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For
over 20 years I have served as a management consultant exclusively to non-profit
organizations, concentrating on program design and proposal writing, program
evaluation, and organizational development.
My training is in applied psychology with a focus on organizational psychology,
community psychology, and program
evaluation. As a consultant I have undertaken many projects over the years,
the
most noteworthy of which, I am proud to say have had wide-reaching impact.
For example:
• In
1985 I wrote a comprehensive training and resource manual for youth employment counsellors.
This document is still in use in many youth employment counselling centres
throughout Ontario.
• From 1987 to 1990 I helped design the first distance-learning-based
training program for community development workers in Native communities.
From 1990 to 1992 I helped establish the first Early Childhood Education
distance training program for community development workers in Native communities.
From 1990 to 1992 I helped establish the first Early Childhood Education
distance training program for Native people in Canada.
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In 1995, I was commissioned by the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social
Services to write a manual on the design and evaluation of young offender
programs. Effective Young Offender Program Design, is the standard training
reference for the field in Ontario and many of its recommended practices
have been incorporated into MCSS’s young offender services standards
and guidelines.
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In 1998 I led a team to revamp both English and French literacy and
numeracy learning outcomes for all Literacy and Basic Skills programs
in Ontario for the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.
• In 1999, I led a review of the Language Instruction for Newcomers
to Canada program offered by the Toronto District School Board - the
largest English instruction program for new immigrants in North America.
• In 2002, I developed the Learning-To-Learn Differently Project
(LLDP). LLDP is a volunteer-based tutoring program for academically
at-risk Grade One children that also develops the knowledge and skills
the parents of these children need to help them succeed in school. It
currently runs in four cities in Ontario through local Learning Disability
Association of Ontario offices.
• In 2004 I developed employment service benchmarks based on a
sample of 1,100 clients from across Ontario. The first study of its
kind in Canada, it also provided an empirical assessment of the depth
and breadth of employment barriers faced by employment-disadvantaged
clients.
• In 2005 I undertook a province-wide needs assessment for employment
services among Deaf, deafened and hard-of-hearing consumers. The project
also entailed the development of a comprehensive model of expanded and
enhanced specialized employment service delivery. A total of 365 consumers
participated in providing input – in either survey or focus group
form, making this project the most comprehensive consultation on employment
service needs and solutions of its kind.
Please feel free to explore my web site, and be sure to
check out my latest publication – newly revised and expanded for
2007!
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