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Happy New Year, CALSCA!
With the New Year comes the long awaited 1998 Conference Brochure, with all the info about the Prince Albert Homecoming. Workshop options, accommodations and pricing info, it's time to REGISTER!
Also, new to the Life Skills Links page in the Website:
http://web.idirect.com/~calsca
is a direct window into Infoseek, a major web search engine. So now you can do a search right from our Website! Let me know how it goes.
And celebrate with me! Devra and I are moving into a house on the river, sandy beach, fireplace, tight roof, right on. and now that I have a house to put it in, I've bought a piano. Will wonders never cease?
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Welcome to Coaches On The Net, Alberta's Lorry Lourie,
Lorry does Life Skills with people with disabilities in Edmonton. Glad to have you with us, Lorry.
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Hello CALSCA -
Last week I put the Homecoming Conference brochure into Upcoming Events on the Website:
http://web.idirect.com/~calsca
and forgot to ask you to print it , pass it around, and send your own in PDQ! So please, print it, pass it around, send in your own, PDQ!
There's a lot of new info on the Website:
Ron Blechinger, career counsellor and Jack Mitchell, Life Skills group counsellor and coach trainer have been invited to present at the National Consultation on Career Development (NATCON) 26-28 Jan.98 in Ottawa, Canada. NATCON is in its 11th year of activity as the largest bilingual international conference of its kind addressing career development and employment-related issues. Some 180 different workshop sessions and seminars will be scheduled with Jeremy Rifkin, author of the best-selling study, The End of Work, featured as a key note speaker.
Ron and Jack will present their session titled, "Employability Skills Gained in Life Skills: Research Findings" which represents the work of a nine-year assessment study of changes in the attitudes and behaviours of clients completing Life Skills training groups in adult training centres in Regina, Saskatchewan. Ron Blechinger is a former Life Skills coach and currently involved in career skills development counselling with 20 years of experience. Jack was part of the Sask.NewStart curriculum development team for the Life Skills Program and has been involved in adult Life Skills group counselling for 25 years and is the Director of the Emma Lake Coach Training Program.
Jack Mitchell
Special thanks to SLSA and ASLSC for passing on the new info, I'm really happy to include it in the Website.
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Hello CALSCA -
Please welcome CALSCA founding member Paul Bagordo to the 90's, no I mean to Coaches On The Net . His new email address is:
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Hello CALSCA -
The following arrived in my emailbox recently. Can anybody help Lorraine out? She's at:
Dear Rod:
I need some assistance with a lesson. I have an entire group that is taking medication and they all have ISSUES about their meds. I understand these issues because my disability means that I take them too. There is plenty of resentment and a great desire for non-compliance. An example is that: If I don't take my medication my illness will go away. Every day I take my meds I am reminded of my illness.
I know there is a lesson in the "Y" books about patient rights. My fellow team members have concerns that if we do a lesson we might contribute to the problem. I agree, however we still need to talk about this. Do you know of a lesson or have any ideas.
My idea is to discuss how medication works and the requirement to continue taking your meds until your MD tells you other wise. The flip side here is that there are new generation drugs that do work better than some of the old ones and have less side effects. The trick will be to get the clients to understand the why and continue to maintain compliance.
I would be grateful for any pointers or ideas you may have.
Thanks Rod.
Kindest Regards,
Lorraine
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And this job opening recently appeared in the website Guestbook:
Hi I'm looking for a Life Skills Coach interested in gaining experience. This is a volunteer position with the possibility of employment this summer. This is a 6 week group working with teens age 13-17. If you are flexible, patient, tolerant enjoy working with teens and interested in facilitating groups for teens in the Edmonton area, Email me your resume. Thanks MJ Lang (langmj@telusplanet.net).
Go for it!
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Hello CALSCA -
Have a look in the CALSCA On-Line Magazine for a new Steve Burgess article called 'Lifesongs". Mixing music and Life Skills is an activity that I approve of.
Also, IT'S TIME TO REGISTER FOR THE HOMECOMING CONFERENCE!!!!!
Print the brochure out of the website and fire it off to Dori PDQ! If you register after April 1 you miss out on the early bird cheep rate, so DO IT NOW!!!
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Hello CALSCA -
There's still time to get the early bird rates for the Conference. Send your forms (copied from the Website, http://web.idirect.com/~calsca) to
Dori Britski, CALSCA Conference Co-ordinator,
27 Thomson Bay, Prince Albert, SK S6X 1A3.
The following rates apply ONLY if paid before April 1, 1998.
| Full Conference | CALSCA Members $125 | Includes meals but NOT accommodations |
| Full Conference | Non-Members $150 | Includes meals but NOT accommodations |
| Full Conference | CALSCA Members $75 | Does NOT include meals OR accommodations |
| Full Conference | Non-Members $100 | Does NOT include meals OR accommodations |
| Saturday OR Sunday | CALSCA Members $50 | Does NOT include meals OR accommodations |
| Saturday OR Sunday | Non-Members $75 | Does NOT include meals OR accommodations |
After April 1, add $25 to whichever option you chose.
PLEASE NOTE:
We need a definite commitment from participants ASAP so we can book meeting rooms and meals. Cheques (payable to CALSCA) can be post-dated up until April 30, 1998.
Accommodations and transportation arrangements are the responsibility of participants. Our Conference site, the Marlboro Inn, is a full service 110 room hotel located in downtown Prince Albert. It has a coffee shop, dining room, lounge, indoor swimming pool, hot tub, sauna, spacious meeting rooms and plenty of parking. They are giving us their lowest nightly rate ($48.95 for single; $55.95 for double). The Marlboro (national reservation line 1-800-661-7666) has set aside 75 rooms for our use, so be sure to register EARLY as a CALSCA member to get the preferred rate.
If there is insufficient registration by April 1, CALSCA reserves the right to scale down the conference and will notify registrants of the changes and reduced costs.
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Hello CALSCA -
New to the Website (http://web.idirect.com/~calsca) is Employment Services, located on the Employment Opportunities and Services page. Along with the HRDC Job Bank (http://jb-ge.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/) is a link to Headhunter.NET (http://www.headhunter.net/), a free resume and job bank site.
Also new (and a tip of the hat to the ASLSC Executive), is the complete text of the Alberta Society's Accreditation Competencies. You'll notice some subtle and some dramatic differences between these and the BC Pilot Project Competencies, also on the Website. I hope to include Ontario's someday (the template for the Alberta and BC documents).
There's still a tiny window of opportunity to get the early bird price for the Homecoming Conference. Print the registration form from the Website (follow the link in Upcoming Events) and fax it to Dori Britski (1-306-953-4485) before midnight, March 31, along with your solemn assurance that the cheque is in the mail. And mail the cheque! After March 31, the price goes up $25 in each category.
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This flash from Homecoming Central:
Early Bird rates have been extended to April 15, happy day, for you sleepy birds who didn't quite get it together to be that early. It's a cheep deal, so don't try to worm your way out of it!
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Welcome, Jo-Anne Sutherland (rocketpower@sprint.ca), to Coaches On the Net on the CALSCA website (http://web.idirect.com/~calsca)!
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Hello CALSCA -
Sage Child & Family Services Inc., my sometime employer, sometime associate, has generously offered to let us use the Chat page in Sage's website, http://sageservices.bc.ca. Go there and click on the Chat link at the top of the page. I recommend reading the FAQ file, for instance to find out how to make the text frame bigger. Then log on! To facilitate your discovery process, I will host a chat from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm Pacific Daylight Savings Time, this evening, Tuesday, April 14. Come chat with me!
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Ian Staite from Sault Ste. Marie,ON put the following request in the Guestbook:
Looking for coach trainer named Jackie Maxwell: Jackie I would like to talk to you. Please contact me at this e-mail address (jhsossm@adss.on.ca (Ian Staite))if you get this message.l.
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This in from Tia:
Hi Folks!!
We've made some decisions and are holding off on a few more. Still the clock is ticking.... I'm having real problems finding time for phone calls, e-mail, etc. so please bear with me. We've heard from Jay Moore (still go ahead, can't come though); Colleen and Dave Zeller (they're coming and bringing Paul Bagordo); Rod and Devra (they'll be here); Jack Mitchell (coming); Jean Esson (coming); Jean Jones (postpone - too small, probably won't come); Kathie Bird and Trygve Lee (still coming); Sharon Hurd-Clark (has it on her calendar); Marg Foster (coming); Marilyn Waldner (coming); Doug Pederson (supports idea but probably can't come); Karen Bonesky (supports idea but probably can't come).
Those are the people I know about. I talked with Dori last on Tuesday, so she could've
gotten more calls by now. Anyway, here is the plan as it stands:
The conference has been toned down to a gathering since we only had about 30 people coming. It'll start on Friday
evening with registration from 7 to 10 p.m. We'll still have Jim V. come in Saturday morning with a regular CALSCA
meeting following afterwards. In the afternoon we'll still have workshops so please bring your workshop stuff in
case you need to do it (Jack, Sharon, Paul, Bea, Devra, Rod).
We were planning to give workshop people a $50 honorarium, but now we don't know if we'll have enough so, this could be pro bono work....... Since we have to pay for fewer meals and we're getting a smaller meeting room, the cost will be lowered to $100.00. We'll give you refund cheques if you've already paid the $150.00 when you get here. You could use it to buy a beautiful "Saskatchewan Life Skills" sweatshirt!!
Prince Albert is a 90 mile drive from the Saskatoon airport down one of only two major highways heading north. Highway 11 goes right past Waneskewin, a large Native cultural centre which has the most amazing energy levels!! Definitely worth a couple hours of your time. The Marlboro Inn is tall by P.A. standards (6 floors I think) and only 1 1/2 blocks off Hwy 2. Prince Albert is small city of around 30,000 people and only a few tall buildings, so it would be very difficult to get lost. If anyone wants more detailed travel info, there must be a way on the net to access travel information, or your local CAA has maps for free for members.
There you have it folks!! The good thing about this is we don't have to do much prep work so don't expect anything fancy, just lots of good times and great (re)connections. Big relief for us time ways. We'll be very glad to see those of you who can make it. Those who can't will be sending us good energy....
SLSA had planned to host its AGM on Monday May 18, but we've decided to put that off till the fall. The date will be announced in the May newsletter.
Take care folks!! See you in a couple of weeks......
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Welcome George Reed, earthway@sage.ark.com, to the Coaches On The Net page of the CALSCA website, http://web.idirect.com/~calsca. See George's comment in the Guestbook.
The 1998 Prince Albert meeting was an interesting and exciting gathering. 25 coaches from Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and BC attended the scaled down Homecoming Celebration, and you bet we celebrated! Jim Vicharyous as Keynote Speaker, assisted by Jack Mitchell, filled us in on the early history of NewStart Life Skills. Paul Bagordo, Devra Poitra and Tia Shynkaruk delivered incredible, powerful workshops. And, close to my heart, we did some CALSCA business as well, to be reported when I receive and publish the minutes. The next meeting is May 21 - May 24 in Prince George, BC, hosted by the Northern Lights Life Skills Association.
I've added some things to the website:
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Life Skills Coach desperately needed for teens age 13- 17. Contract position beginning June 29, 1998 ending August 21, 1998. You will be responsible for interviewing suitable candidates for this group, Interview dates are June 29- July 03, 1998 (9:00a.m.- 4:00p.m.) The group begins July 6, 1998 Group times are 12:30- 4:30p.m. Monday to Friday. This is a 7 week program.(course outline and lessons already devised) These are teens having difficulties in all the areas of their life and need a patient, flexible, tolerant yet firm person to teach them life skills to cope with their everyday issues. If your interested please fax your resume to 426-0393 or send it to Chimo Youth Retreat Centre 10568-104 Street Edmonton, Alberta T5H 2W1 Attention: Josee Lang.
Also, can anyone put me in touch with Romana Frey? She sent me an email but the return address doesn't work.
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