🎃College Newsletter October 2020🎃


November board meeting and AGM - Election -  CCP Reminder

Save the date - November board meeting and AGM

You are invited to join us for our upcoming board meeting and AGM on Tuesday November 17, 2020. The AGM will feature a presentation about Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility and we encourage all registrants to attend. It will be a great opportunity to learn more about this very important topic and how it relates to your work as a Licensed Optician.

You will also have an opportunity to include attendance of the AGM and the Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility presentation into your learning goals for your Continuing Competency Program, please click below for guidance. Information on how to RSVP will be shared in the coming weeks. 

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COBC Board nominees announced

The College will be holding an election in December, 2020, to fill two upcoming vacancies on the COBC Board. Three opticians in the Lower Mainland have been nominated for election or re-election to the Board: Karl Chua, Kim McEachern, and Laila Noorie.

All registrants in the Lower Mainland who are eligible to vote may do so online in December, and will receive more information and instruction via email prior to the start of the election.

 
 

CCP reminder

If you are currently in your third and final year of your continuing education cycle, this is a reminder that all the steps of your Continuing Competency Program (CCP) must be completed by December 31, 2020

This program is self-managed, so you need to ensure all steps have been completed and all information has been added into your online program by the end of the year.

This includes: taking the assessment, creating goals for yourself, finding and completing activities to achieve those goals, and reflecting on how it went.

Please login to your profile on the COBC website to update your progress. If you have questions about CCP you can visit our website to access guides and tools or contact Christopher Dodge, Quality Assurance Manager.

 

Update your business information

Did you recently complete a survey regarding the operation of your business during the pandemic? If you had previously informed us that your business was temporarily closed, you may need to update your information. Please search your name in our online directory to confirm how your information is being displayed. 

If you need to change any of the details related to the operation of your business, please complete this short form as soon as possible. Information such as your name, business address, or other personal details can be updated directly through your profile.

 

Did You Know?

If you change or leave employment for any reason, you can edit your business address through your Licensed Optician profile on our website. It is a matter of public safety for you to keep this information current, according to our Standards of Practice.

The College of Opticians of BC operates on the traditional, ancestral and unceded Coast Salish territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.

Unsubscribing from this email will revoke your consent to receive email correspondance from us as outlined in Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL). We will no longer be able to send you important reminders pertaining to your license which may affect your registration with the College of Opticians of BC. Please contact us if you have any questions.