Topics Covered:
- Defining advocacy and grassroots advocacy
- Role and value of advocacy to OCA
- Impact of other regulated health professions
- OCA's approach to advocacy
- Changes in perceptions of the profession
- Innovative work to enhance perceptions
- Insights supporting the chiropractic profession and other regulated health professions
- OCA's top three advocacy achievements in recent years (interprofessional collaboration, Rapid Access Clinics for low back pain, and spousal exception)
- Spousal exception and why it matters
- Strategy to declassify chiropractic care as complementary and alternative medicine
- Impact of initiatives to date
Key Links to References/Resources Discussed:
- Advocating for chiropractors (member page on OCA website)
- Counsel Public Affairs
About Ms. Caroline Pinto:
As Managing Principal and a co-founder of Counsel Public Affairs, Caroline Pinto provides strategic political and policy advice across a broad range of issues and sectors, including health care, the sharing economy, housing and land development, forestry, Indigenous issues, regulated industries, and professions, as well as a host of not-for-profit sectors.
Ms. Pinto’s profound understanding of the political and public policy development process stems from her work as a policy advisor to the Attorney General of Ontario and Minister Responsible for Native Affairs under the Mike Harris government, from 1995 to 1998. Building on her experience in government, she had a two-year stint as Vice President and Director in the Private/Public Partnership Group at Deloitte & Touche LLP. Prior to her more than 20-year career in politics and government relations in and around Queen’s Park, Caroline practiced law in Ontario.
Clients count on her to craft and execute complex and integrated government and public relations action plans built to succeed, including effective political and public policy analysis and solutions, stakeholder mapping and engagement, and strategic communications.
Caroline’s experience as a trusted strategist is supported by years of leading interdisciplinary teams, her work on coordinating health professions’ regulatory reviews, and working collaboratively with government on emerging public policy areas including the sharing economy.
