Karen Gallagher-Burt Msw Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Ab, Ca

As an Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary, I play a crucial role in educating future social workers through field education. I supervised and mentored students during practicum, ensuring they developed and applied their social work knowledge effectively. By integrating theory and skills into practice, I helped students build a strong foundation for their social work careers.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Consultant on Mental Health and Wellness

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta

Appointed by the Government of Alberta, I am privileged to provide Marriage Officiant Services.

Southern Alberta

Facilitate training for those who have a single conviction in under ten years, of impaired driving

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Featured expert guest on Jack-FM 96.9 morning show talking about mental health, parenting, stress management, and relationships

Calgary, Canada Area

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta

Calgary, Canada Area

Connecting people to the work United Way does through experiential learnings, Days of Caring and workplace campaigns.United Way serves Calgary and the five surrounding communities of High River, Okotoks, Cochrane, Chestermere and Strathmore. Through research, policy advocacy and collaborative work, United Way targets vulnerability and root cause issues in three key areas; poverty reduction, kids and community health. Through innovative thinking United Way is committed to solving social issues, not just perpetually funding them.

Calgary, Canada Area

Connect audiences of upwards of 500 people with the mission, vision and focus of United Way impact in Calgary and area. Share relevant stories and encourage the connection of individuals and their time, treasure and talent to the opportunities as a member of the United Way family.

Calgary, Canada Area

Responsible for effectively building relationships with Distress Centre's current and future external stakeholders. Assisted in identifying populations underserved by Distress Centre services. Worked to build relationships with target groups, and assisted in identifying barriers to service. Participated in planning for outreach and extending services to these populations as identified.Represented the agency publicly at meetings and other activities as required.Co-ordinated agency speakers and agency tours.Participated in planning and implementation of fund development strategies with particular focus on engaging individual and corporate donors.Assisted in exploring potential third party fundraising events.Provided support to third party fundraising events and Distress Centre events.Led the development of a program to engage with Distress Centre alumni.Engaged with Distress Centre supporters through social media.Ensured DIstress Centre was an early adopter of technology by keeping current and advising on new social media trends and next/best practices.Assisted in developing content for Distress Centre's website and online newsletter.Supported media relations activities. This includes coordinating or delivering interviews as required.Coordinated the exploration of potential social enterprise opportunities.

Calgary, Canada Area

Supervised five volunteer program staff, practicum students, and co-ordinated over 200 volunteersDeveloped yearly goals and policies/procedures to implement and evaluate in the areas of volunteer recruitment, training, scheduling, maintenance, recognition and program evaluationTaught Suicide Intervention and communication training to new volunteersManaged volunteer/staff mentorship relationships and accompanying processes for more than 150 volunteers Organized volunteer appreciation banquet with over 200 guestsFacilitated a Volunteer Advisory Committee to bring the voice of the crisis line volunteers to the agency management and boardhttp://www.youtube.com/user/volunteercalgary#p/u/10/fkaqNzz4FLA

Researched, prepared and organized advertising for recruitment of new volunteersAttended career and volunteer fairs on behalf of Distress Centre CalgaryInterviewed and completed reference checks for over 200 volunteersFacilitated and managed more than 200 training sessions in a variety of topic areas such as Crisis Intervention, Mental Health, Domestic Violence, Grief and Loss, Youth Issues, and AddictionSupervised 8 - 10 volunteers

BSW Practicum Student - Counselling Program Provided short term crisis counselling for individuals and couples experiencing crisis based on motivational counselling theoryAttended and facilitated training for fellow counsellors and volunteersManaged appropriate documentation for counselling role

Working with families experiencing crises in their lives in order to help their families be reunited.

Calgary, Canada Area

Created marketing bulletins sent to the design and architecture industry weekly. Guided a team in producing creative and effective RFP and RFQ responses.

Social Work - Graduate Degree

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