Ruth Clark

Fashion Moves Garment Design Competition

Fashion Moves Garment Design Competition

Creating the New direction for the Fashion Industry.

• Startup type: Company
• Status: Active
• Stage: Beta

The Fashion Moves Garment Design Competition is our signature activity. Through this we will build a bridge between the Fashion/Garment Industry to create Professional Office, athletic, social and casual clothing for People with Disabilities. Lets bring the Garment Industry into the 'now'. Visit us at www.fashionmovescompetition.blogspot.com
Our inaugral Artist in Residence has also been announced and is Tiffanee Griffiths, of Canadian 1st Nations heritage.

Employer:	Private Care-Giving and Disability Services, Kamloops, B.C.
Position:	Work experience
Time period:	October 1998 - Present
Description:	I initially returned to Kamloops to provide full-time, live-in care-giving for my Mother. Since her passing I have done some additional in-home care-giving.

Employer:	Prestige Health Care and Fashion Moves, Kamloops, B.C.
Position:	Work experience
Time period:	October 1992 - Present
Description:	I became involved with designing and marketing Adaptive Clothing for People with Disabilities as a result of the needs of family members and close family friends. I have worked in this area, part time, during this time. In 2008, one of the Conference presentations I made was at the International Pacific Rim Disability Conference where I produced a Fashion Show / discussion presentation on Adaptive Clothing. This presentation was done in front of a lunch audience of over 1000 service providers from over 40 countries. I have presented at a number of International Conferences in addition to this.

Employer:	Disability Resource Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
Position:	Assistant Liaison Officer
Time period:	March 1995 - October 1998
Description:	My primary duties included scheduling and administering examinations for students who’s disability precludes them from writing examinations in class. Provided assistance with Audio Visual equipment and adaptive computer technology. When required, I also conduct initial and follow-up interviews with students to ensure they are receiving appropriate academic accommodations, assist with obtaining appropriately adapted equipment, and other academically related support as required. Maintenance of the Professional Development and Research in-office library collection required highly detailed data entry.

Employer:	Crane Library and Resource Centre, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C.
Position:	Library Assistant III
Time period:	October 1991 - February 1995
Description:	The Crane Library and Resource Centre was established to provide academic support to Blind and Visually impaired students at the University of British Columbia. My primary duties allowed me to work with the students we served on a daily basis and to ensure that their required textbooks were transcribed onto audio cassette and that all office, University, national and international records regarding these transcriptions be kept up to date. As well as working with UBC students I also handled all aspects of commercial sale and inter-library loan of our audio and Braille productions, throughout North America. As needed I would also provide support on all adapted and specialized equipment, assisted new staff in related offices through out Canada learn the procedures of alternate format production and handling. I often acted as liaison between the students and University faculty. As the office has a very small staff I frequently was responsible for the full day to day operation.

Employer:	MacMillan Library, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
Position:	Library Assistant III
Time period:	January 1981 - October 1991
Description:	The MacMillan Library supports the Forestry and Agriculture Faculties at UBC. I provided full reference service to members of the UBC community and the general public. I trained and supervised junior staff on the circulation desk, was senior staff responsible for the library twice a week. I was also responsible for the daily upkeep of the manual card catalogue and the over 500 journals that were received in the branch each month. I worked extensively with the faculty to maintain the reserve course reading collection. Included a significant amount of highly detailed data entry.

Employer:	Catalogue Records Div., Library, University of British Columbia., Vancouver, B.C.
Position:	Library Assistant III
Time period:	May 1979 - December 1980
Description:	I was part of a special project team inputting existing library records into the computer following the MARC international convention of data input. Highly detailed data input.

Employer:	Adult Learning Outreach Centers, Vancouver Community College, Vancouver, B.C.
Position:	Library Assistant
Time period:	October 1978 - March 1979
Description:	Three adult learning centers were located in branches of the City Library and each had a collection of print support teaching material. With the assistance of one junior clerk I traveled between and maintained these collections and interacted with the students as required.

Employer:	Cariboo Thompson Nicola Library System (CTNLS), Kamloops , B.C.
Position:	Library Assistant III
Time period:	July 1975 - August 1978
Description:	Initially I supervised two small community branch libraries in Ashcroft and Cache Creek, B.C. I had part time staff at each of these branches and attended regular division heads meetings in Kamloops. During this time I wrote a regular column for the Ashcroft newspaper. In May 1976 I was promoted and moved into the main branch of the Library System in Kamloops where I supervised the Children’s and Adult’s reading divisions, with 8 full and part time staff.

Employer:	School District 24 (Kamloops) Teacher’s Resource Centre, Kamloops , B.C.
Position:	Library Assistant III
Time period:	July 1972 - August 1973
Description:	I was one of 3 staff in the Teacher’s Resource Center and some of my responsibilities included looking after AV equipment and films, in addition to other Educational materials