Flyer in PDF:
WIDHH Information Session about the upcoming new building
The Western Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (WIDHH) has waited a long time for a new place to call home.
For almost five decades, WIDHH’s Head Office has operated out of a renovated convent building on West 7th Avenue in Vancouver. This aging building is deteriorating and we are no longer able to accommodate the safety, accessibility, clinical or technological needs of our rapidly increasing client base.
WIDHH is now on the verge of realizing its dream for an expanded, accessible, innovative and centrally located space. Our vision of a state-of-the-art facility with expanded space will be able to serve Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals, their families and the community for years to come.
We know many of you are interested in learning more about our new facility and we would like to invite you to an Information Session in the morning on Saturday, November 24th at the Metrotown Hilton.
Come out and learn more about our Centre of Excellence!
To attend, you must RSVP before November 18th, 2018:
Phone: 604-736-7391 or TTY: 604-736-2527
Email: info@widhh.com
Please let us know if you require specific communication accommodations such as Deaf-Blind Interpreting.
ASL Interpreters and Captioning will be provided along with light refreshments.
THANK YOU!!!
Ruth Gessner
Executive Assistant/Manager of Annual Giving
Western Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (WIDHH)
2125 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V6K 1X9
T: 604-736-7391 ext. 224 | TTY: 604-736-2527 | F: 604-736-4381
www.widhh.com | @WIDHH | facebook.com/WIDHHBC
WBP Drop in Counselling
You can walk-in at WBP to meet with a staff during this time.
A clinician will be available to meet you for a drop-in appointment to:
Discuss WBP services
Offer support for a specific problem
Discuss counselling services and do an intake meeting
When:
Every Wednesday
Time:
5:30—7:30pm
Where:
WBP Office
#300-4211 Kingsway
Burnaby, V5H 1Z6
The WBP office is open on Wednesday evenings until 8pm.
Need More Information? Have A Question?
Email: WellBeing.Staff@vch.ca
Voice: 604-456-0900
Text: 778-987-4174
TTY: 604-456-0901
FAX: 604-456-0904
Website: deafwellbeing.vch.ca\
Parent Workshop Series
Deaf Children’s Society and the Deaf Well Being Program are providing monthly “Parent Connect” workshop series.
Topics include:
Discussing support networks
Advocacy
Healthy Family Connections
Raising Emotionally Healthy Children
Behaviour Topics
When:
October 11th
November 8th
December 13th
Time:
7-8:30 PM
Where:
Edmonds Community Resource Center
Room 208
7355 Canada Way, Burnaby
For Who:
Deaf Parents with children age 0-7
Hearing parents who have deaf or hard of hearing children age 0-7
Need More Information or Register?
Email: WellBeing.Staff@vch.ca
Voice: 604-456-0900 • Text: 778-987-4174
TTY: 604-456-0901 • FAX: 604-456-0904
Toll-free TTY: 1-800-949-1155
Website: deafwellbeing.vch.ca
Flyer in PDF:class action settlement on behalf of students of the Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf (“Drury”), the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf (“Whitney”), and the Robarts School for the Deaf (“Robarts”) and their predecessors (collectively, the “Schools for the Deaf Class Action”).
On Friday, October 19th, 2018, the Court approved a three month extension of the claims deadline in relation to the class action settlement on behalf of students of the Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf (“Drury”), the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf (“Whitney”), and the Robarts School for the Deaf (“Robarts”) and their predecessors (collectively, the “Schools for the Deaf Class Action”). The claims deadline has been extended to January 24, 2019. We kindly ask that you please post the attached Notice-Claims Deadline Extensionabout the settlement on your website, distribute it on any listservs your agency 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.
If a Class Member wishes to make a claim for money from the settlement, their completed claim form needs to be sent to (postmarked to) the Administrator on or before January 24, 2019.
Also, attached is a blank Claim Form that can be used by Class Members to make a claim. ASL video of the claim form is available here: http://www.schoolsforthedeafclassaction.ca/make-a-claim.html.
In addition, attached are the Long Form and Short Form Notices which provide details about the class action and how class members can make a claim under the settlement. Links to the ASL videos of these notices are available here: http://www.schoolsforthedeafclassaction.ca/documents.html.
Additional information regarding this class action is available on the administration website www.schoolsforthedeafclassaction.ca.
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
Forms:
Settlement Approval – Long Form Notice
Settlement Approval – Short Form Notice
Notice – Claims Deadline Extension
CIS and MIS Workshops in Metro Vancouver area
Friday November 9th at DeafBlind Drop-In in Metrotown starting at 12pm
Monday November 12th at Douglas College – New Westminster starting at 6:30pm
Wednesday November 13th at Douglas College – Coquitlam starting at 6:30pm
Friday November 16th at DeafBlind Drop-In in Metrotown starting at 12pm
Saturday November 17th in Kamloops, BC starting at 1pm
Saturday December 1st in Victoria, BC starting at 1pm
Sunday December 2nd in Nanaimo – more details soon
Thursday December 6th in Vancouver starting at 6pm
More workshops coming soon – Aldergrove, Langley, Surrey, Prince George and few other cities.
BC Deaf Night Out, November 24, 2018 at 7 pm to closing
Transcript of this Video:
Hello everyone,
My apologies, I was supposed to post a vlog yesterday but I got caught up with plans. I hosted two friend’s birthday events so I was more focused on that.
Some of you may didn’t see my last vlog but I will introduce myself and my role again. I’m Mia Rasmussen and I’m Youth Chairperson for GVAD.
This vlog is about the location of where I’m hosting DNO.
Originally, I have tried finding a place close to skytrain but there was lot of spaces reserved. Some pub didn’t have the open-concept space I was looking for as well. I had ran into some troubles but eventually I found a place. I made reservation at the Taphouse Guildford in Surrey.
The Taphouse has lot of spaces for guests and it is wheelchair accessible. There’s lot of parking spots for you to park your vehicles at. However.. I’ve discovered that transit to Taphouse is very limited.
I will post some of transit information for those who need it. When you get off the bus, it will be 10-15 mins walk to the pub. More or less.
If you have any issues or concerns with transit, or in general regarding DNO, please contact me. Hopefully I can find a solution.
Hope see you guys there and have fun!
Much love
Special Request for an Survey based on ElectionsBC
My name is Rebecca Harrington and I’m a User Experience designer in Surrey.
I am working on a personal “passion project”, exploring how folks who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing experience elections and politics, and how ElectionsBC could make that better. I would like to design a hypothetical mobile application for ElectionsBC, specifically for Deaf or Hard of Hearing British Columbians.
I’ve created a Google Form so that I can collect experiences and important information from folks who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, to inform the direction of project. The Google Form can be found here.
If there is any questions, Please feel free to contact Kimberly Wood, GVAD President, at gvadpresident@gmail.com
BC Lions Home Game on Oct 19, 2018, O Canada Signer, Ciara Peterson
Our apologies for the delay of receiving this video from BC Lions, Thank you Ciara Peterson for doing beautiful job!
Emergency First Aid (1-day course with CPR/C and AED)
The course fee is $95.00 per person, plus GST. They will provide the interpreters. The class is a maximum 15 in a group. There are available for December 8, 11 and 17. Classes run from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
Or you prefer wait till after New Year in January 2019.
We are looking for respite caregivers for possible weekends and/or holidays. We have 2 deaf young individuals living with us. They are good individuals and can communicate through sign. You also need emergency first aid. Also possibly day program to take the boys out for swim, bowling and other assorted outings
Please email to homefriendly4@gmail.com.
Provincial Medical Sign Language Interpreting Service Community Engagement Update
Transcript of the Vlog:
As we work to improve services for the deaf community at the same time, we are committed to keeping the community informed of our work. We continue to work through how to improve services. We are extending the contract with the WIDHH – Western Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. While we work through this process, a request for proposal for future service delivery will start in January 2019 which will be open to all ASL interpreting service providers.
In follow-up to our engagement sessions this spring and winter across the province in Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna and Prince George, the community came together for engagement sessions. During the sessions, the report that was collected is available on the PLS website and video log of the summary report will be shared on various deaf media channels for example DEAFBC.CA. This report has also been sent directly to everyone who attended these sessions.
The next step in our engagement work is establishing a deaf-lead community advisory committee. Their role is to advise PLS – Provincial Language Service and the PHSA – Provincial Health Services Authority about service delivery. Advice on how to provide services to the community, draft criteria for advisory members will be reviewed by deaf community members that have been involved in our engagement work in the past for feedback, then a call for participation will be shared.
