Calendar Canada.Nov. 28-29: Workshop: Treating trauma based anxiety; SafeGuards Training for Children and Adult Services; Kingston ON; 905-889-5030 Nov. 28-30: Mental Health Research Showcase: Banff, AB; showcase@buksa.com Nov. 28-Dec. 2: Therapeutic Crisis Intervention crisis intervention Psychiatry The counseling of a person suffering from a stressful life event–eg, AIDS, cancer, death, divorce, by providing mental and moral support. See Hotline. ; Trainer Certificate; SafeGuards Training for Children and Adult Services; Calgary; 905-889-5030 Nov. 29-30: Community building; Waterloo; http://grebel.uwaterloo.ca/certificate www.cagacg.ca/english.conferences/conferences.htm Nov. 29-Dec. 2: Workshops on Solution-Focused Counselling, 1&2; Hamilton; Nancy McConkey; www.solutiontalk.ab.ca. Dec. 5: Workshop: Silent but deadly: children/youth who witness violence; SafeGuards Training for Children and Adult Services; Cobourg ON; 905-889-5030 Dec. 5-9: Workshop: Therapeutic crisis intervention- Trainer Certificate; SafeGuards Training for Children and Adult Services;Toronto; 905-889-5030 Dec. 6-10: Learn Crucial Verbal Intervention Skills and Prevent Crisis Situations. Crisis Prevention Institute in Calgary. Crisis Prevention Institute in Quebec City. For more information, please call CPI at 1-800-588-8976, or visit www.crisisprevention.com Dec. 8-9: Workshop: Youth, drugs and mental health; Safeguards Training for Children and Adult Services; Belleville ON; 905-889-5030 Dec. 13-17: Learn Crucial Verbal Intervention Skills and Prevent Crisis Situations. Crisis Prevention Institute in Winnipeg. Crisis Prevention Institute in Quebec City. For more information, please call CPI at 1-800-588-8976, or visit www.crisisprevention.com Dec. 19-23: Learn Crucial Verbal Intervention Skills and Prevent Crisis Situations. Crisis Prevention Institute in Vancouver. Delta Bessborough and Sheraton Cavalier. Saskatoon Saskatoon (săskət  n`), city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. , Saskatchewan; Hosted by The Saskatoon Foundation City. For more information, please call CPI at 1-800-588-8976, or visit www.crisisprevention.com 2006 Jan. 26-27: Healing Practice of Mindfulness; Saskatoon; Saskatchewan Association of Social Workers & University of Regina History Origins In direct response to the award of the University of Saskatchewan to Saskatoon rather than Regina, the Methodist Church of Canada established Regina College in 1911 on College Avenue in Regina, Saskatchewan, starting with an enrollment of 27 students; ; www.sasw.ca/news_events.html Feb. 2-3: Early Years Conference: UBC UBC Uniform Building Code UBC University of British Columbia UBC Union of the Baltic Cities UBC United Brotherhood of Carpenters UBC Universal Battery Charger UBC Union of Baltic Cities UBC Universal Bibliographic Control UBC Used Beverage Cans Interprofessional Continuing Education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). ; Vancouver; [E] ipinfo@interchange.ubc.ca Feb. 3-4: Theory and practice of mindfulness meditation; Toronto; University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, Continuing Education; www.socialwork.utoronto.ca Feb. 21-22: Ontario's future health and well-being, Ontario Prevention Clearing House; Toronto; www.opc.on.ca Feb. 23-24: Youth & Crime Conference: Niagara Falls, ON; Committee of Youth Officers for the Province of Ontario; www.coyo.on.ca Feb. 24.25: Building a fund-raising program; Toronto; University of Toronto Continuing Education; www.socialwork.utoronto.ca Mar. 3-4: Fundamentals of mindfulness groups; Toronto; University of Toronto Continuing Education; www.socialwork.utoronto.ca Mar. 15-18: National Conference on Community Economic Development and the Social Economy; www.ccednet-rcdec.ca/ Mar. 16-17: Alberta FASD FASD Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder FASD Fleetwood Area School District (Pennsylvania) FASD Florida Association for Staff Development FASD Finnish Association of Sports for the Disabled FASD Finnish Association of Securities Dealers Conference: Calgary; mailtfasd@gov.ab.ca Mar. 17-18: Same sex parenting; Toronto; University of Toronto Continuing Education; www.socialwork.utoronto.ca Mar. 18: Parenting Capacity Assessment, Steinhauer guidelines; Toronto; University of Toronto Continuing Education; www.socialwork.utoronto.ca Mar. 18: Negative attitudes and difficult people; Toronto; University of Toronto Continuing Education; www.socialwork.utoronto.ca Mar. 30-Apr. 1: International Cancer Rehabilitation Conference; Survivorship survivorship n. the right to receive full title or ownership due to having survived another person. Survivorship is particularly applied to persons owning real property or other assets, such as bank accounts or stocks, in "joint tenancy. ; Vancouver; www.interprofessional.ubc.ca Mar. 30-Apr. 1: International Cancer Rehabilitation Conference: Vancouver; Social Workers in Health Society of BC; www.socialworkersinhealthbc.org Mar. 30-Apr. 3: Convention: Canadian Counselling Association & American Counseling Association The American Counseling Association (ACA) is a non-profit, professional organization that is dedicated to the counseling profession. ACA is the world's second largest association exclusively representing professional counselors. ; Montreal; www.ccacc.ca Apr. 6-8: Conference: Canadian Association for Young Children; Winnipeg; www.cayc.ca Apr. 7-8: Mindfulness-based clinical groups; Toronto; University of Toronto Continuing Education; www.socialwork.utoronto.ca Apr. 8: Parenting Capacity Assessment Report; Toronto; University of Toronto Continuing Education; www.socialwork.utoronto.ca Apr. 28-29: Play therapy; Toronto; University of Toronto Continuing Education; www.socialwork.utoronto.ca Apr. 30-May 4: International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm; Vancouver. May 1-7: Canadian Association of Music Therapy Conference. Windsor, Ontario. www.musictherapy.ca May 2-6: International Conference for Social inclusion Summit: Montreal; www.aamr.org May 3-5: Conducting Forensic Investigations on Young Abused; Calgary; Canadian Society for the Investigation of Child Abuse; [E]csica@shaw.ca May 4-6: Conference on Late Adolescents and Adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) describes a continuum of permanent birth defects caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy, which includes, but is not limited to Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). ; Vancouver, BC; [E] ipconf@interchange.ubc.ca May 9-12: Conference: Alberta Community Crime Prevention Association; Lethbridge; www.harmreduction2006.ca May 11-13: Conference, Community Funds of Canada, Saskatoon, rjones@community-fdn.ca May 11-13: Conference on Shared Mental Health Care; Calgary; nkates@mcmaster.ca May 12-16: Conference, Canadian Health Libraries Association The Canadian Health Libraries Association or Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada was founded in 1976. It represents the views of Canadian health sciences librarians to governments, the health community and fellow librarians. ; Vancouver; ww.chla-absc.ca/2006 May 25-26: Conference on Young Carers, St. Catharines, Canadian Caregiver Coalition www.ccc-ccan.ca May 25-27: Conference: Canadian Association for Spirituality and Social Work and American Association for Spirituality and Social Work; Waterloo; ON, jcoates@stu.ca June 1-3: Maternal Child Youth Conference; UBC Interprofessional Continuing Education; Vancouver. June 5-7: Joint Conference: Children's Mental Health Ontario and the Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies; Toronto; janice@mmsonline.ca June 9-10: Treating Social Phobia--CBT; Toronto; University of Toronto Continuing Education; www.socialwork.utoronto.ca June 12-13: Annual Sexuality Conference, Guelph, ON, University of Guelph The University of Guelph is a medium-sized university located in Guelph, Ontario, established in 1964. While the U of G offers degrees in many different disciplines, the university is best known for its focus on life sciences, based in part on a long-standing history of www.open.uoguelph.ca/sexconf June 17-20: National Social Work Conference: Halifax; Canadian Association of Social Workers and Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers; www.nsasw.org June 19-23: World Urban Forum, Vancouver, Canada Housing & Mortgage Corportation and UN-Habitat [E] chic@cmhc-schl.gc.ca July 4-8: Conference: Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada The Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada (AVLIC) is a professional association which represents interpreters in Canada whose working languages are English and American Sign Language (ASL). , Toronto, [E] am berbrennan@rogers.com Aug. 13-18: International AIDS Conference Education, networking and the promotion of best practice are essential to enhancing the response to HIV/AIDS. IAS conferences provide opportunities to share experience, and increase the knowledge and expertise of professionals working in HIV/AIDS. , Toronto, www.aids2006.org/pdf/ Aug. 20-23: Congress international francophone de geriatrie et gerontologie; La Societe quebecoise de geriatrie; Quebec City, Quebec; Email: sqgeriatrie@interlinx.qc.ca Sept. 29-30: International Elder Care Conference; Toronto; Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, Centre for Professional Nursing Excellence; [E] vmooney@RNAO RNAO Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (Canada) .org Oct. 19-22: Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Association of Gerontology gerontology: see geriatrics. ; Quebec City, Quebec; www.cagacg.ca/english/420_e.php Nov. 12-15: Global Microcredit microcredit, the extension to poor individuals of small loans to be used for income-generating activities that will improve the borrowers' living standards. The loans, which may be as little as $20 for very poor borrowers in some developing countries, typically are Summit; Halifax; www.globalmicrocreditsummit2006.org |
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