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B.C. schools promote health |
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The Province has launched an ambitious plan to make B.C. schools centres of health promotion - something parents will appreciate, and students will enjoy. It’s part a part of Premier Gordon Campbell’s commitment to make B.C. students the healthiest and most physically active in Canada by 2010. [read more] |
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Victoria high school student Lauryn Morley (left), Deputy Premier and Health Services Minister Shirley Bond, Education Minister Tom Christensen (centre) and Richard Stewart, MLA for Coquitlam-Maillardville, take a refreshing drink of water at the health-promoting schools forum in downtown Vancouver in January. |
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WorkAble Solutions for people with disabilities |
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More jobs are being created in B.C., and the sign of a booming society is a working society. B.C. businesses will be needing more than a million new employees in the next 10 years, and there are about 350,000 working-age people with disabilities in B.C. communities - many of whom are eager to join B.C.’s workforce.
On Dec. 3, 2004, the annual United Nations’ International Day of Disabled Persons, Human Resources Minister Susan Brice and the Council on Employment for Persons with Disabilities launched the WorkAble Solutions program. The goal is to connect people with disabilities to potential employers, and to introduce employers to the largely overlooked resource of employees with disabilities. [read more] |
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Human Resources Minister Susan Brice listens as Daniel Wesley, a Canadian Paralympian, speaks at the WorkAble Solutions launch. |
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More opportunities for tomorrow’s health professionals |
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If you’re thinking of a career as a health professional, you have more education options in British Columbia than ever before as the government opens up new programs and student spaces to produce more graduates and fill health-care needs throughout the province. Here are the most recent developments: [read more] |
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Instructor Janice Ross, a cardio technician from Prince George Regional Hospital, leads a seminar for nursing students at the University of Northern B.C. about proper use of an ECG. Jeff Miguez is the patient; students (from left) are Monique Cox, Jessica Korum and Crystal Osterhout.
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Sharing our success stories |
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At the Ministry of Children and Family Development, a network of dedicated British Columbians work every day to make B.C. the best place on earth for our children.
Often we don’t have time to acknowledge our colleagues’ impact on their communities; recognition must come from the communities themselves. One example is Rob Smith, Squamish’s child and youth mental health co-ordinator, who recently received the Order of Squamish in the area of visionary leadership. [read more] |
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