The CHCA’s strategic direction reflects the priorities of our members and creates a roadmap to address the current and future challenges facing home care across the country.  Guided by our principles for home care, our goal is to create the necessary conditions for an integrated home and community-care system that provides seamless patient- and family-centred care that is accessible, accountable, evidence-informed, integrated and sustainable.

Strategic Milestones (2021/22)

Informing Federal Priorities

Championing federal priorities and actions to make home care better.

Championed accountability for the

$6 billion

federal investment
in home and community care

Member of the national advisory group for a

7-year NRC challenge project

 on technology and aging in place

Featured the

Prime Minister

and 6 federal leaders in recognizing
family caregivers

Recommended

4 concrete actions

 long-term care at home  

Shaping Future Workplaces

Leading a national awareness campaign to help employers create caregiver- friendly workplaces.

18 research blogs, 30 profiles

 of working caregivers and employer champions

74 social media posts

 shared with 470,305 internet users

205 stakeholders

joined our Catalyst Conversations to shape future workplaces

4 pillars and vision statements

to accelerate the creation of caregiver friendly workplaces across Canada

Advancing Excellence in Home-Based Palliative Care

Sharing best practices and creating collaborative networks across the country.

Identified

100 ways to improve

 home-based palliative care, lessons learned from COVID-19

Shared

78 evidence-informed tools

 for Advance Care Planning in the home and community

Engaged

767 health care practitioners

  in our ECHO Hub

Featured

20 resources

 in the online ECHO Community HUB including 2 online microlearning modules

Enhancing Providers’ Skills and Competencies

Designing an innovative, capacity-building project use emotional intelligence skills in patient-and family-centred care.

Consulted with

24 family caregivers

 and 83 health care providers to understand their experiences

Created

8 online self-directed

EI learning modules

with content, case studies and practical tools on emotional intelligence

Incorporated

32 systematic reviews,

15 primary studies and 5 key informant interviews in the education program framework

Engaged

5 home care organizations

as champions in the co-design and testing of the EI education program

ANNUAL REPORTS

  • Federal funded priorities advancing better home care
  • Prime Minster endorsement on National Caregiver Day
  • Launch of Shaping Future Workplaces initiative
  • Successful national campaign on supporting working caregivers
  • New home and community-care ECHO Hub
  • Tools and resources for home-based palliative care

* Due to the Challenge of COVID-19, the CHCA did not create 2019, 2020 Progress Reports. The association focused on providing information and guidance to our members during this unprecedented time.  For more information on COVID-19 resources for home and community care.

  • Launched a national initiative to advance excellence in home-based palliative care.
  • Informed the development of national home care indicators.
  • Forged international partnerships to support caregivers.
  • Facilitated member engagement at Home Care Summits™ in Prince Edward Island and British Columbia.
  • Evaluated the application of new teamwork and communication tools.
  • Launched a national initiative to advance excellence in home-based palliative care.
  • Informed the development of national home care indicators.
  • Forged international partnerships to support caregivers.
  • Facilitated member engagement at Home Care Summits™ in Prince Edward Island and British Columbia.
  • Evaluated the application of new teamwork and communication tools.

  • Featured caregivers at a breakfast on Parliament Hill.
  • Informed the creation of the national dementia strategy.
  • Launched the Virtual Learning Series.
  • Introduced a new value-based membership structure.

  • Launched Better Home Care: A National Action Plan.
  • Refreshed the Harmonized Principles for Home Care.
  • Identified the challenges in tracking home care wait times.
  • Profiled home and community-based services for children with complex care needs.

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