Rania Issa Email & Phone Number

Coquitlam, Bc, Ca

Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

•Instructional design to train facilitators, life skills training, and parenting workshops •Co-founded a social media platform "lemon-wo-asal" to support Arabic- speaking parents

Vancouver, Canada

•Trained facilitators on Life Skills program for government assisted refugee families•Provided individual and family counseling support, Nobody’s Perfect program, and parenting workshops for +500 newcomer and refugee families•Co-managed the Arab-women cluster project to develop a strategy for economic security for immigrant women. Sourced funding and designed a training module of 12 sessions on Assertiveness•Provided Interpretation services for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the Healthcare sector and Financial institutions

Vancouver- Canada

•Organized logistics for workshops and trainings; created information handouts and managed budgets. Supervised and mentored 40 women volunteer facilitators•Assisted in the development of strategic partnerships with organizations and community partners

Damascus-Syria

•Trained 17 school counselors on Child Friendly Schools - Danish Refugee Council•Trained 60 teachers in private schools on Effective Communication Skills with students•Trained 100 students (grade 8) on Life Skills. (2 years pilot project in private school) •Trained 384 Iraqi refugee youth (13-18) on Life Skills - UNICEF and CARITAS project•Trained 125 refugee women on Employment Skills training program- Danish Refugee Council•Trained 48 volunteers on Creativity & Self-Esteem- The Syrian Arab Red Crescent•Trained 100 professionals on Psycho-social care for Survivors of Sexual & Gender-Based Violence

Damascus -Syria

• Vulnerability assessment and counseling support for survivors of sexual assault•Coordinated the implementation of the vocational training program for 100 refugee women

Associate Member-Stibc, English-Arabic Translation

Certificate, Educational/Instructional Design

Higher Diploma, Social Service Work, Honours

Intensive Program

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Literature