WBP Workshop for Deaf-Blind community members with special Guest Presenter Coco Roschaert: “Current Deaf-Blind Issues across Canada: Empowerment & Self-Advocacy
Workshop ONLY FOR Deaf-Blind community members
Deaf-Blind Awareness Workshop 2013
Current Deaf-Blind Issues across Canada: Empowerment & Self-Advocacy
Special Guest Presenter: Christine “Coco” Roschaert
*full bio on 2nd page of flyer in attachment*
When: Saturday June 22, 2013
Time/Agenda:
10:00am. – 12:30pm. Coco’s Life Experience & Canada’s Deaf-Blind Communities & Services
~Lunch Provided by WBP~
1:30pm. – 4:00pm.
Community Empowerment & Self-Advocacy: Making Things Happen!
Where: Room 1717, Douglas College, 700 Royal Avenue, New Westminster BC
Contact for RVSP/Registrations: Tracy Metzger, WBP DB Workshops Volunteer,tracymetzger70@gmail.com
Contact for Interpreters & Carpooling: Lisa Anderson, Workshop Coordinatorwbp.workshops@vch.ca
TTY: 604-456-0901, FAX: 604-456-0904
Hurry to register to avoid disappointment. Coco is from another Province and is always travelling providing presentations on Deaf-Blind issues around the world, GRAB your opportunity, this workshop only happens ONCE. Don’t miss out!
RVSP & Register BEFORE June 14, 2013
Vlog to come soon.
WBP thanks the Douglas College Program of Sign Language Interpretation for providing the room for the workshops.
Workshop for Deaf Community: Being Deaf-Blind in the Deaf Community: Perspectives from Both Sides
WBP is thrilled to host a workshop in honour of Deaf-Blind Awareness month for June 2013.
We are excited to bring a world reknown Deaf-Blind woman, Coco Roschaert to guest present & facilitate a very important workshop.
Please come and support your Deaf-Blind brothers & sisters! They are a part of our Deaf Community!
Title: Being Deaf-Blind in the Deaf-Community: Perspectives from Both Sides
What is the right way to approach a Deaf-Blind community person?
How can I ensure that Deaf-Blind are included in the Deaf community?
What is the difference between an intervenor and an interpreter for the Deaf-Blind?
Role plays:
How do I communicate with a Deaf-Blind person?
How do I use tactile sign language?
When? Thursday June 20, 2013
Time? 6:00 – 6:30pm. Sign In & Social
6:30 – 10:00pm. Workshop
Where? Room 1640, Douglas College, 700 Royal Avenue, New Westminster, BC
To RVSP/Register, and to request Deaf Interpreters: Contact Lisa Anderson, Workshop Coordinator
E-mail: wbp.workshops@vch.ca
TTY: 604-456-0901
FAX: 604-456-0904
Register by June 18, 2013 to avoid disappointment
Biblical Movie Night for June
Trinity Lutheran Church of the Deaf
sponsored
Biblical Movie Night
Come to the Multi-purpose Room (C248/249)
At Burnaby South Secondary School
(5455 Rumble St. near Royal Oak SkyTrain)
On Thursday, June 20, 2013
6:00 – 9:30 PM
Refreshment will be provided.
For further information:
Contact: Linda and Gregory Desrosiers
ldesrosiers1@shaw.ca or 604-574-8694
Reverse Planet 2001
Just Wanted everyone who adores this Deaf. Some of us are thinking of hosting Vancouver Deaf International Film in 2015.
ASL at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival
There will be ASL at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival again this year (July 19-21, 2013).
Sign language interpreters will be scheduled at various stages for daytime performances.
“Community tickets” will be available at a discounted price for groups of 10 or more people –> for more info on these tickets contact Elizabeth at box office (check out VFMF website for her contact info). Get a group together & come on down for the fun (hopefully in the sun)!
Intervenor For Student with Deafblindness
2013-2014 School Year -British Columbia School for the Deaf
Immediate Job Posting May 31, 2013
Posting closes June 12, 2013
The BC Provincial School for the Deaf is a K – 12 school with an elementary and a secondary campus located in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Role: The Intervenor’s primary role is to ensure the learner with deafblindness is an informed and active participant in every activity using whatever means of communication is best for the learner.
Responsibilities: The full time Intervenor for the 2013- 2014 school year will work 1:1 with a student who is deafblind under the direct supervision of a Teacher of the Deaf. The Intervenor is part of a multidisciplinary team that provides support to the student with Deafblindness.
Qualifications: Grade 12 Graduation, Preferred successful completion of recognized post secondary Intervenor Program or willingness to take courses in Deafblindness through Douglas College. ASL skills are mandatory.
Additional Skills :
•Competent in implementing educational goals designed by the team of professionals.
•Proven success in establishing and maintaining working relationships
•Ability to work effectively and independently with a degree of initiative
•Good organizational skills
•Ability and willingness to enhance skills and knowledge in order to meet the goals of the students IEP
Applicants please contact Myrna Ziola , Acting Principal ph 604-664-8300 or by email: myrna.ziola@sd41.bc.ca
Looking for an Adoptive Family
Karly
Birth date: 2007 Ethnocultural Background: Metis
Karly is an endearing, lovable young girl who needs a family to call her own. She is a happy child who enjoys being around people; she is currently part of an active family with three other children. She participates in a number of activities such as biking, shopping, and running. Karly also likes music, lap games, movement, trampoline, dancing, and swimming. She loves to laugh and has a good sense of humour.
Born three months premature, Karly has significant developmental delays. She has Cerebral Palsy and is blind, although has some light perception. She uses hearing aids in both ears and uses a wheel chair, standing frame, and bicycle walker to get around. Karly tries really hard to learn new skills and can control some movements with support by a caregiver. With determination, she has learned to use over 50 words – she lets you know she understands you by smiling and getting excited. A smile from Karly is a sweet reward indeed! With a multisensory approach to learning, Karly’s communication skills continue to improve.
Karly has a large number of professionals involved in monitoring and assisting with her daily functioning, learning, and development. They all love to work with her! She is actively engaged in the classroom answering questions, loves story time, tries really hard to learn new skills, and is described as a bit of a “class clown”. She continues to make great strides with the love, support and care provided to her. With a skilled and devoted permanent family, Karly has the chance to reach her full potential.
Karly is of Aboriginal decent, and currently resides in the lower mainland; however non-Aboriginal families outside of this region will be considered. Openness with a sibling is expected. Come and meet Karly!
If you’d like any more information please contact:
Kirsty Stormer, BSW, RSW
Wendy’s Wonderful Kid Recruiter–Vancouver/Coastal
Adoptive Families Association of BC
kirsty.stormer@gov.bc.ca
T: 604-320-7330 ext.121 F: 604-566-8125 C: 604-809-8909
200 / 7342 Winston St. Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 2H1
Radical Accessibility Recognition & Celebration
Save the date, ’cause on Saturday June 8th 2013, 7pm, at Gallery Gachet, we’re going to be celebrating, honouring, and giving respect where it’s due to the folks behind the Radical Access Mapping Project, the Vancouver Queer ASL Club, and other radical accessibility groups in Vancouver and beyond!
Often groups working to make this broadly non-accessible world more accessible do so for free or very little money. They pour countless hours of sweat, tears, blood, and bones into making this world a radder, gentler, & safer place for us all with little to no acknowledgement.
So It’s time to pony up and give what we can! Got a fiver you can throw down? Wanna make goodies for a bake sale? Show off your artistic skills & make a poster? Donate something for a raffle? Volunteer at the door and/or (sober) bar? Well, June 8th is the date to do all of that and more!
This event is taking place on the un-ceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-waututh, and Squamish peoples. Our work is grounded on this land, sits firmly in the reality of ongoing processes of colonization and attempts at erasure, and is inspired and informed by the resistance of indigenous people here and across Turtle Island. We’re talking about who has access to what, who designs, defines and is left out of our communities; and whether it’s a staircase or a border, we’re doing all of that on stolen land. In/accessibility and colonialism are intimately connected.
This event is happening in the DTES, a community facing ongoing processes of vilification and gentrification. Please be respectful of the folks who live and work in the neighbourhood, and the spirit of resistance that lives here.
Wheelchair accessible and ASL interpretation provided. Please check out our facebook page for more details and hope to see you there!!
