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Professional Development:

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Seminars:

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• Child Trafficking: Not in my City

• Narcissist Personalities

• Online learning with ADHD 

• Eating Disorder Workshop

• Nonsuicidal Self Injury

• Youth Addiction: AHS 

• Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment: Janina Fisher

• Advanced Interventions for Frontline Professionals: Gabor Maté

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workshop" John and Jamie Forsyth

• Pat Ogden: Sensorimotor Pyschotherapy Approach for Treatment of Chronic Trauma

• Counselling Millennials: Young Adults in the Digital Age

• Peter Levine: Healing Broken Bonds:Releasing Trauma and Restoring Goodness

• Dr. Jaiya John: Renewal for Helping Professionals, Caregivers and Systems

• Creating Trauma Sensitive Schools: Jen Alexander

• Applying Responsive Trauma-Informed Strategies in Schools

• Angry Love and Ruthless Compassion: Reducing Isolation and Expulsions

• Biting, Hitting, Screaming, Oh My! Strategies for the 21st Century Classroom

• Adjusting School Expectations and Enjoying the Path Along the Way

• The Neurosequential Model In Education

• Creating Attachment-Based Trauma Informed Classrooms 

• Gordon Neufeld: Making Sense of Anxiety

       and Related Disorders

• Survivors of Torture: Survivors in our Midst

• Exploring the Paradoxes of Mourning:

       Alan Wolfelt

• Proactive Strategies for Children with

       Challenging Behaviour

• Mental Health Online Resources for Educators

• Understanding Mental Health Issues in

       Classrooms

•  Mental Health Curriculum Training

•  Professionals Respecting Individual Sexual Minorities

•  Inquiry Based Teaching and Learning

•  Differentiation in the Inclusive Classroom

•  Principles of a Thinking Classroom

•  Cyber Bullying

•  Professional Reading in areas of Anxiety, Grief, Family Therapy and Narrative Therapy

•  21st Century Learning

•  Math Gismos: Grade 4-8

•  Digital Literacy

•  Educational Technology and Social Networking

•  Thematic Units: Div. III Language

•  Reading Strategies

•  Guided Reading Program

•  Evaluation of Provincial Achievement Tests

•  Academic In-services

Courses:

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• Complex Trauma Certification:  Janina Fisher

• Brain Focused Strategies: Dealing With Depression

• Expert Strategies: Working With Anxiety 

• Brain Story 

• Mental Health First Aid

• The Science of Happiness:Berkley University

• Introduction to Grief and Loss Part 1 and 2:

       Hospice Calgary

• Introduction to Sand Tray Therapy

• Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural

       Therapy

• Dulwich Centre Intro to Narrative Therapy

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Diverse Learning Competencies

 

Created Learner Profiles to support students with the following;

 

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

• Attention Deficit Disorder

• Spectrum: Autism-Asperger’s

• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

• Giftedness

• Hearing/Visual Impairments

• Trauma/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

• Down Syndrome

• Communication Delays

• English Language Learning

• Learning Disabled

• Anxiety

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

• Oppositional Defiant Disorder

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Leadership Roles 

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• Monthly Connections Meetings 

• Staff Professional Development (Mindfulness, Covid and Mental Health, Suicidal Ideation, Behavior) 

• Virtual Resources 

• Mental Health Presentations 

• School Wellness Lead 

• Newsletters: Staff and Parents 

• Student Surveys 

• Community Referrals for youth and families

• School Resource Team

• Mentorship Program: Big Brothers and

•        Big Sisters

• Teacher Mentorship

• Breakfast Program

• We Day Committee

• Kids in The Know

• Open Minds Programs

• Practicum Supervisor

• Catholic Community of Caring

• Social Justice Projects

• Staff Social Event Coordinator

• Committee Leader

• Patrol Supervisor

• Science Fair Invention Convention

• Contact teacher (Math, Language Arts, Computers)

• ATA representative

• School liturgies

• Guest Speakers

• Service Projects

• School Presentations

 

 Created Counselling Case Conceptualizations to support clients in areas of:

 

• Grief and Loss

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Suicidal Ideation

• Complicated Grief

• Distorted Automatic Thoughts

• Terminal Pain

• Post Traumatic Stress

• Obsessive Compulsive Tendencies

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Volunteer Experience

 

• Family Tree House of Hope

• Family Tree Kinship Program,

• Living With Cancer Support Group

• Feed the Hungry

• Flood Relief

• St. Vincent de Paul Hamper Delivery

• Elizabeth House: Babysitting

• Junior High Badminton Coaching

• Community Soccer Coaching

• Hockey Tournament Coordinator

• School Breakfasts and Barbeques

• Bottle Drives

• Sacramental Preparations

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