Social Work Services

Qualifications: Registered Social Worker with Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Social Work

Experience: Rosa has over 10 years of experience with diverse populations:

Substance Use Clinician: Tri-Cities MHSU Older Adults program, FH

Key Social Worker: Key Worker Program, children & youth with neurological disabilities, BC Centre for Abilities

Counsellor: Settlement & Employment Program, refugees & immigrants, SUCCESS & RMCS

Fun Fact: Rosa was an art instructor in Korea and has two degrees in design and art. She loves writing.

Qualifications: Registered Social Worker with Bachelor of Science and Human Development and Master of Medical and Psychiatric Social Work, Masters of Arts Based Therapy 
   

Experience: With over 20 years of experience as a Registered Social worker, Dhara has worked with diverse clientele across India, US, London and Canada.  

She has experience working with youth, adults, and marginalized communities providing individual and group,  counseling/ therapy and  social work services. Dhara has been a part of various disaster management and rehabilitation projects as a first responder through the Government of India. Some of them being Tsunami rehabilitation project. She was the lead counsellor for Taj Hotel terror attacks wherein she planned and lead a team for therapy and rehabilitation of staff and guests.  Dhara has worked in various settings in  Canada which includes, Hospital, shelter, pre -rial, Community mental health. 

Fun Fact: Dhara designs and curates Indian outfits / jewelry in her leisure time. She runs a small organization wherein she mentors  women and local artisans  to run their business.  She likes hiking and dancing. 

Qualifications: BSW, Master of Counselling Psychology (in progress)

Experience: Medhi is an experienced registered social worker who started his early career as volunteer assisting refugees with Red Cross during the civil war in Croatia and Bosnia. Upon arriving in Vancouver 1995 as a refugee, he continued volunteering with the Red Cross in variety of capacities for several more years while he went back to school and worked full time.

Mehdi’s community mental health social service work experience includes working with Triage Shelters and as outreach in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Some of his other experiences include working at Long-Term Care (LTC) centres with seniors and their families including working a as a liaison between LTC and Vancouver Coastal Health, and working at Federal Correctional Institution in Regional Psychiatric Hospital (Pacific Region), where some of his duties included counselling and discharge planning with clients and facilitating CBT-psychosis groups. While in Correction facilities, Mehdi was CISM (Critical Incident Stress Management) primary responder and certified as trained the trainer as instructor for Suicide and Self Injury Intervention Training Workshops.

Fun Facts: Mehdi enjoys learning new sports and new activities that he never had the opportunity to try. Some years ago, Mehdi joined a Dragon Boat team and ended up winning the gold medal in a mixed teams at the False Creek race. After his 40 birthday, Mehdi decided to try running and has been running ever since, completing a half-marathon (Vancouver Scotiabank) and several 10K Under Armor race. Most recently he had an opportunity to be a Head Soccer coach for South Burnaby Metro Club. He loves to explore new things including outdoors and talking to his colleagues about history, music, books, and travel.

Qualifications: BA, BSW, MSW

Experience: Sana worked in acute care for the last 12 years before transitioning to community based work. Sana has significant experience working in maternity and NICU programs, with seniors, and with stroke and brain injured patients.

Fun Fact: Most important job I have is being mom to my two young kids who always keep me on my toes!

Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts in Social Work, Registered Social Worker

Experience: Cristina has over thirty years of experience in both hospital settings as well as community non-profit programs with emphasis on maternal health, and early childhood health, development and mental health.  She worked as a social worker for four years in the pediatric oncology department at one of the training hospitals in Taipei, Taiwan. 

Upon her arrival to Canada in 1996, she volunteered for various organizations including The Neurological Centre, Inland Refugee Society of BC, and Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, all located in Vancouver. She served in the community of Surrey for 28 years, initially as an outreach counsellor at Healthiest Babies Possible (Surrey/Delta), serving high risk pregnant women. Later, she worked as an infant development consultant at Surrey/White Rock Infant Development Program where her focus was on monitoring children in foster care.

Besides her clinical duties, Cristina also acted as clinical supervisor/program manager and representative of the Program Quality Improvement for both programs.

Fun Fact: Cristina is passionate about learning at least one new skill every year. She is committed in learning the skill for a substantial amount of time before moving to the next one. Her challenge is finding time to continue practicing all the previous activities as she loves them all, so her home is now filled with art and craft materials. She is committed to knitting, crocheting, watercolor and pastel painting, sketching, jewelry making, and reading. There is nothing more fulfilling than wearing or decorating her house with her own creations. However, her passion for pottery goes above all else she has learned so far. Cristina has also taken lessons in djembe, east coast dancing, lindy hop, tai chi and archery. She was first in establishing the Canadian record for 50 yards in the traditional recurve bow, without sight for the women category. Cristina is also inspired by music. She is one of the choir directors in her parish.