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. While we all make the adjustments required to manage our organizations within the context of COVID-19, the BC CEO Network has continued to support its members in a variety of ways. We have held regional calls, fielded and responded to specific inquiries from members, participated in weekly Covid calls with CLBC, co-hosted multiple Community of Practice calls with CLBC and been a partner with CLBC on Service Provider calls. We continue to provide current information to our members and work closely with government representatives and CLBC to ensure that our needs as a sector are heard, understood and responded to.

In the winter of 2020 the BC CEO Network Board of Directors made the difficult decision to shift to virtual meetings only for 2021. In response to remaining engaged with all our members the Network hosted Leadership Forums on January 27 and April 28 as well as Professional Development Days on January 28 and April 29. Surveys were circulated following each of these sessions and the feedback used to plan for upcoming meetings. Work is now ongoing to plan for the Leadership Forum, Professional Development Day and Annual General Meeting in September 2021. We are pleased to note that this exploration into providing both business meeting opportunities and training sessions has been highly successful with participant numbers that have far exceeded those of our in-person meetings. Consideration is being given as to how to best continue to provide opportunities for connection that best meet our members’ needs.

In mid-April we launched our Member Marketing Campaign for Community Living Careers and have shared considerable information to ensure that all of our members are able to take advantage of this social media recruitment opportunity. We have also been working on the Home Share Training Project and initiated work on a Late Life Planning Guide to supplement our best practice documents. We have continued to actively support our sector at the Social Services Roundtable as well as the Re-Imagining Community Inclusion table and its various sub-working groups. We remain committed to ensuring a positive working relationship with CLBC and will be holding our first Joint Executive Committee meeting with them in over 16 months on June 24.

As of May 25, the province has announced its plans for Restart BC; a plan to begin the return to a new normal following the pandemic. This plan is dependent on a continued decline in the number of new Covid cases and hospitalizations together with an increase in the percentage of vaccinated British Columbians. This will once again mean adjustments by our members in terms of how they continue to provide safe services and supports to individuals and families while simultaneously increasing opportunities. This will be a fine balance and the BC CEO Network will continue to provide the most current information available to its members.

Our Leadership Forum, AGM and Professional Development Day are scheduled for September 29 and 30. We look forward to seeing our members at those meetings.

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.