Member and Steward Education and Scholarships
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...
Dates: May 15-16, 2023 Lo cation: HSA Office, 180 East Columbia Street, New Westminster Time: 9 am - 4:30 pm OH&S Steward Training (two days) HSA Occupational Health and Safety stewards and HSA representatives on workplace joint health and safety committees support their colleagues at work as well as required by legislation at all worksites. HSA is offering a two-day...
HSA Lead and Assistant Lead Steward Training This one-day training session is for Lead Stewards and Assistant Lead Stewards. Priority access will be given to Lead and Assistant Lead Stewards that have never attended a Lead and Assistant Lead Steward workshop. As leaders in your chapter, you have some additional opportunities, responsibilities, and challenges. The goal of this workshop is...
Date: January 23, 2023 Time: 9am – 4:30pm Location: Virtual via Webex HSA is pleased to have Kerry Palmer facilitate this one-day course to assist members in their day-to-day interactions with their HSA colleagues and their patients/clients. Communication is the cornerstone of a healthy, productive and engaging workforce, and as such, this course is an opportunity to build and enhance...
HSA is pleased to offer another opportunity to attend this two-day workshop!& DATES: January 25-26, 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...
SCHOLARSHIPS AND BURSARIES AVAILABLE FOR HSA MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES HSA is offering scholarships and bursaries to all members and their children. ten scholarships will be awarded for full-time studies, twenty bursaries for full-time studies, and four bursaries for part-time studies. two indigenous bursaries will be awarded to indigenous students in bc who are pursuing education in an hsa related...
Aged 35 or younger? Here’s a chance to get more involved with your union! Did you know that almost one third of HSA members are aged 35 or younger? HSA is now accepting applications for the 2022 Young Workers’ Advisory Committee until Thursday, August 18. Click here to apply! The Young Workers’ Advisory Group (YWAG) is a group of five...