Professional Experience

Individual Advocacy:

• work directly with individuals with developmental disabilities and their families to develop and articulate a vision for an inclusive life in the community and develop a plan to achieve this vision.

• Served as a resource and navigator to families and individuals with developmental disabilities to pursue support and services that enable life in community.

• Advocated with and for families and individuals with developmental disabilities in their efforts to nurture and develop inclusive communities.

• Provided advising, consultation and advocate with and for families and individuals with developmental disabilities within in the local and provincial education and social service systems.

• Supported in intake and referral processes, including first consults and follow ups, and coordinating collaboration with colleagues from other departments

• Build strong and collaborative relationships between individuals with intellectual disability's, families and community/government stakeholders

Systemic Advocacy: 

• Supported families in planning speeches and presenting at public rallies

• Supported families to raise there issues and concerns to local and provincial representatives, both individually and as part of larger campaigns. 

• Collaborated with other team members to identify strong and relevant voices, and support these people to speak to media 

Supporting Family Leadership and Movement Building:

• Supported family members to present on there experiences at events geared towards other families, professionals and community members, and donors. 

• Connected families to local community associations and peer leaders 

• Gathered information and put forward nominations for family leadership development trainings 

Provided wrap around supports to NAIT students with intellectual disabilities. 

Educational Supports 

• Provided academic and social support students with disabilities to be fully and meaningfully apart of their chosen program of study, including collaborating with university staff to create academic accommodations and modifications.

• Collaborated with NAIT faculty, post-secondary staff, and students’ families to support students’ full engagement and active membership in their specified program of study, the university, and community at large

Employment supports 

• Developed partnerships with employers across a variate on industries and collaborate to create role that alight with students studies and long term goals while meeting needs of employers

• Advocated to a broad range of stake holders and community members to facilitate the inclusion and support for individuals with disabilities within employment and recreational spaces.

Social Supports 

• Connected with and engaged in advocacy for family of individuals with disabilities, in order to maximize the quality of life and meaningful participation in community.

• Provided meaningful and individualized supports to families of individuals with disabilities to support inclusion in all areas of life within there communities.

• Worked one-on-one with students and families to create personalized development plans.

• Developed and executed lesson plans as well as creating records of these undertakings.

• Provided scheduling, payroll, invoicing and maintained working relationships with clients.

• Specialized in high-school and junior high math, science and social studies.

• provided direct support and feedback of student work both online and in person.

• Created detailed notes and constructive asynchronous feedback on submitted work.

• Maintain and applied in-depth the MacEwan Academic Integrity Policy and ensure all tutoring activities are done within its constraints.

• Maintained a broad knowledge of different academic writing conventions and citation styles.

Key responsibilities: 

• Created documents, spreadsheets, presentations and marketing materials.

• Scheduled and set reminders for important meetings and deadlines.

• Administrated the company website to ensure information is accurate and up to date.

• Drafted preliminary contracts and provided assistance with administrative filing.

• Created data visualizations and interactive data maps for internal and public use.

• Provided ongoing technical support as need including troubleshooting digital meeting software, report desktop software and file compatibility.