Governance

Board Structure

As a non-profit organization established under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, CDAC is governed by a volunteer board of directors. The board is responsible for strategy, governance, and ensuring the overall independence, quality and fairness of the accreditation process. The board’s governance activities are supported by three committees: the Finance, Audit, and Risk Management Committee, the Executive and Human Resources Committee, and the Nominating and Governance Committee.

CDAC’s core operations are carried out through the Standards Review Committee and four Accreditation Review Committees. The Standards Review Committee develops and updates the standards we use in accreditation and oversees the accreditation process. The Accreditation Review Committees provide accreditation reviews to specific organizations in order to maintain or attain CDAC accreditation.

Representation

CDAC’s Board of Directors is structured in accordance with academic findings on ensuring quality health outcomes. Our board has 11 members and includes representation from educational organizations, regulatory authorities, examining and certification boards, health facilities and organizations that support internships, and the public, in the following configuration:

Educational Organizations

• Dental Hygiene education
• Dental Assisting education
• Dental education nominated by the Association of Canadian Faculties of Dentistry (ACFD)

Health Facilities and Internships

• Health Facilities / Internships

Regulatory authorities

• Canadian Dental Regulatory Authorities Federation (CDRAF)
• Canadian Dental Assisting Regulatory Authorities (CDARA)
• Federation of Dental Hygiene Regulatory Authorities of Canada (FDHRC)

Certification/Examining Agencies

• National Dental Assisting Examining Board (NDAEB)
• National Dental Examining Board of Canada (NDEB)
• National Dental Hygiene Certification Board (NDHCE) nominated by the FDHRC

Public

• Public member

CDAC’s membership consists solely of the members of the board as listed above.