The Carpentry and Health Care programs at the Chateauguay Valley Career Centre (CVCEC) are traditionally male and female dominated programs. Every school year we have a few female students registered for the Carpentry program and a couple of male students registered in the Health Care programs. While speaking to our current students, it was nice...Read More
Welcome back to our CVCEC team from the mountains of the Dominican Republic. This year the team consisted of students and teachers from our Health Care programs and a Carpentry teacher. Everyone had an amazing experience volunteering at clinics, shadowing in hospitals, visiting a women’s shelter and a diabetic clinic and finally visiting construction and greenhouse...Read More
Our vocational Healthcare Programs at CVCEC prepare students for a professional career in the health care field. One of the objectives of our Health Care Programs is to meet industry and student needs by effectively incorporating knowledge and practical skills into the program. As for student needs, classroom work provides some insight into the demands...Read More
Ocoa Trip, 2015 to the Dominican Republic Life at CVCEC is always full of surprises and unexpected events. This is one of the things that makes working here a dynamic and interesting place. For the past few years, the Health Care groups have been going on humanitarian field trips with students to the Dominican Republic....Read More
We all know the importance of balance in our lives. As a teacher at CVCEC, I balance teaching with nursing and try to share my experiences in the health care world in hopes that my students will benefit. However, I am more than a teacher or a nurse. I have a variety of interests and...Read More
Soup to Warm your Hearts The cold, the wind, the temperature, what a winter….. Even though there is no wind-chill of -32 today, we are still in the mercy of winter, but I ask you, who doesn’t like to keep warm, no matter what the temperature is outside. To help warm the cockles of our...Read More
Presently, six of our HAN(Health, Assistant & Nursing) students and one HCF(Health Care Facilities) student are fastidiously preparing for their international health care experience to the Dominican Republic next May. Firsthand work in offering health teaching, practicing newly acquired assessment skills in makeshift medical clinics and developing an awareness of the healthcare system in a foreign...Read More
February is a big month for the Health Care team. The second year Health, Assistance & Nursing(HAN) students will be graduating at the end of this month; the new HAN’s are hard at work trying to pass all of their exams. The Health Care Facilities(HCF) students are starting their first stage this week in local establishments. ...Read More
This past November, my colleagues and I had the privilege to travel and teach in Bangladesh. This trip allowed us to share our knowledge and culture with the people we met as well as learn about theirs. Our worlds are very different in many ways however our goals seem to be the same. As teachers...Read More
The staff and students from CVCEC wanted to give everyone a Holiday surprise! Take a listen, watch and enjoy their own rendition of Bruce Springsteen’s version of “Santa Claus is Coming To Town”. Happy Holidays from CVCEC! Read More
