Are you curious about how a Wellness, Health or Social Service co-op could serve your community? Or about how your could integrate one of our programs into your existing co-op to shift the focus for your workers, consumers or community from “repairing injuries and healing illness” to helping individuals and groups to achieve and maintain …
Health, Wellness and Social Service co-ops intro in Calgary Dec 4th Read More »
Congratulations to Victoria Health Co-op on its 2015 Wellness Fair: 33 dynamic speakers, 15 displays, lots of community interest. Emily MacDonald introducing Hans Kai to our audience.
Will you share your experience at our Annual Meeting? Winnipeg, Dec 6 – 9, hosted by NorWest Co-op including the AGM, Youth engagement presentation, Site visits, Hans Kai training, and Learning Exchange (your opportunity to share your best practice or best program.)
The 2nd Summit attracted over 3,000 co-operators from 93 countries. Well-ness, health and social services will again be a focus in 2016. October 11 – 13 in Quebec City. Contact us for details of HCCFC involvement!
The Canadian Medical Association has asked for our support for their campaign for seniors’ care. This is completely in keeping with the work of Canada’s Wellness, Health and Social Service co-ops and an excellent, action-focused opportunity to build a solid working partnership. Please visit their site and add your voice www.cma.ca/En/Pages/demand-a-plan.aspx
Please add your thoughts to this interesting research on care co-ops by Lenore Mathew and Satoko Horiuchi, whom I know from her excellent work with the Japanese Consumer Co-op Organization. They are asking: Thinking about cooperatives in general, how does participating in cooperatives affect women’s time and how much time they spend with their own …
The International Labour Organization needs your input about care co-ops. Read More »
CACHC applauds NDP announcement on community health services September 14, 2015 (Vancouver) — The Canadian Association of Community Health Centres (CACHC) welcomes today’s announcement by the federal NDP of its commitment to invest in new community health centres, mobile health clinics and diverse healthcare providers if elected to form Canada’s next government. The announcement was made …
The 2nd Summit attracted over 3,000 co-operators from 93 countries! Well-ness, health and social services will again be a focus in Quebec City during Oct 11-13 2015. Contact us for details of HCCFC involvement.
Evening of Dec 6 through Dec 9 2015 Thanks to NorWest, Winnipeg for hosting. AGM, Site Visits, Learning Exchange. Members and guests equally welcome. Watch for details.
The ILO (International Labour Organization) has posted a survey that would be of interest to all types of wellness, social service and healthcare coops. It ignores the important role of our sector in preventative care and wellness education, and ignores the equally important role of volunteers. Fortunately it does give plenty of opportunities for comment. …
