By Beth Cougler Blom
If you’ve lived in Victoria for any length of time, you will undoubtedly have heard people talking about “the big one.” When will the big earthquake hit, we wonder. And will we be prepared when the time comes?
Although it is important to plan how our organizations will react to a large full-scale earthquake, it is equally important to plan how we will react to smaller, more day-to-day emergencies. That is the message that the Victoria Emergency Management Agency (VEMA) and the Canadian Red Cross gave to non-profit organizations the other day in our half-day workshop on ”Emergency Preparedness for Voluntary Sector Organizations.”
Facilitators Sara Walsh, Elysia Dempsey …
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By Beth Cougler Blom
Today I’d like to welcome Yasmin Rampuri from the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria who has written the following guest blog post for us about her experiences taking our recent Overview of Volunteer Management certificate course. Congratulations to all 23 of our 2009 course graduates!
Over four Saturdays in October and November I had the great pleasure of attending Volunteer Victoria’s excellent Overview of Volunteer Management Course. The course was facilitated by two engaging and very experienced leaders in the Volunteer Management field, Diane Kirby and Theresa Vogel. Each of them led two of the Saturdays, and brought their different styles to bear …
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By Beth Cougler Blom
The other day we held a workshop for individuals taking part in our Social Solutions project, which supports coordinators of volunteers at non-profit agencies that work in the areas of homelessness, housing, mental health and addictions. The workshop was about resetting boundaries and was led by talented facilitator Dvora Levin.
Who among us couldn’t use a reminder to set (or defend) our boundaries now and then? The workshop came at a very fortuitous time for some participants in particular, but in fact all of us were able to come up with areas of either our personal or professional lives where we could reestablish or reset boundaries.
But …
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