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| Community Mental Health & Addictions Worker |
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Industry Consultation / Program Advisory Committee Members
This program was developed in close consultation and partnership with industry, namely the Portland Hotel Society (PHS) Community Services and the Lookout Emergency Aid Society.
To inform the curriculum development process, a number of meetings were held initially between Stenberg College's Director of Marketing and Public Relations, Les Merson. Les Merson is also the Director and Co-Producer a documentary series (for television distribution) chronicling the lives of nine aboriginal women in the downtown eastside http://www.streetsisters.ca/ . Les previously directed and produced the award-winning documentary film Something To Eat, A Place To Sleep & Someone Who Gives A Damn.
Those sitting on the Program Advisory Committee include:
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PAC Member Name |
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| Willie Blackwater |
Director of Health & Social Services Kluane First Nation, Yukon. Willie is a Residential School Survivor who was the named plaintiff in the national precedent setting Court case, "Blackwater et. al. vs. Her Majesty The Queen, The United Church of Canada, Arthur Henry Plint, John Andrews & John Caldwell which resulted in the residential school healing fund of $2.9 billion.
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| Matt Danny-Keys |
Assistant Program Manager with Options Community Services Clubhouse Programs. Lab Manager in Research at UBC Psychiatry. Member of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation BC Board. Member of the Surrey Advisory Committee (Mental health consumer and family-run advocacy and community review committee, agency representative), BA - Psychology.
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| Liz Evans |
Executive Director / Founder of the Portland Hotel Society (PHS); 20 years service in this industry; BScN.
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| Shawnah Fossen |
Coordinator, PHS Lifeskills Centre; 10 years service in this industry; Grief & Loss Counselling – BC Living Through Loss Society.
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| Judy Graves |
Coordinator, Tenant Assistance Program; 36 years of service in this industry; Honorary Doctorate of Laws, UBC; Honorary Doctorate, Sacred Letters, Corpus Christi.
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| Clare Hacksel |
Project Manager, PHS Community Services Society; 2 years of service in this industry; MSC Social Policy; BA Sociology.
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| Hendrik Hoekema |
Executive Director/Contract Manager, NewChapter and NewStart; 25 years of service in this industry; BA Literature; Incomplete MA; Board of Trade DTES Task Force; NICCSS (Network of Inner City Community Services); BOB (Building Opportunities with Business); NEVCO (Network of Eastside Vancouver Society); FTEC (Fast Track to Employment Coalition); Urban Core; Director/Coordinator of SFU Prison Education Programs for 17 years; Lifeskills Program for Correctional Services of Canada.
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| Irene Jaakson |
Director of Emergency Services, Lookout Emergency Aid Society; 17 years of service in this industry; BAA; BSW; MSW; Lookout training and case planning.
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| Les Merson |
Director of Marketing & Public Relations (Stenberg College); 24 years of service in this industry; BGS; Masters in Process (SFU); Board of Directors, Vancouver Eastside Educational Enrichment Society; Greater Vancouver Shelter Strategy.
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| Karen O'Shannacery |
Executive Director, Lookout Emergency Aid Society; 45 years of service in this industry; Vancouver Urban Core; Community Workers Association; Regional Housing Committee on Homelessness; Assisted in developing curriculum for the Langara Program 25 years ago; 20 years of experience as the Lookout trainer of students, clients and staff in skills development, poverty issues, etc.; Developed the Lookout Training Program and rolled it out.
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| Esther Schmeer |
Self-employed Counselling/Companionship; 2 years of service in this industry; MA; Group facilitation of various kinds; Parenting courses; ESL; Art Courses; Group Counselling.
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| Sarah Shandro |
Downtown Eastside Resident; Involved with PHS and Lookout; Involved with a documentary about native women in the Eastside and their survivor stories.
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| Morgan Teneycke |
Downtown Eastside for 29 years; Involved with Prison Programs and Lookout. |
| Shayne Williams |
Executive Director, South Fraser Community Services | |
