Free Batik Painting Workshop with Nicholas Sironka, Oct. 21

THE STRENGTH OF A WOMAN
Batik painting by Nicholas Sironka – in the Shoreline Community College art gallery, Admin. bldg. (1000) lobby, now through Oct. 28

Join us for a BATIK PAINTING WORKSHOP with artist Nicholas Sironka
Friday, October 21st, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Visual Arts Building, #2068
FREE to Shoreline CC students and staff!!
$25 for Community Members
Tickets and registration: http://www.shoreline.edu/visual-arts/batik-painting.aspx
RSVP with Claire Putney: cputney@shoreline.edu

Find us on Facebook!
www.facebook.com/thegalleryatShoreline
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New session of Mental Health First Aid Training open Oct. 28 and Nov. 4

Are you interested in being able to assist someone experiencing a mental health related crisis or non-crisis situation and where to turn for help?

Before you can know how to help, you need to know when to help.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an internationally recognized program designed to build mental health literacy within our communities — or a basic understanding of what different mental health illnesses and addictions are, how they can affect a person’s daily life, and what helps individuals experiencing these challenges get well.

You will learn about: 

·  Depression and mood disorders

·  Anxiety disorders

·  Trauma

·  Psychosis

·  Substance Use disorders

·  How to help someone who may be experiencing thoughts of suicide or harm

Mental Health First Aid teaches about recovery and resiliency — the belief that individuals experiencing these challenges can and do get better, and use their strengths to stay well.

Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack — even with no clinical training — becoming a Mental Health First Aider will train you to provide initial help to people experiencing mental health concerns such as depression, anxiety disorders, psychosis and substance use disorders as well as how to help someone who may be experiencing thoughts of harm or suicide.

This training is FREE and will be offered in two (2) – 4.5-hour sessions:
Friday, October 28 AND Friday, November 4 from 12 – 4:30 pm

You MUST attend BOTH training sessions to receive an MHFA handbook and become a certified Mental Health First Aider.

Please email Sheryl Copeland at scopeland@shoreline.edu to register and/or find out more information. Once registered, details as far as room location, etc. will be shared.

MHFA website: http://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/cs/

Be well!!  – Sheryl

Sheryl Copeland M.A.Ed., LMHC
Counselor
Counseling Services – FOSS 5245

Your Feedback Matters! College Identity Survey – Still time to complete the survey

Dear Colleague,

We are conducting a survey among employees and students based on the college identity project we began last winter. The goal of the project is to help us clearly define the College’s unique advantages to attract more students. Last academic year, many of you participated in listening sessions about the strengths, misperceptions, and descriptors of the College. Based on that information and over 350 community survey responses, we developed messages that describe the College.

Now we need your feedback on whether the messages developed truly do describe the College. Please complete the survey in the link below by October 17, 2016:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/shoreline-college-identity

The survey takes less than 15 minutes to complete. Click on only one answer per question unless instructed otherwise. Please note the questions in this survey are not related to the values exercise you recently participated in during Fall Convocation.

CLARUS Corporation – whose insights and coaching are helping us improve our student enrollment work – is coordinating this survey on behalf of the College, and your individual responses to the survey are confidential. Your answers will be combined with others’ participating in the study, and only general data will be shared with the College. For any technical questions or problems, please contact CLARUS Corporation (308.762.2565, ext. 104 or ashley@claruscorporation.com).

Thank you for helping us in deliver on the promises we make to our students and community. And remember you only have until Monday, October 17, 2016 to complete the survey!

With gratitude,
Cheryl Roberts, Ed.D.
President

UPDATE to Winter Closure Comp Time Accrual Opportunities

Due to the recently completed negotiations, the WFSE contract training is being rescheduled until the new materials are received in two weeks. Please see the below updated location, dates, and times as follows:

Course/Training Title:
WFSE Contract Training

Time (Hrs):
1.75

Location Updated:
Room 1402

Date/Time Updated:
10/21/16 @ 5:30 p.m.
10/22/16 @ 9 a.m.
 

The Dragon Lady Comes to Shoreline, Tues., Oct. 11

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Join Student Life as we bring performer Sara Porkalob to the Shoreline Community College campus theater on Tues., Oct. 11 at 3 pm!

FREE PERFORMANCE AND Q&A FOR SHORELINE COMMUNITY!

It is the year of the Water Dragon and the eve of Grandma Maria’s 60th birthday. By the light of the karaoke machine, fueled by pork dumplings and lumpia, she shares a dark secret from her Filipino gangster past with one lucky grandchild. Ripping apart the memories of her five children’s so-called “childhood dystopia”, she sings, dances, and kills her way through 40 years of faulty memories made to make her look like a bad mother. Three generations, six women, one Dragon Lady. Check out the event’s Facebook page here.