Lara Hof Email and Phone Number

• Consult with multiple post-secondary institutions across Canada to provide coaching and resources on student conduct administration, including gender-based violence and complex care cases. • Research, review, and author policy and procedure documents.• Offer bridging leadership to department’s experiencing staffing transitions or labour shortages.• Deliver customized upskilling workshops for staff on a variety of topics, including addressing conflict in the workplace, conflict resolution, student conduct administration, and caring for the practitioner. • Facilitate the nationally recognized Student Conduct Institute on student conduct administration to professionals across the country. • Conduct student conduct and student-of-concern program reviews and audits.• Provide gender-based violence prevention programming and response training.

• Develop and implement innovative programs for CACUSS members and individuals/teams working in various roles in the post-secondary sector in Canada.• Work with the CACUSS Communities of Practice to develop and execute professional development programs (workshops, institutes, webinars). • Develop and implement business plans (program/event plan and budgets) for new member product offerings, including non-formal learning opportunities.

• Chair of the Behavioural Intervention Team; a multi-disciplinary team responsible for complex student matters• Chair of the Task Force on Preventing & Responding to Sexualized Violence; a group of diverse representatives from the college and Hamilton community working to foster a culture of consent• Oversight for the Student Rights & Responsibilities Office (SRRO) including all full-time staff, day-to-day operations and budget• Re-launch of the SRRO including new vision, scope and strategic partnerships• Responsible for the review and re-write of the Student Behaviour Policy and the Sexualized Violence Policy

• Resolved over 500 student conduct cases and led multiple investigations, including sensitive and intricate incidences of mental health, and gender-based violence• Coordinated the administrative hearing process and authored multiple disclosure packages to prepare the Dean of Students for the adjudication of high-level cases • Coordinated the review process and authored the new and revised Code of Student Conduct, the Student Support & Intervention Team and the Non-Academic Return to Campus Policy• Revised the Sexual Violence Policy and Procedures, and Terms of Reference for the Sexual Violence Taskforce• Ensured compliance with all government mandates and legislative requirements including reporting, programming and responses to sexual violence• Built a collaborative partnership with the students’ union and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Program (Faculty of Social and Community Services) in the operation of the Dispute Resolution Clinic• Implemented documentation procedures to ensure compliance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA), including an incident management software• Executed assessment practices, data collection processes and the creation of various annual reports and government reporting forms and reports• Trained in restorative justice facilitation, anger management group facilitation (John Howard Society), sexual violence investigations, AODA• Implemented the Student Intervention Coordinator (case manager) and Student Conduct Coordinator roles• Provided training to advisors, and board members for all campus appeal processes, including residence and academic appeals• Developed and presented over 50 workshops for students, staff and faculty primarily on the topics of conflict resolution, assertiveness training, critical incident management and inclusion, including a roadshow highlighting the scope and services of the office

Responsible for training the Residence Life Management Team on student conduct administration and providing on-going guidance for the day to day administration of student conduct for residence students.

Directed and managed the downtown satellite campus, including six student staff and responsible for issues related to both campus living and community relations.

Advised the Windsor Inter-Residence Council and served as Advisor to the Ontario Residence Hall Association, with oversight for 18 student staff and participated in an on-call rotation to respond to crises, including mental health concerns and emergency situations.