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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Provided long term adjustment counselling, sourced and implemented resources for patients and families, focused on treatment-related expenses, educational support, and accessing local mental health services.✧ Created a unique 3 day burn recovery program for burn survivors, their siblings and parents to help families understand and cope with the physical and emotional challenges associated with burn recovery.✧ Collaborated with BC Children’s Hospital to introduce Phoenix Society… Show more Provided long term adjustment counselling, sourced and implemented resources for patients and families, focused on treatment-related expenses, educational support, and accessing local mental health services.✧ Created a unique 3 day burn recovery program for burn survivors, their siblings and parents to help families understand and cope with the physical and emotional challenges associated with burn recovery.✧ Collaborated with BC Children’s Hospital to introduce Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors “Rehearse Your Response” to address teasing and bullying for patients.✧ The program director of the “Future is Mine” for adult burn survivors. Individual counselling (supportive, adjustment and resource). ✧ The social worker for camp and the Home Away Program. ✧ Hospital Liaison to pediatric and adult burn treatment centres✧ Liaison to Fire Fighters’ Resiliency Program✧ Speaker and educational programming for a national burn survivor conference. Show less

Vancouver, Bc, Canada

Comprehensive psychosocial assessments and clinical social work interventions to burn survivors and their families staying at the Home Away suites at the burn fund centre; liaison with the burn teams at BC Children's Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital; referrals to community resources.

Ontario, Canada

✧ Trained and supported counsellors and campers during volunteer orientation on re-burn injuries, coping and adjustment, homesickness, teasing, and behaviour management

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

EARLY HUMAN EXPERIENCE UNIT, DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCES & CHILD HEALTH ✧ Recruited participants, set up assessments with psychologists, interviewed parents, accompanied parents and children to MRI appointments, data entry, collaborated with team and community in knowledge translation activities.

Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk, Russia

➜ Assessed social work services, consultation and support around implementing changes to current programming, professional education and training.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

✧ Developed, implemented, and evaluated plans of care with families of newborns, school-aged children and adolescents with medical conditions.✧ Crisis counselled families following traumatic burn injuries and hospitalization.✧ Prepared comprehensive psychosocial assessments and clinical social work interventions within a family centred care model.✧ Introduced the “Beat the Bully” program that was so successful it was offered to all departments in the hospital to teach… Show more ✧ Developed, implemented, and evaluated plans of care with families of newborns, school-aged children and adolescents with medical conditions.✧ Crisis counselled families following traumatic burn injuries and hospitalization.✧ Prepared comprehensive psychosocial assessments and clinical social work interventions within a family centred care model.✧ Introduced the “Beat the Bully” program that was so successful it was offered to all departments in the hospital to teach skills on handling bullying.✧ Partnered the Roots of Empathy program to introduce “Embracing Differences Program” that provided training around Facial Differences.✧ Roots of Empathy Instructor- co-facilitate a school-aged children program and co-wrote educational component on facial differences for the Roots of Empathy Manual.✧ Supervised Student Social Workers. Show less

Kampala, Uganda

➜ Provided social work support to children and families receiving care in hospital, and outreach to rural areas to identify children requiring attention. Developed research protocol exploring knowledge, attitudes and beliefs around congenital anomalies.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Program Evaluation for the Following Programs at The Hospital for Sick Children✧ Fear Factor: A Group for Boys with Facial Differences & Girl’s Stuff: A Group for Girls with Facial Differences. ✧ Film Making 101: Networking & Fostering Social & Communication Skills in Adolescents with Facial Differences.✧ Speak Up: A Social Communication Skills Group for Young Children with Cleft Lip & Palate. ✧ Family Connections: A Psycho-Educational Day for Families through… Show more Program Evaluation for the Following Programs at The Hospital for Sick Children✧ Fear Factor: A Group for Boys with Facial Differences & Girl’s Stuff: A Group for Girls with Facial Differences. ✧ Film Making 101: Networking & Fostering Social & Communication Skills in Adolescents with Facial Differences.✧ Speak Up: A Social Communication Skills Group for Young Children with Cleft Lip & Palate. ✧ Family Connections: A Psycho-Educational Day for Families through the Cleft Lip & Palate & Craniofacial Programs.✧ Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Teen Camp for Adolescents with Facial Differences. ✧ Embracing Differences Program" on School-Aged Children's Attitudes, Knowledge and Empathy Towards Children with Facial Differences✧ Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Psychosocial/ Speech and Language Improvisational Acting Group on the Social Competence of Adolescents with Cleft Lip and/ or Palate. Show less

Kisumu, Kenya

➜ Implemented new Patient/ Family Educator position in Kenya, Africa and provided professional education and training to host country team. ➜ Delivered psychosocial counselling and support to children/ families during the surgical week.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Clinical/Medical Social Work

➜ Thesis Research “Disability narratives and the experience of stigma in Uganda: cultural beliefs, attitudes, knowledge and practices.

Diploma Program In Social Work Research

Master’S Of Social Work (Msw), Clinical/Medical Social Work

Activities and Societies: ➜ “A Proposal to Evaluate the Teen Group Offered by the Spinal Bifida & Hydrocephalus Association of Ontario”.

Bachelor Of Social Work, Magnum Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Sociology And Anthropology

Nutritional Practitioner, Applied Holistic Nutrition