COBC Newsletter October 2022
September 30 Ceremony | Standard 4 | Bylaw Amendments | Blanketing ceremony On September 30, COBC participated in a blanketing ceremony on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, to mark the implementation of our new practice standard, Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility, and Anti-Racism. | Lisa Bannerman (Registrar/Executive Director) participating in the September 30 blanketing ceremony | Left to right: Peter Luongo (Board Chair), Lisa Bannerman (Registrar/Executive Director), and Kim McEachern (Board Member/Finance Officer) after the blanketing ceremony | | Introducing Standard 4
Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility, and Anti-Racism Standard 4 is in effect as of September 30, 2022. It solidifies anti-racism as a pillar of every BC optician's practice. This standard describes how each optician must engage in an ongoing examination of their values, assumptions, beliefs, and privileges, and how they must seek to continually improve upon their ability to provide culturally safe care for Indigenous clients. Standard 4 is foundational to all other standards. Opticians should endeavour to incorporate Indigenous cultural safety, cultural humility, and anti-racism not only into their client interactions but into all aspects of their opticianry work. | | Working on your CCP? Remember that reading and implementing the new Standards of Practice is your professional responsibility—but it can also be used towards your learning goals! There are countless ways to incorporate Indigenous cultural safety, cultural humility, and anti-racism into your practice. If you need some inspiration, you might wish to use COBC's Cultural Safety & Humility resource page as a starting point. For learning related to other topics, You may also wish to review case studies related to other Standards of Practice: | We want to hear from you Are there other formats or types of information you would like to see as we spotlight other Standards? Do you have specific questions about the Standards that you'd like to see answered? Take our 3-minute survey | OAC Western Conference 2022 The Opticians Association of Canada (OAC) is hosting its in-person Western Conference on October 15 & 16 at the Delta Hotels Burnaby Conference Centre in Burnaby, BC. Learn more and register Members of COBC's board and staff will be available to answer questions at the trade show on Saturday. We will also be presenting to attendees on Sunday morning. We hope to see you there! | | CCP cycle ending soon If you are currently in the third and final year of your continuing education cycle, you must fulfill all the requirements of your Continuing Competency Program (CCP) no later than December 31, 2022. The program is self-managed, so you are responsible for ensuring that all the steps have been completed in the online system. | | This includes: taking the assessment(s), creating goals for yourself, finding and completing activities to achieve those goals, and reflecting on how it went. Please log in to your profile on the COBC website to log your progress. If you have questions about CCP, you can visit our website to access guides and tools or contact Christopher Dodge, our Manager of Quality Assurance. | Unsure when your cycle ends? Log in to your COBC account and navigate to the HOME tab to see your cycle end date, along with other important dates related to your registration. (If you can't see any dates in your HOME tab, it may be that you need to complete your log-in security questions!) | | Allied Health Professionals Day Since 2018, October 14 has been celebrated as International Allied Health Professionals Day, recognizing the significant impacts and contributions of the collective allied health workforce around the world. In BC, this workforce includes approximately 75,000 individuals in more than 70 disciplines—including opticianry. | | The Allied Health Policy Secretariat (AHPS) is in the process of developing a three-year strategic plan, which will set the mission, vision, philosophy, and direction of the allied health workforce in BC. A key component of the AHPS plan is increasing awareness and recognition of the allied health workforce. AHPS letter to allied health professionals More about the AHPS | Vacancies on the Board The deadline to apply to join the COBC Board is January 7, 2023. Any interested registrant, in any BC region, may apply by sending a resume and cover letter to cdodge@cobc.ca. In particular, we are encouraging applications from Indigenous registrants, members of racialized groups, individuals identifying as LGBTQIA2S+, and those with lived experience of physical, cognitive, or mental health conditions. Find out more and apply | | Bylaw amendments The COBC Board has approved amendments to COBC's bylaws. As required under the Health Professions Act, the proposed amendments have now been posted on our website for review. Registrants, members of the public, and other stakeholders are encouraged to provide comments or feedback no later than November 8, 2022. Review the proposed amendments | | Do you know whose land you live on? When Lisa Bannerman joined COBC as Registrar/Executive Director in 2018, she relocated from the Treaty 7 territory of the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut'ina Nations — lands to which she still feels a deep, personal connection — to the traditional and unceded territories of the scəw̓aθən (Tsawwassen), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and other Coast Salish Peoples. She now lives and works on the traditional and unceded territory of the Okanagan syilx people. | 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 correspondence 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 licence, which may affect your registration with the College of Opticians of BC. 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