Sunny Hansen: ILP

Finally...the correct link to Sunny Hansen's website with info about Integrative Life Planning (ILP) as well as her international research related to diversity and gender equality. http://www.sunnyhansenbornfree.com/

CanadaInfoNet

The Canadian Information and Networking Services, an online forum for immigrants offering mentoring services and helpful resources for skilled business and trade professionals, is currently in the process of enhancing their website. The new site will host an improved mentoring tool for their e-mentoring program connecting immigrants to mentees with similar interests, backgrounds, and carer goals.

For more information or to become a mentor see http://www.canadainfonet.org/

Labour Force Figures

Stephen Hill, Employment Counsellor, noted in a recent email blast that "when economists or government spokespeople or business analysts say that we have recovered almost all the jobs we lost since the start of the recession they are right; we are within 4,300 jobs of where we were in July 2008." To determine this, he compared the labour force figures from July 2008 (available at http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/080808/t080808a-eng.htm) to those from September 2010 (available at http://www.statcan.gc.ca/subjects-sujets/labour-travail/lfs-epa/t101008a4-eng.htm).

Stephen highlights the importance of these figures, all available through the official StatsCan tables, to career practitioners to inform not only the status of the economy, but also to know the number of persons who may be in need.

Combating Myths About Distance Education

In his article Combating Myths About Distance Education, Todd Gilman explores the challenges that online and distance education programs, and instructors, face to show the merit of their programs. He contends that many "problems" noted in online programs can also exist within face-to-face or mixed mode delivery. In "any classroom, whether it's the face-to-face, online-only, or hybrid variety, is only as good as the people in it. If both teachers and students are prepared, responsive, and engaged, things run remarkably well."

For the full article see: http://chronicle.com/article/Combating-Myths-About-Distance/64299/

Culture-Infused Counselling

As our Understanding Diverse Clients course starts today, we'd like to share resource we've found quite helpful: Culture-Infused Counselling: Celebrating the Canadian Mosaic by Nancy Arthur and Sandra Collins (2005).

This book "attempt[s] to provide students and practitioners alike with a comprehensive resource that adds a Canadian perspective to a predominantly American body of literature." (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7482/is_200701/ai_n32220836/)