CARP-BC Society 2003 Annual Report
Annual General Meeting was held February 18, 2004
President’s Report
Welcome CARP members and guests to our 2004 AGM for the CARP BC Society. Your CARP BC Board has been very busy with a number of projects and initiatives. I will briefly touch on some committee accomplishments, which I am rather proud of and each committee chair will follow with their reports.
The Professional Development Committee continues to do an outstanding job under both Allan Kaufman. This past year they continued to explore training opportunities to the regions outside the lower mainland where access to training is more difficult to obtain. The committee has developed a partnership with NETWERRC and is open to developing additional opportunities in accessing workshops and training. This past year the PD committee coordinated with WCB in Prince George a well attended and delivered workshop. The informal partnership with Disability Resource Network (DRN) a provincial organization that represents services for individuals who have disabilities, in the British Columbia Post Secondary Education The board continues to support the strategic goals from the 2001 planning session where it was determined that professional development was to be a major continuing goal for our members.
We continue with development of membership and public relations through more exposure at various conferences. The committee chair, Lucinda Socha has steered the development and updating of our web site. Please visit the CARP BC Society's web page http://www.carpbc.org/
Communication with our members continues with the Rehab Review which is published quarterly as the BC and National CARP magazine. The marketing Representative, Rhonda Shade who solicits advertising for the Rehab Review Magazine has increased our revenues allowing us to use excess funds for other initiatives. This committee should certainly be recognized for its dedication under the BC chairmanship of Seann Atley. The committee works continuously at obtaining interesting and informative articles for the magazine.
To keep us all fiscally on track, our treasurer, Gene Wallace-Deering works with each committee and ensures budgets are in place to assist with committee goals. Your CARP BC Society continues to operate in a healthy financial position.
As President for the last year, I am indebted to the dedication of our BC Board members for the many hours of work, which they have each put in to their positions. I am honored to have worked with such a dedicated and professional Board of Directors. I must give special thanks to Past President, Judy Alexander whose knowledge and generosity of time and support has been unrelenting. I look forward to serving CARP members as President in the coming year.
Greg Travers
President
CARP BC Society
The Professional Development and Education Committee
The Professional Development and Education Committee provides our CARP-BC membership opportunities for ongoing professional development and up to date information. This ensures that members have the opportunity to maintain the high quality of professionalism in the field of rehabilitation and maintain their continuing education units for the CCRC/RRP/CVE.
Current members of this committee include: Alan Kaufman, Chair, Audrey Robertson, John Millard, and Matthew Levy.
Aside from assisting with the organization and the preparation of the B.C. Society of CARP A.G.M, the past year’s highlights include:
In September, a one day workshop was presented to more than 30 participants at the WCB Prince George office. The two presenters, Dr. Henry Harder and Barry Ennis were well received. Dr. Harder discussed the psycho-social factors affecting a return to work and Barry Ennis presented research in the Forest Industry he is conducting as part of his Masters program with UNBC.
In October, the Professional Development and Education Committee in partnership with NETWERCC sponsored a full day seminar at the the Canadian Association of the Blind. In the morning, Dr. Paul Verlaan, a chiropractor gave an interesting presentation on the physiology of the back and preventative treatment to ensure good health. In the afternoon, Eileen Cook and Dr. Gail Goldstein - psychologist from Orion Health presented on a multi-disciplinary approach to Case Management clients with significant pain issues. A case study with practical solutions was offered.
We are appreciative to Margo Grenier, a member of CARP Board for her efforts to assure that the CCRC/RRP are pre-approved.
Future Goals:
In order to maintain accreditation with CCRC/RRP/CVE hours, members were previously required to travel to the lower mainland at significant expense. Our goal for the next year is to continue to provide regionalized training. Our next workshop is scheduled in Vernon on April 17. For further information, please go to the CARP-BC website at: www.carpbc.org Carp and NETWERCC have joined forces to ensure that quality training sessions can be offered province wide. For further information, you can go to the website at www.netwercc.com
In conclusion, we encourage your involvement and any feedback to suggest presenters or topics for presentation. Additionally, we are always open to new volunteers joining our committee.
This report is respectfully submitted to the AGM on behalf of the Professional Development and Education Committee.
Alan Kaufman
Membership and Public Relations Committee
Non submitted
Rehab Review Committee
We are extremely pleased with the progress and development of the Rehab Review over the past year. Our primary challenge is to produce a relevant magazine for the entire Canadian CARP membership. As well, several hundred extra copies of each issue are produced for distribution to targeted non-member organizations in order to promote CARP, CARP members and the services they provide.
The design and production of the magazine is in great hands as we are now in our second year with Angela Desveaux of Desveaux Design Visual Communication. Angela has updated the look and feel of the magazine and continues to contribute refinements to the overall presentation. We are all benefiting from this stability at the production level, not to mention the dynamic look of the magazine.
Advertising revenue has kept us even with ever-rising costs. Thank you to Rhonda Shade, who handles our magazine advertising sales.
Our editorial committee continues to function extremely well and the commitment level is high. A great deal of time and energy goes into sourcing, following up and editing of submissions, so a big, big thank you is due to a great committee: Judy Alexander, Betty-Ann Blackwell (AB), Janet Burgess, Rick Carlin, Diana Froc, Margo Greiner, Alex Jackson, Alison Klundt, and Michelle Meier (AB).
Don’t forget, contributions are always very welcome from all CARP members.
Special thanks to Donna Denham, CARP-BC’s office manager, who consistently and cheerfully makes sure everything happens when it needs to.
Please feel free to contact the committee or Donna at the CARP office if you have ideas or suggestions regarding the Rehab Review. Thank you for your support and feedback.
Seann Atley, CCRC
Chair, Editorial Committee
Rehab Review
Professional Regulation Annual Report
This committee discontinued
Treasurer's Report
for the Year Ending December 31, 2003
Highlights
The Society continues to enjoy a good financial position and has been able to add to its reserves through an annual surplus again for 2003. We budgeted for a modest surplus of about $5,000.00. We exceeded this partly due to surpluses of $17,717from operating the National Conference in 2003. We also had increases in revenue through increased membership, selling more advertising in the rehab review and members' directory and selling job postings for a total increase in revenue of $22,159.00. Spending was down in a number of areas to a total of about $30,000.00. All of this combined to result in a surplus for the year of $53,323.00. Again $17,717 of this is due to the National Conference.
The Balance Sheet
The Balance Sheet is a report about the Society's financial life since the day it began and about its current financial position. The Balance Sheet presents a healthy financial picture for the Society. Our Total Current Assets at the end of 2003 have increased by about $53,000.00 since 2002. The majority of our Current Assets, about $127,500 is in cash with the balance primarily in the receivables owed to the Society of $8,135.00. Our Current Liabilities at the end of 2003 are only $339 and consist of some bills that were not paid by the time the year end financial statements were prepared. By subtracting the Current Liabilities from the Current Assets we get the total surplus for the Society since its inception and at December 31, 2003 of $135,870. This is an increase of $53,324.00 over our total surplus at December 31, 2002 which was $82,547.00.
These accumulated surpluses provide a reserve to enable the Society to survive difficult times of decreased membership, or increased expenditures, and to deal with any unusual circumstances such as paying for the cost of dealing with Provincial regulations if and when this occurs as it has done in Ontario.
Without the 2003 National Conference, the Society's expenditures for 2003 were $86,000.00, or about $7,000.00 a month, which provides some sense of the reserves that might be needed if things were ever to get difficult for the society.
The Income Statement
(or Statement of Receipts & Related Expenditures)
This report deals with the revenue and expenses of the Society for the period January 01 to December 31, 2003 only. The Society's Total Revenue (or receipts) for the year was $217,283.00. Total Expenditures were $163,960.00. This results in a Year End Surplus of $53,323.00. This amount also appears on the Balance Sheet as the Current Year Surplus and is included in the Total Surplus since the Society's inception of $135,870.00. There is nothing unusual about the Income Statement for the year. However, the revenue, expenses and contribution of the National Conference toward the BC Society is not something that will occur every year. The only other unusual item in the income statement is a $2,000.00 gift to CARP Ontario to help with their dispute with the Ontario government regarding regulations.
Expectations for 2004
Our budget for 2004 includes a surplus of about $16,000.00. However, we have been asked to once again operate the National Conference for 2004 and as a result will likely accrue some surpluses from this. We cannot know at present how much this will be but it will be less than last year because we have agreed to share any surpluses with the National Society. An amount of about $8,000.00 will also be returned to the Society from the defunct Olin Tillotson Foundation. This amount was a loan from that foundation to assist with its operations. In short, we expect 2004 to be another good year financially for the Society.
Beyond 2004
The BC Society is very healthy financially. We are able to spend to meet the needs of members and to hold enough in reserve to deal with difficult financial times and more importantly to deal with the issue of regulations which we are sure will arise in BC at some time. When it does we will likely need to spend in the tens of thousands and not just thousands to deal with this. For these reasons I think it is important that the Society maintain what might seem like relatively large reserves.
In addition to this it is important to remember that these reserves have been built up largely through revenues from operating large conferences and we cannot necessarily expect to be adding substantial amounts to the reserves each year as we move forward.
Gene Wallace Deering, Treasurer