2025-30 Strategic Plan
Leading with Vision, Ensuring Public Trust
Our 2025-30 Strategic Plan reflects our commitment to navigating a dynamic oral health environment while upholding its primary duty of public protection. It acts as a roadmap for transformative growth, regulatory excellence, and enhanced stakeholder trust.
It is anchored by our strategic vision, mission and goals, which we share here. You will find insight into how we will achieve our goals in the full 2025-30 Strategic Plan.
Vision
We are a trailblazing and trusted regulator.
Mission
Our mandate under the Health Professions Act is to ensure patients receive safe, competent and ethical oral health care by Registered Dental Assistants.
Goals
Our plan is anchored in four key strategic goals:
Position the College in a Shifting Landscape
We will secure our place in Alberta’s evolving regulatory system and oral health care landscape via ensuring public safety and enhancing our value proposition to the public, government, and registrants.
Areas of Focus
- Proactive Policy & Trend Response
- Champion Interprofessional Collaboration
Elevate Practice Standards
We will embrace patient-centred standards of practice and education via incorporating future competencies and safety culture for producing graduates and Registered Dental Assistants who are ready to practice into the future.
Areas of Focus
- Enhance Graduate Preparedness
- Protect Patients by Fostering a Culture of Safety in Oral Care
- Optimize Continuing Competence Program
Strengthen Stakeholder Trust and Engagement
We will champion high levels of trust, satisfaction, and collaboration via engaging with the public and stakeholders through transparent, fair, and accessible communication and regulatory processes.
Areas of Focus
- Enhance Transparency & Processes
- Implement Data-Driven, Risk-Based Regulation
- Integrate the Strategic Plan into the Communication Plan
- Cultivate Effective Stakeholder Engagement and Feedback Mechanisms
- Demonstrate the Relevance and Impact of Regulatory Practices
- Advance Truth and Reconciliation
- Foster a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Regulatory Environment
Optimize Governance Effectiveness
We will enhance governance performance via demonstrating agile and efficient internal processes, competency-based and strategically directed governance, data-informed decision-making, financial sustainability, and a high-performing, risk-focused and empowered Council and staff.
Areas of Focus
- Enhance Council Effectiveness & Strategic Focus
- Robust Strategic Plan Monitoring & Refresh
- Strengthen Council Oversight Role
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