Who we are:
The
Community Health Care Professionals Division (CHCPD) was
created by a merger of community-based units of the
Association of Allied Health Professionals: Ontario and
community-based Locals and Units from various sectors in
the broader public service.
As a brand
new Division, the CHCPD is still in the process of
identifying all of its member Locals and Units. Its
jurisdiction includes Locals or Units whose members are
employed predominantly as health care professionals and
paramedical employees in community based health care.
Classifications
Include
The Division
covers approximately 35 Locals and Units in Community
Care Access Centres (CCACs), community-based home care
agencies, community health centres, public health units,
community addiction services and acquired brain injury
services.
Aims and Purposes
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to
promote the attainment of improved working
conditions for and the general advancement of
community health care professionals and paramedical
employees within a high quality health care delivery
system;
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to
analyze and develop policy, motions and resolutions
concerning community health care professional and
paramedical matters;
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to
engage in such activities as may be lawful and in
the best interests of the membership, in accordance
with the objectives of advancing the aims of their
respective professions and of securing, in the
interests of the public, the highest possible level
of health care;
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to
develop policies to guide Member Locals and Member
Units in developing collective bargaining demands;
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to
advance the aims, purposes and goals of the Division
within the Union;
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to
promote and support aims, purposes and goals of the
Union, as a Division and with other Union groups;
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to
participate with other member Divisions in the
Health Care Divisional Council and its activities.
