As a reminder, all OSCA/ACOSO Subscriptions will expire on September 30, 2021. Fees have been lowered for the 2021-2022 school year, compared to the pre-COVID fees:

Subscription Categories

Statutory:  $50 ($75 past years)

Associate:  $40

Retired: $25

Pre-service student: $25

AQ student: $25

Please read the descriptions for each category when you are renewing, so that you have selected the correct category.

As an incentive, any person who renews by September 30th, will be able to attend the fall virtual conference OSCA-ACOSO Forward21: Moving From Chaos to Opportunity, at NO charge. This is a COVID special for this year only! Renew now, so that in the fall you will continue to receive the OSCA News to keep up-to-date on guidance news and the professional magazine, OSCA Today, three times per year. Encourage your guidance colleagues to join as well by visiting  www.osca.ca.
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Pour rappel, tous les abonnements OSCA/ACOSO expireront le 30 septembre 2021. Les frais ont été réduits pour l'année scolaire 2021-2022, par rapport aux frais d'avant covid :

Catégories d'abonnement

Statutaire : 50 $ (75 $ les années précédentes)

Associé : 40 $

Retraité : 25 $

Étudiant en formation initiale : 25 $

Étudiant AQ : 25 $

Veuillez lire les descriptions de chaque catégorie lorsque vous renouvelez, afin d'avoir sélectionné la bonne catégorie.

À titre incitatif, toute personne qui renouvellera avant le 30 septembre pourra assister à la conférence virtuelle d'automne OSCA-ACOSO Forward21: Moving From Chaos to Opportunity, SANS frais. Ceci est un spécial covid pour cette année seulement! Renouvelez maintenant, de sorte qu'à l'automne, vous continuerez à recevoir les nouvelles de l'OSCA pour vous tenir au courant de l'actualité de l'orientation et du magazine professionnel, OSCA Today, trois fois par an. Encouragez vos collègues d'orientation à adhérer également en visitant www.osca.ca.

 

The deadline for nominations was May 28. Over 85 nominations were received. Thank you all for your meaningful and moving contributions. 

One thing is clear - our students are strong and resilient, hard-working and determined. Some of the nominations were difficult to read as stories of hardship and perseverance were shared with us. If we could, we would have selected them all. Here are our winners:

 

 

Apprenticeship pathway
Andrew Huber

Workplace pathway
Yavin Jallim
Abdurrehman Mahmood

College pathway
Shechem (Maliyah) Bourne
Katlynn Allen
Kassandra Marshall

University pathway
Sarah Scriver
Thea Elliott
Emmanuel Adegboyega

Conference Update! | Mise à Jour de la conférence!

REGISTRATION | INSCRIPTION

Free for OSCA Members | Gratuite pour les membres ACOSO 

For this year only, OSCA/ACOSO is offering the 2021 Fall Conference at NO COST to OSCA/ACOSO members.

Visit www.osca.ca TODAY to either renew membership or join as a new member.

Conference registration links and details to come.  

STAY CONNECTED WITH THE CONFERENCE AND SO MUCH MORE
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RESTEZ CONNECTÉS AVEC LA CONFÉRENCE ET BIEN PLUS ENCORE 

• www.osca.ca

• OSCAToday

• OSCANews

• Follow us @OSCA_ACOSO #osca21

We are committed to continuing to provide members with the highest quality professional development. With that, the OSCA Board has decided to do things differently for this upcoming conference, recognizing that change has been the theme of this year! 

We are excited to offer the 2021 fall conference at no cost to OSCA members.  Conference registration will still be required but, for this year only, OSCA members will be able to attend both days of the conference for free; consider this a kind of "covid coupon”!  Now more than ever, we want to be able to increase access and connections and enhance sharing and learning opportunities across the province.

We are pleased to invite you to a free, virtual Guidance Dialogues event on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm.

Event Schedule

9 am-11 am: Main Presentation
We will provide a general update on recruitment activities and an update from the Ontario Universities’ Application Centre.

Following these updates, representatives from each Ontario university will provide live admission updates and up-to-date information about their university. University updates will be given one at a time and each update will be approximately 4 minutes.

Counsellors will have the opportunity to submit recruitment and admission-related questions before the event. We will answer the most common questions following the university updates. More details will follow in October.

11:00 am-12:30 pm: Chat with Representatives
You will have the opportunity to engage directly with representatives from Ontario’s universities and the Ontario Universities’ Application Centre in their session rooms. They will be able to answer any questions you may have.

The majority of the event will be presented in English only. Some Ontario universities are bilingual, so attendees may have an opportunity to speak with university representatives in French.

Registration is required and will be available on the Guidance website in October. Please be advised that this event is for guidance counsellors only. 

Please send all event inquiries to: onunirecruitment@gmail.com.

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Nous sommes heureux de vous inviter à une séance virtuelle gratuite des Dialogues pour conseillères et conseillers, le mercredi 20 octobre 2021, de 9 h à 12 h 30.

Horaire de l’événement

De 9 h à 11 h : Présentation principale
Nous présenterons une mise à jour générale des activités de recrutement, ainsi qu’une mise à jour du Centre de demande d’admission aux universités de l’Ontario.

À la suite de ces mises à jour, des représentantes et représentants de chaque université de l’Ontario fourniront des mises à jour en temps réel sur les admissions, ainsi que les tout derniers renseignements au sujet de leur université. Ces mises à jour seront données à tour de rôle, chacune devant durer environ 4 minutes.

Les conseillères et conseillers auront l’occasion de soumettre, avant la tenue de l’événement, des questions relatives au recrutement et à l’admission. Nous répondrons aux questions les plus courantes à la suite de la mise à jour des universités. De plus amples détails seront fournis en octobre.

De 11 h 00 – 12 h 30 : Clavardage avec les représentantes et représentants
Vous aurez l’occasion d’échanger directement avec les représentantes et représentants des universités de l’Ontario et du Centre de demande d’admission aux universités de l’Ontario dans leurs salles de séance. Ces derniers pourront alors répondre à vos questions.

L’événement se tiendra principalement en anglais seulement. Puisque certaines universités sont bilingues, les participants auront l’occasion de s’entretenir en français avec certaines représentantes et certains représentants universitaires.

L’inscription est exigée et sera accessible dans le site Web d’orientation à compter d’octobre. À noter que cet événement s’adresse uniquement aux conseillères et conseillers en orientation.

Prière d’envoyer vos questions à l’adresse onunirecruitment@gmail.com.

In light of the cancellation of the in-person 2021 Ontario Universities’ Fair and Regional Fairs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have combined these fairs to form the 2021 Ontario Universities’ Fairs (OUFs) virtual events.

Ontario's universities are excited to host the Ontario Universities’ Fairs virtual events in fall 2021. The Ontario Universities’ Fairs will consist of 2 virtual events:

Saturday, September 25, 12-2 pm (ET)
Tuesday, October 26, 5-7 pm (ET)

All Ontario universities will participate in these events. The events are free and anyone may attend - no registration required. 

Each event will be divided up into four 30-minute sessions, where students can learn about the universities of their choice and ask questions.

For more information, visit the event website.

In addition to these 2 events, Ontario universities continue to offer their own virtual events and tours, webinars, chats and more. To see upcoming university virtual offerings, visit the Tours and Events section on the Ontario Universities’ Info website.
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À la lumière de l’annulation de la Foire des universités de l’Ontario et des foires régionales en personne de 2021 en raison de la pandémie de COVID-19, nous avons combiné ces événements afin de créer les événements virtuels des Foires des universités de l’Ontario de 2021 (FUO).

Les universités de l’Ontario sont très heureuses de présenter les événements virtuels des Foires des universités de l’Ontario à l’automne 2021. Les Foires des universités de l’Ontario se composent de 2 événements virtuels :

Samedi 25 septembre, de midi à 14 h (HE)
Mardi 26 octobre, de 17 h à 19 h (HE)

Toutes les universités de l’Ontario prendront part à ces événements. Ces événements sont gratuits et tout le monde peut s’y joindre – aucune inscription n’est exigée.

Chaque événement se divisera en 4 séances de 30 minutes chacune, alors que les élèves pourront en apprendre sur les universités de leur choix et poser des questions.

Pour plus d’information, veuillez visiter le site Web des événements.

Outre ces 2 événements, les universités de l’Ontario continuent d’offrir des visites et événements virtuels, des webinaires, des séances de clavardage et plus encore. Pour voir les activités virtuelles à venir des universités, veuillez consulter la section « Tournées et événements » du site Web Info des universités de l’Ontario.

We know that racialized youth face unique barriers in developing experience and finding jobs in nature-related activities. The lack of racialized people working in conservation and nature organizations is a barrier to youth seeing themselves in those roles. And we know that building a strong nature community that values, engages and ultimately mobilizes millions of nature lovers across the country means it is crucial that we engage all perspectives and all communities.

At Nature Canada, we are very excited to be able to offer this wage subsidy to employ BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) youth in nature organizations!

We are currently receiving applications for the wage subsidy. After applications are submitted, we hope to then be able to get back to people within two weeks.

Here are a few more details:
- Nature Canada will: providing a 50% wage subsidy to increase your capacity to hire youth aged 15-30, at $17.50/hour for up to 35 hours/week, for between 8 and 16 weeks creating learning and community-building opportunities raising the profile of our program partners and lifting up the voices of BIPOC youth participants through our communications avenues.
- If you are interested in being a hosting organization, you will commit to: providing an opportunity for youth to be exposed to a variety of meaningful work in nature conservation or appreciation having capacity to provide mentorship and support to youth showing interest or experience with equity, and anti-racism initiatives being willing to support youth in participating in program-wide initiatives having financial resources to pay the remaining wage cost.

This is the third lesson in a series of six lessons to support the development of stress management
and healthy coping skills.

This virtual field trip focuses on visualization activities and how this strategy can help us manage stress.
It is important to recognize how our body feels, while noticing and acknowledging our feelings. Guided
imagery provides an opportunity to shift our focus away from worries and distractions. It can help us relax when we visualize an image that promotes feelings of calm.

SMART is a 9-session, 20-hour, evidence-based program designed to address the needs of all educators including teachers, educational assistants, child and youth workers, staff, administrators, social workers, psychologists and other helping professionals who work with students.

This evidence-based course trains participants to better manage work-related and personal stress in order to cultivate emotional balance.

OSCA/ACOSO is going virtual for 2021 and we are looking forward to connecting, learning, and sharing with you in new ways this year! With valued feedback from our members, we are excited to host a virtual conference for 2021. Join us as we move forward: FORWARD21: Moving from Chaos to Opportunity. 

Stay connected with us for conference registration and more details.

http://www.osca.ca/

Bonjour! Parlez-vous français? Avez-vous un baccalauréat, une maîtrise, ou un doctorat en français et vous aimez traduire de l'anglais au français?

L'ACOSO a besoin de vous!
 
L'association des conseillères et des conseillers d'orientation scolaire de l'Ontario est à la recherche de traductrices ou traducteur francophone pour traduire notre bulletin d'information, notre revue trimestrielle, notre site web et tous nos autres projets. Nous offrons 10 - 15 cents du mot. Si vous êtes intéressé, veuillez envoyer votre CV par courriel à la présidente de l''ACOSO Cathy Lihou à l'adresse suivante : cathylihou@gmail.com.

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Speak French? Have a B.A., Masters or Ph.D. in French? Enjoy translating
English into French? OSCA Needs You!

The Ontario School Counsellors' Association is looking for individuals who would like to do some French translation. We are offering 10 to 15 cents per word. We will need translation for our newsletter, quarterly magazine, website and other projects as the come up. Interested candidates should send their resume to OSCA President, Cathy Lihou at cathylihou@gmail.com

Next session: July 9th to July 31st

All three parts will be offered. Candidates may enrol in one part.

Cost: $650 (includes a copy of ethical guidelines and a one year OSCA Subscription)

Taught by a current school Guidance Counsellor, through an interactive, online classroom environment.

Candidates must hold a valid OCT and be in good standing to register.