Committees

• Promote and support community health nursing as a specialty practice.
• Contribute to the advancement of certification in community health nursing practice in collaboration with the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA).
• Collaborate and review education materials applicable to community health practice.
• Ensure the development of structures, processes, and resources for Community Health Nurses of Canada (CHNC) workshops and webinars.
• Collaborate with National Conference Program Subcommittee by offering workshops and other learning opportunities at the annual conference.

• Work with the Executive Director to manage publications including the newsletter and website
• Ensure that CHNC website is current, maintained and responsive to communication needs of CHNC membership.
• Ensure and facilitate the design, production and dissemination of promotional materials, including, but not limited to, displays and brochures to reflect the mission, goals, and activities of the association.
• Work with the Membership Co-Chair to arrange membership promotional activities to increase the visibility and profile of CHNs.
• Develop, in collaboration with the President, Executive Director and other standing committees, external media releases re CHNC and Community Health Nursing
• Monitor communication strategies and maintain, modify or discontinue as indicated
• Assist and support other committees in communicating about issues and events to the membership and the community at large

• Ensure that the constitution, bylaws, and Letters of Patent are upheld.
• Assist the Board in ensuring that the constitution and bylaws are relevant to the vision, mission, values and objectives of CHNC.
• Ensure review of committee terms of reference.
• Identify and develop policies and procedures that facilitate the work of the organization.
• Ensure that the Board Policy Manual is reviewed and revised as needed.
• Organize and coordinate the functions of the Annual General meeting.
• Ensure that Rules of Order are followed at all meetings of the association.

• Develop, implement, and evaluate structures, processes, and resources to enhance and increase membership in the organization.
• Work with the Executive Director to establish and manage a process to identify a body of knowledge regarding community health nursing expertise, including but not limited to a membership database and website documents.
• Administer CHNC awards, bursary and seed grants.
• Recognize the contributions of individual members (e.g., retiring Executive/Board members).
• Plan and co-ordinate member events, including Annual General Meeting activities.
• Work with the Communications Officer to arrange membership promotional activities to increase the visibility and profile of CHNs.

• Make recommendations to the CHNC board regarding contracting the conference planning consultant.
• Make recommendations to the CHNC board regarding future conference planning locations and venues.
• Recruit provincial/territory regions (P/T) to host national conference and facilitate recruitment, participation and lead responsibility for planning social events at the conference. 
• Facilitate the formation of conference sub-committees for Program and Marketing/Sponsorship and Hospitality. 
• Maintain conference planning within established conference budget in collaboration with the CHNC Treasurer and Finance Committee.
• Facilitate the development of any required MOU in order to support financial partnerships with PTs for the conference.
• Receive the conference evaluation report from the conference planning company and bring to CHNC Board for approval. 
• Arrange for CHNC president and partners (CNA, NCCDH/NCCMT, PHAC etc.) to participate in the conference program.
• Contribute to policy development related to national conference planning.

• Establish a collaborative research agenda to advance community health nursing in Canada. 
• Identify and successfully access funding sources and partnership opportunities in relation to CHN research and healthy public policy.
• Promote excellence in CHN practice through knowledge translation in relation to research and policy
• Create mechanisms to develop evidence-informed policy resources and responses.