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I would just like to provide a comment on my work experience and the gift of being able to work in the community. I have had the privilege for many years to work in the community and on social justice issues.
Working in the community has given me the opportunity to celebrate diversity and to recognize that diversity goes beyond tolerance. That diversity is about inclusion. It is about the inclusion of all people not just the elite. It is about our recognition of our interdependence. It is about we are one, but not the same.
I have had the opportunity with my community work to fight against exclusion. I have had the opportunity to challenge racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, and classism. I have had the opportunity to provide programs and services to support people that need support.
It has given me the knowledge that it is our responsibility of all of us to make a better world for all.
It has strengthened my confliction that if one person is oppressed we are all oppressed.
I have the best job for over 13 years that allow me the opportunity to “Do what it takes... I get to Just to it and Yes we can make a difference. I get to work with passion.
Working in the community is a celebration of difference as well as our similarities. I have learnt that sometimes we laugh, cry, argue with, and at one another, but we do not destroy people’s dignity or our earth in the process.
It about recognition that we have faults, foibles and gifts. And that we can not do it alone, it involves many stakeholders from churches, governments, private individuals, etc.
I love working in the community and being able to be a voice for social justice. This is the gift of working in the community. I have a sense of purpose. A sense of belonging. It gives me the opportunity to belief and build a better community and society.
This is what social justice and community has done for me.
I am also attaching some reports that Woseley Family Place has been involved and believe that are good sites to visit. Thanks
http://www.justicewomen.com/index.html
Community Action Program for Children has produced an excellent resource for executive directors which is on this link. http://www.manitobacapc.org/Lighting_the_Road_to_Success_5].pdf
Winnipeg Women Magazine Spring 2010 celebrated 5 local women. Please have a look at this link.
http://studio.digitalpubsonline.com/Winnipeg_Women_Spring_10
Another website of interest.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/advisories-avis/_2010/2010_49-eng.php
The Report on Manitoba's Employment and Income Assistance Program
http://www.ombudsman.mb.ca/pdf/2010-05-26_EIA_Report_2010.pdf
The Communities 4 Families (Downtown Parent Child Coalition came out with a report about the challenges downtown families face and some of the potential solutions. www.communities4families.ca
This is a good website for recalls and other information important to parents.
http://kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?lic=1&ps=103&cat_id=5
Family Resource Programs: www.frp.ca
http://healthycanadians.gc.ca/kids/
Hello, this link takes you to a Youtube video called “Change the First Five Years and You Change Everything”. Do watch it, share & discuss it with co-workers, parents, friends, networks, and the world. This is what Wolseley Family Place does each day.
WITS: Anti-Bullying Program
Research indicates that programs that work are effective whole-school comprehensive anti-bullying programs. The WITS (Walk away; Ignore; Talk it out; Seek help) program is an anti-bullying program which can be used by schools (K – grade 6), community leaders, families and children. Training is available on-line and can be integrated into the curriculum. More information on the WITS program can be found at: www.witsprogram.ca
BC Safe Start Injury Prevention Video & Booklet
Produced in 2011, parents and caregivers will learn about preventing falls, burns and scalds, poisoning, choking, also safety in the car, product safety, water safety and safe sleeping.
http://www.bcchildrens.ca/KidsTeensFam/ChildSafety/SafeStart/SafeStartresources.htm
Ten Steps to Creating Safe Environments
A risk management road map that shows organizations and communities how to prevent, mitigate and respond to interpersonal violence.
http://www.redcross.ca/tensteps
Child Safety Good Practice Guide: Good investments in unintentional child injury prevention and safety promotion – Canadian Edition, Safe Kids Canada
Safe Kids Canada partnered with the European Child Safety Alliance to adapt the 2006 European Child Safety Good Practice Guide to create the ‘Child Safety Good Practice Guide: Good Investments in unintentional child injury prevention and safety promotion – Canadian Edition”. This is the first seminal, comprehensive document in the country from which decision-makers, practitioners and legislators can base their work and recommendations. This resource was designed to “enable Canadian injury prevention practitioners to examine Canadian strategy options for unintentional child injury, move away from what has ‘always been done’ and move toward good investments – strategies that are known to work or have the greatest probability of success”. This guide is available on the Safe Kids Canada website at http://www.safekidscanada.ca/professionals/tools-and-resources/guide/good-practice-guide.aspx.
Development of an Early Childhood Burn Prevention Program for Community Educators
Safestart, BC Children’s Hospital, and the BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn Fund have created some resources for the Early Childhood Burn Prevention Program for Community Educators. Burn prevention strategies incorporated into this program include: Be Aware; Be Close; and Burn Proof Homes. These resources include a “Too Hot For Tots” DVD, posters, and a “Too Hot For Tots” pamphlet with a water temperature tester. The program is slated to be launched February 6 – 10, 2012 during which time the new resources will be available at http://www.bcchildrens.ca/KidsTeensFam/ChildSafety/SafeStart/SafeStartresources.htm
The Child Passenger Safety Association
The Child Passenger Safety Association of Canada (CPSAC) is an organization of Canadian specialists who have come together to create a cohesive national program dedicated to the safety of children and youths while travelling in motor vehicles.
The Association’s mandate is, summarised as; to provide up to date child passenger safety information and assistance, advocate for child safety and work in collaboration with other organisations across the country. The association provides technician training and support manuals. The organization has French and English capacity. A main outcome focus is ensuring car seats are safely installed.
"Too Hot for Tots" Early Childhood Burn Prevention Program for Community Educators
The “Too Hot for Tots” is a professionally produced video with accompanying brochure package which targets parents and caregivers knowledge gap around burn injuries. The resource is being translated into various languages and is slated to be launched February 6 – 10, 2012 during which time the new resources will be available at:
http://www.bcchildrens.ca/KidsTeensFam/ChildSafety/SafeStart/SafeStartresources.htm
Injuryearth Alberta
A partnership of organizations that are committed to a vision of a safer and healthier province. Injuryearth is Alberta’s global call to action.
http://www.injuryalberta.com/default.aspx
Alberta Seatbelts
This provincial program has set a goal to achieve a provincial seatbelt wearing rate of 95% by 2015.
Safety Drives Us Ontario road safety organization
www.gov.mb.ca/fs/childfam/grandparents_guide/index.html
http://fnbc.info/sites/default/files/documents/2011-financial-literacy-handbook.pdf
www.wrha.mb.ca/healthinfo/preventill/oral_child.php
http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/8thfire
http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episode/surviving-the-teenage-brain.html