February 1991

vol3/#5

Extension Programs
offers new certificate
Jlrogrc1m

Extension
Programs
awarded $85,000
for program
evaluation
by Shelley Rivkin

Extension Programs has been
awarded an $85,000 contract from
Health and Welfare Canada to
carry out a program evaluation of
Let's Talk About Touching, the
most widely used preschool and
kiildergarten age child sexual
abuse prevention program in B.C.
This is the first federally-funded
evaluation of any preschool
prevention program, and is the
first step in introducing the proSandra Rice (back) with workshop partici~nt• from
gram across Canada.
Simon Fraser Society for Community Uvlng.
The Let's Talk About Touching
sexual abuse prevention program
by Sandra Rice
evolved from a series of public
_education workshops delivered by
Management Development for
ment options can be made availExtension Programs to parents
able to these client groups if their
Residential Settings is the latest
and preschool children in 1985-86.
certificate program·to be offered
care is provided in small, homeThe Ministry of Attorney General
through Extension Programs. It
like environments.
recognized the importance of
targets front line supervisors and
The move toward institutional
having a structured curriculum
managers who work in a variety
closure began with Tranquille in
directed toward young children on
ofresidential settings.
1985, and in 1988-89 the Ministry
how to reduce the risk of sexual asSince 1984, the provincial ·
of Social Services and Housing
sault, and funded the development
government has increasingly
and the Ministry of Health underand design of a nine-module
looked to the not-for-profit and
took a major deinstitutionalizascripted program which was then
private sector to provide residention initiative with the closure of
distributed to every preschool and
tial care services for youth at risk
a number of wards at Woodlands,
daycare centre in British Columand psychiatrically disabled or
Riverview, Glendale and Queen
bia. In 1987, Extension Programs
developmentally delayed adolesAlexandra Hospital. As a result
received funding to develop and
cents and adults. This move has
of the closures, a significant numdeliver two-day training
been primarily motivated by the
ber of contracts were granted to
workshops to early childhood
belief that better care and adjustcontinued on page 7
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Fire Academy • Police Academy • Corrections Academy • Finance and Administration Division • Courts Academy
Educational Services Division • Paramedic Academy • Provincial Emergency Program Academy

JI trains dispatchers
The people who answer emergency telephone calls need special
training to help them handle
their vital, but stressful, jobs.
Two of the JI's academies now
provide this training, and a third
has designed a plan that can be
used for future training.

''What is your emergency:

police~ fire or ambulance?"

These words are often the
first ones people hear when they
call for emergency services.
Together with dispatchers, complaint takers and other
specialists, the telecommunications operators on the other end
of the 911 telephone system form
a vital, often forgotten, component of public safety agencies.
Throughout British Columbia,
these dedicated men and women
act as the link between the public
and emergency service providers,
often performing lifesaving duties
themselves.
The Police Academy offers initial and refresher training for
telecommunications operators
working with the police forces .of
B.C. and many of the operators
working in RCMP detachments
throughout the province. The
Academy has also made personnel selection equipment available
and hosted province-wide seminars for dispatchers. In 1989, a
two-day program with instructors
from Minneapolis, Minnesota attracted 150 dispatchers from all
overB.C.

hectic, demanding and stressful
that many students quit before
completing. This, and the desire
to graduate from the same accredited school as their streetparamedic colleagues, brought
them to the Academy.
Six Vancouver dispatcher
Yecruits started their four-week
classroom session on January 14
at the Justice Institute. During
the four weeks, they will learn
how to operate the equipment,
assess and dispatch routine and
emergency calls, give telephone
first aid, and mobilize resources
during a disaster. After the
Academy session they will
spend two months on the dispatch
console at B.C. Ambulance
Vancouver Regional Dispatch
Centre.

Alarm Room Operators need
special ta-aining
The alarm room is a fire
department's life-line to other
emergency services and additional fire department resources, so
it's not surprising that fire department personnel rely on alarm
room operators to assess all
incoming calls quickly and accurately.
Two years ago, the Fire
Academy identified the need for
special training for alarm room
operators. The unique nature of

the job in each community has,
however, provided a challenge to
the design of that training.
Alarm room operators are
presently trained on the job, but
both the job and the training
vary. In larger fire departments,
dispatch positions tend to be
staffed on a full time basis and
alarm room operation is seen as a
career path. In smaller fire
departments there are two options: fire fighters may rotate
through the position, or other
emergency services receive
calls on behalf of the fire department.
The situation is further complicated by the fact that communities have varying abilities to
financially support the purchase
of expensive hardware.
To assess the training needs of
alarm room operators, the Fire
Academy has attempted to isolate
their duties, responsibilities and
skills and plot them in a flow
chart that profiles all job skills.
The chart has helped in the
development of a proposal for a
standard approach to alarm room
operation and will serve as guide
for lesson development for any future training.
Contributors to this article:
Steve Hess (Police), Tony Williams (Paramedic), Jim Bond
(Fire). 0

New paramedic dispatch
course launched

Fire Academy to train
mine rescue workers

B.C. Ambulance Service dispatchers are the last section of
the service to be brought under
the training wing of the
Paramedic Academy. Until
January 1991, they learned their
important skills on the job by
modelling the behaviour of
seasoned dispatchers. But the
dispatch centre can be so

The Fire Academy has finalized
an agreement to provide a major
training program for Highland
Valley Mines in Logan Lake,
British Columbia. The training
will be provided for four shifts of
specially-trained mine rescue
workers - regular employees who

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have special emergency responsibilities - and will cover both
fire and dangerous goods emergencies.
Fire Academy and contract instructors will conduct the training
in Logan Lake, in March and
April. D
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•••SPOTLIGHT•••
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On staff...
Changes
The newest addition to the Corrections Academy staff is instructor Colleen Vaughan. Colleen
will instruct in institutional
recruit courses and will also have
responsibility for a number of
specific subject areas for advanced training. Colleen replaces
Debbie Hawboldt who is now
Director of the Sentence Management Unit at the Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women.
If there is a down side to the
secondment model, it is the regret
that people we have come to
know so well, and who have made
such significant contributions to
the Justice Institute, must leave
at the end of their term. This will
be the case this spring in Police
Academy when Keith Hutchinson and Ed llli return to the
Vancouver and Saanich police
departments, respectively.
Before they leave, Ed and
Keith will provide a period of understudy for their successors.
Sgt. Pat Harrison will replace
Keith as Administrator of Research, Development and Assessment. CtJt. Selia Miller of the
Vancouver Police Department
will replace Ed as an instructor
in investigation and patrol techniques.
Marg Huber will leave her
position as Program Planner and
Trainer with the Conflict Resolution Certificate Program in
March. Marg has become one of
Canada's leading consultants and
trainers in the field of native and
cross-cultural conflict resolution
and has decided to expand her
work in this area. She has been
invited to address national and international conferences on her
work with native bands in B.C.,
the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Marg will remain involved with Extension Programs
as a contract trainer for conflict
resolution programs.
Nancy McPhee will fill Marg's
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position effective mid-March.
Nancy has coached in the Conflict
Resolution program for the past
several years. Nancy's previous
employment has included work at
Science World, Children's Hospital and Pearson Hospital, where
she was co-ordinator of volunteers. She also recently spent an
adventurous year working on a
ranch in Argentina.

Recognition
Dave Busse, co-ordinator of
EMA programs in the Paramedic
Academy, is the president of the

newly-formed Canadian Society
of Ambulance Personnel. Dave is
also forming a provincial association of paramedics similar to the
BC Medical Association and the
Registered Nurses Association of
BC.
In January, Police Academy
Director Phil Crosby-Jones was
a guest on the Bill Good open line
show on CKNW. He fielded questions for an hour on selection and
training issues. As a follow-up to
this publicity, the Vancouver Sun
ran a photograph and article in
its Saturday, January 12, edition
featuring two Academy recruits. 0

Earthquake preparedness tip
The 4.0 earthquake felt from
Sooke to Langley on February 19
had its epicentre in the SquamishGaribaldi area. To compare, the
San Francisco earthquake was
1000 times greater.
Has this minor shake-up
prompted you to rehearse a 'take
cover and hold' position in your
home or office? Vancouver
Alderman Puil has, and he

deserves a special 'thank you' for
his actions and leadership. Alderman Puil reportedly took cover
under his desk at Vancouver City
Hall when the earthquake struck.
By doing so he set a great example for all school children.
But he also proved how difficult
it is to train adults: many in
his own office did not respond at
all! D

~nthi• Teo (Administration), Diane Nation (Ub~) and Rora MacLeod

(Extension "Programs} P•Y close attention at• bnetinfl on Earthquake
Preparedne•. Ro• Mcintyre was the presenter In th1• last workshop
in the series for JI staff.

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Police and deputy sheriffs survive
simulated hostage-taking
by Chris Poole

On the morning of February 6,
three men, armed and dangerous,
burst into Blake Hall Room 5 looking for blood -Tony Needham's
blood. They were on a mission to
exact revenge for time spent in a
federal institution for the crime of
armed robbery. They'd been put
there as a result of Tony's exhaustive police investigation. When
they discovered that Tony wasn't
in the classroom, they decided to
take hostages as a means of
achieving their mission.
The class of Deputy Sheriffs
suddenly found themselves looking down the barrel of a sawed-off
shotgun, and at the diminishing
prospect of a noon-time lunch ·
break. For the next few hours
they had to adapt to forcible confinement as well as to the erratic
behaviour of three desperate
criminals with nothing to lose,
while waging a struggle for individual and group survival.
Police negotiators were called
in, and together with a speciallytrained psychologist telephone
contact was established with the
hostage-takers. The grim process
of defusing this volatile situation
began in earnest.
This was just a simulation, but
what if it had been the real thing?
Courts personnel, like others who
have regular contact with poten-

The Justice Institute of B.C.
Is dedicated to Improving
the quallty of justice
and publlc safety
by developlng
and dellverlng training
programs
and offering educational
services to professionals
and the public.

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tially dangerous persons, want to
become as physically and mentally prepared as possible for handling life-threatening situations.
So Brian Woods of Courts Academy worked with Tony Needham,
Police Academy, and Dr. Mike
Webster, psychologist, to create
both an authentic hostage-taking
incident and an effective learning
experience for all involved, including a lengthy de-briefing session
after the initial exercise. The
professional actors f:rom AC.T.
Casting ensured that a high level
ofrealism was maintained.
The class evaluations, together

with feedback from the
negotiators (one of whom appeared on his day oft) and Dr.
Webster, persuaded us that this
was a highly successful experiment, sufficiently so for all to consider using it as a standard
training model in the future.
This experimental venture also
provided further evidence of the
cross-training opportunities that
exist between academies. Courts
Academy extends its thanks to
Police Academy.
Chris Poole is Acting Program
Director, Courts Academy. 0

JI students beco1ne
JI trainers
Several recent additions to JI
staff know the Institute well.
Colleen Vaughan (Corrections),
Sgt. Pat Harrison and Cst. Selia
Miller (Police), and Ian Dailly
(Paramedic) all trained here as
recruits approximately ten years
ago.
Colleen Vaughan is Corrections Academy's newest instructor. She came to the Academy
from the Willingdon Youth Detention Centre where she worked for
eight years as a case management officer, training officer, and
classification officer. Although
employed full time, Colleen has
completed a wide range of courses
at UBC over the past two years
and is working toward a degree in
Commerce and Business Administration.
One of Colleen's unique hobbies is clowning, and on weekends
or special occasions she can be
found entertaining at such places
as Children's Hospital.

Colleen will instruct in institutional recruit courses for the Corrections Academy and will also
have responsibility for a number
of specific subject areas for advanced training.
Sgt. Pat Harrison, who has
joined the Police Academy as Administrator of Research, Development and Assessment, is a 20
year veteran of the Vancouver
Police Department. Pat's wife,
Cpl. Val Harrison was a human
relations instructor at the
Academy several years ago.
Cst. Selia Miller also comes to
the Police Academy from the Vancouver Police Department. She
will replace Ed Illi as an instructor in investigation and patrol
techniques.
Ian Dailly is the new
Program Director in charge of
technical programs in the
Paramedic Academy. Ian was
in the Academy's first EMA 2
class. 0

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JI marketing committee
looks at joint educational
TV video ·confer·ence

Fire Academy
offers evening
programs
by Jackie Goodwin

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by Irwin DeVries

Irwin DeVries, Deputy Director of
the Fire Academy, recently represented the Justice Institute
Marketing Committee at a meeting in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, involving representatives of the Open
Leaming Agency Marketing
Division, the Hazardous
Materials Training Institute,
Kirkwood College and a U.S.
training video distribution firm.
The Open Learning Agency has
signed an agreement with the distribution firm to handle all sales
of Justice Institute learning
materials in the U.S.
The purpose of the meeting
was to discuss the feasibility of an
initial broadcast and panel discussion, in Iowa, of two Edukit
videos, Electrical Safety for Fire
Fighters and Dangerous Goods.

This would be followed by
regional broadcasts on educational satellite television networks
across the U.S. While viewing
the broadcasts, audiences would
be able to call in to a panel of experts in their own area. An 800
number would also be listed
which viewers could call to order
their Edukits. The broadcasts
would also be available for
marketing across Canada.
Discussions are continuing,
and a teleconference with all original participants is scheduled for
early March. There seems little
doubt that all parties can benefit
from this co-operative effort.
Irwin DeVries is Deputy Director of Fire Academy. 0

PEP hosts meeting of
emergency planners and
news broadcasters
by Ross Mcintyre

A key element in emergency
preparedness and response is communication and warning to the
public. Every second month, the
PEP Academy hosts a meeting of
the Emergency Planners and
News Broadcasters Committee.
This committee is the focal point
for emergency planning and the
broadcast media in the province.
The committee has members
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panies, and radio and television
news departments and associations.
Members are working to
develop emergency plans for the
media, trying to improve government/media relations during
emergencies, examining the need
for emergency public information
officer training in the province,
and looking at other emergency
preparedness matters.
Ross Mcintyre is an Instructor
in PEP Academy. 0

Until recently, the only courses offered by the Fire Academy have
been for the Fire Service of British
Columbia. The only exception to
this has been a few selected courses offered by distance education.
Now, for the first time, the Fire
Academy is offering two evening
classes fo:r members of the public
interested in a career in the fire
service. Classes are one evening a
week for six consecutive weeks,
and the two areas are covered are
Introduction to the Fire Service
and Basic Fire Science.
Introduction to the Fire Service
features six guest lecturers from
different areas of the fire service
presenting their views on various
aspects of the service. Topics
range from Safety and Equipment
to Critical Incident Stress. Thirty
students have registered in this
noncredit course. Some of them
are looking at the different options
before they make a decision to
enter the fire service as a career,
while others know that this is the
career for them and are taking
every related course they can find.
The other course, Basic Fire
Science, is offered as a distance
education course, but this is the
first time.the Fire: Academy has
offered it in face-to-face instruction. Hugh Mcintyre, who acts as
distance education tutor, instructs
the 40 students in the basic
chemistry and physics of fire.
These students must submit a
written project and pass an exam
to receive credit in this course.
These two courses were launched as experiments to see if the interest and demand were there. If
the enthusiastic response shown
on the first week continues, these
courses will be offered again and it
is possible other subject areas can
be considered for a future date.
Jackie Goodwin is a Co-ordinator /Instructor in the Fire
Academy. 0

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$85,000 contract...

con'tfrom page 1
educators in the use of the curriculum. The training workshops
continue to be offered regularly in
the Lower Mainland and Victoria,
and on an as-needed basis in
other parts of the province.
By 1989, the program began to
be known across Canada and the
JI received requests from Alberta,
Manitoba and Ontario to deliver
the training in their communities.
To help it respond to these requests, Extension Programs requested funds from the federal
government to initiate Canadawide training. Health and Welfare Canada supported the
proposal in principle, but was not
prepared to fund a nation-wide
initiative until the program had
been evaluated.
Extension Programs submitted
a new proposal, and in June 1990
received a small grant to develop
a research design. Shelley
Rivkin, Co-ordinator of Justice,
Family and Agency Training in
Extension Programs, and Janet
Currie, a research associate with
Focus Consultants, worked
together to develop the design.
An advisory committee composed
of representatives from the
University of British Columbia,
Ministries of Health and Solicitor
General and the Early Childhood
Educators ofB.C. examined the
research instruments and commented on the overall proposal.
The actual research is expected
to take 15 months. It will include
a survey of 100 preschool and
daycare centres throughout the
province, interviews with parents
and teachers, and a pre- and posttest experimental component for
children. One of the major challenges of the project has been to
develop research instruments
that can evaluate the impact of
the program on young children
sensitively and effectively. Upon
completion of the research
project, the results will be published and distributed across Canada
by Health and Welfare Canada.
Shelley Rivkin is Co-ordinator of
Justice, Family and Agency Training in Extension Programs. 0
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What me - green?
;. -.:·. ~

...

:- . ~:

.. ..--~

Yes - What,~ green? It's a
question I keep asking myself. I
try to recycle. I use the blue box
at home. I re-use things when
possible. On the other hand, I
often grab a paper cup for coffee
at work, using the excuse that my
hands were full the last time I
came upstairs and my ceramic
mug collection is parked down on
my desk.
That's true -you know the nature of my job - but it really begs
the question. I keep thinking that
if MacBlo and Noranda Mines
aren't going to clean up their effluents - except under the threat
of drastic legislation - why
should it matter if I take a paper
coffee cup downstairs once in a
while? The more I look at these issues, however, the more I feel
that the .onh way we're ever going
to change anything, is to change
ourselves, to go that extra distance in our own personal lives.
Once we've done that, then we
can consider pointing the finger
at the corporate amorality of the
bottom line.
Oh oh - this is sounding a little preachy. I cease and desist,
now.
The Green Committee doesn't
have a whole lot to report at this
totally ungreen time of the year.
Afflicted by sloth, lack of time,
mid-winter doldrums, personal exigencies, and some of the othe7
ills that flesh is heir to, the chair
was forced to cancel a couple of
meetings. With a meeting on
February 12, however, we're back
on track, though we - as the expression goes - "make haste
slowly."
Can't save the world with one
or two meetings - apparently it
may take three or four!
Things are moving though, so
don't despair. We're looking at
using some sort of recycled paper
for the bulk of our photocopying

needs, though the price spread
may tum out to be too great.
Look for some kind of unbleached
toilet paper in the washrooms
soon, and perhaps endless cloth
hand towels rather than disposable paper towels. We hope to
install some sort of receptacles in
the classrooms at some point,
where used flipchart paper can
go, to be recycled.
Something else we're investigating is the possibility of hiring
one company to ha..1dle .all of our
recyclables, including glass, tin
and newsprint - not just office
paper, as at present.
For the immediate future, the
Green Committee is proud to
present the ......................... .

World Pre1niere......"°
ah, maybe the ...................... .

Vancouver Premiere.......... ,
or at least possibly the Kitsilano/
Point Grey Premiere of Grime
Goes Green, the acclaimed John
Cleese/Prince Charles collaboration in a humorous, yet straightahead look at how we - both as
individuals, and institutions can help clean up the environment.
Yes, Basil Fawlty and Prince
Chuck together in a gut-wrenching, belly-laughing 30-minute epic.
Wear something green, bring
youi· lunch, and bring your
funnybone!
Two special preview screenings have been arranged, for
Friday, March 15.
No. 1: 12:15 p.m.
No. 2: 1:00 p.m.

DON'T MISS IT-Be There
Or Be Square!!!!!!!
A completely organic thanks
goes to Lydia Stewart in the
library, for setting up this deal,
and bringing the possibility of
this screening to our attention in
the first place!
Paul Harris, Chair 0
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JI committees report ...
Excellence Committee
The committee is in the
process of developing a matrix
designed to identify aspects of the
Justice Institute that make it
such a pleasurable place in which
to work and learn. This exercise
will also help us determine
whether those who contribute to
the success of the Institute are
suitably recognized, and will help
us develop ideas for future improvements in service and worker
satisfaction.
The committee is fortunate to
have such a talented matrixmaker as Jim Bond as a member.
Jim has volunteered to undertake
this task. The committee will
also tap the talent of another
bright light from Lawrence Hall,
Derek White. Derek is a certified
instructor in the "Towards Excellence" management training program.
Phil Crosby-Jones, Chair

Social Committee
The Social Committee has
been re-vamped following the
well-earned 'retirement' of
several of its long-time members.
The restructured committee

reflects a cross-section of JI personnel, with representatives from
each Academy/ Division and from
all staffing components.
The committee now comprises
the following folk: Micheila
Cameron (Corrections); Coral
Dorosh (Library); Sam Meckbach
(PEP); Chris Poole (Courts);
Kathryn Reid (Paramedics); Dennette Retel (Fire); Sabrina Tong
(Administration); and Robyn
Towle (Police). Coral, an active
member since the spring of 1989,
will stay on the committee until
June 1991 to help nudge us new
members into social shape.
Our first objective was to
secure a site for the 1991 Annual
(December) Dinner and Dance,
which we have done. The
Holiday Inn on West Broadway
was selected; the date, for your
diaries, is Saturday, December 7.
More details will follow during
the next few months.
The first major staff social
event of the year, however, will
be the Summer Barbecue, in midJune. Between now and then the
committee will stage a few small
events designed to promote
'camaraderie' (... mutual trust and
sociability of comrades - Oxford
Dictionary) amongst us all - and
to raise a few funds towards the
cost of the more ostentatious
events. Among them will be

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Social committee members, top to bottom: Chair Chris Poole, Dennette Retel,
Robyn Towle, Coral Dorosh, Sabrina Tong, Micheila Cameron and Kathryn Reid.

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regular monthly prize-winning
draws, theme pub-nights and
some as-yet-unhatched schemes.
We will keep you posted via an
ongoing Calendar of Events, but
meanwhile feel free to make 'social suggestions' to any of our representatives.
Our thanks go to the past members, who have offered to lend assistance and whose shoes we will
try very hard to fill.
Chris .Pook, Chair

Green Committee
The Green Committee's report
is on page 6. 0

New certificate programs...
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agencies and private societies
that operate small group
homes in their communities.
While some of these organizations had existing training programs for staff in front
line management positions,
many did not. The Justice Institute received a number of
enquiries from agencies
operating these new group
homes about enroling their
staff in our supervisory and
management workshops.
In 1988, Shelley Rivkin and
Sandra Rice developed a twoday workshop, 'Supervising in
a Group Home Setting,' which
was specifically designed to
meet the needs of staff in
these agencies and societies.
The response to that
workshop, and six additional
workshops offered in Vancouver and Victoria, was extremely positive.
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New certificate programs...con'tfrom page 7
Participants' evaluations indicated, however, that there was a
need for additional training. In
the spring of 1989, Extension
Programs offered a second level
course. The two workshops have
been offered as a package in Vancouver and Victoria, and as inhouse training to requesting
agencies, since that time.
Senior staff in organizations
that received the training encouraged Extension Programs to
develop a more extensive, competency-based certificate program, and expressed a

willingness to assist in the
development and design of the
program. Several months ago, Extension Programs formed a focus
group with representatives from
leading community agencies to
help identify relevant content
areas, offer suggestions for
resource people, and assist in the
development of program evaluation methods.
The certificate progYam that
resulted from the group's discussions consists of20 days of training: 16 core days offered in eight
levels of two-day workshops, and
two yet-to-be-selected electives
from other Extension Programs
courses. The core training has
been specifically designed to meet
the unique needs of the supervisory staff working in residential
settings. It covers such topics as
supervisory communication,
motivation and delegation techniques, situational leadership
theory, recruitment and selection
techniques, budget and financial
planning, and organizational
change and development.

The focus group indicated that
organizations would prefer a fluid
program, which means that courses will be offered at different
times throughout the year and
participants can register at their
convenience. Completion time for
the certificate is two years.
The third level of the program
will be offered for the first time in
May, and the course was filled in
January. An additional
workshop was added and has also
filled. Levels four to eight of the
program will be running by September.
The community has
demonstrated tremendous interest in this certificate program
and it is expected to be another
success for Extension Programs.
Sandra Rice is co-ordinating
and developing the certificate program in consultation with Shelley
Rivkin.
Sandra Rice is Co-ordinator of
Group Home Management Training and Casino Training in Extension Programs. 0

• • • NOTES & NOTICES • • ~
Library extends its hours
In response to numerous :requests,
the JI library is now operating
with extended hours on Wednesday evenings. Assistant Librarian
Christine Babec will staff the
library from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. and
will offer the full range of services,
including research questions and
database searches.
If the extended hours prove
popular with students, the service
will be expanded to other days as
well.

Lost and found policy
revamped
Lost gloves, umbrellas, pens
and pins will now find a temporary home in the Blake Hall
reception area. Under the JI's
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new lost and found policy, items
turned in to the receptionist will
be placed in a marked envelope
and locked in the accounts office
safe for a period of up to three
months. Items not claimed by
the owner or the person who
turned the item in will be released
to the social committee for disposition.

John Cleese/Prince Charles
visit the JI (on film, that is)
The ·Green Committee proudly
presents Grime Goes Green, the
30-minute John Cleese/Prince
Charles video on cleaning up the
environment.
Date: Friday, March 15
Time: Two showings, 12:15
and 1:00
Place: Blake Hall Theatre 0
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