OHSC Annual Forum

Each year the Ontario Healthy Schools Coalition hosts a networking forum. This year we are pleased to be able to offer our colleagues a two-day forum.

This year's theme: Resiliency and the School Community

 

Gala Featured Presentation: We are pleased to have Joseph Boyden, award-winning Canadian author of Three Day Road and Through Black Spruce, present at our 10th Anniversary evening Gala Celebration.

Additional Keynotes: The following distinguished speakers will be presenting over the two-day forum: Waneek Horn-Miller, former Olympian water polo player and long-time Aboriginal rights advocate; Dr. Wayne Hammond, PhD, President and Executive Director, Resiliency Initiatives, Calgary, Alberta; Dr. Gail McVey, Psychologist and Health Systems Research Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children; Sergeant (Ret’d) Steve Daniel, award-winning Paralympic athlete and advocate for the Paralympic movement; and, closing the forum we are please to have Sharla Peltier, Speech Language Pathologist, Rainbow District School Board.

Themes

Creating resilient youth and school communities:

  1. Building Life Skills: Self-concept, self-control, empowerment, social sensitivity and empathy, cultural sensitivity
  2. Building Positive School Culture
  3. Building a Commitment to Learning at School
  4. Facilitating Positive Peer Relationships

We are very excited to be working with the Sudbury & District Health Unit to celebrate our 10th Anniversary at our upcoming forum!

The forum will feature exciting speakers, interactive workshops and opportunities to network and socialize with people like you who feel energized by working in or with schools. Anyone who works to create resilient youth and school communities is invited to submit a proposal for a workshop or poster presentation for the 10th annual Ontario Healthy Schools Coalition Forum.

Resiliency in schools has been defined as the capacity to spring back, rebound, successfully adapt in the face of adversity and develop social, academic and vocational competence despite exposure to severe stress or simply to the stress that is inherent in today’s world (adapted by Henderson from Rirkin & Hoopman, 1991).

Cost:

  • Delegates: $200 for two days; $100 for one day
  • Presenters: $150 for two days; $50 for one day

Payments must be received by April 27, 2010

Payment Options:
If paying by credit card (Visa or MasterCard), please email the completed OHSC Forum 2011 registration form, including credit card information, to: cecchettol@sdhu.com

If paying by cheque, make out the cheque to "Sudbury & District Health Unit OHSC Forum 2011", print and complete the OHSC Forum 2011 registration form, and mail with your payment to:

Liane Cecchetto
Health Promotion Division
Sudbury & District Health Unit
1300 Paris Street
Sudbury, ON P3E 3A3

For more information, contact Janet Spergel, Chair 2011 OHSC Forum, at 705-522-922 ext 344.

 

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