Regional Representatives serve as Executive Team Members
Announcement
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Lisa Beveridge as the new Chair of the Canadian Association of Continuing Care Educators (CACCE).
Lisa brings a wealth of experience and a proven track record of leadership within our industry. With an extensive background in nursing, Health Care Assistant education and program leadership. Since joining CACCE she consistently demonstrated exceptional commitment to advancing the goals and values of our association. We are confident that under her leadership, the CACCE will continue to thrive and make significant strides in rebuilding our membership and our goal of sharing resources.
Lisa officially assumed the position on October 30, 2024 and we look forward to the innovative ideas and dynamic leadership she will bring to our organization. Please join us in congratulating and supporting Lisa as she takes on this new role. Laura Bulmer has stepped down as Chair and has offered to mentor and support Lisa as she transitions into this new role.
This announcement would not be complete without recognition being given to Lanette Nordick, as a valued CACCE member for many years, Lanette has been key in the development and maintenance of our website and instrumental in assisting Laura when the co-chair position became vacant. We are grateful for her dedication, guidance and stepping up to the plate.
Beginning her career as a nurse, Lisa worked in Critical Care, Interventional Radiology, various outpatient programs and Complex Care. In 2011, Lisa transitioned into education and began teaching in the Health Care Assistant programs at VCC. In her current role, Lisa coordinates the delivery of the Health Care Assistant, Acute Care for Health Care Assistants, and Health Career Access Programs.
Lisa is excited to join CACCE and bring her experience in curriculum development, program evaluation, people management, and stakeholder collaboration, forward to support the Executive Team. With a Masters of Health Administration, Degree in Nursing and Provincial Instructor Diploma, Lisa provides a diverse perspective as she evaluates challenges through a health care, education and administrative lens.
- Working Group Member: College and Institute Canada (CICan) Development of National Standards for Unregulated Care Providers
- Researcher: SRDC PSW specific projects
- PSW Advocate/Researcher: Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU)
- Consultant, MCTU’s Ontario PSW Program Standard
- Editorial Opinion Writer, Healthy Debate. Macleans
- Member of Heads of Health Sciences PSW Subcommittee, 2012
- Member of CACCE since 2013
- Member of Heads of Health Sciences PSW Subcommittee since 2012
- Initiated Ontario PSW Educator Group (OPSWEG, 2020)
Laura also has experience working in the community sector and in palliative care. She is currently consulting on palliative care education for PSWs as part of her continued search for opportunities to advance PSW profession. She can best be reached via her email at vanbulmer@hotmail.com
During my nursing career I have worked in the following clinical specialties: Medicine, Intensive Care, Home Care and Long term, with a little Peds, Surgical and Women’s health thrown in as well. I have experience in Nursing education as a clinical educator/resource nurse in Acute care, an instructor (theory and clinical) in a Practical nursing program and more recently as Instructor/Coodinator in the Health Care Assistant program at Yukon University. As an educator I am committed to a student-focused learning experience that is innovative, comprehensive, trauma-informed and relevant to the north and its unique social context and fabric. When not working, I am usually outside exploring the wilderness in a canoe, on skis or on foot. Down time is spent baking, drawing/painting, reading and being with family and friends during long winters or late midnight-sunned summers.
I am invested in the education of Health Care Assistants to support our age-ed population in the holistic fulfillment of their health and well-being. My interests include all aspects of older adult health, chronic illness, dementia, and palliative care. In collaboration with my colleagues across Canada and with unrelenting determination I am dedicated to increasing the knowledge, visibility and recognition of the unregulated health care providers, who with genuine compassion deliver day-to-day care to some of our most vulnerable members of society. Certified Gentle Persuasive Approach (GPA) Coach and Virtual Dementia Tour facilitator. Have been a participant in the BC Articulation Committee. A member of the Canadian Nurses Association, Gerontological Nursing Association of BC and Alzheimer’s Society of BC. Educated in the San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety course.
I live in St. John’s, Newfoundland. I have been an RN for 15 years working in both acute care and long-term care.
Her varied work experiences include employment in acute care, long-term care, mental health, and community nursing in Canada and the United States. Jane joined Holland College’s Resident Care Worker Program in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, as a Learning Manager in 2010 and began a career in teaching and learning. Jane strives to engage each student in an active learning journey of preparing for a career as a Resident Care Worker while embarking on a voyage of self-discovery in the process. Building strong communication skills, reflective practices, and self-awareness aptitudes in all learners is her passion and is especially evident in her interest in dementia, mental health, and palliative care. As a model of lifelong learning, Jane is a graduate of the Certificate in Adult Education Program offered jointly by the University of Prince Edward Island and Holland College and is presently a student in the Master of Education in Leadership in Learning with a focus on College Educators Program at The University of Prince Edward Island. As a new member of the CACCE executive, Jane is eager to learn more about personal support workers’ education across Canada while sharing information about Prince Edward Island’s educational and work opportunities for the unregulated worker.
After several years as a long-term care nurse manager in rural Manitoba, she joined the University College of the North Health Care Aide program in 2020 and is loving every minute of it. She states creating passionate and skillful health care team members is the ultimate goal. Being a life-long learner, Cindy is currently pursuing her Masters in Nursing program, with a teaching focus, through Athabasca University.
She graduated with honours from St. Lawrence College in the RPN program and completed 2 years at St. Francis of Xavier University where she received her certificate in Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching. Her current role is the PSW Lead/Quality Assurance Coordinator with the Ontario Association of Adult and Continuing Education School Board Administrators (CESBA). Anita is the proud owner of Well Grounded Foot Care Services and in her spare time has been known to dabble in the theatrical sphere.
Her particular interest is in caring for clients with dementia. Following community experience, in 2000 she joined what was then SIAST and is now Saskatchewan Polytechnic as an instructor for the CCA program. In 2008 she took on the Program Head role for the CCA program in Regina and remains in that role.
