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President’s Report highlights -

April

On April 5, a College delegation met
with John Cashore, Michael Farnworth,
and Barbara Copping, our three tri-cities
MLA’s, in Victoria. The purpose of the
meeting was to update them on progress
and current problems relating to the
overall Pinetree Way development. Our
MLA’s have assured us of their
continuing support and enthusiasm for the
project.

On March 23, I met with Dr. John
Cruikshank of Vancouver Community
College to discuss common concerns over
funding and program development.

The President, College Board Member
Grace Joe, the Executive Director of the
College Foundation and the Vice
President, Instruction hosted Mr. Gary
Ho, President of the Taiwan General
Hospital. Mr. Ho, as a representative of
the Buddhist Association, was recognized
for a $50,000 gift to the Foundation for
the College’s General and Psychiatric
Nursing Programs. When matched, the
gift will amount to about $125,000.

The Annual Program Profile Meeting
with Ministry officials was held in
Richmond on April 6. Most of the
discussion revolved around the “run-up”
to the opening of our Pinetree Way

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Campus in 1996. On the same day, I
joined the Vice Presidents in the regular
meeting on reorganization. Excellent
progress has been made on plans for the
next level or reorganization. On April 11
and 13, I attended two departmental
meetings - those of the Registrar’s Office,
and of the Learning Resources
Department. In both cases, I gained
considerable insight into the challenges
being faced by these departments. These
insights will be of assistance to me in
understanding the recommendations of
the Vice Presidents when they come
forward at the end of the month.
Throughout all of March and April to
the time of this writing, my activities have
been dominated by money raising
activities. This has involved a total of ten

meetings with community people, and a
number of internal consultations.

On March 24, we had the privilege of
visits with a number of Japanese Health
Services officials, who are interested in
the organization and substance of Douglas
College’s health-related programs. In all
likelihood, this will lead to further
professional contacts in Japan. &

LIC project for palliative care
program completed for fall

Of the 68 Locally Initiated Curriculum
(LIC) Project proposals submitted to the
Ministry of Skills, Training and Labour in
1994, only 24 were approved. One of
them was the Douglas College Continuing
Education Department’s new Continuing
Education Certificate Program in
Community-Based Palliative Care.

As the population ages, the need for
community care workers with palliative
care skills will increase. And because
many of them are para-professionals, the
Continuing Education Department
designed specific training for home
support attendants, resident care aides and
others caring for people who choose to
live out their final days at home, rather
than in an institution.

“Palliative care changes the emphasis
on the type of care people receive when
dying, a shift away from traditional acute
care. More often people are choosing to
stay at home to die, or seniors are staying
in residential care facilities to die rather
than going into acute care,” says Dawn
McDonald. “The emphasis in palliative
care is not on cure but on alleviating the
full range of symptoms to promote a
comfortable death.”

McDonald, a long-time CE instructor
and now a Health Sciences faculty

member, was contracted to act as project
coordinator and established a working
group of community resource people with
hands-on experience in palliative care.
The team included Shelagh Armour-
Godbolt and Mary Beck, coordinators of
the College’s Home Support Attendant
Program and Resident Care Attendant
Program, respectively.

Community Programmer Rose-Marie
Fournier submitted the LIC proposal after
a year’s work with a committee of
continuing education coordinators from
University College of the Fraser Valley,
Kwantlen University College, and
Vancouver Community College to explore
needs and develop the rational for the
project. Other B.C. colleges also
provided support.

A comprehensive 60-hour program
was developed, with the course outline,
instructor guide and resource materials
submitted to the Ministry on March 31 of
this year. The format is modular, and is
geared to the adult learner working in a
variety of community settings. Learning
activities to help students apply theory to
real-life situations are included.

The Palliative Care Program begins at
Douglas College in late September. For
more information, call Rose Marie
Fournier at 527-5047. #f