Harleen Bhogal Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Assessing the needs and requests of Dialogue's members on the virtual healthcare platform and accompanying members in their health care journey in collaboration with other professionals
• Offering mental health support by conducting assessments and offering short-term follow-ups in order to achieve objectives in a solution-focused and motivational approach
• Conducting suicide risk assessments and interventions, including in high risk and crisis cases
• Ensuring member navigation to other resources complementary to Dialogue's services

Montreal, Canada Area

• Writer and performer as a spoken word artist, performing at venues and community events such as Lux Magna Festival, Montreal Bach Festival, Montreal PRIDE Festival (FIERTÉ), and Westmount Concerts in the Park
• Use creative writing and performance to contemplate social justice issues such as mental health, sexism, queerphobia, racism, environmental activism, immigration and intergenerational trauma
• Collaborate with other artists and community organizations to curate and host events that raise awareness on social issues

Montreal, Canada Area

• Design and facilitate workshops on request in community-based settings
• Social justice/educational workshop topics include but are not limited to: Mental health, Anti-Racism 101, Anti-Oppression 101, Gender-based violence, Sexuality and Gender, Environment and Sustainability, Sexual.
• Creative writing/arts-based workshop topics: Spoken word, Poetry clubs, and Storytelling
• Collaborate with other facilitators or parties to design workshop content that is suitable for the context and population

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• ︎ Design and facilitate yoga classes that are suitable for the context and needs of the clientele
• ︎ Provide private yoga instruction, involving consultation and assessment, adapting yoga poses to the client's needs, and designing a program with explicit objectives decided on in collaboration with the client
• ︎ Specialties: vinyasa (flow), restorative, yin, yoga for anxiety and depression, yoga for youth

Montreal, Canada Area

• Develop, organize and facilitate various youth programming from a youth-led, grassroots, anti-oppressive, and harm reduction approach
• Develop and facilitate youth programs, primarily for girls and LGBTQIA+ youth, that run on a weekly basis for the duration of the school year in high schools across Montreal, with the objective of engaging youth on.
• Provide resources, assistance and facilitation to youth for creative projects and events
• Outreach to youth 11 - 30 years old in settings such as elementary schools, high schools, CEGEPS, universities and community centres
• Offer workshops and presentations on request on topics such as sexual assault, anti-racism, mental health, immigration and newcomer issues, and community-based advocacy
• Develop and facilitate arts-based workshops in order to spark creativity and use the arts as a form of creative expression, a form of social commentary and a way of building community across differences

Montreal, Canada Area

• Coordinated the peer support program and offered peer support services using an active listening, non-directional, anti-oppression approach to drop-in users and by appointment
• Managed volunteers by creating the peer support volunteer schedule, supervising the drop-in, and debriefing with volunteers
• Developed, organized and facilitated the 24-week peer support volunteer training on topics such as anti-oppression, active listening, sexual assault, suicide, mental health, harm reduction and navigating difficult.
• Identified, scheduled, oriented and followed-up with workshop facilitators
• Provided peer support, advocacy and accompaniments, covering issues affecting the service users such as sexual assault, LGBT2QI oppression and issues, racism, mental health and suicidal ideation
• Welcomed service users to the centre, offering basic services such as: free safety injection kits, binders, safer sex supplies, pregnancy tests, etc.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Provided interventions and psychosocial support to street-involved youth at the Chez Pops day centre and the overnight emergency shelter
• Guided and supported youth in reaching their objectives through counselling and referrals to other services
• Managed group dynamics, detected and diffused tensions, and ensured compliance with regulations to maintain a safe and respectful climate at both the day centre and the shelter
• Followed crisis intervention procedures in order to de-escalate crises, address the issues brought up by the service users, and provide individual follow-up psychosocial interventions as needed

Montreal, Canada Area

• Developed intervention plans for high school students in collaboration with the Pathways team, addressing both the academic and behavioural needs of each student
• Facilitated periods of tutoring, encouraging the active participation of the students, maintaining a safe space and intervening in crisis situations when necessary
• Organized and facilitated weekly cooking workshops for youth, encouraging critical discussions as well as collective skill-sharing
• Designed and facilitated workshops on topics relevant and useful for youth, including stress and self-care, self-esteem, and strategies for academic success

Montreal, Canada Area

• Established strong, positive relationships with at-risk youth ages 12-18 and provided safe spaces where they could receive social, academic and emotional support
• Coordinated a daily after-school Teen Program for adolescent youth in the Pointe-Saint-Charles community, offering teens homework help, mentoring, recreational activities, regular workshops, and opportunities for.
• Supported teens in building employable skills and confidence by coordinating the Counselor-in-Training (CIT) Program, providing ongoing trainings and mentoring to prepare them to work during the Summer Literacy Day Camp
• Sat on the Get to the Pointe! Planning Committee and organized the annual Sexual Health Conference offered to high school youth in the Montreal area
• Provided individual interventions and group support to youth on a regular basis as well as during times of crisis
• Outreached to high schools and community centres in order to extend programming into the community

Toronto, Canada Area

• Gathered and composed research on the relationship between arts engagement and quality of life of the street-involved youth population in Toronto
• Engaged and collected quantitative and qualitative data, and performed data analysis using both quantitative and qualitative data analysis methods
• Presented findings in a written report to be used by SKETCH for grant proposals and further research purposes

Toronto, Canada Area

• Created a survey questionnaire and collected quantitative and qualitative data in order to assess the health needs of the homeless and underhoused senior population in downtown Toronto
• Assisted homeless male seniors access housing, health and social assistance services
• Prepared research project proposals and presented data findings and literature review in a final written report

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Provided individual and group mentorship to at-risk youth, ages 13-19 years, during daily after-school drop-in programming
• Organized and animated educational workshops, social outings and recreational activities
• Facilitated discussions and workshops during weekly “FLY Girls” on topics relevant and pressing to the youth, including workshops on self-esteem, healthy relationships and sexual health
• Facilitated weekly cooking workshops and communal dinner for youth in the community
• Provided outreach at various middle and secondary schools by reaching out to and engaging youth in the classroom, during lunch and after school hours