ACSA Information

The ACSA Award System is a two tiered system comprising of:

  • The ACSA Distinguished Service Award
  • The ACSA Professional Achievement Award

 

THE ACSA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD (ADSA)

The ACSA Distinguished Service Award is an elite, prestigious and distinguished award, conferred for exceptional service at local, national or international level. The ACSA Distinguished Service Award is merit based and in recognition of exemplary or transformative leadership in the ostomy community, service or innovations which have advanced the physical or social well being of ostomates locally, nationally or internationally, or outstanding involvement in the national ostomy community over many years. The ACSA Distinguished Service Award is primarily intended for Australian recipients but, if appropriate,  may be conferred on an individual who is not Australian but who satisfies the rigid qualification criteria.

 

THE ACSA PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The ACSA Professional Achievement Award is to be conferred on individuals who, in conjunction with or as part of their professional career, their duties or their employment, past or present, have made a contribution that stands above and beyond the call of their duties in a way that benefits the ostomy community or enhances the wellbeing of ostomates at any level.

Award Qualification Criteria

Award Nomination Protocol

Award Nomination Form

Draft Disability Toilet Card – A word.doc format template of the ACSA Disability Toilet Card may be downloaded from here.

ACSA New Member Reporting Template – An excel spreadsheet for reporting monthly new member statistical data may be downloaded from here

Annual Association Reporting Template for ACSA General Meeting – A word.doc reporting template may be downloaded from here

Transferring/Visiting Members – The following fillable PDF forms may be used to inform an association of a transferring or visiting member:

The “incoming transfer advice” should be used by the transferee association to inform the home association that their member has requested a transfer.

The “outgoing transfer advice “ should be used by a home association when their member has requested a transfer to another association.

The visiting member issue advice should be used when issuing supply to a member of another association. Remember to always check the financial status and issue eligibility of the visiting member with his/her home association prior to the issue of any products through the Stoma Appliance scheme!

ACSA have developed  “Conference Planning Guidelines” to assist conference planning committee with the planning and preparation of the ACSA Annual Conference.

Download a PDF copy of the Conference Planning Guidelines here. 

Download the Conference Planning Checklist here.

Download the Previous Conferences Consolidated Financial Information Summary here.

Download Previous Conference Committee post conference reports here

Download the Conference Budgeting and Reporting Template (excel spreadsheet) here.

The following templates have been developed for customisation and use by Conference Planning Committees.

Rotation Cycle for ACSA Annual Conference

Conference Registration Template

Accommodation Booking Template 

Invitation to Guest Speaker

Following is a selection of documents for use as a reference tool by associations when developing governing and other policies.

The majority of these sample documents have been amended from those retrieved from the Our Community website (www.ourcommunity.com.au).

Should you have a policy or document template/sample which you would like to submit to ACSA’s Policy Bank, please send a copy in .doc format to [email protected]

 

Sample Code of Ethics

Sample New Committee Member Declaration

Sample Conflict of Interest Policy

Sample APP Privacy Policy 

Sample Member Code of Conduct

Sample Occupational Health and Safety Policy

Sample Risk Management Policy

Risk Management Checklist Template

Risk Register Template 

Sample Volunteer Management Policy 

Sample Volunteer Worker Registration Form

Sample Worker Code of Conduct

 

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning:

A. Guidelines for developing a Business Continuity Plan (PDF)

B. Sample Business Continuity Policy

C. Critical Business Activity Template

D. Sample Incident Response Plan

E. Sample Disaster Recovery Plan

ACSA Meeting Minutes