Submitted by Committee Members: Christine Johnson, Deborah Luporini, Celina Mau
At the April Executive Meeting, our executive supported the committee’s proposal to pursue a recruitment drive. In so doing, we are offering a one-year FREE membership to all BCPVPA members upon their retirement starting in July 1st, 2022.The revised application form (dated May 2022) reflected such a change. Many thanks to our President, Christine Johnson for working closely with BCPVPA Director of Finance, Carol Powell, and Sandra Murphy, Director of Communications on the revised form.
The recruitment drive was launched at the May 12-13 Chapter Council Meeting by our President, Christine Johnson with Marsha Arnold in attendance. A package with our Membership Application Form and our Chronicles and Capers Newsletter (April 2022) was distributed to all Chapter Council Representatives so that, upon their return to their district, they could share the information with their team of administrative colleagues.
Rationale for such a recruitment drive?
1. BCRPVPA wishes to:
Make a connection with our working colleagues,
members of BCPVPA beyond the BCPVPA
Mentorship Program, and the Scholarships Committee; and
2. Bridge a smooth transition from the active PVP
membership to the active RPVP association.
During our year-long exploratory work of ‘Why join BCRPVPA?’, through discussions with BCPVPA Executive Director, Kevin Reimer, and information provided by our executive members who retired during Covid, it became apparent that, if we were to ‘walk the talk’ of our Mission Statement, our association needed to provide some transitional support service to our working BCPVPA colleagues moving into retirement.
An example of one support service in the planning stage included the efforts of collaborating with Human Works, a counselling service that many of our BCPVPA members tapped into during those challenging months of the pandemic.
In summary, the statements below help distinguish who qualifies for what.
- Members who are retiring from BCPVPA as of July 2022
BCRPVPA is waiving the $20/annual membership fee to applicants who are retiring from BCPVPA as of July 2022. Afterwards, their membership fee will be collected annually from TPP automatically
- Members who retired from BCPVPA before July 2022
As was past practice, BCRPVPA will continue to collect the annual $20 membership fee from interested applicants who retire before July 2022 regardless of when they decide to join our association.
