Google

August - October 2022

This widely recognized professional certificate, endorsed by the Project Management Institute, offers extensive learning material and graded assignments over six courses from project initiation to launch. The capstone course provides a hands-on opportunity to work through a project in its entirety and address common challenges.

Government of New Brunswick

February 2021

PRIDE is a standardized training program for prospective adoptive and foster parents. I aided the lead trainer in delivering the training and providing a Child Protection Social Worker perspective. 

Government of New Brunswick

February 2020

This training focused on the types of intimate partner violence, how to address it, and how to work with both victims and perpetrators to ensure safety for children. 

Toward the Heart Harm Reduction Services

August 2019

​This training qualifies the trainee to access and administer Naloxone, also known as Narcan, to temporarily reverse the life-threatening effects of an opioid overdose. 

Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment Training Program

July 2019

This valid and reliable risk assessment tool uses police reports and victim disclosure to determine recidivism in domestic assaults by males. I am qualified to assess and score using this tool.

Evident Change (Formerly National Council on Crime & Delinquency and Children's Research Centre

2018/2019

The Structured Decision Making® (SDM) model for child protection is an evidence and research-based assessment system that identifies key points in the life of a child welfare case and uses structured  to improve the consistency and validity of each decision regarding intake, safety, risk, strengths and needs, as well as specific assessments for fostering, kinship, and adoption.

Government of New Brunswick

2018/2019

This was a mandatory five-week training series for all child protection employees.  It covered five themes, each a week long:

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• Family-Centered Child Protection Services

• Collaborative Case Planning and Family-Centered Practice

• Child Development: Implications for Family-Centered Child Protective Services

• Separation, Placement, and Permanence

• Legal Aspects of Child Welfare

IWK Reproductive Mental Health Service

October 2017

This one-day training certifies the attendee to use the Mother's Mental Health Toolkit and use the resources to aid new mothers in adjusting to parenthood, the challenges of raising a child and accessing community resources. 

Canadian Red Cross

May 2017

This two-day course qualifies the participant to deliver the "Healthy Youth Relationships" workshop to youth 15-18. It discusses common types of romantic relationship challenges, addresses the pressures youth often face as they begin dating, and outlines the concept of consent in detail. 

Canadian Red Cross

April 2017

This course certifies the participant to deliver the "It's Not Your Fault" abuse and violence prevention workshop to children and youth ages 12-18. The workshop details the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and relevant child protection legislation, types of abuse (emotional, physical, sexual, neglect), exploitation, the impacts of abuse and violence, how to get help, and how to help each other. 

Canadian Red Cross

April 2017

This course takes an in-depth look at the issues of abuse, violence, harassment, and bullying.  It discusses the legal aspects concerning these issues, as well as potential contributing factors, indicators, impacts, and suggestions for mitigating risk.  

New Brunswick Association for Community Living

March 2015

This two-day course offered insight into the realities that people living with an intellectual disability face in relation to their sexuality and romantic relationships.  It offered practical and concrete ways of explaining boundaries, types of relationships, activities associated with different types of relationships, and approaches for having conversations about puberty, sex, and other "taboo" topics. 

Mental Health Association of Portland, OR & Alternative Mobile Services Association

Feb. 1&2, 2022

Keynotes and breakouts focus on alternatives to police in responding to community mental health concerns, including the use of mobile crisis units, and discussing the often violent conflict between law enforcement and those experiencing mental health crises.

Consortium for Children

November 2020

The SAFE Home Study is a standardized methodology that  aids social workers in performing a thorough, structured and uniform evaluation of families who have applied to foster or adopt.

Government of New Brunswick

December 2019 

This training provided strategies for a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach with clients, incorporating positive psychology principles and practices, to focus on finding collaborative solutions to complex challenges and eliciting behaviour change. 

Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

July 2019

This internationally recognized assessment tool from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, created by Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell, assesses the risk an abused woman has of being killed by her abusive partner.  I've completed the training and testing and I am fully certified to interpret and score Danger Assessments. 

ARC Framework, Inc.

May 2019

The Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) Framework is a flexible, components-based intervention developed for children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma, along with their caregiving systems. ARC’s foundation is built upon four key areas of study: normative childhood development, traumatic stress, attachment, and risk and resilience.

Government of New Brunswick

2018/2019

This five-part training series coverd the relevant legal and court processes specific to child protection, including a full overview of the NB Family Services Act.  It included a general overview of the Court of Queens Bench, court etiquette, the application process, attending court, affidavit writing, and testifying. It also outlined basic processes pertaining to Provincial court and how these systems interact with clients.

United Nations Development Program

October 2017

This training offered insight into the UNSDGs, which involve improving conditions around poverty, gender inequality, clean water, sanitation, climate change, global economics, and efficient institutions and infrastructure, and how they can be implemented on a community level.  Participants learned strategies for advocating for these goals in business and community settings. 

Mental Health Commission of Canada

July 2017

This two-day training details common mental health issues and offers practical tools to intervene in times of crisis and offer support and reassurance to those who may be struggling. 

Canadian Red Cross

May 2017

This course prepares those working with children to deliver the Be Safe! program, which teaches children ages 3-9 about personal safety, including boundaries, safe touch, and how to get help, especially in communal settings like emergency or refugee camps and disaster situations. 

Canadian Red Cross

April 2017

This course offers best practices and suggestions for members of child and youth-serving organizations to identify situations or policies which may put a child or youth at risk, to create policies and procedures that address these issues and measures to maintain safe environments through evaluation and communication. 

LivingWorks

March 2017

This two-day course discusses common themes surrounding suicide, how to intervene in times of crisis and create safety plans, how to help those who may be at risk of suicide access resources and practical instruction on listening non-judgmentally.   

Family Enrichment & Counselling Service

April 2014

This course offered strategies and exercises for building resiliency and adopting the practice of mindfulness for those who work in high-stress and potentially traumatic fields to help mitigate burn-out, compassion fatigue, and occupational stress injuries.