Program Director

• Sep 2016 - Jul 2018

Provincial language service providing access to health care providers across the sectors to access interpreting and translation services in order to facilitate communication between provider and multilingual populations.Engaging stakeholders and professionals across the health system to successfully utilize language services available. Facilitating education and capacity building opportunities for professionals in understanding successful communication in a multilingual health system. Facilitating and managing micro and macro scale education opportunities from program specific education to provincial education opportunities such as webinar series. Successfully co-creating cross-discipline partnerships to better support patient and family access within the health system. Monitoring and engaging vendor recruitment from the RFP process to ongoing support and vendor management to better support health care providers utilization of interpreting services. Monitoring and evaluating provincial data in order to provide succinct reports for multiple projects for continued Quality Improvement across the provincial health system. Ongoing recruitment of interpreter resources based on a needs basis related to the changing multicultural climate across the province. Show less

• Jun 2016 - Sep 2016

Providing project/support services to the Indigenous Cultural Safety Learning Series national webinar series supporting anti-racism across service settings, sectors and tiers to support ongoing understanding and capacity development across Canada within and across healthcare settings and support service settings.

Support Worker

• Sep 2013 - Jun 2014

Provides sports, social, and arts-based programs for people and families living with autism, while supporting the growing awareness in communities. Significant achievements include: Responsible for overseeing the development of swim and social skills for program participants in and out of the water ranging from ages 3-16. Utilized adaptive and individual-based learning mechanisms. Provides sports, social, and arts-based programs for people and families living with autism, while supporting the growing awareness in communities. Significant achievements include: Responsible for overseeing the development of swim and social skills for program participants in and out of the water ranging from ages 3-16. Utilized adaptive and individual-based learning mechanisms.

Area Coordinator

• Sep 2013 - Apr 2014

Regional initiative aimed at providing an estimate of the number of people who are homeless in the Metro Vancouver region. Significant achievements include: The 'point-person' between Metro Vancouver, Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Community Housing Committee, the homeless population of Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows, both municipalities' government, key community agency stakeholders, volunteers, and the general public to successfully carry out the count on the day of. Responsible for the recruitment, coordination and management of over 100 volunteers, and community service agencies that involved over 10 sectors. Generated the overall organizational components required in supporting data collection used to determine funding criteria for housing support and programs. Show less

Consultant

• 2012 - 2014

Regional, evidence-informed projects supporting connections within substance use services with service sector tiers and client engagement. Significant achievements include: Collaborative inquiry through conducting semi-structured interviews (data collection and data analysis). Designed and administered survey instruments to staff, community partners and clients and families Evaluation data entry, data analysis, literature reviews, preparing proposals and report writing Coordinated meetings and minute taking Prepared and monitored multiple project budgets Engaging multiple sectoral stakeholders to collaboratively support adaptive planning throughout and across the healthcare system, housing system, municipal governments, and community agencies. Show less

Swim Coach

• 2011 - 2012

Victoria based competitive swim club aimed at supporting children and youth’s development and involvement with swimming. Significant achievements include: Managed swim groups orientated for children and youth ranging from 3 – 13 years old. Responsible for coordinating lessons for children, whilst accommodating and adapting to a range of skills, attitudes & learning needs. Victoria based competitive swim club aimed at supporting children and youth’s development and involvement with swimming. Significant achievements include: Managed swim groups orientated for children and youth ranging from 3 – 13 years old. Responsible for coordinating lessons for children, whilst accommodating and adapting to a range of skills, attitudes & learning needs.