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AMSSA Publications* Note - You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to read the publications listed below. If you do not have a current copy you can download Acrobat Reader for free here at the Adobe web site.
If you are planning an event…any event…you need to read this book! In 2005, AMSSA and its partners organized the first multicultural health fair in British Columbia. In 2006, we did it again, and our colleagues in Prince George watched us very carefully and then held one also. The Multicultural Health Fair Toolkit tells you everything you need to know to successfully mount a multicultural health fair. Presented in an easy to use, spiral-bound 8½ x 11” format, this publication contains 145 pages of advice, checklists, examples, samples and resources. It covers Elements of Success; Focus; Fundraising; Design; Marketing; Volunteers; Event Day and Evaluation, as well as useful appendices of tips and hints and a great tracking time-line. It is an excellent guide to planning and mounting any community event. Whether you are planning a multicultural health fair, a conference or a walk-a-thon, you will find this book essential.
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Analyzed information about settlement, adaptation and integration services offered by the Immigrant Integration Coordinating Committee (IICC) for immigrants and refugees
Main Report: Analysis of Immigrant and Refugee Services in British Columbia
Appendix B: Inventory of Immigrant and Refugee Services
"Research Study on Business Mentoring Activities"
Phase II Guidelines and Models
Phase II of the Business Mentoring Research explores the suggested models and guidelines from Phase I through analysis, focus groups and key informant interviews. Based on Phase II research findings and consideration of risk and liability factors, recommendations are presented for assessment of risks and liabilities, mentoring activity guidelines, starring, marketing, and recruitment.
"Research Study on Business Mentoring Activities"
Phase I Literature Review and Inventory of Business Mentoring Activities
Finding a job is of critical importance to newcomers to Canada. Professionally trained immigrants face many barriers to obtaining employment in their field. Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has identified business mentoring as one strategy to address this complex issue. This literature review and inventory comprises Phase I of a two-phase project the goal of which is to recommend models and guidelines for a business mentoring program delivered through Host programs across Canada.
"Achieving Equal Access in Health Care Project Report"
In collaboration with the Provincial Health Services Authority�s Provincial Language Service Program and the National Primary Health Care Transition Fund Initiative, and with funding support from Vancouver Foundation, the National Primary Health Care Transition Fund Initiative - Health Care Interpreter Services: Strengthening Access to Primary Care and the Societ� Sant� en Francais, AMSSA�s Multicultural Health Committee project," Achieving Equal Access in Health Care," sought to improve access to health care in communities outside the Lower Mainland. Focus groups and key informant interview took place in Prince George, Fort St. John,Terrace, Victoria, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Penticton, and Campbell River. These meetings and key informant interviews as well as a literature review and historical experiences informed a recommendations and a framework for a community delivery model for interpreter services in four British Columbia regions.
"Understanding the Options: Collaboration Models for Community Organizations"
This collaboration guide is a timely resource for organizations looking for innovative solutions to manage their agency in challenging times. Managers will find practical advice on how to:
- choose the most appropriate type of collaboration for their needs
- structure and manage their partnerships effectively and efficiently
- combine and enhance their services to meet growing demands
- operate more cost-effectively in an era of fiscal restraint
The guide focuses on a continuum of seven models of organizational collaboration ranging from joint programs and cooperatives to co-location and merger. Each model is examined in detail in terms of:
- governance
- advantages and disadvantages
- potential benefits
- possible challenges and pitfalls
- risks and liability
- potential cost savings
- time to implement
- cost to implement
- organizational autonomy
Managers can also learn from 13 case studies describing the real-life and sometimes surprising experiences of other organizations with each collaboration model.
"Advantage Diversity"
Advantage Diversity is an organizing tool for
agencies and individuals working on anti-racism activities throughout
the province. It provides resources, ideas and communications
tools in support of anti-racism activities throughout the year,
and in particular, in support of the International Day for the
Elimination of Racism, March 21.
"Peace Starts ... With You"
PEACE STARTS is a provincial media & communications resource kit
developed to assist communities to publicize the International Day
for the Elimination of Racism through events & communications activities.
Designed with specific strategies to target different audiences,
this kit includes resources that assist agencies in providing stories
to local media to publicize their events & activities.
The guide includes a suggested communications strategy to reach
key audiences, a media toolkit including sample press releases,
fact sheets, & media clippings to support the key messages. Also
includes a bibliography of other useful anti-racism and communications
resources.
The kit also includes a PEACE STARTS..WITH YOU poster.
"The Law on Charity
and Advocacy:
Current Issues and Possible Solutions"
A research report carried out by AMSSA in partnership
with the Community Legal Assistance Society. This report contributes
to nation-wide, voluntary sector research into revision of existing
Charities and Advocacy law and practice. For more information on
the national project, visit the IMPACS Charities and Advocacy Initiative
at www.impacs.org
Funding for this report was provided by the Institute
for Media, Policy, and Civil Society (IMPACS) and the Maytree Foundation.
Cultures West Magazine
Volume 23, No. 2 Fall 2005
Volume 23, No. 1 Spring 2005
Volume 22, No. 2 Fall
2004
Volume 22, No. 1 Spring
2004
Volume 21, No. 1 Fall
2003
Volume 20, No. 2 Fall
2002
Volume 20, No. 1 Spring
2002
Volume 19, No. 2
Fall 2001
Volume 19, No. 1
Summer 2001
Volume 18, No.
2 Fall 2000
"Cultural Diversity
in Organizations and Business:
Gaining a Competitive Advantage"
This valuable publication is intended to serve as a guide for organizations
- whether business, not-for-profit, or institutions that desire
to become more effective in today's fast-changing markets and demographics.
It is for organizations that need help in their process of organizational
change to value and manage cultural diversity. This is a primer
and not meant to be the definitive guide.
There are three main sections to this primer:
-
Overview and Conceptual Framework
To help understand what valuing diversity within an organization
or business is all about.
-
The Change Process
To understand what kind of help is available and guidelines
for getting help to start the process of change.
-
Tools and Resources
Sample policies and guidelines that can be adapted, as well
as available organizations that can assist in the process of
organizational change.
"Long-term Anti-Racism Strategies:
A Guide To Developing Effective Community Projects"
A Guide to assist communities in developing community-based, community-driven,
sustainable, long-term anti-racism strategies.
"Project Learnings Report:
Community-Based Long-Term Anti-Racism Strategy Development - Demonstration
Project"
This report charts the local initiatives of three BC communities
to develop long-term anti-racism strategies. The project had the
following objectives: To provide opportunities for members of the
three communities to
- meet with other individuals and organizations
- identify new community initiatives/to identify new ways to sustain
on-going initiatives
- develop action plans and timelines to support community initiatives
The report includes inputs, outputs, and outcomes of the demonstration
project held in Duncan, Penticton, and Prince George.
"How to Respond to Bias in the
Media: An AMSSA Manual"
We all get frustrated sometimes when we see or read articles in
media that we feel perpetuates stereotypes and bias. This manual
can assist you in understanding different kinds of complaints procedures
and how to file them. It details definitions of media bias, case
studies, and lists some additional resources and other strategies.
Phase II Guidelines and Models
Phase II of the Business Mentoring Research explores the suggested models and guidelines from Phase I through analysis, focus groups and key informant interviews. Based on Phase II research findings and consideration of risk and liability factors, recommendations are presented for assessment of risks and liabilities, mentoring activity guidelines, starring, marketing, and recruitment.
"Research Study on Business Mentoring Activities"
Phase I Literature Review and Inventory of Business Mentoring Activities
Finding a job is of critical importance to newcomers to Canada. Professionally trained immigrants face many barriers to obtaining employment in their field. Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has identified business mentoring as one strategy to address this complex issue. This literature review and inventory comprises Phase I of a two-phase project the goal of which is to recommend models and guidelines for a business mentoring program delivered through Host programs across Canada.
"Achieving Equal Access in Health Care Project Report"
In collaboration with the Provincial Health Services Authority�s Provincial Language Service Program and the National Primary Health Care Transition Fund Initiative, and with funding support from Vancouver Foundation, the National Primary Health Care Transition Fund Initiative - Health Care Interpreter Services: Strengthening Access to Primary Care and the Societ� Sant� en Francais, AMSSA�s Multicultural Health Committee project," Achieving Equal Access in Health Care," sought to improve access to health care in communities outside the Lower Mainland. Focus groups and key informant interview took place in Prince George, Fort St. John,Terrace, Victoria, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Penticton, and Campbell River. These meetings and key informant interviews as well as a literature review and historical experiences informed a recommendations and a framework for a community delivery model for interpreter services in four British Columbia regions.
"Understanding the Options: Collaboration Models for Community Organizations"
This collaboration guide is a timely resource for organizations looking for innovative solutions to manage their agency in challenging times. Managers will find practical advice on how to:
- choose the most appropriate type of collaboration for their needs
- structure and manage their partnerships effectively and efficiently
- combine and enhance their services to meet growing demands
- operate more cost-effectively in an era of fiscal restraint
The guide focuses on a continuum of seven models of organizational collaboration ranging from joint programs and cooperatives to co-location and merger. Each model is examined in detail in terms of:
- governance
- advantages and disadvantages
- potential benefits
- possible challenges and pitfalls
- risks and liability
- potential cost savings
- time to implement
- cost to implement
- organizational autonomy
Managers can also learn from 13 case studies describing the real-life and sometimes surprising experiences of other organizations with each collaboration model.
"Advantage Diversity"
Advantage Diversity is an organizing tool for
agencies and individuals working on anti-racism activities throughout
the province. It provides resources, ideas and communications
tools in support of anti-racism activities throughout the year,
and in particular, in support of the International Day for the
Elimination of Racism, March 21.
"Peace Starts ... With You"
PEACE STARTS is a provincial media & communications resource kit
developed to assist communities to publicize the International Day
for the Elimination of Racism through events & communications activities.
Designed with specific strategies to target different audiences,
this kit includes resources that assist agencies in providing stories
to local media to publicize their events & activities.
The guide includes a suggested communications strategy to reach
key audiences, a media toolkit including sample press releases,
fact sheets, & media clippings to support the key messages. Also
includes a bibliography of other useful anti-racism and communications
resources.
The kit also includes a PEACE STARTS..WITH YOU poster.
"The Law on Charity
and Advocacy:
Current Issues and Possible Solutions"
A research report carried out by AMSSA in partnership
with the Community Legal Assistance Society. This report contributes
to nation-wide, voluntary sector research into revision of existing
Charities and Advocacy law and practice. For more information on
the national project, visit the IMPACS Charities and Advocacy Initiative
at www.impacs.org
Funding for this report was provided by the Institute
for Media, Policy, and Civil Society (IMPACS) and the Maytree Foundation.
Cultures West Magazine
Volume 23, No. 2 Fall 2005
Volume 23, No. 1 Spring 2005
Volume 22, No. 2 Fall
2004
Volume 22, No. 1 Spring
2004
Volume 21, No. 1 Fall
2003
Volume 20, No. 2 Fall
2002
Volume 20, No. 1 Spring
2002
Volume 19, No. 2
Fall 2001
Volume 19, No. 1
Summer 2001
Volume 18, No.
2 Fall 2000
"Cultural Diversity
in Organizations and Business:
Gaining a Competitive Advantage"
This valuable publication is intended to serve as a guide for organizations
- whether business, not-for-profit, or institutions that desire
to become more effective in today's fast-changing markets and demographics.
It is for organizations that need help in their process of organizational
change to value and manage cultural diversity. This is a primer
and not meant to be the definitive guide.
There are three main sections to this primer:
-
Overview and Conceptual Framework
To help understand what valuing diversity within an organization
or business is all about.
-
The Change Process
To understand what kind of help is available and guidelines
for getting help to start the process of change.
-
Tools and Resources
Sample policies and guidelines that can be adapted, as well
as available organizations that can assist in the process of
organizational change.
"Long-term Anti-Racism Strategies:
A Guide To Developing Effective Community Projects"
A Guide to assist communities in developing community-based, community-driven,
sustainable, long-term anti-racism strategies.
"Project Learnings Report:
Community-Based Long-Term Anti-Racism Strategy Development - Demonstration
Project"
This report charts the local initiatives of three BC communities
to develop long-term anti-racism strategies. The project had the
following objectives: To provide opportunities for members of the
three communities to
- meet with other individuals and organizations
- identify new community initiatives/to identify new ways to sustain
on-going initiatives
- develop action plans and timelines to support community initiatives
The report includes inputs, outputs, and outcomes of the demonstration
project held in Duncan, Penticton, and Prince George.
"How to Respond to Bias in the
Media: An AMSSA Manual"
We all get frustrated sometimes when we see or read articles in
media that we feel perpetuates stereotypes and bias. This manual
can assist you in understanding different kinds of complaints procedures
and how to file them. It details definitions of media bias, case
studies, and lists some additional resources and other strategies.
Phase I Literature Review and Inventory of Business Mentoring Activities
Finding a job is of critical importance to newcomers to Canada. Professionally trained immigrants face many barriers to obtaining employment in their field. Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has identified business mentoring as one strategy to address this complex issue. This literature review and inventory comprises Phase I of a two-phase project the goal of which is to recommend models and guidelines for a business mentoring program delivered through Host programs across Canada.
"Achieving Equal Access in Health Care Project Report"
In collaboration with the Provincial Health Services Authority�s Provincial Language Service Program and the National Primary Health Care Transition Fund Initiative, and with funding support from Vancouver Foundation, the National Primary Health Care Transition Fund Initiative - Health Care Interpreter Services: Strengthening Access to Primary Care and the Societ� Sant� en Francais, AMSSA�s Multicultural Health Committee project," Achieving Equal Access in Health Care," sought to improve access to health care in communities outside the Lower Mainland. Focus groups and key informant interview took place in Prince George, Fort St. John,Terrace, Victoria, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Penticton, and Campbell River. These meetings and key informant interviews as well as a literature review and historical experiences informed a recommendations and a framework for a community delivery model for interpreter services in four British Columbia regions.
"Understanding the Options: Collaboration Models for Community Organizations"
This collaboration guide is a timely resource for organizations looking for innovative solutions to manage their agency in challenging times. Managers will find practical advice on how to:
- choose the most appropriate type of collaboration for their needs
- structure and manage their partnerships effectively and efficiently
- combine and enhance their services to meet growing demands
- operate more cost-effectively in an era of fiscal restraint
The guide focuses on a continuum of seven models of organizational collaboration ranging from joint programs and cooperatives to co-location and merger. Each model is examined in detail in terms of:
- governance
- advantages and disadvantages
- potential benefits
- possible challenges and pitfalls
- risks and liability
- potential cost savings
- time to implement
- cost to implement
- organizational autonomy
Managers can also learn from 13 case studies describing the real-life and sometimes surprising experiences of other organizations with each collaboration model.
"Advantage Diversity"
Advantage Diversity is an organizing tool for
agencies and individuals working on anti-racism activities throughout
the province. It provides resources, ideas and communications
tools in support of anti-racism activities throughout the year,
and in particular, in support of the International Day for the
Elimination of Racism, March 21.
"Peace Starts ... With You"
PEACE STARTS is a provincial media & communications resource kit
developed to assist communities to publicize the International Day
for the Elimination of Racism through events & communications activities.
Designed with specific strategies to target different audiences,
this kit includes resources that assist agencies in providing stories
to local media to publicize their events & activities.
The guide includes a suggested communications strategy to reach
key audiences, a media toolkit including sample press releases,
fact sheets, & media clippings to support the key messages. Also
includes a bibliography of other useful anti-racism and communications
resources.
The kit also includes a PEACE STARTS..WITH YOU poster.
"The Law on Charity
and Advocacy:
Current Issues and Possible Solutions"
A research report carried out by AMSSA in partnership
with the Community Legal Assistance Society. This report contributes
to nation-wide, voluntary sector research into revision of existing
Charities and Advocacy law and practice. For more information on
the national project, visit the IMPACS Charities and Advocacy Initiative
at www.impacs.org
Funding for this report was provided by the Institute
for Media, Policy, and Civil Society (IMPACS) and the Maytree Foundation.
Cultures West Magazine
Volume 23, No. 2 Fall 2005
Volume 23, No. 1 Spring 2005
Volume 22, No. 2 Fall
2004
Volume 22, No. 1 Spring
2004
Volume 21, No. 1 Fall
2003
Volume 20, No. 2 Fall
2002
Volume 20, No. 1 Spring
2002
Volume 19, No. 2
Fall 2001
Volume 19, No. 1
Summer 2001
Volume 18, No.
2 Fall 2000
"Cultural Diversity
in Organizations and Business:
Gaining a Competitive Advantage"
This valuable publication is intended to serve as a guide for organizations
- whether business, not-for-profit, or institutions that desire
to become more effective in today's fast-changing markets and demographics.
It is for organizations that need help in their process of organizational
change to value and manage cultural diversity. This is a primer
and not meant to be the definitive guide.
There are three main sections to this primer:
-
Overview and Conceptual Framework
To help understand what valuing diversity within an organization
or business is all about.
-
The Change Process
To understand what kind of help is available and guidelines
for getting help to start the process of change.
-
Tools and Resources
Sample policies and guidelines that can be adapted, as well
as available organizations that can assist in the process of
organizational change.
"Long-term Anti-Racism Strategies:
A Guide To Developing Effective Community Projects"
A Guide to assist communities in developing community-based, community-driven,
sustainable, long-term anti-racism strategies.
"Project Learnings Report:
Community-Based Long-Term Anti-Racism Strategy Development - Demonstration
Project"
This report charts the local initiatives of three BC communities
to develop long-term anti-racism strategies. The project had the
following objectives: To provide opportunities for members of the
three communities to
- meet with other individuals and organizations
- identify new community initiatives/to identify new ways to sustain
on-going initiatives
- develop action plans and timelines to support community initiatives
The report includes inputs, outputs, and outcomes of the demonstration
project held in Duncan, Penticton, and Prince George.
"How to Respond to Bias in the
Media: An AMSSA Manual"
We all get frustrated sometimes when we see or read articles in
media that we feel perpetuates stereotypes and bias. This manual
can assist you in understanding different kinds of complaints procedures
and how to file them. It details definitions of media bias, case
studies, and lists some additional resources and other strategies.
In collaboration with the Provincial Health Services Authority�s Provincial Language Service Program and the National Primary Health Care Transition Fund Initiative, and with funding support from Vancouver Foundation, the National Primary Health Care Transition Fund Initiative - Health Care Interpreter Services: Strengthening Access to Primary Care and the Societ� Sant� en Francais, AMSSA�s Multicultural Health Committee project," Achieving Equal Access in Health Care," sought to improve access to health care in communities outside the Lower Mainland. Focus groups and key informant interview took place in Prince George, Fort St. John,Terrace, Victoria, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Penticton, and Campbell River. These meetings and key informant interviews as well as a literature review and historical experiences informed a recommendations and a framework for a community delivery model for interpreter services in four British Columbia regions.
"Understanding the Options: Collaboration Models for Community Organizations"
This collaboration guide is a timely resource for organizations looking for innovative solutions to manage their agency in challenging times. Managers will find practical advice on how to:
- choose the most appropriate type of collaboration for their needs
- structure and manage their partnerships effectively and efficiently
- combine and enhance their services to meet growing demands
- operate more cost-effectively in an era of fiscal restraint
The guide focuses on a continuum of seven models of organizational collaboration ranging from joint programs and cooperatives to co-location and merger. Each model is examined in detail in terms of:
- governance
- advantages and disadvantages
- potential benefits
- possible challenges and pitfalls
- risks and liability
- potential cost savings
- time to implement
- cost to implement
- organizational autonomy
Managers can also learn from 13 case studies describing the real-life and sometimes surprising experiences of other organizations with each collaboration model.
"Advantage Diversity"
Advantage Diversity is an organizing tool for
agencies and individuals working on anti-racism activities throughout
the province. It provides resources, ideas and communications
tools in support of anti-racism activities throughout the year,
and in particular, in support of the International Day for the
Elimination of Racism, March 21.
"Peace Starts ... With You"
PEACE STARTS is a provincial media & communications resource kit
developed to assist communities to publicize the International Day
for the Elimination of Racism through events & communications activities.
Designed with specific strategies to target different audiences,
this kit includes resources that assist agencies in providing stories
to local media to publicize their events & activities.
The guide includes a suggested communications strategy to reach
key audiences, a media toolkit including sample press releases,
fact sheets, & media clippings to support the key messages. Also
includes a bibliography of other useful anti-racism and communications
resources.
The kit also includes a PEACE STARTS..WITH YOU poster.
"The Law on Charity
and Advocacy:
Current Issues and Possible Solutions"
A research report carried out by AMSSA in partnership
with the Community Legal Assistance Society. This report contributes
to nation-wide, voluntary sector research into revision of existing
Charities and Advocacy law and practice. For more information on
the national project, visit the IMPACS Charities and Advocacy Initiative
at www.impacs.org
Funding for this report was provided by the Institute
for Media, Policy, and Civil Society (IMPACS) and the Maytree Foundation.
This collaboration guide is a timely resource for organizations looking for innovative solutions to manage their agency in challenging times. Managers will find practical advice on how to:
- choose the most appropriate type of collaboration for their needs
- structure and manage their partnerships effectively and efficiently
- combine and enhance their services to meet growing demands
- operate more cost-effectively in an era of fiscal restraint
The guide focuses on a continuum of seven models of organizational collaboration ranging from joint programs and cooperatives to co-location and merger. Each model is examined in detail in terms of:
- governance
- advantages and disadvantages
- potential benefits
- possible challenges and pitfalls
- risks and liability
- potential cost savings
- time to implement
- cost to implement
- organizational autonomy
Managers can also learn from 13 case studies describing the real-life and sometimes surprising experiences of other organizations with each collaboration model.
"Advantage Diversity"
Advantage Diversity is an organizing tool for agencies and individuals working on anti-racism activities throughout the province. It provides resources, ideas and communications tools in support of anti-racism activities throughout the year, and in particular, in support of the International Day for the Elimination of Racism, March 21.
"Peace Starts ... With You"
PEACE STARTS is a provincial media & communications resource kit
developed to assist communities to publicize the International Day
for the Elimination of Racism through events & communications activities.
Designed with specific strategies to target different audiences, this kit includes resources that assist agencies in providing stories to local media to publicize their events & activities.
The guide includes a suggested communications strategy to reach key audiences, a media toolkit including sample press releases, fact sheets, & media clippings to support the key messages. Also includes a bibliography of other useful anti-racism and communications resources.
The kit also includes a PEACE STARTS..WITH YOU poster.
"The Law on Charity
and Advocacy:
Current Issues and Possible Solutions"
A research report carried out by AMSSA in partnership with the Community Legal Assistance Society. This report contributes to nation-wide, voluntary sector research into revision of existing Charities and Advocacy law and practice. For more information on the national project, visit the IMPACS Charities and Advocacy Initiative at www.impacs.org
Funding for this report was provided by the Institute for Media, Policy, and Civil Society (IMPACS) and the Maytree Foundation.
Cultures West Magazine
Volume 23, No. 2 Fall 2005
Volume 23, No. 1 Spring 2005
Volume 22, No. 2 Fall 2004
Volume 22, No. 1 Spring 2004
Volume 21, No. 1 Fall 2003
Volume 20, No. 2 Fall 2002
Volume 20, No. 1 Spring 2002
Volume 19, No. 2 Fall 2001
Volume 19, No. 1 Summer 2001
Volume 18, No. 2 Fall 2000
"Cultural Diversity
in Organizations and Business:
Gaining a Competitive Advantage"
This valuable publication is intended to serve as a guide for organizations
- whether business, not-for-profit, or institutions that desire
to become more effective in today's fast-changing markets and demographics.
It is for organizations that need help in their process of organizational
change to value and manage cultural diversity. This is a primer
and not meant to be the definitive guide.
There are three main sections to this primer:
-
Overview and Conceptual Framework
To help understand what valuing diversity within an organization or business is all about. -
The Change Process
To understand what kind of help is available and guidelines for getting help to start the process of change. -
Tools and Resources
Sample policies and guidelines that can be adapted, as well as available organizations that can assist in the process of organizational change.
"Long-term Anti-Racism Strategies: A Guide To Developing Effective Community Projects"
A Guide to assist communities in developing community-based, community-driven, sustainable, long-term anti-racism strategies.
"Project Learnings Report:
Community-Based Long-Term Anti-Racism Strategy Development - Demonstration
Project"
This report charts the local initiatives of three BC communities to develop long-term anti-racism strategies. The project had the following objectives: To provide opportunities for members of the three communities to
- meet with other individuals and organizations
- identify new community initiatives/to identify new ways to sustain on-going initiatives
- develop action plans and timelines to support community initiatives
The report includes inputs, outputs, and outcomes of the demonstration project held in Duncan, Penticton, and Prince George.
"How to Respond to Bias in the Media: An AMSSA Manual"
We all get frustrated sometimes when we see or read articles in media that we feel perpetuates stereotypes and bias. This manual can assist you in understanding different kinds of complaints procedures and how to file them. It details definitions of media bias, case studies, and lists some additional resources and other strategies.
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