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Facebook: Deaf Bible (March 19, 2019)

Announcement: Deaf Bible is headed to Canada! Do you know anyone who lives in the Vancouver area? Tag them below to learn more about this awesome event!

https://www.facebook.com/pg/haveknowshare/events/

Video Transcript:

Hello! I have exciting news to share with you all! Deaf Bible Society will be heading over to Vancouver for Deaf Bible Together and Scripture Engagement Training in Coquitlam, Canada. This event will give us an opportunity to come together and learn about God’s Word. It will be hosted on Saturday, April 27, 2019 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and on Sunday, April 28, 2019 from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM. We so hope to see you all there at Safeway Burquitlam Community! We will be on the 3rd  floor. Look out for our next announcement.

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Family and Community Services (FCS)

Well-Being Program (WBP)

PRESENT

Recognizing Stress and Building Community

Workshop and Mini Golf

– How to get access and supports in Deaf/HH community?

– Know how to ask for help when stress becomes too much?

– Come hang out with other Deaf/HH youth and have FUN!

Highlights

– refreshments

– Bring $7 for Mini Golf

– Connections with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth

APRIL 5th, 2019

9:30 am to 2:30 pm

Room #244

505 Doyle Avenue

Kelowna, BC

Ages 15-23 Welcome!

RSVP

Peter.Csiszar@gov.bc.ca OR Sarah.Coyle@vch.ca

www.gov.bc.ca/deafandhardofhearing

http://deafwellbeing.vch.ca/

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Community Wellness and Respectful Conflict

Our workshop will explore what community wellness means and how communities can use what they already have to encourage resilience, growth and collaboration.

When:

Saturday, April 6

Time:

9:00 am—12:00 pm

Where:

Okanagan College

Rm E303

Kelowna

Presenters:

Kristen Pranzl &

Charlie Coyle

Need More Information or Register?

Need a DI?

Email:  WellBeing.Staff@vch.ca

Voice: 1-604-456-0900

Text/FaceTime: 1-778-987-4174

FAX: 1-604-456-0904

Website: deafwellbeing.vch.ca

To whom may it concern,

My name is Somang Nam. I am a Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering,
University of Toronto and I work at the Inclusive Media & Design
Centre, Ryerson University.
My research is to develop a subjective quality assessment method for
live Closed Captioning (CC) which can reflect Deaf or Hard of Hearing
(D/HoH) viewer opinions while automating the assessment procedure.
I am writing this email to recruit D/HoH caption viewers for an online
survey and it would be appreciated if I could get some help from you.
The survey will ask a brief demographics about the experiences of live
CC and to rate the quality of captions in several short (~20 sec)
video clips.
It can take a maximum of 30 minutes to complete the survey and
participants will receive a small honorarium upon completion ($10 CAD).
I have attached the image poster that can go with the study
advertisement post (at the end of this email) and a weblink for study
overview page at <http://imdc.ca/~somang>

Please feel free to contact me directly at any time. I look forward to
our conversation.
Additionally, if you wish, it would be greatly appreciated if you pass
this email along to others you may think may have an interest in this.
Again thank you and have a great day!

The survey is online at <https://smndoo.pythonanywhere.com>
Participants can simply send the hashcode provided at the end of the
survey to this email [somang@mie.utoronto.ca] to arrange compensation.
Any potential participants may participate in the survey website using
the below credentials:
username: surveyuser
password: survey2

*if the website is inaccessible using above credentials, then the
survey is likely to be closed.

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Call for Participants: Deaf or Hard of Hearing viewer error acceptance
on Live Closed Captioning.

You are invited to participate in a web-based online survey on
investigating the quality assessment of live Closed Captioning (CC)
for four different factors from a viewer point of view.
This is a research project being conducted by Somang Nam, Ph.D.
Candidate at the University of Toronto.
Your participation in this survey is voluntary.
It should take approximately 25 minutes to complete.
You will receive a small honorarium from participating in this research study.

For more information, please visit http://imdc.ca/~somang/

Please accept my apologies if the survey ended early, we hope to
invite you next time.

Three Part-Time Contract Positions:

Greater Toronto Area, Greater Vancouver and the Central cities (Regina | Saskatoon | Winnipeg)

CAV is currently seeking Community Outreach Specialists to deliver a Community Relations program to support CAV’s Education and Outreach goals for SRV Canada VRS.

Deadline: April 3rd, 2019

Click here for more information: https://srvcanadavrs.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Community-Outreach-Specialist-2019-March.pdf

Please share away!

Warm regards,

Pamela

Pamela Elizabeth Witcher

Community Relations Manager

Gestionnaire des relations communautaires

VRS / SRV : (519) 609-0128

pwitcher@cav-acs.ca

www.cav-acs.ca

Hi I am looking for support worker for my 17year old daughter who is deaf from June 1/2019  only persons contact who knows sign language  doesn’t matter deaf , hard of hearing , or hearing  sign language is required  contact jatinder 778-319-2111

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Hello!

My name is Nigel and I work in the Human Resources department of Community Living Society.

I’m reaching out because we support a number of individuals who require assistance in ASL and would highly appreciate it if you were able to post a few positions on DeafBC.ca to help bring these posts to the attention of individuals looking to work in the non-profit or social service sector.

The posting links would be as follows:

• Community Living Counsellor – Coquitlam (Monday & Tuesday): https://scouterecruit.net/jobs/RES18216-community-living-counsellor-residential
• Community Living Counsellor – Coquitlam (Monday – Wednesday): https://scouterecruit.net/jobs/RES18178-community-living-counsellor-residential
• Community Living Counsellor – Burnaby (Wednesday & Thursday) https://scouterecruit.net/jobs/RES18170-community-living-counsellor-support-worker-residential

If you are interested in posting on our behalf and/or require any more information please do not hesitate to reach out.

Thank you so much for the consideration!

All the best,

Nigel Dadswell

Human Resources Recruiter

7^th Floor – 713 Columbia Street, New Westminster, BC, V3M 1B2

Direct: 604.523.0303 X 355 | 604.517.2035

Confidential Fax:  604.800.0251

ndadswell@communitylivingsociety.ca

www.communitylivingsociety.ca

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Greetings and good day/evening to you all of Deaf community in Western Canada

I sincerely would like to make this special news announcement with you all about our 2 upcoming Regional Games for our wonderful Deaf 55+ participants and fans – supporters across Canada – see file attachment.

Also, I am requesting you all to share this exciting – wonderful news with your respective home area – Deaf community – local or provincial group who has Deaf seniors programs/activities – members to know and be fully aware of our active progress – promotion of keeping our Deaf seniors – 55+ participants so active and enjoyable in their social life as much as possible.

For more info, pls contact directly to John A Turner as our host chairperson of 4th Western Canada Deaf 55+ Games – 2019 via email.

For more info about our upcoming 5th WCD55+G – 2021, contact directly to Stella Stewart, Deputy Commissioner via email.

For more info about our upcoming 2nd Canada Deaf 55+ Games – 2023, contact directly to my attention via email.

Before concluding this to you all, there will be a follow-up email enclosed with 3 key – detailed info/package plan in Edmonton for you all in few minutes….OK!   Cheers

Many Thanks!   Enjoy your day/week and keep in touch!

Bye SK  DMcC

Donald Mc Carthy

National Commissioner – Volunteer (2017 – 23)

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CDSGA – AJSAC Sp News Ann on 2 Reg Games 2019 plan Upd Mar 5 2019

Good day,

This email is in relation to the Schools for the Deaf Class Action Settlement that is for students of the Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf, the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf, and the Robarts School for the Deaf and their predecessors.

Attached is a Notice which provides details about an upcoming Court hearing regarding approval of the Plaintiff’s lawyers’ fees.  A link to the ASL video of this notice is available here:  http://schoolsforthedeafclassaction.ca/approval-hearing.html.

In an effort to reach as many class members as possible, we kindly ask that you please post this notice on your website, re-distribute it on any listservs your organization maintains and/or otherwise re-distribute it in a manner that will likely come to the attention of class members, such as via a text message blast.

Any assistance you/your organization can provide in this regard is greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

Schools for the Deaf Class Action Administrator
3-505, 133 Weber St N
Waterloo, ON   N2J 3G9
Toll Free: 1-855-823-0656
TTY: 1-877-627-7027
Toll Free Fax: 1-888-842-1332
Email: Schoolabuseclassaction@crawco.ca
Website: www.schoolsforthedeafclassaction.ca

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WIDHH is very excited about this coming weekend when they can finally share updates that we all have been waiting for!  Please watch Grace’s vlog, come to the information session and find out more about WIDHH’s new near future!  See you there!  

Saturday, March 23, 2019
9:30 AM – 12 Noon
Metrotown Hilton Hotel 
6083 McKay Ave, Burnaby

E-mail RSVP to info@widhh.com BEFORE Saturday.

Several links and English transcription for the DeafBlind are provided in the YouTube video description.

https://youtu.be/R7JsjbuF5zc

Hello community partner,

I hope you are having a great week.

We wish to inform you about our next Disabled Community Connection Network (DCCN) session. DCCN is a monthly communication and information group for people of all ages (16+) with any disability. This group is supported by the North Shore Disability Resource Centre.

The next group is March 21st from 4-6 pm. The session will now be held at The North Shore Disability Resource Centre 3158 Mountain Highway. North Shore Disability Resource Centre is an accessible space, please let us know of any other accessibility requirements you might have in advance of the meeting.

The session will feature Ladan Sahraei, she is a deaf Iranian/Canadian filmmaker. Her work focuses on short and documentary film. Ladan is also on the board of directors for PIA(Pride in Art Society) Queer Arts Festival. Before that she was a Director of Membership  for the Greater Vancouver Association of the Deaf (GVAD). Ladan Sahraei will touch on her experience as a deaf individual and with Deaf culture.

ASL Interpretation and light refreshments provided! Please let us know of any accommodations and dietary needs you require.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The DCCN will now have a registration limit of 15.  Email laur.stinson@gmail.com or call 604-904-4088 to register.

Our flyer attached.
Stacey Francis 

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