On-Site Registration takes place in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre, #4 on the UPEI campus map.
August 13, 2010
This year we will be using a document prepared by the Extension Department at St. Francis Xavier University throughout our curriculum. Before coming to the Institute, please take some time to read through Resilient Communities in Atlantic Canada: A Background Paper. It can be accessed by clicking on the link below. http://www.thequaich.pe.ca/database/news/docs/ASI%202010%20Background%20Paper%20Resilient%20Communities%20ENG.pdf
August 3, 2010
Presentation: Thursday, August 19th 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m., reception following
Location: Main Building UPEI, Room # 130
Bio: Jennifer Heatley is the Executive Director of the Atlantic Collaborative on Injury Prevention, a non-government organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jennifer is currently working on a Masters of Public Health from the University of Alberta and holds two BSc. from Dalhousie University and the University of King's College in Health Promotion and Psychology. About the Report: The ACIP report "Alcohol & Injury in Atlantic Canada: Creating a Culture of Safer Consumption" was developed to gain an understanding of the impact of alcohol consumption on intentional and unintentional injuries in the Atlantic Provinces. The report explores how the culture of alcohol consumption affects the region's injury rates and makes best practice recommendations for reducing alcohol-related injuries.
Following this presentation each of you are invited to attend a reception and short Annual General Meeting for the Island Network for Injury Prevention. Please rsvp to Adeline Stevenson amstevenson@edu.pe.ca
July 28, 2010
Experience a unique, day-long guided tour of three resilient communities on Prince Edward Island!
As part of the 6th Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities (ASI), a "Resilient Communities Day Tour" has been organized for Tuesday, August 17th. One of three activities scheduled for this "pre-Institute day," the tour will feature a bus trip to the western part of PEI and stops in Summerside, the Évangéline Region, and Lennox Island. These communities represent the three main founding cultures of Prince Edward Island -- British, Acadian, and Mi'kmaq -- and have taken various measures in recent years to be resilient in the face of challenging circumstances.
For more information, please visit http://www.upei.ca/si/files/si/Pre-InstituteResilientCommunitiesDescriptionENG2010.pdf.
To summarize, then . . .
What? Atlantic Summer Institute Resilient Communities Day Tour
Where? Leaving from and returning to the UPEI campus, Charlottetown, with stops in Summerside, the Évangéline Region, and Lennox Island.
When? Tuesday, August 17th, 2010, from 8:30 until 5:00
Who? Anyone who is interested! The tour is open to the general public as well as to ASI participants.
Why? To see community resilience in action and to experience three culturally diverse communities on beautiful Prince Edward Island in the summertime!
How? By visiting our website, http://www.upei.ca/si/ , and selecting the Resilient Communities Day Tour "Celebrating Resilient Communities" (Summerside, Abrams Village, and Lennox Island) option for pre-Institute activities on our registration form, http://www.upei.ca/wf/node/add/si-eng-reg-form.
Cost: $75 per person.
For more information on the Atlantic Summer Institute, please explore the website at www.upei.ca/si or contact asi@thequaich.pe.ca or (902) 894-3399. For an up-to-date copy of the preliminary program for this summer, please e-mail asi@thequaich.pe.ca.
July 25, 2010
The Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities would like to announce the Atlantic Canada Showcase for the 2010 Institute! The Atlantic Canada Showcase will feature promising practices, programs, policies, experiences or lessons learned that relate to the theme of community resilience and connect it with health, safety and / or crime, the focus of the Institute.
There will be ten tabletop presentations and eight posterboard presentations which will take place on Friday, August 20 between 8:45 am and noon and will allow participants to learn about the many quality initiatives that are happening right here in Atlantic Canada! For more information on our presentations, please see our updated program.
Keep checking our website for updates!
As in past years, there will be simultaneous translation, informative speakers and networking opportunities.
Please pass this along to anyone you know who might be interested!
Register online at http://www.upei.ca/si/si2010/en/registration.
For inquiries, please contact asi@thequaich.pe.ca or the coordinators at (902) 894-3399.
Are you interested in building your skills for community action?
The ASI is offering three Curriculum Pathways in 2010:
1. Foundations: Preparing to work together across sectors and cultures
2. Application: Advancing learning in a case study approach to planning
3. Specialization: Strengthening community action on health and safety
Curriculum is defined as a pathway for learning designed to meet stated outcomes through activities and materials. The curriculum is integrated throughout the program in three pathways with four workshops within each pathway. Each pathway is a series of four comprehensive and interactive workshops. Interactive sessions provide opportunities for participants to expand their networks and consolidate partnerships for action.
You can select one pathway when you register. The ASI provides a Certificate of Participation for completion of each of the three learning pathways. This may serve as a continuing education credit in some work settings. Please note: The Foundations Pathway is a pre-requisite for the other two pathways.
For more information on the Atlantic Summer Institute and to register, please go online to www.upei.ca/si.
For inquiries, please contact asi@thequaich.pe.ca or (902) 894.3399
June 29, 2010
Attending the Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities this year? Then please bring your children! It's free for them!
We are pleased to announce that we will once again be offering a Children's Program at the 2010 Atlantic Summer Institute. The Children's Program will parallel that of the adults in that they will learn what it takes to make a community healthy, safe, and resilient.
The Institute believes in inclusion and reducing barriers to participation. We want everyone to get involved with the Institute, so there will be a free, educational and fun program offered to children of registered participants (3-day registration).
The program is designed for children ages 3-14 and is staffed by early childhood educators and / or qualified teachers. Instruction will be available in both official languages.
Activities offered include the sharing of a story by local author Deirdre Kessler, the chance to watch the famous annual Gold Cup and Saucer Parade, and kite-making with PEI artist Maurice Bernard.
AND . . . for 2010 the Atlantic Summer Institute is pleased to announce a partnership with the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, PEI!
This year the children will have a wonderful opportunity to learn about the magic of theatre! Working with the talented Young Company actors and actresses, the children will get to observe and participate in theatre warm-up exercises, watch the Young Company perform outdoors at the Confederation Centre, mix and mingle with the actors, and prepare a musical selection for presentation on the last day of the Institute.
To view the preliminary children's program, please visit our website at http://www.upei.ca/si/ and follow the links for the Children's Program.
Please indicate on your registration form that you wish to register your child(ren). A consent form is also needed for all registered children and can be accessed online at http://www.upei.ca/si/files/si/ChildrensProgramParticipantQuestionnaireENGFinal.pdf.
If you have any questions regarding the Children's Program, please contact Judy McKnight at (902) 894-3399 or e-mail judy@thequaich.pe.ca.
June 24, 2010
… and register on or before Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 for the sixth Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities! Our Early Bird rate of $350 allows you to save $75 off the full registration price!
Our theme of “Building Resilient Communities” is creating a strong and exciting program, and we are looking forward to sharing it with you. So what are you waiting for? Register online today at http://www.upei.ca/si/si 2010/ en/ registration and save!
For more information on the Atlantic Summer Institute, please explore the website www.upei.ca/si or contact asi@thequaich.pe.ca or (902) 894.3399. For an up-to-date copy of the preliminary program for this summer, please e-mail asi@thequaich.pe.ca.
June 23, 2010
See the description below for another exciting pre-Institute activity to be held Tuesday, August 17th, 2010!
The Public Health Agency of Canada's Canadian Best Practices Portal (CBPP) is a virtual front door to community and population health interventions related to chronic disease prevention and health promotion. These interventions have been evaluated, shown to be successful, and have the potential to be adapted and replicated by practitioners working in similar fields. The Portal is intended to enhance public health decisions using the best available evidence. This orientation will provide participants with a general overview to the Portal (http://cbpp-pcpe.phac-aspc.gc.ca), including its development, format and content. The presentation will also review how interventions and resources are selected for the Portal and how to nominate your own "best" practices.
The ASI "Portal training" will be held from 2 to 4 the afternoon of August 17th. Space is limited.
For more information on the Atlantic Summer Institute, please explore the website www.upei.ca/si.
For Institute inquiries, please contact asi@thequaich.pe.ca or the coordinators at (902) 894-3399.
June 1, 2010
A new one-day Foundations Pathway workshop will be offered on August 17, prior to the official opening of the ASI. The Foundations Pathway explores frameworks and models for healthy and safe communities. Economic factors, physical and social environments, education, and early childhood development are considered. Research, policy and practice are used to better understand concepts and strategies and to encourage partnering on complex issues and valuing diversity. The Circle of Health© and Aboriginal Medicine Wheel are used to guide discussion and discovery.
This pre-Institute workshop was tested in five communities in 2008. Participants who complete the workshop and workbook will receive a Certificate of Participation at the Foundations level. With a certificate, one can enter the Application Pathway or Specialization Pathway.
This workshop is for those who want a one-day learning event. It is also for those who want to complete the Foundations Pathway and prepare to enter the Application or Specialization Pathway during ASI 2010.
Please note: The Foundations Pathway is a pre-requisite for the other two pathways.
For more information, please contact asi@thequaich.pe.ca or (902) 894.3399. Watch the website, www.upei.ca/si, for more information on the 2010 Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities.
May 25, 2010
What are the obstacles to creating healthy and vibrant communities? What are some "bounce back" strategies? What strengths do we find in communities to "bounce forward" in a dynamic movement for social justice, community peace, and creative living with one another and in harmony with the planet?
These are some of the questions Marie Burge will ask (and maybe begin to answer) in this engaging plenary presentation at the Atlantic Summer Institute in August.
Marie Burge has been a staff person and a member of the Cooper Institute Collective for the past 25 years. She has thirty-eight years experience in community education and development and participatory action research both in developing countries and in Canada, mainly PEI. Click here to learn more about Marie and her plenary address: http://www.upei.ca/si/ si2010/en/plenary.
If you are interested in what Marie has to say, then come to the Institute August 17th-20th, 2010 in Charlottetown, PEI -- you may be surprised at how much is going on right here in Atlantic Canada! For more information on the Atlantic Summer Institute and to register, please go online to www.upei.ca/si.
For inquiries, please contact asi@thequaich.pe.ca or (902) 894.3399.
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Q. What makes a community competent?
Q. What does it take to ensure that this competence is maintained in difficult circumstances and increased when conditions are more favourable?
Hint: institutions, organizations and individuals all have roles to play…..and what has any of this to do with health and safety?
William Ninacs will be answering these questions and more at this year’s Institute.
For more information: www.upei.ca/si/si2010/en/keynote
For more information on the Atlantic Summer Institute, please explore the website www.upei.ca/SI or contact asi@thequaich.pe.ca or (902) 894.3399.
Reminder - The deadline to apply for a subsidy is Tuesday, June 1st, 2010.
January 26, 2010
August 17-20, 2010
6th Atlantic Summer Institute (ASI)
University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown
Q. What makes communities resilient? How do people and communities thrive in spite of difficult circumstances?
A. Our theme for ASI 2010 is Innovation and Collaboration: Building Resilient Communities. We will explore the answers to these questions together as we learn from the fields of:
The Institute will attract those individuals and organizations who are working with innovative and collaborative practices as well as those who are looking to learn and be inspired by them!
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
For inquiries please contact asi@thequaich.pe.ca or (902) 894.3399. Watch the website www.upei.ca/asi for more information on the 2010 Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities.
Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities
