Leadership 2020 Newsletter: Leadership & Cultural Awareness
Over the past few years, Wedlidi Speck and I have been working together (and with a broad array of wise advisors) to unpack the concepts of cultural awareness, understanding, humility, […]
Entries by Amy Mullis
The CSS Health & Safety Handbook
Following three years of work, The Federation and our partners at the Community Social Services Employers’ Association of BC (CSSEA), WorkSafeBC, and the Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA), are […]
Celebrate BC Child and Youth in Care Week
The Federation is a proud member of the BC Youth in Care Advisory Committee and we are excited to help raise awareness about BC Child and Youth in Care Week taking […]
Leadership 2020 Newsletter: Leadership by subtraction, not addition
– Submitted by a past Leadership 2020 participant I often find that a lot of writing about leadership practices list all the things that leaders should do to be successful. […]
Updated MCFD Caregiver Screening Policy
In December 2014, MCFD implemented a new caregiver screening policy. Since then, a number of Federation members faced challenges implementing the new requirements and, over the past three years, we […]
Leadership 2020 Newsletter: Strategies for Learning from Failure
The wisdom of ‘learning from failure’ is essentially incontrovertible. Yet organizations that do it well are extraordinarily rare. But why? For many, this gap is not due to a lack of […]
Leadership 2020 Newsletter: Leadership and Failure
– by Caitlin Frost, Leadership 2020 Hosting Team In order to really explore and create something new, we need to step out of certainty, try something different, and take some […]
The benefits of partnerships: Federation Insurance Products
The Federation believes that in order to be strong and sustainable, BC’s community social services sector must have access to high quality and affordable insurance products. That’s one big reason […]
Award for Excellence Nominations
Last week, I spoke about the Federation’s Youth Education Bursary and the way that it serves to welcome young people into our sector and our work. Today, I want to […]
BC’s new Employer Health Tax
One of the big changes revealed in the BC budget speech a few weeks ago was the announcement of a new progressive tax that will replace MSP premiums in our province. […]