Experience

Camp Outlook

• Canada
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member Board Of Directors

  • Oct 2016 - Present

  • Communications and social media management • Event planning, fundraising and grant writing • Program evaluation: o Tool development o Theory of change and implementation of logic models o Structuring database, data collection, tracking and analysis• Policy development and technical writing: o Extensive knowledge of legislation pertaining to non-profit, mental health and wilderness based organizations• Human resources management related to programming and staff support



Project Canoe

• Canada
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member Program Committee

  • Sep 2018 - Present

• Program Director

  • Dec 2019 - Sep 2020

  • Developed and facilitated a therapeutic and educational virtual youth leadership program.• Developed and executed an industry-wide social equity webinar series, including design anddissemination of communications, organization of attendees, and facilitation and follow-upwith 90+ persons.• Conducted staff recruitment, interviewing and hiring

• Intake Manager

  • May 2018 - Aug 2018

  • Coordinating and facilitating intake assessments determining specific support needs and youth eligibility for programming • Coordinating outreach with youth mental health agencies and Children’s Aid Societies Ontario-wide• Facilitating urban programming, leadership programming, as well as wilderness flatwater canoe trips with youth facing mental health and systemic barriers aged 13-18 years• Running relevant professional development workshops for instructors



Child Development Institute

• Individual and Family Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Family and Child Worker (SNAP Girls)

  • Sep 2018 - Jan 2019



Stella's Place

• Canada
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Counsellor/Clinician (Social Work Placement)

  • Sep 2017 - May 2018

  • Clinical therapy skills:o Group development, screening and facilitation o Experience with mid-term length individual formal counselling o Experience with single session walk-in counsellingo Extensive experience with narrative therapy and brief solution focused therapy • Data tracking and database development• Multiple group creation and facilitation (Skills for Safer Living Suicide Intervention, Write It Out Narrative Therapy…)• Project development and design • Clinical therapy skills:o Group development, screening and facilitation o Experience with mid-term length individual formal counselling o Experience with single session walk-in counsellingo Extensive experience with narrative therapy and brief solution focused therapy • Data tracking and database development• Multiple group creation and facilitation (Skills for Safer Living Suicide Intervention, Write It Out Narrative Therapy…)• Project development and design

• Summer Wilderness Instructor

  • May 2017 - Aug 2017

  • Facilitating 5 and 8-day wilderness canoe trips with youth facing mental health or systemic barriers aged 13-18 years • Providing direct and indirect therapeutic intervention through counselling and recreational experience• Running professional development workshops for co-instructors • Facilitating 5 and 8-day wilderness canoe trips with youth facing mental health or systemic barriers aged 13-18 years • Providing direct and indirect therapeutic intervention through counselling and recreational experience• Running professional development workshops for co-instructors



StreetHealth Community Nursing Foundation

• Canada
• Health and Human Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Community Worker Mental Health Worker (Social Work Placement)

  • Jan 2017 - May 2017

  • Providing client-centered, Individual case management to marginalized adults facing homelessness, mental health barriers and addiction• Group creation and facilitation (HouseLink Community Gathering)• Caseload management, time management, timely reporting • Extensive experience providing informal therapeutic support • Providing client-centered, Individual case management to marginalized adults facing homelessness, mental health barriers and addiction• Group creation and facilitation (HouseLink Community Gathering)• Caseload management, time management, timely reporting • Extensive experience providing informal therapeutic support

• Winter/Summer Wilderness Instructor

  • Sep 2014 - Aug 2016

  • Facilitating 3, 5, 9 and 14-day hiking and wilderness flatwater canoe trips with youth facing mental health and systemic barriers aged 13-17 years • Providing individual support, mediating interpersonal conflict, and facilitating a therapeutic recreational experience

• Winter Program Director

  • Mar 2015 - Apr 2016

  • Organizing wilderness camping trips with marginalized youth aged 13-17• Staff and executive team hiring and training• Administrative duties (documentation, filing, correspondence...) • Contacting social service agencies and referral sources, recruiting youth to participate in programming• Finance and budgeting – writing fundraising and sponsorship proposals to organizations and consistently performing tasks and events under budget