Ontario Care Collective Member Benefits

What are the benefits of a membership with OCC?

Tangible benefits of your membership include:

• Start-up package for new applicants/operators to help you navigate the challenges
• Virtual, monthly member roundtable discussions where we share and learn from each other
• Annual conference where we come together for education and networking
• Webinars based on trends, legislation, and member requests (e.g., legal, MCCSS, SCFA)
• Town hall meetings where we discuss topics of interest, concerns, legislative changes, etc.
• Ongoing monitoring and dissemination of information related to legislative changes
• Membership-led committees including:
  • Child welfare
  • Adult and developmental services
  • Regional
  • Insurance
  • Conference
  • Policies and procedures
  • Membership
• Reporting of shared membership concerns/questions to policy makers and decision makers
• Expanded professional network of like-minded business owners
• Connection to qualified resources for brainstorming, policy revisions, form revisions, etc.
• SafeGuards training discounts
• Insurance discounts for the personal home/auto insurance of any employee of a member organization
• Web-based platform to share your bed availability with placing agencies/individuals
• Access to MCCSS funding initiatives made available through OCC’s Transfer Payment status
• No HST on conference and membership dues as a result of OCC’s charitable status

Intangible benefits of your membership include:

• Advocacy for your program and your clients through a unified voice
• Advocacy for increased funding and supports through a unified voice
• Your voice represented on the SafeGuards board of directors which informs MCCSS sponsorship of member-requested trainings. Agencies involved in this partnership include:
  • Ontario Care Collective
  • Community Living
  • Association of Native Child and Family Services Agencies of Ontario (ANCFSAO)
  • Foster Parent Society of Ontario (FPSO)
  • Ontario Association of Young Parent Agencies

• Your voice represented at the Ministry of Children, Community & Social Services (MCCSS) Stakeholder Group including:
  • Ontario Care Collective
  • Ontario Association of Children Aid Societies (OACAS)
  • Children’s Mental Health Ontario
  • ANCFSAO
  • MCCSS
  • FPSO
  • Keystone Children’s Mental Health
  • Ontario Association of Child and Youth Counsellors (OACYC)
  • Ontario Agencies Supporting Individuals with Special Needs (OASIS)

• Partnership with ANCFSAO in the design and development of a platform intended to support the First Nations Service Model with placement needs identification and client-specific training. The partnership enables you to be front-of-the-line for FNIM service model training.
• Partnership with Nicol Insurance including:  Sector-specific insurance expertise (e.g., risk management, new legislation); Claims data collection for advocacy of rate reductions; Conference sponsorship; ​Facilitation of insurance webinars, as needed