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Drop in Coffee Group Special Date

Saturday December 30th

When: Saturday, December 30th

Time: 1-3pm

Where: Deaf Well Being Program’s Multipurpose Room

Text: Please text Well Being Program office’s number when you arrive so that staff can let you in.

Come join Well Being Program Staff for a special edition of the Drop in Coffee group!

Coffee/Tea and treats will be provided.

Please register so we know how many people will show up and have enough treats for all!

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

Direct to our webpage: http://bit.ly/2B0W5Kt

8-week Course in ASL

Wednesday Evenings 5pm – 7pm

Starting January 31st, 2018

Well Being Program

4211 Kingsway Suite #300

Experience a deeper self-awareness, richer relationships, and living with greater authenticity with like-minded people. We will examine the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that are holding you back and we identify the new choices and practices that will move you toward more authentic and wholehearted living. Move beyond perfectionism to self-compassion and discover how vulnerability, empathy, courage, and gratitude are connected. We develop skills to be resilient in life’s daily storms and step into the freedom of knowing we are enough.

Limit: 8 Participants. Includes your personalized manual, your Daring Way™ workbook experential exercises, coffee, and light snacks.

If you are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, you may qualify for free participation of this workshop (usual registration fee is $500 per person).

Please contact WBP Program Coordinator kristen.pranzl@vch.ca for more information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKNMBiMhBlI

https://youtu.be/qj7m1CxeaeA

Registrations are finally open for our classes in Jan!! We are only offering 101 & 102 this time BUUUUUUT we are super excited to say that we will be offering a *brand new* ASL 103 course and our ASL storytelling course in March!

Our ASL 102 is being re-designed as well, it’ll have a lot of familiar content but some new stuff as well so if you’d like the practice and to learn a bit new stuff & do new activities, you should for sure register for ASL 102 even if you already took it before.

*If you would want an ASL 102 class on a weeknight, please let us know as we are thinking about possibly switching one of the 101 classes into a 102 class instead*

Here’s to a new year of some fun changes & development! <3

Location & Access information:

http://www.queerasl.com/locationaccess/

Registration form:

https://goo.gl/forms/lnCFCU2TIRWe4F0J2

Also, please do spread the word. Feel free to forward this email to anyone you think might be interested and also share our event on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/259410191255158/

Thank you so much for your support!

Zoée Montpetit

Founder, Queer ASL

queerasl@gmail.com | queerasl.com

Place: Tim Horton

Where: in Kelowna, BC

Address: 3255 Lakeshore Rd/ Ritchter ( right by save-on-foods) by Mission Area

Time: 7 pm tp 10 pm

When: Friday, December 22, 2017

CHRISTMAS EVE CHURCH SERVICES with ASL Interpretation —

Dunbar Ryerson United Church is a welcoming, open-minded church located in the west side of Vancouver.

Intro video: https://vimeo.com/236165675

The address is: 2495 West 45th Avenue, Vancouver (near Arbutus/West Boulevard)

They provide ASL interpretation at weekly church services every Sunday morning at 10:00-11:30 AM. (Note: no ASL on Dec 31)

On Sunday, December 24, there will be 3 services with ASL interpreting:

10:00 AM – morning service

4:00 PM – short, cute service for families & young children; Christmas story/play & Christmas songs

9:00 PM – beautiful service with Christmas music & candles

For more information, check the Dunbar Ryerson United Church website:  www.drmt.ca

Merry Christmas to all! Wishing everybody PEACE, LOVE and JOY 

15th Biennial Deaf Seniors of America Conference

Seattle, Washington

When: September 2-8, 2019

Registration forms

Are you interested to be a speech reading instructor?

If you have taken speechreading classes, have experience with audiology/speech pathology or Deaf education, you might be well qualified to take this 5-day Speechreading Instructor training to teach Let’s Talk. An instructor needs:

• A good understanding of hearing loss.

• To have accepted their own hearing loss and resolved their own emotional issues before undergoing training – “help yourself before helping others”.

• Teaching skills that also include lesson preparation.

• Training: to teach classes in speechreading and coping strategies; to determine the individual needs of the students; to lead discussions addressing the issues facing people with hearing loss.

• Empathy towards adults with hearing loss.

This program was developed by experienced hard of hearing speechreading instructors throughout Canada through the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association (CHHA).  There are many demands by the growing population of hard of hearing adults and seniors for program to learn more about hearing loss and how to cope with it.

Leslee Scott is CHHA’s Western “Instructor” on Vancouver Island to provide instructional training for this program.  If you are interested in taking this training in the spring of 2018, you may contact her at leslee@idhhc.ca or write to her at 201 – 754 Broughton St Victoria BC V8W 1E1.   An application form may be found at www.chha.ca/sren.  For other training locations across Canada, you may contact the CHHA national office awickware@chha.ca

Opportunity Funds Vlog Transcript

Hi, my name is Amar, I am a volunteer with the Western Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the Employment Counselling Department.

I would like to talk about WIDHH’s new Opportunity Funds Program.

There are three different components that make up this program.

First, is Target Wage Subsidy. How this works is WIDHH will make an agreement with a potential employer to supplement your income for the first two months of employment.

WIDHH will also be able to provide some financial assistance for living expenses and pay for clients to participate in some short term training. For example, Food Safe, First Aid, etc.

The Opportunity Funds Program starts January 2nd, 2018 and runs until June 29th, 2018.

During this time, participants will be developing skills to become employment ready. They will be eligible to receive some financial assistance for living costs, transportation, interpreters, training, accessibility needs, ie: hearing aids, FM Systems, Flash alarms, etc.

Those eligible to participate in this program must be Deaf, Hard of Hearing or Deaf Blind, be unemployed, working less than 28 hours a week or underemployed, a Canadian Citizen, not have received EI within the last three years, and live in the Lower Mainland.

For more information about this new program please contact WIDHH staff members Marco or Melissa, their email addresses are below!

Thanks!

mchiaramonte@widhh.com

mburrows@widhh.com

-Pictures of our flyers – GVAD Townhall, and BC deaf indigenous workshop

-Pictures of Bingo 2017

-Pictures of BCVRS celebration and recognition party

-Pictures of GVAD booth at Deaf Deaf World

-Pictures of GVAD representing at BC Sympisoum (Wendy Bruce and Kimberly Wood)

-Personal Prepareness Workshop flyer and the presentation

-Pictures of our hosting and show of the Maloes

-Special thanks to Dan Lecours for his Chauffeur and hospitality work with the Maloes performers.

-Photo Credit: Hester Hussey, Doug Lambert, Nikki Sellars, Kimberly Wood

-Many thanks to all volunteers for our events and workshops.

-The GVAD Board wishes everyone happy and safe holidays.

https://youtu.be/5NoHr3v0mnY

8-week Course in ASL

Wednesday Evenings 5pm – 7pm

Starting January 31st, 2018

Well Being Program

4211 Kingsway Suite #300

Experience a deeper self-awareness, richer relationships, and living with greater authenticity with like-minded people. We will examine the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that are holding you back and we identify the new choices and practices that will move you toward more authentic and wholehearted living. Move beyond perfectionism to self-compassion and discover how vulnerability, empathy, courage, and gratitude are connected. We develop skills to be resilient in life’s daily storms and step into the freedom of knowing we are enough.

Limit: 8 Participants. Includes your personalized manual, your Daring Way™ workbook experential exercises, coffee, and light snacks.

If you are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, you may qualify for free participation of this workshop (usual registration fee is $500 per person).

Please contact WBP Program Coordinator kristen.pranzl@vch.ca for more information.

Kelowna Deaf Coffee Group

Place: Tim Horton

Where: Kelowna, BC

Address: 3255 Lakeshore Rd/Richter (right by Save-On-Food store) By Mission Area

Time: 7:00 pm to 10 pm

When: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8th

Parental Authorization Form and explanation as in how to submit the application :

https://srvcanadavrs.ca/en/vrs-faq/

Dear Deaf Community:

Marie is volunteering again this year to interpret the Living Nativity at Willow Park Church on Highway 33. Please come and get into the Christmas Spirit!!

When? Sunday December 10 at 3:30.

Where? Willow Park Church on Highway 33 Kelowna.

Please come early. Be inside the church by 3:00 and sit at the front. We will have a place reserved for you on the left side.

See you there!!!!

You are invited to the event of Christmas Eve Service called “Light of the World” on Dec 24th starting at 11:15am to 12:15pm at Coquitlam Alliance Church at Mariner Campus on 2601 Spuraway Ave, Coquitlam, BC.

For Deaf-blind,

If you are interested to come, please contact Anna at akielec@gmail.com for interpreting services.

See you there!

Everyone is Welcome!

Thursday, December 7th, 2017

12:00 pm to 3:00 pm

$5 Admission

Building A, Room 2556

GAMES!     FOODS!     PRIZES!

https://youtu.be/W2ZKHsnSQZk