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Health-care assistant spaces open up at CNC ANNIE GALLANT Observer Reporter B.C. Minister of Advanced Education Andrew Wilkinson was in Quesnel Tuesday to announce the one-time $153,000 funding to the College of New Caledonia Quesnel campus for 18 additional health-care assistant spaces. Several post-secondary campuses around the province answered the call for proposals and Quesnel was one of the funding recipients. Kathy Jaffary, CNC Quesnel spokesperson said they don’t offer the health-care assistant program as part of their baseline programs but rather it’s part of a rotation through several programs over several disciplines as the demand arises. The only current health profession baseline program is their nursing program. These 18 spaces for health-care assistant are being offered above and beyond our baseline programs,” she said. “And its only for this one year.” The 35-week health-care assistant program is slated to begin Oct. 1, 2015 and staff are in place to teach this program. “Spaces are filling up,” Jaffary said. “We expect all 18 spaces to be filled. Last time we offered this program we had a wait list.” She added community indicators suggest all 18 graduates will be absorbed locally. Currently, there are 14 registered for the program. Anyone interested in registering can call CNC. CNC’s health-care assistants’ program provides skills to care for disabled individuals living in long-term care facilities or private homes. To help clients meet their needs in all dimensions of health in their home or in a facility, the program prepares students to help with assessments, communication and activities of daily living (such as nutrition and personal hygiene.) One-time funding for short-duration health education programs helps address the immediate needs of specific communities so the supply of trained health-care workers is aligned with demand. Wilkinson added it’s important to offer programs in the communities that demonstrate a local need. “Students can train in Quesnel and then choose to stay and work in the Cariboo to support the healthcare needs of their communities.”
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Culture Day includes Chalk Challenge Just one of the hundreds of activities slated for Quesnel and across the province during Culture Days Sept. 25 – 27 is the Great Sidewalk Chalk Challenge where children within the school district at various schools including private and home-schooled, will create sidewalk art to be judged Sept. 25 at 10 a.m. Home-schooled students can participate at the Arts and Rec Centre. The theme for this challenge is the Art within Me and students are encouraged to express all the different ways in which they participate in the arts. Visit bc.culturedays.ca, click on activity then by city Quesnel and find out the many other activities going on during Culture Days. Annie Gallant photo
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