{"id":2435,"date":"2016-03-22T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2016-08-18T07:41:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T11:41:22","slug":"chlamla-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":"Mosaic 2016 \u2013 Supporting the local community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2440\" src=\"http:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kidsbookcoverspng-150x148.png\" alt=\"kidsbookcoverspng\" width=\"150\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kidsbookcoverspng-150x148.png 150w, https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kidsbookcoverspng-300x295.png 300w, https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kidsbookcoverspng.png 592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>The community service project of the Mosaic 2016 conference will send hundreds of books to children in First Nations communities in Ontario to encourage them to dream of careers in the health professions.\u00a0 In partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clubamick.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Club Amick<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sols.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Ontario Library Service<\/a> approximately 225 titles have been identified to develop special collections that will be sent to up to 5 schools, primarily in Northern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Aboriginal Canadians are 4.3% of the Canadian population, but less than 1% are doctors, and the Aboriginal community faces serious health challenges.\u00a0 This project is based on work conducted by the Universite de Montreal.\u00a0 Find more information on that project <a href=\"http:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Health-Professions-Collection-CHLA-2015.pdf\" rel=\"\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to participate in this project you can either purchase one or more of the selected books by visiting the project\u2019s Amazon book list or you can donate cash either via PayPal (link below) or in person at the hospitality desk at the conference. Canadian donors should use the amazon.ca list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/registry\/wishlist\/3T8XQF0VVHR3E\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Donors from other countries may find this amazon.com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/registry\/wishlist\/2T7MI180OX4ZZ\/ref=cm_sw_su_w\" target=\"_blank\">list<\/a> more helpful. In either case, be sure to select the ship to address listed for Mosaic 2016 Children\u2019s Book Project.<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions about this project please feel free to contact the project coordinator, Sandy Iverson at <a href=\"mailto:sandy@sandyiverson.info\">sandy@sandyiverson.info<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The community service project of the Mosaic 2016 conference will send hundreds of books to children in First Nations communities in Ontario to encourage them to dream of careers in the health professions.\u00a0 In partnership with Club Amick and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/?p=2435\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thla.chla-absc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}