Find out more about some of our past students and what they’ve been up to since graduating with a degree in Psychology.
Brenda Baird |
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| Where am I Now? | Dr Brenda J Baird (PhD) Assistant Professor School of Psychology/Ecole de psychologie University of Ottawa/Université d’Ottawa 136 Jean-Jacques Lussier Room 4001 Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 |
Betty M. Bayer |
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| Where am I Now? | 1992- Professor, Women’s Studies Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY2013-2014 Senior Fellow, Martin Marty Center and Associate of Women’s and Gender Studies University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
Mike Beauchesne |
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| Where am I Now? | Executive Vice President – Clinical Services at the Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre (DSYTC) in Ottawa (since 2010). After graduating from Carleton in 1999, I pursued and completed my M.Ed. (Counseling) at the University of Ottawa. As of January 2001, I commenced my career at the DSYTC, working as a Therapist (2001-2003), Clinical Program Coordinator (2003-2008) and then as the Executive Director (2008-2010). While working full-time, I decided to return to Carleton in 2009 to pursue my MBA (Sprott School of Business), and I graduated in 2012. |
Lorne D. Bertrand |
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| Where am I Now? | Senior Research Associate Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family |
Caminee Blake |
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| Where am I Now? | Staff Psychologist in the Youth Service in the Psychiatry Department at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal; also in private clinical practice |
Kelley Blanchette |
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| Where am I Now? | Director General, Women Offender Sector, Correctional Service of Canada |
Laura Brawn |
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| Where am I Now? | Disabilities Coordinator at the Paul Menton Centre, Carleton University |
Donna Campbell |
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| Where am I Now? | Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. 1976-present -Professor, School of Education, -Program Coordinator, MA in Special EducationFormer positions: Missouri Department of Mental Health, 1976-1988 -Psychologist -Chief Executive Officer, Hawthorn Children’s Psychiatric Hospital, 1986-1988 |
Kirsten Carroll Somoza |
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| Where am I Now? | UX Architect, TELUS Health |
Gary Challis |
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| Where am I Now? | Dean, Adler Graduate Professional School Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice, Hank Frazer and Consultants |
Leanna Closson |
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| Where am I Now? | Tenure-track Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Saint Mary’s University Halifax, NS |
David Combden |
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| Where am I Now? | Assistant Manager at the Lacepede Bay Motel in Kingston SE, South Australia while completing a Master’s of Counselling through Athabasca Distance Education |
Shevaun Corey |
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| Where am I Now? | Senior Project Officer at the Correctional Service of Canada |
Nadia D’Angelo |
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| Where am I Now? | I am entering the third year of my PhD in the Developmental Psychology and Education program at OISE/UT. My research interests are in bilingual education, language and literacy development. In particular, my research longitudinally examines models of English and French reading growth for multilingual children enrolled in early French immersion programs. For my dissertation,I will investigate the suitability of French immersion for children identified as at-risk for reading difficulties. |
Katherine L. Davidson |
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| Where am I Now? | Psychological Associate working in private practice and as a Psychoeducational Consultant in the Peel District School Board |
Paul Arthur Dowdall |
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| Where am I Now? | Staff Sergeant Ontario Provincial Police Detachment Commander Killaloe Detachment 15368 Highway 60 Killaloe, ON K0J 2A0 613-757-2600 |
Craig Dowden |
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| Where am I Now? | I am currently in Toronto and am the Managing Director of the Toronto office of SPB Organizational Psychology Inc. |
Sanela Dursun |
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| Where am I Now? | Director Research Personnel and Family Support, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) |
Alyssa Ferns (nee Taylor) |
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| Where am I Now? | Professor, Bachelor of Applied Arts – Criminal Justice School of Social and Community Services Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
Leanne Findlay |
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| Where am I Now? | Leanne Findlay is a Senior Social Science Researcher with Statistics Canada. Her area of expertise is in healthy child development, with a specific interest in the health of special populations, mental health and correlates of positive mental health. Leanne completed her PhD at Carleton University in 2006; this work was focused on mental health and well-being of shy children, in particular with respect to the relative benefits of physical activity participation. Leanne has worked extensively with population-level data, including numerous published papers on Aboriginal child health, child care, and physical activity. |
Derek Fisher |
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| Where am I Now? | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Mount Saint Vincent University Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Dalhousie University |
Mindi Foster |
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| Where am I Now? | Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University |
Melissa Fraser (nee Littau) |
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| Where am I Now? | Evaluation Officer, National Research Council Canada |
Heather Davediuk Gingrich |
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| Where am I Now? | Professor of Counseling Denver Seminary (MA Counseling Licensure program) I just published a book: Gingrich, H. D. (2013). Restoring the shattered self: A Christian counsellor’s guide to complex trauma. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. Prior to this I taught in graduate counseling program in the Philippines (masters and doctoral levels) for 8 years, and before the Philippines did clinical work and taught at the undergraduate level in Ottawa and London, Ont. Website: www.heathergingrich.com |
Joel Ginsburg |
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| Where am I Now? | Psychologist in the Operational Trauma and Stress Support Centre of the Canadian Forces Health Services Centre (Ottawa) |
Richard L. Glatt |
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| Where am I Now? | Director/Psychoeducational Consultant at Psychoeducational Services and The Cognitive Performance Centre Providing assessment and counselling services since 1995 specializing in AD/HD, learning disabilities, giftedness, anxiety, and mood disorders. |
Renée Gobeil |
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| Where am I Now? | Research Manager, Women Offender Research, Correctional Service of Canada |
Judith Ann Graham (nee Dey) |
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| Where am I Now? | Retired from Chrysler Group in Auburn Hills, Michigan, as Senior Manager of Governance in 2007. Did strategy management consulting after that for 2 years (American Airlines in Dallas, TX, was my primary client). Taught Business Ethics and Strategy Management at University of Windsor for 2 years as well as an adjunct professor. Now living in Estero. Florida. |
Marcy Grossman |
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| Where am I Now? | Consul General of Canada, Denver. Full bio available here. |
Erin Hill |
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| Where am I Now? | I completed my PhD in Psychology from the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand (graduated December 2012) having studied there under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan. And recently I was hired as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Health Psychology at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, a position that starts in August 2013. |
Anita M. Hubley |
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| Where am I Now? | Full Professor of Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methodology (MERM) in the Dept. of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education (ECPS), University of British Columbia Also: Director of the Adult Development and Psychometrics Lab at UBC http://faculty.educ.ubc.ca/hubley/ |
Diana Koszycki |
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Ron Kozan |
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| Where am I Now? | After graduating and being honoured with a Certificate of Academic Excellence by the Canadian Psychological Association for my undergraduate thesis, I earned an MBA (Financial Management, 2014) with the Sprott School of Business. Further graduate study yielded a Postgraduate Certificate in Valuation (UBC, 2017). Thereafter I launched Kanata Appraisals, a full-service real property professional appraisal services corporation. The 2020 pandemic shuttered my business and I am currently sharpening my data analytics saw and considering opportunities. Meanwhile, my other passion, fiction writing, is serviced via my publishing corporation/imprint Fresh Blue Ink (Fresh Blue, Inc.) which has published two novels to date. |
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Daryl Kroner |
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| Where am I Now? | Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
Sara Lahaie |
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| Where am I now? | I am currently working as an Officer of Client Satisfaction with the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority. |
Chong Chi Tiffany Leong |
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| Where am I Now? | Clinical Psychologist , PsyD Pediatric Department Central Hospital (CHCSJ), MACAU |
John Lyon |
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| Where am I Now? | I have been employed as a Psychosocial Support Worker on the Mental Health Patient Care Unit at the Alberta Children’s Hospital since 2008. During that time I also earned a Masters of Science degree in Psychology (2012) from the University of Calgary, supervised by Dr. C.T. Scialfa while investigating driving safety and incidental learning in healthy young and old adults. I spend almost all of my free time climbing waterfall ice, rock, and alpine routes in the Canadian Rockies. |
Diane E. Mack |
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| Where am I Now? | Associate Professor: Department of Kinesiology; Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University. |
Dan Madularu |
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| Where am I now? | PhD candidate, 4th year, Concordia University, Montreal, QC Supervisors: Drs. Wayne G. Brake and Dave G. Mumby |
Maggie Mamen |
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| Where am I Now? | President, Centrepointe Professional Services Psychologist |
Scott McEwen |
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| Where am I Now? | President, LouSco Services Incorporated louscoservices.ca |
Tim Moore |
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| Where am I Now? | Professor and Chair Dept. of Psychology Glendon College, York University Toronto |
| Richard Mogford |
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| Where am I Now? Richard Mogford graduated from Carleton’s Ph.D. program in 1990 with a degree in Experimental Psychology, focusing on human factors and engineering psychology. His dissertation was on cognitive aspects of air traffic controller training. Dr. Brian Tansley was his doctoral advisor. Prior to that, he obtained an M.A. degree from Sonoma State University and worked in clinical treatment settings for about 10 years before returning to graduate school.After leaving Carleton, Richard was employed by a Transport Canada contractor supporting the acquisition of a new air traffic control (ATC) system. After about a year, he was hired by a Federal Aviation Administration contractor at the William J. Hughes Technical Center in New Jersey, assisting the Research, Development, and Human Factors Laboratory. There he worked on a variety of projects evaluating ATC performance, future concepts and systems, and currently deployed (or soon to be deployed) equipment. One notable task was the design of the user interface and displays for the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System, an upgrade to aging automation used in ATC terminal operations. In 1997, he was hired as a government civil servant.In 1999, Richard moved to California to work as Research Psychologist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center at Moffett Field. He was the Project Manager of the Human Measures and Performance (HMP) Project, which was part of the Advanced Air Transportation Technologies Project. HMP focused on theoretical and applied experimental psychology and human factors research in support of NASA’s aeronautics programs. In 2006, he moved to the Human Systems Integration Division at Ames where he managed and contributed to a range of projects on ATC and flight deck operations. Examples include “generic airspace” research that developed and tested information tools and decision support automation to reduce the amount of memorization required of air traffic controllers. Another project was on a staffing and airspace management software tool for en route ATC supervisors. He also worked on a task for the Department of Homeland Security designing the user interface for a handheld nuclear radiation detector. Richard and his wife, Leslye, live on a houseboat in San Francisco Bay close to NASA Ames during the week and enjoy being at their house near Gualala, CA on Route 1 close to the Pacific Ocean, as time permits. |
Marisa Murray |
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| Where am I Now? | Third year standing in the clinical psychology program at the University of Ottawa. Dissertation examining screen time behaviours and psycho-social functioning among overweight and obese adolescents. |
Susan Murtha |
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| Where am I Now? | Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Health, York University. Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, York University |
Elizabeth (Lisa) Nisbet |
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| Where am I Now? | Assistant Professor of Psychology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario Website: naturerelatedness.ca |
Amanda Nolan |
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| Where am I Now? | Public Safety Canada |
Cheryl Ann Nolan |
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| Where am I Now? | Supervisor, Home Child Care Andrew Fleck Child Care Services 700 Industrial Avenue #600 Ottawa, Ontario K1G 0Y9 Works in collaboration with the Manager to ensure the provision of high quality home child care and support services through the supervision of program staff, the management of admissions, and effective communication with families, agency staff, City staff and the wider community. |
Diana Norton |
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| Where am I Now? | PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa. Research: psychotherapeutic processes in community practice for treatment of eating disorders. Private Practice. |
Sarah Jane Norwood |
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| Where am I Now? | I am currently completing my pre-doctoral residency at CHEO, which means I’m in the fifth and final year of my PhD at York University in Clinical Developmental and will be graduating next year (2014). |
Nicole Obeid |
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| Where am I Now? | Psychometrist and Lead, Research and Outcomes Management for the Eating Disorders Program at CHEO. |
Sandra R. Palef |
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| Where am I Now? | Psychologist-Psychoanalyst in private practice, Toronto, ON |
Delroy L. Paulhus |
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| Where am I Now? | Professor of Psychology, UBC |
Kavita Prakash |
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| Where am I Now? | I am a tenured professor of Psychology at Heritage College in Gatineau and have been teaching there since 2000. I have been teaching as a contract instructor at Carleton since about 2000 as well. Until recently, I have also been an adjunct research supervisor and have supervised numerous honours theses in Psychology as well as Child Studies Theses. I also hold a Masters in Human Kinetics from the University of Ottawa, with a speciality in Sport Psychology. I worked as a sport psychology consultant for over 10 years with numerous competitive and recreational figure skaters in the 3 major figure skating clubs in the Ottawa area. I have also given numerous seminars from the club level up to the National level (for Skate Canada). |
Lyne Racette |
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| Where am I Now? | Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute |
Sarah Ramisch Stewart |
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| Where am I Now? | Manager of International Admissions and Recruitment (Carleton University) |
Ravi Ramkissoonsingh |
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| Where am I Now? | I am currently a Professor of Psychology at Niagara College Canada in Welland, Ontario. I have been in this position for the past 7 years after teaching for 3 years at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario. I also completed a Master of Arts in Canadian Studies at Carleton in 2002. I am in the process of co-authoring a textbook to be used in Developmental Psychology courses at the college and university level. The title of the textbook is LifeSmart: Exploring Human Development, First Canadian Edition by Fiore, Ramkissoonsingh and Hotham, and will be published early in 2014 by McGraw-Hill Ryerson. I value the education that I received from Carleton as its Psychology department was top-notch! |
Tammie Ricci |
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| Where am I Now? | Clinical psychologist in private practice |
Sharyn Salsberg Ezrin |
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| Where am I Now? | Dr. Sharyn Salsberg Ezrin is a retired organizational psychologist and former executive coach. During the last decade before retirement, Sharyn had a private practice for individual clients or groups wanting to plan change in their work or life and wrote, Living Through Transitions: Harnessing your courage at a personal crossroads (2008, 2nd Edition). Sharyn volunteers at Baycrest’s Community Day Centre and commits time to other community involvements. |
Matthew J. Shanahan |
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| Where am I Now? | Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Western Ontario (Western) in Clinical Psychology (Year VI). Matched Intern at Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology (NICPP) for 2013-14. |
Virginia Smith |
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| Where am I Now? | I was the Supervisor of Special Education for the Yarmouth District School Board, Yarmouth Nova Scotia, for 25 years. I have, for 40 years, coached a local swim team, the Yarmouth Whitecaps. I contributed to a number of initiatives while in my position including the start of YACRO an organization designed to give parents alternatives for their challenged children other than placing them in institutions. This organization provides homes (3 to one home with 24 hour care), supervised apartments, programming and training for staff. I helped to start an organization set up to support families with challenging situations including poverty so that they could seek help from one agency rather than 4 or 5. I became a reading specialist. I have developed in- water programs for kids with Learning Disabilities, Autism and Language Disorders. I have also worked to remediate those with severe injuries causing them to be paraplegics. I earned a B.Ed. at Dalhousie University in Halifax in 1978 and a Masters from Mount St. Vincent in Education/Literacy. I still coach and conduct NCCP coaching courses in the Atlantic Region. |
Brenda Smith-Chant |
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| Where am I Now? | Chair (Associate Professor) Department of Psychology Trent University, Ontario, Canada |
Melissa Staddon |
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| Where am I Now? | Special Projects Coordinator and Student Support Advisor at Carleton University’s Student Academic Success Centre. I haven’t gone very far! |
Susan Stock |
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| Where am I Now? | Since graduating in Psychology from Carleton I have done at least 8 years of further training including MD from McMaster University, Family Medicine Residency at Dalhousie University, Specialty training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine and in Occupational Medicine and a MSc in epidemiology (all from McMaster University). Currently I am a medical specialist and researcher at the Quebec Institute of Public Health (Institut national de santé publique du Québec) in Montreal and I teach at both the Université de Montréal (Department of Social and Preventive Medicine) and McGill (Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health). My research is in the area of prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders and I am particularly interested in the complex relationship between biomechanical, organisational and psychosocial work exposures, psychological distress and musculoskeletal disorders. My training at Carleton was a wonderful background for my subsequent career path. |
Mary Sullivan-Tate |
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| Where am I Now? | Former elementary school teacher. Taught in Toronto for 30 years before retiring in 2005. Currently live in Mono, Ontario and Cape Coral, Florida. Patient Escort volunteer at Headwaters Healthcare Center in Orangeville Ontario. Married to Dr. Kenneth Tate, Ph.D. |
Cecilia Taiana |
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| Where am I Now? | Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Carleton UniversityI am teaching the following courses: ►MSW level advance seminar Trauma and Memory: An Examination of Theoretical Debates and Treatment of Psychological Trauma. ►Ph. D level seminar Epistemological Foundations: The Subject and the Work of the Social. ► I will present my most recent article at the International Psychoanalytic Association conference in Prague (August 2013); it will be submitted for publication to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, title of the article: Mourning the Dead, Mourning the Disappeared: The Enigma of the Absent-Presence. |
Meghan Thomas |
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| Where am I now? | After graduating from Carleton I thought, “what will I do next?” I enrolled in the Concurrent Disorders Graduate Certificate program at Mohawk College, which connected me to Canadian Mental Health Association-Brant (Brantford, ON). After completing a 7-week field placement with CMHA, I applied for the summer student position as a Social Recreation Worker. The program that I work in allows clients to create meaningful, supportive relationships; build their self-esteem and confidence, and help improve their mental well-being. All while engaging in recreational activities. |
Carolyn Thompson |
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| Where am I now? | Clinical Supervisor, Peel Addiction Assessment and Referral Centre Currently completing Master of Health Science in Health Administration at the University of Toronto |
Doruk Uysal Irak |
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| Where am I Now? | Department of Psychology Bahcesehir University Istanbul Turkey Assistant Professor |
Geoff Wilton |
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| Where am I Now? | Researcher with the Correctional Service of Canada |
Sara Wotschell |
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| Where am I Now? | Institutional Parole Officer Mountain Institution, medium security prison for men within the Correctional Service of Canada |
Ivan Zinger |
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| Where am I Now? | Executive Director and General Counsel Office of the Correctional Investigator of Canada |