Community Involvement, Present:    

                                      
     * Advocacy 5 yrs 
     * Steering committee member for formation of peer support program for
        consumers through joint efforts of Sunshine Coast Community

        Services & CMHA.
    *  Steering Committee Member Nov. 19/01 for Coast Garibaldi Mental

        Health (CMHA)
        Regional Progress report under Ted Rowcliffe, coordinator: B.C.S.S. (604)

        883-0057
    *  Registered as an active Member of the Law Society's Probono Website
        under Paralegal.            

Courses over a two year period, "back to back":                                                                                 

 * ADVOCACY  Certificate training program through Sunshine  Coast Community Services Society & B.C. Legal Services    Society, the Law Foundation of  B.C.  Program, Wayne Robertson   Exec. Dir. and the Community Legal Assistance Society,    Brett Haughian Supervisor. 2002

  BC Benefits & Human Resources

 Residential Tenancy Act, Tribunals

 Conflict Resolution & Communications

 Arbitration & Mediation

 Family Law

 Child & Services Community Act

 CPP/OAP/Disabilities PWD, Reconsiderations, Appeals, Tribunals

 Canadian Mental Health Act.

 Dec.2001/Mar.2002 @ the Sunshine Coast Mental   Health Services
PO Box 949, 5544 Hwy. 101 V0N 3A0    (604) 885-6101   

* Twelve week course on anger &  Stress Management

   by Anna Richley BA, MA  (As a family member)                                                                     

* Twelve week Depression Management & Assertiveness

   Sandy Morgan M.S.W.       (As a family member)                                                                

* Twelve week course, Computer Upgrading through the WOW

    program, taught by Peter Mussallem  (604) 883-1395

* 12 week course, Schizophrenia for Family Members and Problem Solutions

   BC Schizophrenia Society, 2004, through Ted Rowcliff. (604)  883-0057

*  7 Hour qualification certificate program S.A.S.S.I Clinical Interpretation &  Administration and Scoring, 
through Dave Wilson, Mental Health and Addictions  and Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certfication Board Nov.28^th 2005 

  Formal Education: Dawson College Montreal/Quebec

                    Social Sciences 5.4 Grade Point Average.

Currently enrolled in BCOU/Thomson Rivers University, (BC Open University)    headed towards a Degree of Psychology.