Volunteer Opportunity: Empowering Vaccine Resilient Communities We are helping to build vaccine resiliency in our community through offering a series of free educational opportunities including a webinar, practical session and toolkit access. These educational opportunities are aimed at community members who are interested in becoming a Community Vaccine Champion who will provide peer support to vaccine hesitant individuals in the community. Once a month, two community vaccine champions will...
Category: Community
Time: 9:30am - Noon For more information contact: ucw.wow@gmail.com
Several communities of faith have inquired if the vaccine passport being instituted in Ontario applies to them. The legal advice the regional council has received to date is that communities of faith do not have grounds to request this information. Privacy legislation protects medical information and there has been no provincial action mandating such information be shared in a community of faith. In fact, worshiping communities have been specifically exempted from the vaccine passport. There...
RIGHT RELATIONS EVENTS 2021 The following Right Relations events are all being offered by Antler River Watershed, Horseshoe Falls, Western Ontario Waterways regions of the United Church of Canada. Please note that you are able to call into the Zoom meetings with a regular phone call if you do not have access to video calls. For more information contact Thérèse Samuel, Minister, Right Relations and Social Justice at TSamuel@united-church.ca. WORKING TOGETHER FOR RIGHT RELATIONS: Networking and...
Becoming Nakuset The Story of a Sixties Scoop Survivor September 8, 2021 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET / 4:00pm - 5:30pm PT On September 8th “Becoming Nakuset” will be hosted by United in Learning in partnership with Indigenous Ministries and Justice and Shining Waters Regional Council. It is an important award-winning short documentary of one woman’s experience of the Sixties Scoop, and a story that needs to be known in the non-Indigenous church. The film will be followed by a listening circle led...
