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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