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Greetings friends -
Here’s some partial news (me being so partial to news and all).
While we have not yet got our own URL, I have managed to get access to our page and have done an update. New material includes the 1996 Quebec minutes, including committee assignments, the new BC Ethics document, which leans heavily on the Saskatchewan document (you might be interested to do a comparison) and an update on Members On The Net. Regarding this last, people don’t need to have their own connection to the Internet to have an email address. They just need a friend on the net who’ll relay messages. Email accounts can be bought at Internet Cafes too. Please encourage fellow coaches, whether members or not, to do something about getting access to email. It costs less than a cent for me to send an email message and I’m happy to spread the word.
Also, I’ve extended the address so that you can go straight to CALSCA without going through CareNET. Some of you will have email and browser packages capable of doing the following trick: click on the address below. With the right combination of software, doing so will open your browser and access the address with no more effort on your part. Remember to bookmark the address once you’re in! If the trick doesn’t work, you should at least be able to Copy and Paste the address into the Location space in your browser. Again, remember to bookmark it!
http://www.awinc.com/partners/bc/commpass/carenet/calsca.htm (15/10/96 - IGNORE THIS ADDRESS!)
So check out the new info and send me more. It’s fine by me if it comes as an email message. All you have to do is Copy from your original document, whatever your word processing program, it doesn’t matter, and Paste into the email message.
Francine tells me that she’s hot on the trail of Buffy Saint-Marie to keynote at the National Conference. Go Francine, go!
As usual, please pass this info around. Especially, if you can reach into Manitoba, Quebec and the Maritimes with it. I don’t yet have any email connections there.
And celebrate with me! Today is my 45th birthday and I’m just a happy kind of guy. Ho ho, here we go.
Cheers,
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Greetings from the West -
I've recently been in touch with Paula Drouin in Alberta, Susan Gibson of LSAM, Bill Nunnelley in Quebec and Gary Copeland of MALSC. I'll be working with Susan in Winnipeg later this month and will have a chance to meet with the LSAM Board to talk about the Conference and getting connected with them on the Net.
Bill tells me that he'll soon, that is within a few days, be on the Net, I'll let you know his address SAP. He volunteered to contact Robert Ballantyne about getting publicity going and clarified that he (Bill) will take responsibility for getting translations made of whatever material that Robert produces, and then make sure that the French Life Skills community is aware of what's happening and is invited to the Conference.
Gary has recently moved to Moncton and thinks that he can get on the Net through the College, what with his new position as a department head. Here's hoping. And here's his new snail mail address:
190 Mapleton Road, # 135
Moncton, NB E1C 9Z1
1-506-859-9284
Paula emailed the following list of volunteers and duties from her Quebec meeting notes, and I've added contact info:
National Co-ordinating Committee:
Paula Drouin, ASLSC
Edmonton, Alberta
Jack Mitchell, SLSA
Box 134, Lumsden, Saskatchewan S0G 3C0
fax 306-731-2277
Jay Moore, ALSCO
Box 2034, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3T2
fax: 905-575-2380
Bill Nunnelley, QALSC
527 Route Missisquoi, Bolton Centre, Province of Quebec J0E 1G0
Rod Paynter, ASLSC
1590 Pratt Road, Kamloops, British Columbia, V2C 5J6
604-573-5587, fax 604-372-7633
Keynote:
Francine Wilson, ASLSC
Ft. McMurray, Alberta
fax 403-791-4841
Funding:
Paul Bagordo, ALSCO
RR 2, Matheson, ON P0K 1N0
1-705-273-3054 (fax too)
Publicity:
Robert Ballantyne, QALSC
109 Pine Street, Brigham, PQ J0E 1J0
1-514-263-7306
Bill Nunnelley, QALSC
Speakers Panel - ASLSC
Administration - SALSA
Accommodation & Travel - SALSA
Workshops Co-ordination - ASLSC
It was great to be able to access our Website and do an update last month, but as for easy access, that's another matter. Strangely, the powers that be at our local monopoly Internet server just aren't as excited about getting this sorted out as I am. Hmmm . . .
And that's that for that!
Cheers, Rod
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In today's earlier message I anticipated a change that hasn't happened yet and provided you with a different email address for me that doesn't yet work.
Let me clarify that my email address, until further notice, is:
rodpaynter@iname.com
Sorry for the mixup.
Rod
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Hey ho, here we go!
At the Quebec meeting we agreed to get our own address on the Internet, to be used in lieu of a newsletter and as an archive. It's taken some finagling, but but golly we now have our own Website:
If you have the right combination of software, you should be able to click on the above address and be taken to our Website. Once you're there, be sure to bookmark it, because that's our home.
Cheers,
Rod
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Sage Child &
Family Services Inc.
Box 214, Main Station, Kamloops, BC V2C 5K6
ph 604-372-0229, fax 604-372-7633
email bneufeld@mail.awinc.com
Sage Child and Family Services, Inc. may soon be hiring two Life Skills Coaches for a minimum 14 week contract beginning September 30, 1996. (A successful outcome could lead to ongoing employment.)
Experience with youth, addictions, aboriginal issues and the justice system will be assets, as will certification in the Saskatchewan NewStart model of Life Skills Coaching. Submit resumes to Bernie Neufeld, Director, before September 23, 1996. Faxes and email are acceptable.
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Greetings Calscites -
As of today the latest, and until new enthusiasm strikes, the last, CALSCA newsletter has hit the snail mail trail. You, however, being connected to the net, can simply look it up on the CALSCA Website.
http://web.idirect.com/~calsca
Did you know that you can print straight off the net by highlighting what you want and going to PRINT from there?
So feel free to print the newsletter and/or anything else that you might want from the Website, and pass it around.
Cheers,
Rod
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I've updated the Website today by adding Kathie Bird to the list of Coaches on the Net and 1996 CALSCA Members. She's our second online Saskatchewanite. Welcome Kathie!
kathie.bird@sk.sympatico.ca
I've removed the Employment Opportunity, since the application deadline has expired. Many applications of Alberta origin arrived in BC (where the jobs were) due to email and Website networking. Right on.
Rod
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I've updated the Website today by adding the Association of Life Skills Coaches of Ontario (ALSCO), represented by Executive Secretary Donna Hall, to the list of Coaches on the Net.
dhall@interhop.net (ALSCO)
ALSCO joins the Life Skills Coaches Association of BC (LSCABC) as a member association on the net.
Cheers,
Rod
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I've updated the Website today by adding Debby Kivimaa to the list of Coaches on the Net. She's our third online Saskatchewanite. Welcome Debby!
shea@sk.sympatico.ca (Debby)
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G'Day -
Today I've added 'Email File' to the Website. It's the text of the CALSCA emailings I've done since the Quebec meeting. I've also updated the 'Upcoming Events' page with ALSCO'S Call For Papers for their April conference.
Cheers, Rod
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Happily I welcome Reta Derkson and Barb Cowan of Vancouver, BC to Coaches On The Net! rnb@uniserve.com
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This letter received December 9/96, from Dori Britski:
LETTER TO CALSCA COMMITTEE - DECEMBER 3, 1996
This is a summary of thoughts following the SLSA AGM held on November 30 in Saskatoon.
- a motion was passed to grant $5000 from SLSA to be used as working money towards the May conference. $3000 needs to be paid back to SLSA, so the most we can lose on the conference is $2000. I'd like to see the full $5000 be reimbursed. There was the question if there is a profit, who does it go to?
- Have Grants been pursued?
- We need a budget prepared. I have sent out letters from the Marlboro Inn in previous mailouts [regarding accommodation and facilities costs].
- Suggestion by one SLSA member to have each province pay the expenses of their workshop representative.
- Charlee Zeller expressed an interest in designing the brochure. She's extremely creative.
- I've had several Sask. people volunteer to help when the conference arrives. Will CALSCA team have duties at it too?
- A suggestion for workshop agenda from SLSA member - legal aspects of researching the process of recognition of Life Skills Coach profession through gov't legislation.
- Do provinces have displays, fundraisers, . . . and do you require a table space for a trade show on breaks or registration nite. I can ask local bookstores to come in and do a display.
- We have a dynamic SLSA executive. Our new President is Tia Shynkaruk from Shell Lake. Our Vice-Pres. is Marilyn Waldner from Cutknife.
- Please contact me with news for our SLSA newsletter. The deadline to submit info is January 15. My fax number is 953-4485. Work number is 953-4484. Address is 27 Thomson Bay, Prince Albert, SK S6X 1A3
- With our wealth of experience and skill we should have a conference that is OUTSTANDING!!!!
I hope you have a very happy Christmas season. Here are two favourite quotes:
"If we ever forget the meaning of Christmas, all we need do is listen to children."
The three stages of a man's
life:
1. He believes in Santa Claus.
2. He doesn't believe in Santa Claus.
3. He is Santa Claus.
Merry Christmas Hugs,
Dori
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The Saskatchewan Life Skills Association annual meeting on November 30, has approved and launched the Sask. Accreditation process.
The accreditation committee developed the model based on the following values:
- inclusionary: all coaches
are welcome to apply
- non-discriminatory: all coach training backgrounds are accepted for
application
- accessible: individual accreditation plans are developed around the intern's
needs.
- provides choice: interns are offered choices in mentors and training
activities and methods of communicating results
- honours Saskatchewan's unique needs
- can be integrated with the National accreditation process
We look forward to testing out pilot plan which will be reviewed and evaluated at our next AGM.
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