BC opens emergency social services training for volunteer leaders.NEW WESTMINSTER New Westminster, city (1991 pop. 43,585), SW British Columbia, Canada, on the Fraser River, part of metropolitan Vancouver. Founded in 1859 as Queensborough, it was the capital of British Columbia until Victoria was made capital after the union of British Columbia and Vancouver Island in 1866., BC -- Volunteer leaders from around British Columbia are now training at Canada's first Emergency Social Services Academy. They will be ready to aide those forced from their homes by disaster. The ESSA ESSA - East of Scotland Squash Association ESSA - Eastern Shan State Army ESSA - Electronic Systems Security Analyst (USAF) ESSA - Electronic Systems Security Assessment ESSA - Emergency Social Services Association ESSA - Employment Service Systems Administrator (UK) ESSA - English Schools Swimming Association ESSA - Environmental Science Services Administration ESSA - European Scientists Sequencing Arabidopsis ESSA - Stockholm Arlanda Airport, Sweden (ICOA code) is funded by the Ministry of Human Resources. While training at the Justice Institute of B.C., volunteer leaders learn how to create effective volunteer teams in their community and manage reception centres that may serve the needs of hundreds of disaster evacuees, such as those that occurred in the vast forest tires that swept across the province in 2003. Emergency Social Services, a program funded by the Ministry of Human Resources, delivers essential services such as food, lodging, clothing, registration and emotional support during emergencies such as tires, floods or earthquakes. Approximately 5,000 ESS volunteers are in place in 150 communities through out the province. During Firestorm 2003, about 3,000 Emergency Social Services volunteers assisted over 37,000 evacuees. 604-528-5871 |
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