There will be an information session for the upcoming Access to Food Services for Deaf Students course at VCC on January 11 from 2:00-3:00pm. The information session will be at the downtown campus. We will meet in the Advising area beside the Pender Street entrance. Come learn about this free program that is being offered to the Deaf community.
For more information contact:
Nigel Scott
– Email: interpreting@vcc.ca
– Text/FaceTime: 604-328-8742
– Glide: Interpreting Services VCC
Family Storytime in Sign Language and English at Burnaby Public Library
http://bpl.bc.ca/events/family-storytime-in-sign-language-and-english-at-tommy-douglas
Join a Deaf storyteller and a children’s librarian for stories, songs, rhymes and crafts presented in both American Sign Language and English. This is a free drop-in for children of all ages and abilities, together with a parent or caregiver. All families are welcome! Interpreters will be present.
Five Saturdays from 2:00 to 3:00 PM: January 28, February 25, March 25, April 22,
and May 27. At Tommy Douglas Library in Burnaby: 7311 Kingsway, 604.522.3971.
Presented by Burnaby Public Library in partnership with Family and Community Services and Provincial Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at the Ministry of Children and Family Development. For more information, e-mail Randi at the library (Randi.Robin@bpl.bc.ca) or Roger at Family and Community Services (Roger.Chan@gov.bc.ca).
This is to inform the community that we won’t have another DWCC forum as the DWCC committee had collected enough survey to present their findings from our survey participants! Thank you for doing the survey and the GVAD will continue to work with DWCC for our access to wireless code and the texting with the 911!
Thank you,
Kimberly Wood
GVAD President
Greater Vancouver Association of the Deaf and British Columbia Cultural Society of the Deaf are partnering up this coming February 24th to host our annual Bingo event, please mark this date on your calendars, more information will be coming out soon!
GVAD is hosting Townhall/Roundtable on January 21, Saturday from 10:30am to 2:30pm at New Westminister Douglas College Room N2203.
Please RVSP with us that you are going to attend, by January 12th so we can book with the Deaf Interpreters and the Catering with Douglas College!
RVSP by inbox Kimberly Wood-Ranger on Facebook or email susanbrowneyed2@gmail.com
Hope to see you all there!
KImberly Wood
GVAD President
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You can check our website – http://deafwellbeing.vch.ca/events/ – and see our calendar with groups, coffee socials and future workshops!
Both groups will start again on Thursday, January 19, 2017. Both groups are free – all you need to do is to register with Ali at Alison.Nutt@vch.ca so we can make sure that we have room for you.
CBT FOR DEPRESSION
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an approach to teach skills to manage depression or other situations that are hard. CBT is designed to support individuals want to improve their overall wellbeing. The skills can also be helpful for learning to set goals, think positively, and feel good about ourselves.
CBT groups will learn about and practice:
– Mindfulness
– How thoughts affect your mood or feelings
– How to change negative thoughts into positive thoughts
– How thoughts and behaviour are connected
– Learn how depression can be treated
– Discover your thought pattern e.g. Am I a negative person? Am I a positive person? What makes me feel bad and negative?
– Improve Positivity and Mindfulness
– Social interactions and emotions
Where: Deaf Well Being Program
Address: 4211 Kingsway #300, Burnaby, BC V5H 1Z6
When: Thursdays starting January 19 (new day!)
Time: 1 – 2:30 (new time!)
Registration: Contact Ali
Email: Alison.nutt@vch.ca
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ANGER MANAGEMENT
Anger is a basic emotion for all people. Anger is natural. Anger is unexpected. Anger can include frustration, being annoyed, “ticked off”, or offended. When we are angry or have conflict it can be hard to control how to react or respond to other people.
Sometimes we want to get angry back but we need to learn to control so we can respond appropriately.
This group will learn about:
– What does anger mean?
– How do we control anger?
– What are the triggers of anger?
– How can we tolerate anger?
– Different kinds of anger e.g. thinking and acting
– Skills to deal with anger
– Mindfulness
– How to reduce anger.
Where: Deaf Well Being Program
Address: 4211 Kingsway #300, Burnaby, BC V5H 1Z6
When: Thursdays starting January 19
Time: 3 – 4:30
Registration: Contact Ali
Email: Alison.nutt@vch.ca
Please note that the deadline for the 9-1-1 Survey has been extended to:
Wednesday January 4, 2016 at 9pm PST, 12 midnight EST.
Why? The Deaf Wireless Canada Consultative Committee, and the Canadian Association of the Deaf-Association des Sourds du Canada (CAD-ASC), along with Canadian National Society of the Deaf-Blind is now facing the CRTC again in January 2017. Exact date is January 19, 2017.
The CRTC proceeding (hearing) topic is exploring the issues around Next-Generation 9-1-1 services in Canada. To read more about this proceeding, you can click this link: CRTC TNC 2016-116
Our Committee developed a new survey to find out if others are having the same issues as our Committee members and friends in the Community and we will present the results to the CRTC
Questions included cover topics such as:
Did you know that you need to register for Text with 911? (Yes or No)
What do you tend to use when you want to call 9-1-1 services? TTY? IP-Relay? Text with 9-1-1?
Are you still keeping your TTY “just in case” of emergency for 9-1-1?
Do you find the Text with 9-1-1 registration process clear or confusing?
Do you use relay services for 9-1-1 emergencies? Which ones? How often?
These questions are based also on questions that the CRTC has asked our group, and our response will be stronger if we have the numbers from survey statistics to show for our arguments/points to them that the system NEEDS TO CHANGE.
To read about our survey, you can check our website link at: Deaf Community 9-1-1 Survey
English and ASL Links are available here:
ASL/English Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/textwith911l
ASL/English DeafBlind Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DBTextwith911
Just click FORWARD this e-mail to SHARE this survey with your members!
Thank you,
~ Lisa Anderson-Kellett, Chairperson/CAD-ASC Director at Large: Wireless
on behalf of the Deaf Wireless Canada Consultative Committee (DWCC)
http://www.deafwireless.ca/
Well Being Program has openings for 2 Community Mental Health Workers – please read the below for details. If you have difficulties seeing the job postings, you can go to our website – http://deafwellbeing.vch.ca/about-us/job-postings/ and use our accessibility options.
Community Mental Health Worker 2 (ASL Fluency) – Temporary Full Time (January 2017 to March 2018)
Vancouver Coastal Health Mental Health and Addictions Services is committed to collaborating with consumers and families to build on strengths, talents and interests in order to foster a community of hope, growth and self-determination.
Working within the context of a client centered care approach and the vision/values of the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, the Community Mental Health Worker 2 (Adult) provides client care to the seriously mentally ill adult population and who are at risk due to a combination of psychiatric symptoms, complex medical/social factors or significant caregiver stress.
To read more about the job description and to apply, please click on the following link:
http://careers.vch.ca/job-post/community-mental-health-worker-2-asl-fluency/
Community Mental Health Worker 2 – Temporary Part Time (January 2017 to March 2018)
Vancouver Coastal Health Mental Health and Addictions Services is committed to collaborating with consumers and families to build on strengths, talents and interests in order to foster a community of hope, growth and self-determination.
Working within the context of a client centered care approach and the vision/values of the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, the Community Mental Health Worker 2 provides client care to the seriously mentally ill in the community and/or in a psychiatric care unit.
To read more about the job description and to apply, please click on the following link:
http://careers.vch.ca/job-post/community-mental-health-worker-2/
If ASL is your first language, please use the video link below, for specific show information in ASL visit our website and scroll down to the vlogs: http://pushfestival.ca/festival-events/accessible-push/
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is Vancouver’s mid-winter festival featuring acclaimed local, national and international artists from January 16 to February 5 2017.
At PuSh we are striving to make the festival accessible to all.
Please find attached a sheet with all shows that are accessible for the Deaf and hard of hearing community. We would greatly appreciate it if you could circulate this within your networks and share it with anyone who you think would enjoy these shows.
We are offering significant discounts (up to 30%) to these transformative and world-class shows for individuals or organisations that make group bookings.
For more information about accessible PuSh and how to access our group booking services please see http://pushfestival.ca/festival-events/accessible-push/.
There you will also find vlogs with information on all shows accessible for Deaf and hard of hearing people who love theatre and dance.
Greater Vancouver Association of the Deaf
Events in 2017
Mark your calendars!!
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