INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / FEBRUARY 14, 1989

 

 

To: All BCGEU

Members (Douglas

College)

From: Barbara
Offen, Chair, local 59

 

Re: Health and
Safety for Clerical
Workers

The following workshops are
being offered as a series:

- Feb, 23 - Clerical Work: The
Illusion of a Hazard-Free
Environment

- March 2 - The Invisible Issue:
Office Air

- March 9 - Designing a Heal-
thy Workplace

- March 16 - Stress, Strategies
and Visions for Change

Date: Feb. 23 - Mar. 16
(Thursdays)

Time: 5:00 to 7:00 pm.

Fee: $10 (includes light
supper)***

Place: Douglas College
Women’s Centre

To register for the series, call
Community Programs at 520-
5472.

***If you are a union mem-
ber (BCGEV) and wish to
attend, pay the $10 fee and the
union will reimburse you. Just
submit your CP&S receipt to
Barbara Offen and she will en-
sure you are reimbursed.

 

 

 

 

 

(left to right): Douglas College President Bill Day, looks on as Don
Coghill of Imperial Oil presents a cheque for $2000 to Randi Duke
of the Douglas College Foundation. Chris Jenkins and Don Allen,
who work with adults with disabilities at the College, also look on.

imperial Oil Donates
$2000 to Transition
Training Program

The Douglas College Founda-
tion recently announced the
donation of $2000 from Im-
perial Oil Limited of Burnaby to
Douglas College’s innovative
"Transition Training Program."

"The money will be used to
expand the amount of computer
hardware in the training lab,"
said Chris Jenkins, a White
Rock resident and instructor
with the program.

The Transition Training Pro-
gram serves adults with severe
multiple disabilities at Douglas
College. The thrust of the pro-
gram is to assist program
participants to make the transi-
tion from instructional living to

 

more independent living and
employment.

Computers form an integral
part of the program as "they can
be adapted in ways that can com-
pensate for limited movements
and means of communications
of individuals," said Jenkins.
With this support, program par-
ticipants are able to learn the
skills that can lead to stable,
community-based employment.

Contact the Douglas College
Foundation, local 4813, for fur-
ther information about the
Transition Training program or
to make a donation.

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