You''re Invited! Ryerson University''s Teacher & Guidance Counsellor Day

Thursday, April 4, 2019

As an educator, you know that the legal rights and responsibilities surrounding mental health law for children and youth are complex. This comprehensive day will provide practical advice around:

- Your intersecting duties in the school setting (duty to accommodate, duty of care, duty to protect)
- Addiction and substance abuse issues being seen in schools and what supports are available
- Privacy, confidentiality and information sharing in the education context

As guidance counsellors, students come to us to ask for information regarding life decisions. University Dialogues and College Dialogues help us to educate our students about those choices. But what about a Gap Year? When a student asks you about a Gap Year, what will you tell them? 

Discover Year, The Canadian Gap Association and International Experience Canada have joined forces to offer a series of free information sessions on developing and executing a purposeful Gap Year for positive career and education transitions - coming to Ottawa and the GTA in Apri

Each city will host 2 events - one for career professionals and one for families. 

Click here to learn more and to register.

We hope to see you there!

US College Expo Counsellor Day

Anna Dechert oversees international admissions for Bennington College in Vermont. Anna received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in Near East Languages & Civilizations. Anna will guide counsellors through The Common App and more!

Elan is a Harvard-trained author, speaker, and founder of Divon Academy: an organization that prepares students for success in life and in their careers, by developing skills that predict long term success and wellbeing.

Haley is a three-time Olympic Hockey Gold Medalist and five time World Champion. She graduated from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2012 with a Bachelor of Science in health education.

To register, click here

When you attend the upcoming workshop, you will receive a 10% discount.
Use the promo code MHKIDS-10 This will give individual members 10% off the program registration.

You can also receive a greater discount by registering in groups of four or more if you are attending as an organization (25% off per registration when registering under one invoice).

The supply of skilled labour has fundamental impacts on the provision of housing. The inadequate number of new entrants into the skilled construction trades is a major problem. For context, BuildForce
Canada has been monitoring the Canadian construction sector since 2001, providing labour market information (LMI) on the broader construction and residential construction sector. Its most recent report predicted between 2019 and 2028, there will be 91,100 skilled construction workers retiring in Ontario alone, with 50,800 of those coming in the residential sector.

Read the complete article here.

 

There are crucial challenges in recruiting young people to skilled construction trades and related jobs. Many of these occupations are facing existing and projected increasing shortages of new entrants. The amount of these shortages will vary among the seven sectors comprising the construction industry depending on the health of the economy, demographic shifts including immigration, and government policy. Yet the inadequate supply of new entrants to skilled construction work is a structural trend that is projected to continue well into the next decade. Skilled trades and other labour shortages in Ontario’s construction industry are in part a function of the amount and pace of retirements in this sector. However, they also result from too few young people entering these skilled jobs, despite compensation that ranges from above average to very attractive, and high satisfaction in these occupations.

Read the complete article here

RESCON is Ontario''''s leading association of residential builders committed to providing leadership and fostering innovation in the industry.

Conference participants will be given hands-on tools from educational professionals, lawyers, LGBTQ2S advocates, and academics to understand and recognize the issues faced by LGBTQ2S communities.  The training will include a focus on supporting LGBTQ2S youth and educators; working with trans & gender-variant youth; and sharing best practices. Please note there will also be workshops from urban, rural & remote perspectives; and from Public & Catholic perspectives.

Programming will include intersectional issues (eg. queer seniors and youth/queers and faith), teachers legal rights (including information around digital or other resources for teaching sex ed) and youth activism. 

The 5th Annual Ontario Educators'' Conference is taking place on April 25th, 2019, followed by the 2SLGBTQIA  Educators'' Conversation on April 26th 2019 at OISE, 252 Bloor St W, Toronto.

For more information and to register click here. 

Also, we are so delighted to announce our new project, a dedicated space to LGBTQI2 Communities in Canada. Please learn more and consider being a monthly donor here: http://ccgsd-ccdgs.org/ newspace
 
The eQuality Project (at uOttawa) is looking for LGBTQI2 teen in Ottawa for a research study. Please click the link for further details: http://ccgsd-ccdgs.org/14282/