Why Become a Member?

Benefits of Becoming a Certified Human Services Professional

▪ Call yourself a Certified Human Services Professional (CHSP)

▪ Recognition by agencies and the public as a CHSP

▪ Validation of your human services professional experience

▪ Access to use of ethical standards in guiding your work

▪ Annual newsletter about human services issues and news

▪ Mentorship about the human services profession

▪ Access to human services professional jobs ads [Coming soon]

▪ 10% Discount on First Aid and CPR Courses with ST. Marks James Training: www.firstaidcourses.ca

▪ Eligibility for auto and home insurance discount [coming soon]

Fees and Renewal

Certified membership with HSPA costs $150 annually, and same fee to renewal.

Notice

Please be advised that HSPA is not a professional regulatory college under Alberta’s Health Professions Act. Therefore, HSPA’s members are not regulated under Alberta’s Health Professions Act. Health professions regulatory colleges that fall under the Act are responsible for protecting the public and enforcing professional regulations, standards of practice, and codes of ethics.

The main focus of HSPA is to represent the interests of its members by providing a forum for networking, learning opportunities, tools of practice, such as ethical and practice standards, as well as, being the support between human services agencies, educational programs and HSPA’s members.