Al R. Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

1. Leads and oversees the project team throughout the length of the project from design, through to coordination and implementation taking into account organizational cultural differences, current and future state clinical (business) workflows, practices, policies, and organizational changes required for implementation.2. Maintains contracts with vendors.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lead the youth, family and service provider engagement and co-design of the Foundry BC Virtual Program Co-Product owner for the Foundry BC Virtual Platform (this includes gathering requirements, estimation process, sprint planning and prioritization, clinical workflows and requirements, youth engagement and more)Worked with Privacy and Security to complete.

Advising on e mental health, government relations, youth engagement and other projects

Canada

The reason I have the nickname mental health superhero! I’ve delivered over 600 (stopped counting at that point) talks/workshops on mental health, youth engagement, suicide prevention and related topics. Love breaking down stigma so people get the help they need.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Implementation committee member

Working to create amazing youth engagement within the FRAYME network. Recruited and set up the advisory on youth matters (with a lovely team), co-hosted an international youth engagement event, and co-wrote the international youth engagement strategy.

Helping recruit and train amazing folks to inspire and educate young adults from Toronto

Toronto, Canada Area

Stella's Place supports young adults aged 16-29 by offering innovative mental health services, including peer support, clinical, employment, wellness, studio and recovery programs. In my role, I am responsible for providing peer and tech support for BeanBagChat (www.beanbagchat.ca) a peer support web and mobile app that allows young people to talk to a.

Ontario

Leading a group of 23 amazing young adults in co-creating Access Open minds - a new mental health model at 13 sites for young adults across Canada. Helped develop research documents, trainings, youth engagement processes and hiring practices

Greater Toronto Area

I give seminars on workplace health, including stress, wellness, conflict resolution, working with difficult personalities, changing perspectives, mental health and suicide.

London Ontario

• Currently working with mindyourmind to develop fundhope, a crowdfunding and mentoring platform for youth wanting to start mental health related projects.Other projects I have done with MYM include:
• Spoke at a funding announcement with the Minster of Health
• Co-created newcomer resources, Young Adult PSA, and the mindyourmood app.
• Write blogs that resonate and facilitate conversations among youth.
• Lead a postcard campaign within canada to share the youth voice in an international conference
• Helped create zines at various points to translate academia knowledge into a youth friendly manner

Advising the 2016 queen's young leader programme on their awesome change making https://qyl.ice.cam.ac.uk/be-a-mentor/advisory-mentors/alicia-raimundo-advisory-mentor

Canada

• The young health program is an intaitive between PLAN international, AstraZenca and John Hopkins University to address the major health problems faced by young people in Countries all over the world. In Canada, they.
• Planned and created a Postcard campaign to understand Youth’s health perspective
• Co-Planned/Presented a side meeting at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
• Co-lead an environmental scan of NCD programs and how they engage youth.
• Planning a youth engagement sessions
• Aid partners in the development of the YHP funded programming including PHE youth advovacy training and Boys and Girls club of Canada Flex Your Head online training.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Circus show that travelled around to Ontario schools to teach about mental health issues
• Translating Academic knowledge into a fun experience for high school and elementary school youth
• Received Art's Council grant to develop circus show for post secondary students in the GTA
• Co-created a show to teach future health care professionals our stories through circus.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Providing expertise on youth suicide prevention to Coaches Across Ontario
• Co-created and analyzing youth and family engagement plan
• Provided Feedback and advice on creating a youth friendly evaluation plan.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Provided expertise on youth mental health and innovative mental health technologies
• Consulted on planning CASP, webinars, and yearly awards.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Engaging student leaders to create a student leader engagement committee
• Help plan, manage attendance and delivered monthly webinars and biannual events.
• Provided technical assistance on the adobeconnect, and video Conferencing systems.
• Co-Conducted usability testing on the Community of Practice and Website platforms
• Completed a scan of services at Ontario Universities
• Keeping up to date tabs on the current Campus Mental Health news.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Consulted on the creation of a series of textbooks on Mental Health for Canadian Public school kids grades 4-8
• Co-Authored a book for Canadian Grade eight Students and will be in schools across Canada in 2015.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Providing peer support to a diverse group of young people in various places of recovery
• Organizing workshops

Ontario, Canada

• Co-Created an community intervention table for Durham Region to ensure all services use by clients are in communication
• Worked alongside of a team of diverse youth to develop mobile application to help navigate a crisis situation in London

Canada

• Research ways to transfer mental health and suicide prevention information from academics to youth
• Contributed to the writing of academic papers
• Used technical expertise to co-create two infographics, and developed a web resource for choosing treatment for depression.
• Co-lead social media and post secondary information for students teamsMobilzing minds research group publications include: Cunningham, C. E., Walker, J., Eastwood, J. E., Westra, H., Rimas, H., Chen, Y., Marcus, M..

All Over Canada

A young member of the multi-year, multi-province knowledge mobilization research project that focuses on young adult mental health. Our team includes young adults, researchers, health professionals, youth engagement experts and community partners. We define knowledge mobilization as getting the right information to the right people (i.e. young adults) at.

Canada

• Advising on current youth program, including the email based crisis counselling
• Creating the Mental Health Superheroes program
• Advocating for your life counts, with TV and Conference Appearance

Toronto, Canada Area

• Overseeing the initiatives of a small Toronto based start up
• Created programs aimed to increase the mental health literacy of professors and young professionals.

Toronto

- data analysis on how people in high or low priority neighbours access resources and how that affects their well being. - Literature Reviews- Focus Groups- selected, organize and mentor a team of seven interns from YorkU's Nursing program.

Canada

Added the social media campaign behind the annual defeat the depression walk in Canada.

Ottawa, Canada Area

I have been chosen as one of the five faces representing mental illness for Canada on Mental Illness Awareness week! This is a huge honur and I am really excited! During the upcoming year I will get to be part of marquee event on Parliament Hill during MIAW; be featured in national public service announcements aired across Canada; and take part in a.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Supports Partners for Mental Health and promotes its campaigns and initiatives in their community
• Recruits and engages appropriate sectors to participate in, and provide feedback on Partners for Mental Health national campaigns.
• Consulted during the development of upcoming campaigns. Teams will help identify local mental health needs and opportunities for support and will work with Partners for Mental Health on developing community engagement.
• Provided edits and feedback on the campaign (declaration and toolkit) to make it more youth friendly

Ontario, Canada

Spread the message of "let's talk" on Bell Let's Talk day 2013

• Consulted on the creation of resources for suicide survivors and their families
• Consulted on the creation of resources for families bereaved by suicide
• Taught suicide prevention to other youth and educators
• Various public speaking

I run participants, help design studies, code data, and analyze results. Individual Projects Listed Below.

Waterloo, Ontario

• Created a safe space to speak about personal mental health experience
• Used personal experience to motivate and teach youth coping skills
• Empowered youth to create change in their community

Worldwide

Created an "facebook" for people with mental health issues to connect with one another share stories of hope and change. Advertised and Helped attain users. Community still exists today.

Waterloo, Ontario

Helped create usability tests for the trackpad, organized and interviewed participants in a 600 person beta test. Worked with a multi-disciplinary team to create a better user experience.

I created powerpoint slides based on the survey data gathered about usage of IT devices. I also helped edit and rewrite survey questions as well as worked heavily with eTabs software suite

I research items on usability, code data, prepare presentations and papers as well as helping write scripts for experiments.

aided in research about vigilance and UAVs ( unmanned aerial vehicles). The experiment was being conducted to see if tactile stimulation would combat the vigilance decrement in UAV pilots.I aided mostly with literature reviews and helping acquire equipment for the experimental set up.