Heather Koller Email & Phone Number

Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Private practice offering client-centred counselling and psychotherapeutic services via virtual, phone or ‘walking’ appointments.

Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Thunder Bay

Counsellors on the clinical team provide counselling and psychotherapeutic services to individuals, couples, families, children, youth and adults through a multitude of programs. http://www.tbaycounselling.com/counselling/

Thunder Bay And District

PACE is run by and for people with lived experience of a mental health issue or addiction issue; in a non clinical environment. Our services are centered on Education, Advocacy, Peer Support, Social Inclusion and connecting people with other services in the community. PACE is funded through The Ministry of Health and Long Term Care to provide person centered services to consumer/survivors with mental health lived experience.http://www.pace-tbay.net/

Thunder Bay

Part of my MSW placement with the Thunder Bay Drug Strategy (TBDS) (supervised by Patty Hajdu) involved starting up a chapter of CSSDP in Thunder Bay. This was Patty's had learned about CSSDP and their work a few years earlier through her role as coordinator of the TBDS, so she invited their ED, Caleb Chepesiuk, to the first Pot, Pills & Parties conference which was hosted by the TBDS in the Fall of 2011 to deliver a presentation about this national youth drug policy organization. Conference attendees interested in being part creating a local CSSDP chapter in Thunder Bay were invited to gather at the end of the day's activities. This core group of interested students and youth (supported by Patty and TBDS) continued to hold meetings over the following months focusing on advertizing, developing the chapter's structure/focus/values and recruiting additional members. In March 2012 the 4 members were able to attend the national CSSDP conference, Progress Not Prisons at the University of Calgary where Kalinda Hardy and I delivered a presentation entitled "Partnering with Dealers, Runners, Friends & Grannies as Allies in Harm Reduction" based on an idea we had come up while going on IV drug use outreach which I had subsequently been researching as part of my the MSW degree I was completing at that time. In the spring of 2012 our CSSDP chapter (supported by TBDS) hosted an interim Pot, Pills & Parties event called the Spring Session which featured (among many) the presentation, "What's up with the Omnibus Crime Bill C-10" by me and Reena Legarde (Attached). This presentation was repeated in October 2012 at the "Pot, Pills & Parties: Rights, Healing and Wellness" conference presented by the Fort William First Nation Healing Strategy in partnership with CSSDP-TBR at the FWFN Community Centre.

Fort William First Nation

Policy writing, community capacity building, research, community organizing, networking, educating, event planning and coordination, grant writing, pubic speaking, community consultation, professional development, graphic designActive member of the Thunder Bay Drug Strategy (Implementation Panel as well as the Advocacy, Harm Reduction, Accommodation Needs Assessment and Prevention working groups), Crime Prevention Council, Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy Thunder Bay Region, Drug Awareness Committee (as well as the Recovery in Focus working group), and the Hepatitis C Community Advisory Panel.

Thunder Bay

Chairing a working board of directors as well as acting as the agency's Executive Director supervising students, staff and volunteers, grant writing, strategic planning, program development and development, community capacity building, advocacy, front line work, networking.Active member of the Thunder Bay Drug Strategy (Implementation Panel as well as the Advocacy, Harm Reduction, Accommodation Needs Assessment and Prevention working groups), Crime Prevention Council, Sex Workers Alliance Network (SWAN) Thunder Bay, Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy-Thunder Bay Region (CSSDP-TBR), Drug Awareness Committee of Thunder Bay (as well as the Recovery in Focus working group), Quality of Life Network and the Hepatitis C Community Advisory Panel.

Thunder Bay

Member of the board until becoming President in June 2012.Activities associated with this position included: writing proposals for funding & research projects, collaborating & networking with other organizations/stakeholders, developing agency policies including job descriptions for employees/ volunteers, organizing fund raising activities, community capacity building (women in the street based, survival sex trade and/or criminalized women), hosting educational sessions (on sex work & systemic violence against women) with allied organizations/groups, creating & implementing programming in the community & at the Thunder Bay Correctional Centre (TBCC) for women (18 years +) who had been remanded (awaiting trial/sentencing) & sentenced (2 years less a day) to custody. Examples of programs include: SE XChange drop in group for street involved women & girls twice weekly (one evening on the South side: E Fry office & one evening on the North side: Northwestern Ontario Women's Centre); Saturday afternoon groups at TBCC with a variety of activities including crafts, educational sessions with guest speakers, yoga /exercise, opportunities to contribute to research/inform practice; Therapy group for incarcerated women who have experienced trauma (delivered by Alpha Court); Book club (Orange is the New Black - each participant given a copy to keep, meet regularly to discuss topics/themes in literature - facilitated by E Fry staff); One to one support for incarcerated women delivered by E Fry volunteers & staff; Court succour when possible - familiar face in the courtroom, working with women to connect with outside supports - Family, Lawyer, etc.; General contact through E Fry office (M, W & F) - accessed in person or over the phone.

Assisted with teaching 4th year social policy (2 years), introduction to social welfare in Canada and Kinesiology.

Thunder Bay

Teach students in the social service worker program about social welfare in Canada (past and present).

Fort William First Nation

counselling, system linkages, liaised between agencies and departments within Dilico, system navigation and linkages for/with clientele

Harm Reduction, public speaking, research, counselling, health education, advocacy, graphic design, case management

Thunder Bay

Intensive case management, public speaking, youth, advocacy, system navigation

Masters Of Social Work, Public Health Education And Promotion, 90

Activities and Societies: Placement done with the Thunder Bay Drug Strategy. Founded and chaired a chapter of Canadian Students.

Honours Bachelor Of Social Work, Social Policy, 92

Activities and Societies: Placement done with Thunder Bay Drug Strategy - authored the bibliography and glossary of this publication.

Honours Bachelor Of Science, Major: Anthropology + Minor: Mathematics

Honours Bachelor Of Science, Anthropology

Activities and Societies: Photographer - The Annual, Trent University's Year Book Minor in Mathematics