Ally Lyske Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Provide one-on-one case management support for Members in the community, including informal counseling, outreach, person-centered goal planning, referrals and system navigation.Develop strong, trusting and professional relationships that help Members build solid networks of formal and informal supports.Create individual care plans guided by Members and any.

Together with other collective members, help guide the collaborative effort to connect communities street by street and empower residents to restore nature in Toronto. The collective completes grant applications, plant sales, workshops and seed sitting activities to increase urban biodiversity support with pollinator habitat gardens in Tkaronto.

Volunteer as a Block Ambassador with Project Swallowtail in Parkdale & East York. Successfully increased diverse pollinator habitat through leading community native plant garden creation and education. Grew native plants from seed for community gardens as a #seedsitter. Share information and informally educate neighbours and wider community through.

Founded neighbourhood volunteer pollinator gardening group. Fundraise through donation collection and grant applications. Coordinate and facilitate meetings, site prep and planting events. Outreach to community members through social media and posters. Focus group efforts on the decolonization and ecological restoration of urban green spaces. Group.

The Rooming House Project

Provide intensive case management to vulnerable tenants living in Toronto Community Housing rooming homes. Maintain a focus on eviction prevention by addressing hoarding, unit take-overs, rental arrears, pest issues and roommate conflicts. Provide emotional, harm reduction and mental health supports with compassion and flexibility. Advocate and coach to.

Coordinate the Dixon Hall Meals on Wheels daily volunteer schedule. Maintain close communication with community and corporate volunteers; process and record changes to volunteer and corporate team availability. Successfully collaborate with the Meals on Wheels Supervisor, Volunteer Services and Human Resources Management, using a team approach to solve.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Established and manage social media sites to outreach to underrepresented populations; significantly increased visibility, diversity and overall community participation for The Human Awareness Institute (HAI) in Ontario. Train other volunteers to use media such as Facebook, Eventbrite and meetup.com

• Co-wrote the HAI Canada Anti-harassment Policy and Procedures
• Coordinator of the Toronto HAI Pride Committee
• HAI Canada Board Member

Coordinated, promoted and hosted annual social, community building and fundraising events.

Affiliated with Supporting our Youth (SOY), volunteered as a mentor to a queer and trans identified youth living with mental health issues in transitional housing. Provided emotional and various other kinds of supports with love, care and humour. Informally coached to achieve life goals, improve self-advocacy and manage mental health. Supported to respond.

Volunteered with Supporting our Youth (SOY), co-facilitated group for bisexual, pansexual, bi-curious, two-spirit, omnisexual, questioning and other youth who don't fit neatly into categories around sexuality and gender.

Support and empower individual living with multiple disabilities, mental health issues and complex medical conditions to build a personal support team in her home environment. Write job descriptions, staff guidelines, policies and procedures together with supported individual. Advertise for, interview, hire and support team members; design efficient.

Toronto, Canada Area

Rotating monthly facilitation of peer support and discussion group for bisexual women. Includes women who are pan-sexual, two-spirit, questioning, queer, women who have sex with women, women who experience attraction to more than one gender and who don't fit neatly into other categories. Open to cis, trans and all women who identify as women. Topics may.

Guide sea kayak, canoe and multi-sport adventures. Train upcoming guides and support to use inclusive, trans positive, anti-oppressive approaches to facilitation while on trip. Develop and instruct programming such as Making Outdoor Adventure Inclusive, Planning Canoe Trips in Ontario, Gourmet Wilderness Cooking, Kayak, Canoe and Wilderness Skills.

Provided counselling and case management from a strengths-based model, naturally developing a positive and empowering rapport with service users and their families. Conducted intakes, assessments and assisted to attain goals through appropriate goal setting and treatment. Maintained up-to-date progress notes and provided referrals to other agencies as.

Provided support to individuals labelled with intellectual, developmental, physical disabilities and living with mental health issues with individualized funding. Working form a model of inclusion and interdependence, provided support for people to maximize the contribution of their gifts and strengths to their communities in valued roles. In the context.

Facilitated a diverse group of vulnerable inner city youth through communication, conflict resolution and decision making exercises in this experiential leadership development program. Included facilitating a 10 day canoe trip where the youth increasingly took on leadership as they developed both hard and soft skills. Continuously assessed and evaluated.

Motivated and empowered diverse groups of inner city youth and adults with physical disabilities by encouraging ownership of personal choices, control and responsibility in taking risks and achieving their goals. Preformed all the duties of an attendant while simultaneously coaching youth to direct their own supports.

Personal assistant to one of Canada’s leading activists and social inventor in the area of inclusion, human rights and person-centred planning for people labelled with disabilities. Participated in conferences, workshops and training around the themes of giftedness, contribution, social role valorization and inclusive citizenship. Assisted in a variety of.

Diverse experience working in education, including students aged 8 to 21 with a wide range of attention deficit disorders, physical, learning, developmental and intellectual disabilities. Developed classroom modifications to meet the social, communication and learning needs and gifts of each student; demonstrated creative ability to adapt and teach the.

Social Service Work

Note: awarded two scholarships; see award section

Feminist, Anti-Oppression, Anti-Racist Facilitator Training Program

Proficiency In Spanish Certificate

Completed 1 Year, Environmental Science

Activities and Societies: Founded and coordinated the Trent Outdoors and Nature Group (TONG)