We send What's on the MOVES on the first and third Friday of the month. Our purpose is to share information about upcoming events, agency news and relevant announcements with the DC MOVES mailing list. If you have information to share through this bulletin, please email your information in text and an attached image or logo OR pdf AD/Flyer to the DC MOVES Coordinator Elaine Capes.
DC MOVES ZOOM Room

June 23rd FORUM

Presentations from:
  • Immigrant Services Guelph-Wellington, Recreational Respite
  • Volunteer Dufferin and
  • DCMOVES Values
New date for link: August 6th WOTMs
COVID-19 Helpful Links and Resources
You can get up-to-date information and advice on the coronavirus at these trusted links:
Dufferin County Equity Collaborative
DCEC
Our DCEC equity lens shapes our vision that every resident of Dufferin County will have the opportunity to realize their potential.  

Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.
Jordan Flaherty

Please contact Heather at the Food Bank or Lyn at Family Transition Place for postcards
Post-Pandemic Scenarios Dashboard Updated

The Workforce Planning Board's Post-Pandemic Scenarios Dashboard has recently been updated with the latest information.
 
This dashboard has been designed to help businesses, the community, and the government strategically prepare for probable futures relating to how COVID-19 may impact the labour market in the next 12 to 24 months. It highlights the availability of skilled labour, employment estimates by sector, employment data by age and gender, business counts, business cashflow and ability to stay open,
 
Click here to view the dashboard.
WIST is designed to support low-income women who are unemployed or underemployed. The goal of the program is to prepare candidates for employment within the construction sector.
This 34-week program prepares students with 26 weeks of online practical theory and hands-on experience (with distancing measures in place). This program includes carpentry trade exposure with a Level 1 apprenticeship in-class exception and features an eight-week paid practical work placement experience.
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Non-Profits from across Canada are invited to apply for Creative Day for Social Good

Capacity Canada, in partnership with Intertek Catalyst, Conestoga College, Manulife, HIM&HER, and the creative community, will donate design and marketing work to non-profit organizations across Canada through Creative Day for Social Good (CD4SG).
DEADLINE TO APPLY - Monday, August 30, 2021 at Midnight
Sharing from others
Local artist uses music to educate on systemic oppression
Music is a thread that can connect us, comfort us and, sometimes, move us to action. That’s the message local musician Rufus John wants to bring to audiences from across Waterloo Region to around the world, with the Freedom Marching Project. John is one of 14 recipients of the first Create and Connect grants funded by Centre in the Square and the City of Kitchener's film, music and interactive media office.
Shared from July 8th Overlap Associates newsletter
Kitchener-Waterloo·HAPPINESS COLUMN

Get the most of your summer by preparing for the changes to come this fall: Jennifer Moss

Happiness and Well-being columnist and UN Global Happiness Committee Member Jennifer Moss' recent article