COVID-19

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Our network of agency leaders has a clear set of purposes:

1. To facilitate a collective voice
2. To promote effective business practices
3. To promote leadership development and mutual support

As an organization that is led by CEOs from across the province, we strive to meet our mandate as set out above. Over the past 3 months, we have defined our role as providing our members with the most current and relevant information about Covid-19 and the impacts for their organizations including those individuals they serve, their families and caregivers and employees.  Throughout this timeframe we have provided regular information updates, shared resources and regional conference calls.  This has been a time where all of our members have come together and openly shared both their concerns and struggles but also their various plans and even more importantly, their successes.  These shared ideas have assisted our members in creating highly effective responses to the pandemic and have kept many people healthy and safe.

Our work at various provincial tables has also continued and we have been strong contributors in all of these forums.  Karyn Santiago, Board President, and Brenda Gillette, CEO, participated in weekly meetings of the Social Services Sector Roundtable from the onset of the pandemic until mid-June.  These meetings will now be held monthly.  Brenda Gillette has also been a part of weekly Re-Imagining Community Inclusion meetings for that same timeframe as well as an active part of various sub-committees and working groups.  In the midst of this, we were able to present to the Select Standing Committee on Finance on June 18^th and identified the following funding concerns on behalf of our members:

• compensation of management and excluded employees,
• financing for capacity building that provides community social service agencies with opportunities for innovation; and
• flexibility and equal work/equal pay.

While it is fair to say that Covid-19 has taken up much of our time, we continue to work on a number of other projects including the Provincial Home Share Working Group and work with CLBC and BC Housing to review maintenance and repair processes.  We anticipate that there will also be a return our regular Executive Committee meetings with CLBC over the upcoming weeks.

Our upcoming meetings for 2020 have been cancelled and we are currently working on a virtual format for our Annual General meeting which will be held on Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 3:00 p.m.  Further details will be posted as they become available.

Member input is vital to ensuring a strong and healthy organization.  I encourage your comments, inquiries and recommendations.  Please contact me at brenda@bcceonetwork.ca.