OPSOA, in partnership with Joseph Clark (workshop design) and Lakeside Information Technologies Inc. (technical design and administration) is pleased to be hosting a series of free, online, self-paced workshops that will be of interest to Teachers, Principals and other educators who are called upon to deal with social issues in today's school system.

Three serious and sensitive issues are being tackled in these workshops: bullying prevention, addiction awareness and cultural appreciation.

The first of these workshops, Bullying Prevention, was launched on February 1, 2006. The Addiction Awareness workshop is being launched on February 27th and the Cultural Appreciation workshop is scheduled for launch in May.

Each workshop is made up of modules that can be used individually or as a comprehensive package. It is estimated that four hours will be required to complete the workshop. These online workshops combine text with audio, video, animation, graphics and colour in an interesting and motivational self-paced learning environment.

Bullying Prevention Workshop
Within the Safe Schools Initiative of the government, many district school boards are working to develop Anti-Bullying programs with the goal of preventing harassment and mental and physical trauma for students. The Staff who are developing these programs need access to a great variety of resources.

The Bullying Prevention Workshop offers a host of best practices and resources that will help in the development of policy plus practical methods of intervention that provide an understanding of the effect of bullying on all related parties.
This free, online, self-paced workshop that will be of interest to Teachers, Principals and other educators who are called upon to deal with Bullying in today's school system.

Addiction Awareness Workshop
The Addiction Awareness workshop examines the broad range of addictions that threaten students within our schools. Working from this broad understanding the workshop focuses on drug and alcohol abuse as the leading threats to today's youth.
While studying proven best practices participants will gain a knowledge of drugs and drug use, will learn to identify the signs of addiction and learn effective strategies of intervention and assistance.

This free, online, self-paced workshop that will be of interest to Teachers, Principals and other educators within the school system trying to identify and assist youth under the strain of an addiction.

Registration
Participants should be OPSOA members or their designates.

For more information or to register please email .