Covenant Partner Program

Volunteering as a Covenant Partner is a unique opportunity to help shape health care in Covenant Health.

Engaging current or past patients, residents, families and interested members of the community with lived experience and listening to their feedback is essential to providing care that is better informed, safer and leads to better healthcare experiences and outcomes.

Partners are individuals with lived experience. Partners volunteer not only their time, but also their insights and unique perspectives that come from their personal experiences.

What is the role of a Covenant Partner?

Partners bring the voice and perspectives of their communities to the planning, delivery, evaluation and improvement of healthcare.

Types of involvement may include participation on provincial, program, site and unit based committees and councils, building design, strategic planning, focus groups – and more!

What are the qualities of a Covenant Partner?

Partners have an interest and an ability to share their life and health care experiences in ways that others can learn from. Other important qualities they have are that they:

can see beyond their own personal experiences
are good listeners
respectfully bring diverse views and perspectives
respect others’ viewpoints
are able to share their lived experience and contribute to positive outcomes
are interested in working collaboratively with health care leaders and providers

How do I find out more information?

Click here for more information and to see what opportunities await you.

Covenant Health would like to acknowledge that what we refer to as Alberta is the traditional ancestral territory of a diversity of Indigenous peoples and home to Treaty 6, 7, and 8. We honor the Blackfoot Confederacy – Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika, the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stoney Nakoda, the Tsuu T’ina Nation and the Métis People of Alberta. This includes the Métis Settlements and the Six Regions of the Métis Nation of Alberta within the historical Northwest Métis Homeland. We recognize and give thanks to the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit who have lived in and cared for these lands for generations, all who continue to grace these lands, and all future generations. We are grateful for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are still with us today and those who have gone before us. We make this acknowledgement as an act of reconciliation and gratitude to those whose territory we reside on or are visiting.