Showcase Your Brand at Alberta’s Premier Housing Event!

Step into the spotlight at ASCHA’s 2026 Home for Housing Convention & Trade Show, Alberta’s premier event for housing leaders, innovators, and solution providers.

For over six decades, this event has been where industry connections are made, partnerships are forged, and innovative solutions take centre stage. Now’s your chance to be part of it!

Trade Show booths and sponsorships are officially open to the public!

Spaces sell fast! Don’t miss out!

Click on the "Learn More" button below for details, including pricing, sponsorship options, and so much more!

Date: November 18, 2025
Time: 12–1 pm MT
Location: Virtual

Description
Family caregivers play a vital but often invisible role in seniors housing—offering emotional support, assisting with daily tasks, and bridging communication with staff.

This webinar introduces the Caregiver-Centered Care Education (CCCE) program, now available on the Alberta Seniors & Community Housing Association’s learning platform.

Join us to explore how CCCE can equip housing staff—concierge to care coordinator—with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to better recognize, include, and support caregivers as essential partners in resident well-being. We’ll hear from leaders who are already embedding caregiver-centered practices in their organizations, and from those with lived experience as caregivers and collaborators in seniors housing.

Whether you're a frontline staff member, educator, or senior leader, this session offers practical inspiration for turning your housing site into a community of care.

Speakers

• Ginger Bitzer – Caregiver-Centered Care Leaders
  Facilitator and speaker on why housing must support caregivers.
• Shanika Donalds, PhD, MSW, RSW – Director of Housing and Client Services, GEF Seniors Housing
  Will share the organizational journey of embedding caregiver-centered practices in seniors housing.
• Lara Pinchbeck, MA, PHEc, RHFAC, PM, CP3 – Founder & Chief Researcher, Research+Design
  Design anthropologist and universal design specialist; will share the “caregiver-eye-view” of how housing environments and staff practices can either welcome or alienate families.

ASCHA is inviting speaker proposals for our 2026 Home for Housing Convention & Trade Show, celebrating over 60 years of advancing community and seniors housing in Alberta. Over 300 housing professionals will gather at the Edmonton Convention Centre from April 13 – 15, 2026 to explore innovation, leadership, and sector-wide solutions.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for engaging, relevant, and inspiring sessions that connect with leaders, boards, management, and support staff in community and seniors housing. If you have a topic, story, or idea that can spark meaningful dialogue or learning, we’d love to hear from you!

The proposal submission deadline is December 12, 2025.

Those interested in presenting at our 2026 Home for Housing event can submit a proposal for ASCHA to review. Review the Call for Presenters guidelines by clicking on the "learn more" button below.

Health Cities ALC Engagement
Members of ASCHA’s Administration Team attended the series of alternate levels of care (ALC) consultations held over the past week, to review opportunities and challenges related to funding models, workforce capacity, system integration, care transitions, regulatory and structural barriers, equity and inclusion, community and social supports, and training in various settings. The engagement sessions brought together continuing care providers, community and home support providers, and social/community organizations to share first-hand experiences with alternate levels of care interfacing across the entire system. The intent of the sessions was to interact with findings from previous consultations, and to offer solutions and identify gaps not yet fully acknowledged that need to be assessed and addressed to better support consistent and effective delivery of services to Albertans. ASCHA stressed the need for expanded supports in lodge and supportive living settings, and flexibility in delivery to meet support needs required to keep residents stable and healthy in their homes of choice, avoiding unnecessary placement in higher levels of care – which creates extra costs on the system as a whole. The feedback from our members at our recent Region Meetings was extremely helpful in presenting operator realities at these sessions and validating ASCHA’s advocacy positions related to continuing care transformation and optimization of all housing and support options across the ecosystem. A report will be forthcoming. We look forward to the recommendations being implemented as the government continues to work through the refocusing of the health care system and the transformation of continuing care.

Call for Applications - Care For Staff 2.0
The Government of Alberta engaged with the Alberta Continuing Care Association (ACCA) to deliver the Care for Staff Program to providers across the province. As ASCHA also represents a significant amount of Continuing Care, we were pleased to participate on the Care for Staff Program Advisory Committee and value this collaborative approach. This program provides funding for wellness projects that directly support the mental health and well-being of Alberta’s continuing care workforce. Eligible organizations can apply for up to $24,000 per site, depending on staff participation levels. The Care for Staff Grant is available exclusively to:

• AHS-contracted Continuing Care Home Operators (Type A and B)
• AHS-contracted Hospice Operators (Type C)
• AHS-contracted Home & Community Care Providers (Type 2)

 Applications must be submitted by the lead or parent organization responsible for managing participating sites. Applications can only be submitted during the fixed intake window (Oct. 15 – Dec. 15, 2025). Last week ASCHA sent a direct email to eligible providers with more details about the program along with key dates. If you have any questions about the application process, please contact careforstaff@ab-cca.ca. Use this link to access the application portal.