We send
What's on the MOVES on the first and third Friday of the month. Our goal 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.
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Thursday May 14 from 3:00-3:30
Join us for a special DC MOVES ONLINE music therapy session provided by Julia's Place Music Therapy Center!
We have all been moving (or not moving) differently in response to the current Covid-19 situation. This can be hard on our brains and our bodies. This session will focus on general movements that will help you stretch out and relieve tension that you may have from sitting at your "home office". Music interacts with the brain uniquely and, when used in specific ways, can help your body move! Come experience this for yourselves.
We have a maximum capacity of 10 participants for this special no charge offer.
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About the Facilitator
Julia Beth Kowaleski is the owner of Julia's Place Music Therapy Center. She is an accredited music therapist (MTA), having received her initial music therapy training at Wilfrid Laurier University. Julia has advanced training in Neurologic Music Therapy and completed the Masters of Music and Health
and Collaborative Program in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto. She is current president of the Music Therapy Association of Ontario. With over 10 years of experience as a music therapist, Julia is able to work with a wide range of groups and individuals to help them achieve their goals.
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COVID-19 Helpful Links and Resources
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You can get up-to-date information and advice on the coronavirus at these trusted links:
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Dufferin County Equity Collaborative
DCEC
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Find out what the DCEC accomplished in 2019
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Dufferin Food Share has a new delivery service coming on board.
We are asking that referrals be made for the following reasons:
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Mobility Issues
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Immune Compromised
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Quarantined
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Socially Isolated, lacking resources to obtain food
Referrals need to be submitted by noon for delivery the following day. We will deliver Monday/Tuesday/Thursday/Friday between 1:30 and 4:30 pm. Orders that are received on Tuesday will be delivered Thursday and orders received on Friday will be delivered Monday.
Check the
WEBSITE
for the fillable form. (to be available soon)
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Local job finding site launches early to deal with increased demand from job seekers
The Covid-19 crisis has led to a large increase in people looking for work and that has resulted in the early launch of a local job finding website.
Findyourjob.ca
is the result of a partnership between local municipal, county and regional partners along with the Workforce Planning Board. It was originally scheduled to launch in the fall but has already launched to help local job seekers find the positions that are available now. The website pulls jobs from a variety of provincial, national and local sites and collects them all in one place. The site features a job board, a job mapping function and includes resources to support job seekers, such as childcare and school locations, Employment Ontario sites, transit routes, as well as information to support job seekers as they search in this physical distancing environment.
Twice a week you can receive the latest postings to findyourjob.ca by joining the mailing list. You can
click here
to register.
The Findyourjob.ca initiative is a partnership between The Workforce Planning Board of Waterloo Wellington Dufferin, Dufferin County, Wellington County, City of Guelph and Region of Waterloo
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Mental Health Commission of Canada launches free online crisis training for essential workers during COVID-19
OTTAWA, April 28, 2020 /CNW Telbec/ - In response to added pressures on essential workers during COVID-19, the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) has developed a trio of free crisis response training programs designed to help front-line workers deal with the stress of these exceptional circumstances.
The three new online programs ꟷ Caring for Yourself, Caring for Your Team, and Caring for Others ꟷ are designed to help people deal with these new challenges and are based on the MHCC's successful in-person courses: Mental Health First Aid and The Working Mind.
Crisis Response training - Caring for Yourself
(2 hours) - Participants will be introduced to the Mental Health Continuum and the Big 4 Coping Strategies, to help learn how to better understand their own mental wellness, notice if they might be moving into unwell areas, use practical actions to help with stress, and know when to reach out to get professional help.
Crisis Response training - Caring for your Team
(3 hours) - Participants will be introduced to the Mental Health Continuum, the Big 4 Coping Strategies, and Ad Hoc Incident Review to help learn how to better understand their own and their team's mental wellness, notice if they might be moving into unwell areas, use practical actions to help with stress, know when to reach out to get professional help and learn tips to support team members
Crisis Response Training - Caring for Others
(2 hours) - will focus on how to create a safe space to have conversations about mental health and/or substance use problems. This training will prepare participants to have conversations confidently about mental health during a crisis, with their family, friends, communities, and workplaces. Participants will also be taught the skills required to respond to a mental health crisis until professional help arrives.
Registration for these courses will be on a first-come, first-serve basis and will be available at no-cost for essential workers as defined by the Government of Canada
here
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Wednesday May 6, 2020 1:00 pm ET
Theresa L.M. Man, B.Sc., M.Mus., LL.B., LL.M.
Ms. Man practices in the area of charity and not-for-profit law. Author, speaker and counsel on legal issues involving charities and not-for-profit organizations, with a focus on corporate issues.
Carters, Orangeville, Ontario.
Webinar Materials and On Demand/Replay after webinar
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WEBINAR: GOVERNING IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
Capacity Canada is happy to present the following complimentary session, Governing in Uncertain Times, with our Executive in Residence, Fred Galloway. This webinar is on
Wednesday, May 6th from 11:00 am to 12:15 pm ET.
The session will be presented in the context of the Board having the ultimate responsibility for the health, reputation and on going sustainability of the organization in the short term and when it emerges into a likely changed post-crisis operating environment.
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I have scheduled two workshops especially for “Empty Nesters,” on how to re-invent your home for fun and income through home-sharing. We will talk about how to find compatible home-mates, how to figure out what to charge for rent, and how to develop a home-sharing agreement, laying out the ground-rules for your home-sharing arrangement. And we will chat about your own particular interests and concerns.
These workshops will be held on
April 18 and May 9.
Up until now, all my workshops have been live, face-to-face. But given the current situation, I will be holding these two online via a Zoom webinar. If you’ve never used Zoom, it’s easy to learn! I hosted a “virtual family reunion” using Zoom last night and had every member of my three-generation family online. What a blast!
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