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Kids under extreme pressure, expert tells Sudbury parents
The pandemic, worries about climate change and now war in Ukraine making for stressful times, Kevin Cameron says
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Threat expert to speak to Sudbury audience
The expert who led the crisis response following the 1999 school shooting in Taber, Alberta – just eight days after the Columbine school shooting – will deliver a special presentation for the community on Tuesday, April 26, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
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Columbine tragedy can happen anywhere, former principal tells Sudbury audience
''There is nothing I can do to bring my beloved 13 back to life, but I can make sure they didn’t die in vain'
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Columbine Principal to speak in Sudbury
Retired principal Frank DeAngelis, who was the principal at Columbine High School in Littleton, Co., when a deadly shooting incident occurred there in 1999, will be at the Caruso Club 6-8 p.m. on April 11.
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Francophone Protocol Signing
The Northwest francophone school board has lead the charge in the signing of their first VTRA protocol. [...]
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Increase in VTRA Cases Across the Country
“It’s Not Just You”
In earlier communications from CTIP we highlighted that due to the lingering effects of quarantine (“Impaired Closeness-Distance Cycle”), some students would be so relieved to make in-person reconnections with school staff and peers that symptom development to the pressures of the pandemic would be minimal in the 2020-2021 academic year. This period is what we refer to as a “delayed response”.
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How to Become an Indigenous Ally
The Two Row Wampum Treaty, also known as Guswenta or Kaswentha, may best
be understood as a Haudenosaunee term embodying the ongoing negotiation of their
relationship to European colonizers and their descendants. The underlying concept of
kaswentha emphasizes the distinct identity of the two peoples and a mutual engagement
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Hate Crimes and Racism: VTRA and TES Applications to the Tragedies in London and Kamloops
During the pandemic we focused attention on the effects of quarantine and how the “Impaired Closeness-Distance Cycle” would contribute to abuse dynamics within some homes because of unrelenting closeness without the reprieve of occasional distance to lower family anxiety. The opposite side of that coin was that quarantine had a temporarily and artificially positive effect on larger Canadian society: it also created distance between those who hate and their potential targets. We would say that some societal conflicts were frozen in place but with things opening up and the weather becoming warmer, distance has been replaced with proximity and possibilities to renew prior conflicts thus intensifying justification for violent acting out.
File: PDF Hate Crimes and Racism: VTRA and TES Applications to the Tragedies in London and Kamloops
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Rekindled Trauma: Former Kamloops Residential School
On Friday May 28th the truth was revealed regarding the buried bodies of over two hundred children. My colleagues and I penned a brief E-Alert on that day through our roles with the B.C. Government ERASE Initiative. It was sent to many professionals in that province who, like us, were in awe of this reality. This E-Alert is for the entire country and every Indigenous Nation and People as well as all those who wish to help. It is more personal than any other communication I have penned.
File: PDF Rekindled Trauma: Former Kamloops Residential School
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Interim Guidelines: A Whole Community Response to Post-Pandemic Mental Health
While the pandemic still weighs heavy on the shoulders of many, the growing availability of
vaccines has led to measured optimism from some that COVID-19 will come to an end.
Governments, workplaces, helping agencies and educational systems are beginning to deliberate and hopefully pose this crucial question: What will post-pandemic functioning look like?