Community Engagement

Community engagement can be a wide variety of activities from information sharing to consultation and collaboration.

Engagement initiatives can include client/family councils, partnerships with community organizations, focus groups and workshops, and presentation/dialogue opportunities with municipal Councils, Regional Hospital Districts and community organizations. Beyond direct health care, we also work closely with our facility neighbours to identify and mitigate concerns related to construction, traffic, noise and parking.

Interior Health frequently involves members of the public to ensure the patient’s voice is heard in program planning, service delivery and evaluation.

Working Together - Interior Health's approach to public participation and partnership in health services, provides an outline of the principles and benefits of engagement, and explains how we will evaluate engagement opportunities and options for public participation. No matter the option selected, we believe involving our clients and the communities we serve in the planning and decision-making process will foster sustainable health-care services.

Volunteer Opportunity: Interior Health is seeking an additional Indigenous Public Member to join our unique Person and Family Centred Care Steering Committee. We serve to communicate and promote the core Person and Family Centred Care principles of Dignity and Respect, Information Sharing, Participation and Collaboration.

Aim: With input from both Public Members and IH leaders, the Interior Health Person and Family Centred Care (PFCC) Steering Committee provides strategic direction to Interior Health around the goals, principles, policies, and priorities related to Person and Family Centred Care to improve the healthcare system.

Public members come from diverse cultural and educational backgrounds. They bring knowledge, skills and abilities from their various areas of expertise and perspectives from their unique experiences with the health care system. Public membership will aim to represent the diverse population that IH serves.

The Committee fosters a PFCC culture in IH by providing direction/guidance to IH on specific initiatives, and ensures alignment with the Ministry of Health requirements and policies based upon the related British Columbia person and family centred care framework and similar Ministry policies.

Work will include organization-wide engagement and the inclusion of public members in the co-design and ongoing development of IH as a health system. The Committee will also develop working groups to lead specific PFCC focused projects.

Eligibility

• Experience within the health care system as a patient or caregiver
• A patient partner with experiences within health care
• Experience working as a member of steering committees and high-level senior health care staff
• Ability to work with others effectively, and appreciate different perspectives and opinions
• Comfort in reading, writing and editing policies and familiarity with strategic planning
• Access to computer for Zoom meetings (unless meeting in person)

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