Vitality Café – Monday’s at 7pm you can break your isolation and connect with other people in some authentic conversation via zoom. Improve your personal wellbeing. Join any week. Email [email protected] to get the link or find it on the website www.vulcanandregionfcss.com, the link is under the poster.
Parent Café – These are for parents to engage in real conversations about parenting and just a chance to connect with other parents. Will begin via zoom Feb. 16 and in person in March if regulations allow.
Winter Walk Day – Winter Walk Day – Open the Door and go for it! Get more active outdoors this winter. Register at shapeab.com/winter-walk-day/
Coping with Covid-19 – Addiction and Mental Health Resources. There are a lot of links to resources in this booklet on a variety of topics. Helplines, Wellness, Finances, Families, Seniors and Suicide
COVID-19-Coping-Addiction Mental Health Resources (002)MCG Careers is thrilled to be offering a virtual job fair as an opportunity for job seekers to connect with employers. In addition to the main event we will be offering some Bootcamps the days leading up to the job fair. One of these boot camps will be all about Zoom and is in partnership with the Literacy for Life Foundation. If someone you are working with is unable to attend the job fair but is interested in one or both of the bootcamps they are welcome to attend! All three events are being offered at No Cost to attendees or to employers. Interested parties can register by following the link to our listings on eventbrite on the corresponding attached poster.
Foothills Virtual Job Fair - Feb 4 2021 (1)Career Planning Online – “Kick-start your next career path” Friday February 5, 2021, 9:30am – 12:00pm
CPO Workshop. Virtual. Feb.05.2021Resume Building and Cover Letter Writing – “Tailoring and targeting” Tuesday February 9, 2021, 1pm – 3:30pm
RBCLW Workshop. Virtual. Feb.09.2021Resume Scanners? – “Getting your resume past the system and in front of the hiring manager” Friday February 12, 2021, 9:30am – 12pm
RS Workshop. Virtual. Feb.12.2021LinkedIn – “Create and advance your online presence” Thursday February 25, 2021, 9:30am – 12pm
LI Workshop. Virtual. Feb.25.2021Greater Foothills Family Network – List of Programs Pre-register for programs at 1-877-652-8633. Supplies are provided.
Be my Valentine – Create a special gift – Feb. 12 10:30am – 0-12 years old
Daily Discoveries – Wednesday’s at 1:30pm – Preschool
Design Squad – Engineering challenges for 9-12 years old. Tuesday’s at 4:30pm
Family Fun Night – Wednesday’s at 6:30pm
Game Show – Friday, Feb. 5 for 3-6 year old
Junior Inventors – Thursday’s at 10:30 for 3-6 year old
Kid’s Paint Night – Friday, Feb. 19 at7 pm for 7-12 year old
New 2 U – Skate Donation Program
Space Adventures – Wednesday’s at 10:30am for 3-6 years old
Sunshine Stretches Yoga – Friday, Feb. 26 at 10:30 for 3-6 years old
Holiday Craft-a-Long – Feb. 2 for Groundhog Day 2- 5 year old’s at 4pm, 6-8 year old’s at 6:30pm Register at Rainbow Literacy at 403-485-3107
Census Jobs 2021 – March-July
Census Recruitment poster-ELVulcan Lifeguard Jobs – Summer 2021 Apply now
Resources
The Making Connections Program for Palliser Schools now has a Facebook page. It will be a place where we post different events, tips, etc. Here is the link if you wanted to include it in your emails/ news letter and let parents know they can like it for all different sorts of awesome information 🙂 https://www.facebook.com/Palliser-School-Divison-Making-Connections-Program-104502814933151/?view_public_for=104502814933151
Rosie’s Gift of Love
Hi friends!. It’s a good day to stay inside and keep warm . If anybody is still in need of a warm coat, mitts, hat or scarf, let us know. Mom says she still has some to give away. Share the love, Rosie. Visit Quarks Consignment or Facebook Message Sandy Stoddard.
Community Education Services provide free public education available via webinar https://community.hmhc.ca/
Tues Feb 2 @ 6:30 pm
Thur Feb 4 @ 1 pm (rebroadcast of Feb 2 live presentation) Friend or Foe? How to create healthy relationships with digital devices in the family
Wed Feb 3 6:30 pm Managing Anxiety within the COVID-19 World
SATURDAY Feb 6 10 am Putting Stress Under the Microscope: Parenting Stress and Its Relationship to Parenting
Tues Feb 9 @ 1 pm
Wed Feb 24 @ 6:30 pm Supporting Your Children to have Healthy Relationships During a Pandemic
Thur Feb 11 6:30 pm Bullying and ASD
Wed Feb 17 6:30 pm School-and-community-based strategies to support newcomer youth and families: Taking relational and culturally responsive approaches to promote resilience and mental well-being
Thur Feb 18 10 am Teens in Trouble With the Law: What You Need to Know
Tues Feb 23 6:30 pm The COVID-19 Pandemic: Pedantics and Peculiarities
Fri Feb 26 11 am Put the Pro in Cognitive Proficiency
Sat Feb 27, Mar 6, Mar 13 11 am Teens Talk Transition
“The premise is really simple,” she said, “but the impact is really profound. You have to make a conscious choice of what you want to fill your life with. Otherwise, time just slips away.”
The Importance of Teaching Life Skills
In her book, “How to Raise an Adult,” Julie Lythcott-Haims makes a case for breaking from over-parenting and doing your children a favour by doing less for them.
As a parent, the goal, apart from surviving each day, is to get your beautiful little babies though childhood, thriving and alive, and launch them into adulthood with skills to make their way in life with an attitude, of “I can do this.” That attitude is “Self-efficacy” and it means having the belief in your abilities to complete a task, reach goals, and manage a situation. It means believing in your ability and effort – not in your parents’ abilities to help you do things or to do them for you. Childhood is about the endless and repeated trial-and-error opportunities that allow us to learn. As long as we let the kids fail, do the work themselves, experience the discomfort and help them believe that they can learn something if they keep trying, they will gain valuable life skills.
Whether it is learning to read or managing a difficult friendship, we need to provide support rather than the solve the problem. We cannot just do everything for them, prevent them from failure or discomfort and then dump them out in the world at eighteen and wave bye-bye. We can talk about how to let go of hurt feelings with a friend, and how to see someone else’s perspective. We can expect them to clean up their own toys or help clean up the spilt milk. We can involve them in cooking and get them to the point of leaving them in charge of cooking something nutritious for the whole family. We can set expectations that they study for a test and work towards getting a better grade by putting in the effort. We can skip teach them about the safety and how to stay at home alone safely, before they are old enough to become a babysitter and be in charge of other people’s children.
As parents we want to keep them safe, see them feel success at school, sports and in relationships and reduce their pain in difficult situations but we need to let them learn from their own mistakes too. To take our “pounce” instinct and tone it down to a “wince” reaction when our child gets a boo-boo or fights with a sibling. Can you watch at a distance to see if they can work it out or suck it up without your intervention? Can we help them mature into a responsible adult that can handle responsibilities and obligations beyond their own personal care and pleasure?
One strategy for parenting with a practical path toward independence involves teaching new skills in steps:
-first we do it for you
-then we do it with you
-then we watch you do it
-then you do it completely independently
Think of teaching your child to drive a car. What skills can you teach a preschooler following this method?
Lindsay Hutton, “I Did it All by Myself” an Age-by-Age Guide to Teaching Your Child Life Skills,” https://www.familyeducation.com/teens/6-life-skills-every-teen-should-master-before-college
Ages 2 and 3: Small Chores and Basic Grooming
This is the age when your child will start to learn basic life skills. By the age of three, your child should be able to
Ages 4 and 5: Important Names and Numbers
Safety skills are high on the list, now. She should know
Your child should also learn how to
Ages 6 and 7: Basic Cooking Techniques
Kids at this age can start to help with cooking meals, and can learn to
Your child should also learn how to
Ages 8 and 9: Pride in Personal Belongings
By this time, your child should take pride in her personal belongings and take care of them properly. That includes being able to
Your child should also learn how to
Ages 10 to 13: Gaining Independence
Ten is about the age when your child can begin to perform many skills independently. She should know how to
Your child should also learn how to
Ages 14 to 18: More Advanced Skills
By 14, your child should have mastered of all of the previous skills. On top of that, she should be able to
Young Adults: Preparing to Live on His Own
Your child will need to know how to support herself when he goes away to college or moves out. There are still a few skills she should know before venturing out on his own, including
It’s a process. If there is a skill that is missed, you still have time to teach it. Just don’t expect them to know how to do things without the time to teach them.
Take care of yourself and the people around you,
Lori Gair
Community Liaison
Vulcan and Region Family and Community Support Services
Phone: 403-485-2192 ext. 103
Email: [email protected]
Document can be downloaded, HERE.
public-faqParent Cafe’s are an opportunity to connect with other parents. Which is important now, more than ever. Parent Cafés are emotionally safe spaces where parents and caregivers talk about the challenges and victories of raising a family. Through individual deep self-reflection and peer-to-peer learning, participants explore their strengths, learn about the Protective Factors, and create strategies from their own wisdom and experiences to help strengthen their families. These will begin as soon as it is safe to do so. Please take the Parent Cafe survey to help us plan for the best time.
Parent Cafe’s Survey Link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PGYRC2D
Vitality Cafés are peer-to-peer guided discussion groups that use the six Vitality Domains and empowered engagement techniques to help participants come up with strategies to improve their overall holistic health. Vitality Cafe’s will be offered virtually at first. Please take the survey to help us plan for the best time.
Vitality Cafe’s https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/62PR65L
Virtual Winter Wellness at the Carmangay Library will begin in January. Watch for posters and on their Facebook page for details. Prizes to be won.
Skating – Champion has their outdoor ice open. Please skate with your own households and respect space from other skaters.
Fundamental Digital Literacy Skills: Online Privacy – Chinook Arch Libraries in January. Check your local library website or chinookarch.ca and go to Events.
Posters
Snow Angels – Be a Snow Angel in your neighbourhood. If you have a shovel and see someone’s sidewalk not yet cleared, pitch it and help a neighbour out. You are also helping the people who want to get out and walk safely, free from ice. You can also sign up with FCSS at 403-485-2192. We will be out of the office until Jan. 4 but you can try us on Facebook messenger.
Fireworks – Vulcan Recreation presents New Year’s Eve Fireworks – Dec. 31 at 7:30pm Vulcan Arena parking lot.
Read With Me – Ages 3-6
Ages and Stages – Development for kids 0-6years
Building Fine Motor Skills for ages 3-6
January programs at Greater Foothills Family Centre
More programs from the Family Centre
Kids in Motion – Ages 3-6
Glow – For girls 9-12
Winter Reading Challenge through Chinook Arch Libraries
MCG Careers – Job Searching During Covid
Job Searching DC Workshop. Virtual. Jan.12.2021MCG Careers – Interview Skills Workshop
Interview Skills Workshop.Virtual. Jan.20.2021MCG Careers – “Linked In” Create and Advance Your Online Presence
Linked In Workshop. Virtual. Jan.28.202165 years or older? Join a research study about games created to help keep your mind vibrant. Must have an android device.
Games for Vibrant Minds Research StudyTriple “P” parenting courses online for parents of all ages https://www.triplep-parenting.ca/alb-en/find-help/triple-p-online/?itb=4dcfbc057e2ae8589f9bbd98b591c50a
Top Parenting Tips for School Life during Covid
tpi-top-tips-covid19-school-life-ltr-can-enBalancing Work and Life during Covid
covid-19-guide-work-and-family-ltr-can-enFirst Nations Health Consortium December Newsletter
FNHC December 2020 NewsletterVulcan Library is open for Curbside Pick-up
December 14-January 12
Monday 10-3
Tuesday 10-5
Wednesday Closed
Thursday 10-5
Friday 10-3
Resources
Al-Anon Family Group -meetings as needed. Contact Betty W. at 403-652-8285 for information.
Vulcan Regional Food Bank Society and Vulcan and Region Family and Community Support Services will be closed from Dec. 24 at 12pm – Jan.3. If you are without food, there are Emergency Hampers at the Vulcan Hospital 24 Hour Reception.
There is also a new Give-and-Take Pantry For anyone in need of food or for anyone to drop off donations. Please only take what you need or donate unopened goods that have not expired. Outside the Vulcan Library.
Mental Health Support Help Lines
Family Ties Association Clinical team can provide subsidized counselling. Currently the service is available through Zoom. Referrals can come from the FCSS office or clients can call Family Ties directly and ask to speak to Clinical Intake at 403-320-8888. We ask that the clients pay what they can.
Online resources:
– https://www.anxietycanada.com/articles/covid19-balancing-public-health-and-mental-health/
– Online Mental Health Resource from the U of A – a newly developed online mental health resource that provides tools for families and individuals. http://www.comhs.health/ this is postponed until January 2021
Text4Hope – Incoming positive daily messages. Text COVID19HOPE to 393939 to subscribe.
Caring Connections Program by Wild Rose Community Connections
Contact us at 403 437-4984 Phone or text Monday – Friday 10:00 – 5:00 or by email at [email protected] Emotional Safe Spot for anyone feeling disconnected, alone or just need to chat.
Help Lines
Mental Health Help Line: 24 hour- 1-877-303-2642
Distress & Suicide Prevention Line of Southwestern Alberta
1-888-787-2880 Lethbridge and Area
Distress Centre: 403-266-HELP (4357) Suicide Prevention
Family Violence Info Line: 310-1818
Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868
Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-387-5437
Alberta’s One Line for Sexual Violence. Call or text: 1-866-403-8000
AADAC Help Line: 1-866-332-2322 Addictions
Alberta Health Link: 811 or 1-866-408-5465
Alberta Info Helpline: 211 – connects you to community and social services in your area 24 hours a day in over 150 languages.
Albertans can call the Emergency Income Support Contact Centre 24-hours-a-day to get help in an emergency for basic needs like shelter, food, clothing and transportation. 1-866-644-5135
Canadian Red Cross: 24 hour disaster services – 1-888-800-6493
Vulcan Community Health Center (Hospital): 403-485-3333
Crime Stoppers: 1-800-222-8477
Vulcan RCMP Detachment: 403-485-2267
Poison Control: 1-800-332-1414
Article by Dr. Jody Carrington about her family getting Covid-19.
The mental and emotional toll that comes with contracting this virus is just as bad, if not worse, than the physical. There is an astounding amount of shame, guilt and fear associated with contracting Covid, and we need to be talking about it more. When you are surrounded by good people, you will be surprised by their grace and kindness, and you will rise. I would have very likely fallen apart on day three if it weren’t for this community holding us up. The love and support we were shown reinforces what I already know: We were never meant to do this alone, and I have never been more confident that we are #bravertogether.
Pandemic and Isolation Stress
This is stressful for everyone. And it is not short-term stress, we have been in this pandemic for a long time and new lockdown restrictions are a stressful blow to almost everyone. Not being able to be with your loved ones at Christmas and being further isolated from connections and support is going to take a heavy toll on everyone’s mental health. When you do not get a break from stress, it becomes toxic stress that affects your physical health as well, because your brain is telling your nervous system that it is constantly under threat.
It is important to take charge of the stress so you can get through this long term.
Furniture Villa is doing a cool thing to support local business….from Facebook
With the new strict restrictions that our government has put in place, we know that times are going to be tough for a lot of our amazing local businesses in the Vulcan County. We at Furniture Villa are strong believers in supporting the local business community, and as such we are starting our “Bring it Home” campaign as a way to help support others in the community.
Here is how it works:
From now until December 31st (or we reach $5000 converted), bring in a gift card to a “Big Box” store and trade it in for a coupon of equal value to a local Vulcan County business that has been affected by the new restrictions.
A few conditions apply:
Here are the participating businesses:
Hair by Jordyn Cornet
Kona Fitness
Mind Meld Massage Therapy
Vulcan Yoga and Wellness
Vulcan Art Studio
The Hair Hut
Mama’s Pizza
Center Street Eatery – Arrowwood, Alberta
Mossleigh Bar N Grill
Aspen Crossing
Clever Scoops
The Great Full Cup
Lynn’s Place
Village’s Bistro
New Club Cafe
Amy’s Family Restaurant
Denver’s Diner
Milo Hotel/T’s Saloon
Lisa Blair’s Beauty Room
Habitat Lifestyle Boutique
Full Motion BodyworX
ASANI Healing
Bodyworks Fitness Centre
Lori Gair
Community Liaison
Vulcan and Region Family and Community Support Services
Phone: 403-485-2192 ext. 103
Email: [email protected]
Introduction to Self-Care video is available on YouTube, HERE.
Video in Low German explaining new public health measures available on YouTube, HERE.