Holly Cooper

Ceremony honours students, Correctional Service Canada/UFV partnership

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Group photo of five people smiling at the camera. Two of them are holding a wooden art piece, approximately two feet by two feet, with the letters UFV and the university's hummingbird crest carved and painted into a plank of wood. The five people are posed in front of a CHASI's mural, which shows a figure painted in blue and orange holding up the words "together empowered".

Members of the CHASI team were among a group of UFV guests invited to attend the recent graduation ceremony for UFV’s second full course taught to inmates at the Pacific Institution. The offering of face-to-face credit courses was a component of a broader Correctional Service Canada/UFV initiative that CHASI has had the privilege of leading … Read more

CHASI projects take international stage at Pacific Sociological Association conference

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Group photo of 15 members of the CHASI team posing in an airport at the end of the trip home. Many are wearing navy blue sweatshirts with CHASI written on them in orange letters.

Students and staff from the Community Health and Social Innovation Hub returned to the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) conference for the second year in a row. The group of 16 CHASI representatives shared experiences and findings from CHASI’s work while learning from sociologists and practitioners in related fields over the course of four days (March … Read more