My passion in life is to inspire and empower people to maximize their quality of life in spite of a chronic health condition or a disability.

Keswick, Ontario, Canada, 905-967-3014, lifecoach@changingpaces.com

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Career and Education

Conference Call University
http://www.CCULearning.com
For people who love to learn - CCU provides you with Virtual Learning opportunities in over 75 different topics, through a variety of technologies, including Teleseminars, Webinars, Podcasts, and more.

Ten Steps - Career Planning
http://10steps.careerpathsonline.com/guide/
Ten Steps Career Planning Guide - Highly recommended. It's comprehensive and would take a long time if you did it all at once, but you don't have to do it all at once. You register, with a password and everything, and then return to it at your leisure. The 10 steps are: Values; Personality; Learning Styles; Skills; Interests; Options; Research; Connections; Goals; and Action. Results are immediate.

FranklinCovey
http://www.franklincovey.com/missionbuilder/
Create your Personal Mission Statement™ - This exercise will help you to create your own own Personal Mission Statement. Taking your time to seriously consider your answers to the following questions will help you to define your values, principles, and what matters most to you in your life. Creating a Personal Mission Statement will be, without question, one of the most powerful and significant things you will ever do to take leadership of your life.

WORKink @ Workopolis
http://workink.workopolis.com
Workopolis.com and the Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW) are pleased to welcome you to WORKink - Canada’s premier site for job seekers with disabilities. This site brings together the benefits of CCRW’s WORKink site with those of workopolis.com - Canada’s biggest job site.

English Grammar Connection
http://www.englishgrammarconnection.com/
These interactive online lessons help improve students' English grammar skills. Students receive constructive feedback throughout the exercises, and get a detailed end-of-round summary report after several questions have been completed.

Momentum Coaching
http://www.susandunn.cc/
emotional_intelligence_articles.htm
Articles about Emotional Intelligence, EQ Articles, EI Articles, Articles on How to Live Your Life and Conduct Your Career & Relationships with Emotional Intelligence

Chronic Illness Coach - Wall Street Journal Article
http://cicoach.com/html/
managing_your_career.html
"Should Job Hunters Reveal Chronic Illness? The Pros and Cons" By JOANN S. LUBLIN, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. An article from The Wall Street Journal Online in their Managing Your Career section.

Chronic Illness Coach - Main Site
http://common-goals.com/
Rosalind Joffe coaches individuals with chronic illness on how to thrive - not just survive - in the workplace. Drawing on 25 years of living with her own chronic illnesses, 30 years of experience in the workplace, and her extensive training and practice as a coach, she helps others to prosper in their work.

Ministry of Labour
http://www.gov.on.ca/LAB/english/
Through the ministry's key areas of occupational health and safety, employment rights and responsibilities, labour relations and internal administration, the ministry's mandate is to set, communicate and enforce workplace standards while encouraging greater workplace self-reliance. A range of specialized agencies, boards and commissions assist the ministry in its work.

Ontario Human Rights Commission
http://www.ohrc.on.ca/english/index.shtml
The Commission’s mandate under the Code includes: investigating complaints of discrimination and harassment; making efforts to settle complaints between parties; preventing discrimination through public education and public policy; looking into situations where discriminatory behaviour exists.

Canadian Human Rights Commission
http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/default-en.asp?lang_update=1
The Canadian Human Rights Commission administers both the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Employment Equity Act, and ensures that the principles of equal opportunity and non-discrimination are followed in all areas of federal jurisdiction.

Accessibility Advisory Council of Ontario
http://www.gov.on.ca/citizenship/accessibility/
english/councilmandate.htm
The Council, composed largely of people with disabilities, was created to advise the Minister of Citizenship on implementation of the Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2001  and accessibility of government services and to provide information programs. This site is designed to provide information, useful resources, best practices and motivation to organizations, communities and interested individuals working together to make Ontario more inclusive and accessible to everyone.

Toronto East Labour lawyers
http://www.lawyershop.ca/regions/ontario/
toronto_east/toronto_east_labour_lawyers.php
Welcome to Lawyershop.ca where you can find a Canadian lawyer from law offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Ottawa. You'll find links to thousands of lawyers and law offices on this site. Law specialties include real estate lawyers, divorce lawyers, family law and immigration counsel along with specialty areas of malpractice, personal injury, and criminal defence. Whatever type of attorney you need, you'll find one practicing in your city or town or nearby.

Canadian Law Site
http://www.canadianlawsite.com/employment.htm
CanadianLawSite.com provides Canadian law information in plain, straightforward English. We have a Canadian Lawyers Locator and more than 90 major categories of law, including history, a dictionary of terminology, and modern law.

Virtual Community Resource Centre - Conflict Management
http://www.yorkregion-vcrc.com/conflict/
Conflict Management - Opportunity for Personal Growth. These pages are based on a workshop developed and facilitated by Trish Robichaud. The goals of this site include; To explore the different ways we interact with others in conflict situations, To learn that we can deal with any conflict effectively by learning to manage our reactions to it, To set goals for the management of future conflict in our lives.

The Career Key
http://www.careerkey.org
The Career Key will help you -- in choosing a career, choosing a college major or training program, and in career planning. Take The Career Key, a professional test or quiz. It measures your skills, abilities, talents, values, interests, and personality. You will identify promising jobs and get accurate career information about them.

JOBBOOM.com - Top 100 Internet Sites for Learning and Employment
http://www.jobboom.com/conseils/top100A.html
Choosing and managing your career are complicated and frightening tasks. Poor professional choices can lead to negative consequences in your life. That's why you need to make well-informed decisions when choosing a direction or changing your career plan. Fortunately, the Internet is a fantastic resource for anyone looking for answers to questions about the future of their career.

Link Up - Employment Services for Persons with Disabilities
http://www.linkup.ca/
Our aim is to reach out to an ever-widening circle of persons with disabilities and to offer an ever-widening range of services to this circle. By continuing to reach out and offer our services, we make it possible for more and more persons with disabilities to make a contribution towards the economic life of the Toronto area and allow more and more businesses access to the entire pool of talent available when filling their positions.

Workopolis
http://www.workopolis.com/
Workopolis claims to be Canada's biggest job site. It is a vast employment resource well worth the visit. Among other features is an extensive job search capability.

Charity Village
http://www.charityvillage.com/
Charity Village is the leading online source of information, news, jobs, services and resources for the Canadian nonprofit community. Today, our site includes more than 3,000 pages of information and is accessed more than 30 million times a month.

OneStep
http://www.onestep.on.ca/findajob/ultimate.cfm
Trying to find a job? Here's a list of as many online Canadian newspapers as we could find. In some cases, we've linked directly to the classified section or the employment section of the newspapers.

All Star Jobs
http://www.allstarjobs.ca/jobbanks/
A Canadian Job Search site with links to over 30 other job sites.

All Star Jobs - Toronto
http://www.alltorontojobs.com/employment.htm
A subset of All Star Jobs with a focus on the Toronto area.

Guiding Star
http://www.guidingstar.ca/
Job_Opportunities_Web_Sites.htm
Job Search - Career opportunities in Markham, Ontario.

Yahoo - HotJobs
http://ca.hotjobs.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Canada's Job Search resource - search for jobs, post your resume, consult their Career Tools pages.

Government of Canada - Job Bank
http://www.guichetemplois.gc.ca/Intro_en.asp
Job Search - listings from all over Canada - searchable by local areas.

Virtual Community Resource Centre
http://www.yorkregion-vcrc.com
This website has the resources to help you plan your first career, re-enter the workforce, or make a career change.
 

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