Each year, students in the Faculty of Education카지노 게임 컬렉션�s FOCI 291 course are tasked with designing community development projects aimed at providing support to students at-risk due to challenges outside of the classroom 카지노 게임 컬렉션� such as physical or mental illness or family circumstances. For Jessica Longchamps (Ed카지노 게임 컬렉션�16), this project created an opportunity to address the issue of body image and self-esteem in students and young adults.

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As part of this course, teacher candidates are tasked with developing programs to improve their students' success academically, behaviourally and socially by providing life skills training, extra-curricular activities or by filling gaps in existing school programs. The course comprises one half of the Faculty of Education카지노 게임 컬렉션�s At-Risk Adolescents and Young Adults concentration 카지노 게임 컬렉션� one of a number of concentrations in the Bachelor of Education program which allows interested candidates the opportunity to specialize in a particular aspect of teaching.

For her project, Ms. Longchamps designed a workshop for teachers, fellow candidates and members of the public to learn more about how to recognize signs that a student may be facing body image, eating disorders or self-esteem challenges, as well as means to offer support and connect them with specialists. In addition, she developed a program which connects students who are at-risk of developing eating disorders or have self-esteem or body image issues with a local support group in her hometown of Ottawa.

Ms. Longchamps says the motivation behind the project was to assist those who struggle with self-image challenges. The general lack of information about body image disorders, as well as the lingering public perception that self-esteem and positive self-image are a 카지노 게임 컬렉션�choice,카지노 게임 컬렉션� further motivated her to do more to educate the public.

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A second workshop is planned for this summer in Kingston. Ms. Longchamps is open to the idea of continuing to expand the workshop series to a wider audience, should demand exist, but says the lessons she has learned from designing the program will stay with her into her own classroom.

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