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2025 Federal Election Toolkits
Federal Election Toolkit for Seniors Living
The Canadian Seniors Living Association (CSLA) has launched an advocacy toolkit to assist seniors living providers and its member associations with joint messages out to candidates and party leaders during this federal election season. The toolkit frames out three key priorities for cost-effective policy changes that will have positive effects for the sector and those we serve.
Take Action for Community Housing - 2025 Federal Election Campaign
The upcoming federal election presents a crucial opportunity to push for real solutions to Canada’s housing crisis. CHRA, in partnership with the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, Habitat for Humanity Canada, and the Canadian Real Estate Association, have launched a joint campaign to make community housing a top election issue. Their election toolkit can be found here and puts forth 10 key recommendations to combat Canada’s housing crisis, as well as actions we can all take to advocate together.
ASCHA’s Associate Member Directory – Winter 2025 Issue
The Winter 2025 Issue of ASCHA’s Associate Member Directory has been released – and just in time for our Home for Housing Convention & Trade Show! The Directory aims to assist our Regular Members in finding ASCHA-preferred service providers for products, project assistance, and consulting services. Each listing is categorized based on the products/services provided by our highly qualified Associate Members, who have extensive experience in serving the seniors and community housing sector. Thank you to all the Associate Members who submitted their information! You can view the directory here, and we recommend circulating it with everyone in your organization that makes purchasing or contractor decisions.
ASCHA Update - Week of April 7, 2025
End the Housing Game: A Call for Federal Action
The End the Housing Game campaign launched by the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association (CHRA) urges the federal government to take bold, coordinated action to address Canada’s housing crisis. With housing affordability and supply challenges worsening across the country, the campaign highlights the urgent need for long-term investment, Indigenous housing strategies, and a dedicated federal role in housing solutions. CHRA’s campaign drives home the reality that many Canadians are not being served by “the housing game,” and housing needs to be treated as the essential foundation of a just and equitable society. Check it out here and share this important message during the federal campaign with your local candidates (their website has a Take Action section).Helping Keep Residents Active
Training to provide high-quality, dynamic, and effective fitness experiences to residents is available through a partnership between ASCHA and StrongerU Senior Fitness. Seniors can have difficulty getting enough exercise, so this training was developed to help Activity and Wellness or other employees, gain the tools and skills to help their residents reach the activity levels recommended by older adult physical activity guidelines. There is also the DROM Instructor program for seniors that members’ employees can take. It’s a combination of drumming and mindfulness. Learn more about the program and the discount for ASCHA Members.
ASCHA’s Summary and Analysis of Budget 2025
ASCHA’s Summary and Analysis of Budget 2025 presents an overview of what this provincial budget means for Alberta’s community housing, seniors housing, and continuing care providers, as well as the tenants/residents you serve. Overall, Budget 2025 is a “good news” budget for housing providers. At a time when provinces are looking for risk mitigation measures due to the projected impacts of tariffs and revenue constraints, we are seeing increases across the board to housing and continuing care initiatives. This funding is crucial to support affordability measures for Albertans, prioritize housing and support solutions, and aid the implementation of major systemic overhauls that have long been overdue.
We see many of the recommendations presented in our 2025 Pre-Budget Submission addressed, and we applaud the policy decisions that put the needs of Albertans first, despite pressure to show restraint.
We welcome thoughts, questions, and requests for clarity, and we will continue to track allocations and impacts in the coming months.
NEW: ASCHA Sector Fact Sheets
ASCHA is developing a new series of Sector Fact Sheets to help various audiences better understand the different types of housing our members offer – across the full continuum of community and seniors housing options. Our Fact Sheets will provide an overview of housing types, their role in the continuum, their benefits, and key advocacy points. We hope you will find these useful for your own public awareness and advocacy efforts.
Our Meeting Albertans’ Needs Across the Housing Spectrum Fact Sheet provides a high-level overview of all housing types and serves as a basis for specific housing program fact sheets that are currently under development. Our Alberta Seniors Lodge Program Fact Sheet is the first of many in the series. You can find our fact sheets in the Advocacy section of our website under “Current Initiatives.”
More tools specifically for members will be published shortly in our Members-Only Area.
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