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Blueprint CDS

In February 2022, ACDS received a grant from the Government of Alberta to lead the development of a multi-prong strategy for the Community Disability Services (CDS) sector workforce.

Blueprint CDS: Towards a Skilled and Sustainable Workforce will address the sector’s chronic human resource challenges and new pressures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognizing that the sector’s current workforce crisis is a consequence of complex and long-standing issues, this one-year initiative will create a strategy for both immediate measures and long-term action.

Read the latest project update (December 2022)

Read Blueprint CDS: A Comprehensive Workforce Strategy for Community Disability Services, Summary Document (December 2022): A summary of all recommended strategies to recruit and retain a sustainable CDS workforce.
 
Read Blueprint CDS: A Comprehensive Workforce Strategy for Community Disability Services, Technical Document (December 2022): Following province-wide sector engagement, recommendations identified in the Initial Assessment report were validated and refined. This report provides detailed descriptions and suggested timelines for all recommended strategies, as well as summarizing all research and analysis performed to date.

Read the Phase One (Initial Assessment) Report: The report proposes a suite of integrated preliminary recommendations to address the workforce challenges identified through consultatons with service providers and other research, including three recommendations specifically targeted toward immediate needs .

Project Blueprint CDS Advisory Committee list

Learn more about Blueprint CDS