Protech Pulse - January
In This Issue's Newsletter:
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- Curated Articles:
- Omicron and living with COVID: Why the new variant might change the timeline
- What are the long-term effects of COVID-19 on mental health?
- How do we treat the unvaccinated? CMA opens dialogue as health systems overwhelmed
- 安省1月4号开始，必须使用含二维码的疫苗证书
- From treatment to mental health toll, studies reveal women are disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
- The Wisdom of Resilience
- We're in the 'you're on your own' stage of the pandemic
- Vaccination trend for Ontario kids 5-11 'alarming'
- 加拿大工人封鎖措施福利CWLB 擴大申請範圍 每周300元
- Expert Q&A on anti-Asian racism during the pandemic
- Canadians with disabilities fell through the cracks in the pandemic response. Here's what needs to change as Omicron surges
- Community News:
- Community Event for Frontline and Settlement Workers-Mental Health Support For Newcomer Youth and Children
- Yee Hong's Caregiver Education & Support Services: January's Programs
- Employment Opportunities:
- Volunteer Coordinator (Full-Time) and Social Media Coordinator (Part-Time) with CCNCSJ
- Colour of Change Project Coordinator: Breaking Down Barriers by Racialized Communities
- Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation is Hiring a Manager of Research
- Community Stories
- 20 people who took on the biggest job of the pandemic and helped Ontario get its shots
- 'I can't even explain to you how hard it is to get up and go to work': Nurses face Omicron, a worker shortage — and shifting rules
- Kids growing up in the pandemic have a different view of the world
Project Protech PACER Training Update
Many of us are at increased risk of mental health problems, and front-line workers are also struggling in their efforts to respond. PACER Training is here to help. We have just completed or in the final weeks of three cohorts: one Cantonese (14C) and two English (15E and 16E); We are currently planning on new PACER Training Cohorts starting in February. Space is limited. Please pre-register early by filling up the online-eligibility questionnaire at our PACER page.
Curated Articles: Omicron and living with COVID: Why the new variant might change the timeline
The Omicron variant is causing the virus to spread fast, and experts say that could speed up the timeline for COVID-19 to shift from a major health crisis to something we live with on a regular basis. The concept is known as "endemicity", and it refers to a time when a circulating virus no longer has the steep waves of outbreaks that hammer hospital capacity and force society to adapt, according to doctors. Instead, an endemic virus continues to circulate through our population — but in a way we can handle, like the flu. Finish your reading here.
Curated Articles: What are the long-term effects of COVID-19 on mental health?
In a recent multinational study, researchers determine the long-term adverse mental health symptoms associated with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by estimating acute infection severity. What are the long-term effects of COVID-19 on mental health? Have their answer here.
Curated Articles: How do we treat the unvaccinated? CMA opens dialogue as health systems overwhelmed
"We have this small minority — about five to 10% of the population — that are leading us to where we are right now, and I think we need to get serious about what we're going to do about that," said Canadian Medical Association President Dr. Katherine Smart. Read the full article here.
Curated Articles: 安省1月4号开始，必须使用含二维码的疫苗证书
安省由2022年1月4日开始，进入任何需要疫苗证明的地方，都需要使用配备有二维码的增强型疫苗证书。不能再使用没有二维码的旧版疫苗证书。增强型疫苗证书，可以是数码或实体纸质版本；至于获得医疗豁免的人士，则需要带备有二维码的经验证证明，因为由1月10日起，进入须出示疫苗证明的场所，将再不接受医生证明。点击 这里阅读全文。For the English version, please click here.
Two separate studies are revealing the toll the pandemic is having on women’s health including a treatment for COVID-19 that may only benefit men. The University of Calgary study stated that treatment steroids may help male patients they have little to no benefit for females. Access the full article here.
Curated Articles: The Wisdom of Resilience
What can older adults teach us about supporting mental wellbeing? Senior citizens sit at the center of life’s oldest paradox. For many, the closer they come to death, the more their emotional well-being seems to increase. After a lifetime of losing loved ones, suffering defeats, and experiencing physical decline, older adults still manage to take life's punches in stride. Finish reading this resilience piece here.
Curated Articles: We're in the 'you're on your own' stage of the pandemic
"Welcome to the create-your-own-adventure stage of the pandemic, where your individual experience will be determined by some combination of geography, financial resources, intuition and dumb luck. There is no guidebook, no consensus, no procedure to follow on this Day Eleventy-Billion of Canada's war against COVID-19." Robyn Urback opined at the Globe. Read the article here.
Curated Articles: Vaccination trend for Ontario kids 5-11 'alarming'
Almost seven weeks after appointments opened, just 45% of kids 5-11 had received at least one dose, as the date for in-person learning nears. COVID-19 vaccine doses administered to the kids aged five to 11 in Ontario have dropped off significantly over the last three weeks, a sign that the province is facing an uphill battle to vaccinate even a majority of children in this age cohort before school returns to in-person learning. Read more here.
Curated Articles: 加拿大工人封鎖措施福利CWLB 擴大申請範圍 每周300元
加拿大聯邦政府表示，在將大多數省份和地區添加到符合資格名單後，現已開放申請擴大版的加拿大工人封鎖措施福利（Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit，CWLB），每周最高可領300元，稅後到手270元。據報道，CWLB這項福利於11月宣布，但於12月22日擴大申請範圍，如果在COVID-19大流行期間工作場所受到50%或更多的容量限制，則任何工人都可以申請CWLB。點擊這裏閱讀全文。English version of the 'Lockdown beefits', please click here.
Curated Articles: Expert Q&A on anti-Asian racism during the pandemic
Since the start of the global lockdown, hate crimes targeted at Asian Canadians have increased hundreds of times over what they were before the pandemic began. New research led by University of Victoria psychologist Nigel Mantou Lou shows alarming rates of discriminatory experiences faced by Chinese Canadians and other Asian Canadians. Read more insight here.
Curated Articles: Canadians with disabilities fell through the cracks in the pandemic response. Here's what needs to change as Omicron surges
One in five Canadians live with disabilities — a number likely to grow as the pandemic presses on. Advocates share how leaders should plan ahead. As the COVID-19 case count in Canada surges due to the Omicron variant, the number of people dealing with long-term symptoms — an expansive list that can include brain fog, fatigue, muscle aches — will grow. Palliative care physician Dr. Amit Arya sees this easily snowballing to be a “mass disabling event.” Get more information here.
Community News:
Community Event for Frontline and Settlement Workers-Mental Health Support For Newcomer Youth and Children
Event: Mental Health Support For Newcomer Youth and Children
Date: Jan 26, 2022 (Wednesday)Time: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Registration: https://bit.ly/MentalHealth2022
(This event is open to frontline workers and settlement workers)
For more details, please feel free to refer to here.
Yee Hong's Caregiver Education & Support Services: January's Programs
Yee Hong has released their newest webinar calendar for January 2022. Yee Hong's Caregiver Education and Support Services helps caregivers fortify their love and patience, with up-to-date knowledge, essential skills and wellness support, to ensure positive and successful results. Please see the image below for more details https://www.yeehong.com/care-learning/ or email them at caregiver.edu@yeehong.com. You can click here to check more of Yee Hong's January 2022events!
Job Posting: Volunteer Coordinator and Social Media Coordinator positions with CCNCSJ
CCNC-SJ is seeking a Full-Time Volunteer Coordinator and a Part-time Social Media Coordinator to join the team! Application deadline is January 21. See the postings here : Volunteer Coordinator; Social Media Coordinator.
Job Posting: Colour of Change Project Coordinator: Breaking Down Barriers by Racialized Communities
Colour of Poverty is hiring a Colour of Change Project Coordinator for the "Breaking Down Barriers by Racialized Communities Through Building Community Research and Knowledge Capacity" project. This is a 14-month Full-time position from February 2022 – March 31, 2023. Click here for more info.
Job Posting: Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation is Hiring a Manager of Research
Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation is seeking a motivated and committed senior research professional with management experience and strong research and strategic thinking skills. Application deadline is February 4, 2022. Click here to see the full information.
Community Story: 20 people who took on the biggest job of the pandemic and helped Ontario get its shots
The goal was daunting, seemingly unattainable: Vaccinate 90% of Ontario’s population — more than 13 million people — against COVID-19. Double doses would help protect our family and neighbours, lower our own risk of getting sick and push us past the pandemic that has upended daily life and led to the deaths of more than 10,000 people in the province. Read the full list here.
Community Story: 'I can't even explain to you how hard it is to get up and go to work': Nurses face Omicron, a worker shortage — and shifting rules
Nancy Halupa was seated with her co-workers at 3 a.m., nearly eight hours into her 12-hour shift, when a colleague looked at them and said what many were feeling: that they had never seen such a "defeated group of nurses." "I was like, 'Yeah, we're done,'" Halupa says. A registered nurse who works in an emergency department in Toronto, Halupa said she’s never felt so demoralized in her 23-year career. Read the full story here.
Community Story: Kids growing up in the pandemic have a different view of the world
I recently enrolled my two eldest daughters in swimming lessons, after a nearly two-year pandemic-related hiatus. Their lessons are held in a state-of-the-art recreation centre in Guelph, Ont. After school one day, I brought my youngest daughter, who is 4, to watch her sisters from the viewing deck. While we walked through the echoey hallway, the smell of chlorine burning our nostrils, I peered down at my wide-eyed kindergartener and wondered what she was thinking. Finish reading Brianna Bell's article here.
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