VVINSIDER : VOLUME 4 : NUMBER 21 : JULY 25, 1986

JUL 2 fi 1988
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VCC - VANCOUVER VOCATIONAL INSTITUTE
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FUN TIMES AT THE VVI LOTTERY DRAW!

WELCOME
Continuing Education, Programs for Mentally Handicapped Adults, is pleased to
welcome Wayne Avery as the new Vocational Programmer replacing John Chinack.
Wayne comes to us from the North Shore Association for the Mentally
Handicapped where he was the Adult Counsellor.

DO

Welcome Wayne!

QUOTE OF THE WEEK
How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.

COMMUNITY
Vancouver

Vocational Institute

WHAT TO DO IF YOU'RE STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR
If your elevator comes to a stop between floors, push the alarm button to call
for help; don't try to climb or force your way out, according to the Otis
Elevator Company.
The most commonly followed safety code requires that the alarm ring where
someone will hear it, the company notes. If no one is available in the
building, the alarm must ring off site where someone will hear it and
respond. The same code requires that the elevator have two-way communication
equipment so that rescuers and people in the elevator can exchange information.
While waiting for help, try to remain calm. Jerilyn Ross, associate director
of Roundhouse Square Psychiatric Centre in Alexandria, Virginia, suggests the
following steps:

Remind yourself that you are not in danger. You will not suffocate;
elevators are required to have a means of fresh air flow.

Try to stay connected with the present - don't allow yourself to speculate
about horrible things that could happen. If you're with other people you
can talk about your fear or about how uncomfortable the situation is, but
don't begin to tell disaster stories.
Try not to anticipate how long it will be until help arrives.
Inhale and exhale as regularly as you can. Avoid taking short quick
breaths or holding your breath; both can make you lightheaded and add to
your anxiety. You might also try a relaxation technique, such as
imagining a ball slowly and steadily rising and falling in your chest.

STUDENT AIDES
Effective immediately, the minimum daily pay provision for student aides has
been revised from four (4) to two (2) hours pay, where the employee is a
student reporting for work at the call of the College on a school day.
This is good news, particularly for students employed under the "work study"
programs.

LG

POLICY AND PROCEDURE UPDATES
The Policy and Procedure on the next page is currently under revision.
Instructors please direct all inquiries or suggested changes to your
Department Head on or before August 8, 1986.

Policy NO. 1.4.1,3 - V.V.I. - C.E.I.C. (MANPOWER) TRAINEE ATTENDANCE REGISTER

DEFINITION:
1) A "Manpower Student" is a person enrolled in a training program and who is
sponsored by Canada Employment and Immigration Commission (C.E.I.C.).

POLICY:
A.l The department head shall ensure that instructors complete the biweekly
"Trainee Attendance Register" for all C.E.I.C. students with unexcused
absences (Code 3) and return them to the C.E.I.C. On-Campus Training
Liaison Office.
A.2 On the first day of class, instructors shall receive a class list from
Registration Services and shall, for the first five days, report by
telephone to Registration Services any students who fail to show so that
the vacant spaces may be filled.
A.3 All Manpower students shall report daily by telephone, to their
instructors, if they are absent. This report shall clearly indicate the
reason for the absence which the instructor shall record in the class
register.

A.4 If a student is absent on the fourth day after three days without contact
then the instructor shall forward a "Discontinuation From Training" form,
No. F-SR405 to the Registration Services. The student shall be considered
as having voluntarily withdrawn from training.

PROCEDURES:
B.l The department head shall ensure that, at the commencement of class, the
instructor informs all students that they, if absent, have the
responsibility of contacting their departments and instructors daily,
giving the reasons for their absence.
If a student does not report on three consecutive days, then the
instructor shall, at the beginning of the fourth day, complete a
"Discontinuation From Training" form, No. F-SR405, and forward it
immediately to Registration Services who shall forward the pink copy to
the C.E.I.C. On-Campus Training Liaison Office . The instructor shall,
upon completion of the discontinuation form, telephone the C.E.I.C.
Training Liaison Office, so that all payments are stopped and the training
space may be refilled.
8.2 The C.E.I.C. "Training Attendance Register" must be completed according to
the provided Absence Codes. (Otherwise the computer will not identify
them correctly and will convert the marks as Code 3 - unexcused absence).
B.3 If no Manpower student is absent during a weekly reporting period then the
C.E.I.C. Trainee Attendance Register must be signed by the instructor and
returned blank to the C.E.I.C. office, i.e. provide a nil report.

8.4 An absence of a half day shall be indicated on the Class Register by
placing a diagonal line (bottom left to top right) across the square for
the particular day.
As the C.E.I.C. Trainee Attendance Register accommodates a two-week pay

period which finishes on a Friday, they must be completed and passed to
the C.E.I.C. On-campus Training Liaison Office by the Monday immediately
following the two-week period. In the case of a long weekend, the Trainee
Attendance Registers must be in the hands of the C.E.I.C. Office no later
than 09:00 hours on Tuesday following the reporting period.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES
TEMPORARY COUNSELLOR, Counselling Department, V.V.I. This is a temporary
appointment commencing September 1, 1986. The closing date is July 25, 1986.

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Send us your mutilated, your faded and torn originals - and we shall endeavour
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We do need some help from you first though to ensure an efficient turn around
of your work!! Following are a few hints to help us process your word
processing requests efficiently and smoothly .....

1. Be sure to send a yellow "Word Processing Request" form with your
submissions and fill in all the information requested on the front!
2. Please . . . please ... do not use ASAP as a due date for us. We

often prioritize our workload by date order and with no set date, the
ASAP's go to the back of the pile!! You could be waiting a long time for

your ASAP!!
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work — at times we simply can not accommodate any rush jobs. In fact a
good quote which sums up the whole situation is : "Your lack of prior
planning does not constitute an emergency on my part"!
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re-use this form if you have to send the document back for further
changes - it has all the information on it to process your request
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5. Making revisions to your copy. Help us out with the following:
-> make your changes stand out - use a coloured marker or a red pen and

place an "X" in the right margin beside each line with corrections.
^ if its a large document with only a few pages needing changes, mark
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through each page.
-> please . . . please ... Do not "cut and paste". Work can be copied

or moved from spot to spot if we know where it came from. If you cut
and paste we usually have to key the work all over again and this is a
waste of time plus we wind up duplicating work.
-> do not use white correction fluid - just cross out items to be deleted
(we can find them super-fast with our 'search' function).
remember — when your copy is revised, the original draft is no longer
of this earth! Make sure that only your most recent draft is retained
as a working copy.

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sure to get in touch - we are Nilda Panganiban, Ngee-Moi Voon, and Delphia
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