THE VILLAGE OF ATTACHMENT
PARENT EDUCATION EVENT
Wednesday, March 4th
By, Steve Cairns & Bev Ogilvie
7pm at Connaught Elementary School Gym
Presented by New West DPAC
Poster/Details: Village of Attachment Poster
Children and youth thrive in environments when they feel safe, welcomed, and significant! Learn how parents, educators, and others can help develop these nurturing environments in their homes, schools, daycares, and community. Together, we can build Villages of Attachment for our children.
Please see the attached poster for details and circulate to New Westminster parents, guardians, educators, and caregivers of children and youth.
Steve and Bev are passionate educators who have been consulting with parents and schools in BC to successfully build Villages of Attachment for students of all ages.
For your information, their bios are included below.
After 35 years as an educator and school administrator in Burnaby, Steve Cairns now consultants with schools and school districts on how to build the “Village” that it “takes to raise a child”. He currently is a Committee Member of the BC School Centered Mental Health Coalition, Co-Chair for the Board of Directors for the FORCE (Families Organized for Recognition and Care Equality) Society for Kid’s Mental Health, Member of the Parent Advisory Committee for the Dalai Lama Centre (Hearts and Minds Index), and Co-Founder of the Centre for the Study of Community and School Connectedness.
Bev Ogilvie, MA, RCC is the district counsellor for Burnaby BC schools. She has 30 years of professional teaching experience in public schools, colleges and universities. Bev is Associate Professor at City University and an instructor at Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC. She is a Master Instructor with the Crisis Prevention Institute, a member of the BC School Counsellors Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the BC Association of School Centered Mental Health Coalition.
Publications
ConnectZone.org: Building connectedness in schools, 2014. Inside Out Media, Vancouver, BC.
Ogilvie, B. and Doonan, J. (2005). Making the transition: Elementary to Secondary School. A Health Canada Project. Cameray Community Fund.
I hope you will be able to join us for this event.