(She/Her) Mental Health & Psychosocial Support Manager @redcrosscanada. Also RSW, mom to 1 human & 1 poodle, 2x marathoner, and coffee lover. Tweets are my own.
Fredericton, NB
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Some #GoodNews: @KidsHelpPhone is offering phone counselling in Arabic via interpreters. Young people can now call 1-800-668-6868 and select option 3 to connect to a counsellor via an Arabic-speaking interpreter. More info at kidshelpphone.ca/Arabic
Multiple folks in the Twitterverse commenting on their mood this morning. Cranky? Stressed? Totally normal reactions to an abnormal #COVID19 holiday season! Check out @redcrosscanada guide to coping w/ a health emergency during the holidays redcross.ca/crc/documents/Ho… #mentalhealth
I love how the parents say they saw their kids practicing at home. #KindnessMatters! And we need more right now @somegoodnews
Fredericton Grade 1 students surprise janitor with birthday greeting — in sign language: ift.tt/3oPjwiA
Delighted to attend today's #MHForAll webinar. Great point by @russells70 that instead of labelling people's needs as complex, we define our systems as complex. This promotes thinking about systems change to increase accessibility of #mentalhealth services
Listening to university students on @TheCurrentCBC who are seeking tuition cuts now that courses are online. Just finished a distance ed degree and wanted to chime in that in my program tuition was higher for distance students than oncampus peers for the same courses due to fees
Hey @CFSnowbirds, meet your youngest fan! 6-month-old Skylar was pretty excited to see you flyover #Fredericton just now! Big thank you for #OperationInspiration!
1 upside of #covid19 suspending my BSW field placement: my self-directed remote learning includes @CASW_ACTS's webinar series feat @ToddLeader1 on creating a client-centered #mentalhealth system. So timely! #Grateful
BTW @CASW_ACTS has made all webinars in their library free and accessible during this time. Check em out casw-acts.ca/en/resources/co… #keeplearning #keepgrowing
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During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, Indigenous people in Canada were 6.5 times as likely to end up in the ICU. Now with #COVID19, African-Americans in NYC are dying at twice the rate of their white peers.
Don't tell me that pandemics impact 'all people equally'.
Race matters.
Skylar was a @RootsofEmpathy teacher this year at Priestman Street Elementary School in #Fredericton. She was missing all her students so we decided to record a little update! @ASD_West
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Had a second interview for a government job.
I got asked a question in French.
Said I didn’t know how to speak French. Then I got asked why I put “Yes” in the box stating if I was bilingual.
Told them I spoke English and Oji-Cree.
The interviewers sat in silence.
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Fritz had such an awesome time at the #freddydoggiedip! Thanks @GlobalPetFoods! Can't wait for next year!
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Do you have white teenage sons?
Listen up.
I've been watching my boys' online behavior & noticed that social media and vloggers are actively laying groundwork in white teens to turn them into alt-right/white supremacists.
Here's how:
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I LOVE this- wish every market had an "Old Coots Giving Advice" booth. We all need an Elder to tell us what's up!
A tradition is brewing In Salt Lake City where, every Saturday in the summer, a group of senior citizens who regularly meet and gab at a local coffee shop are offering up free advice to anyone who visits their booth at a farmer's market. @SteveHartmanCBS cbsn.ws/2Zyis6y
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[at a gender reveal party]
me: if blue confetti comes out of the pipe it’s a boy, and if pink confetti comes out it’s a girl
guests: three, two, one...!
[I press the button. Water shoots out of the pipe. The room floods]
me: that’s right bitches, gender is fluid
Another day at #AFNAGA2019, another inspiring young First Nations leader. 14-year-old water warrior Autumn Pelletier, honoured today, calls upon us to let youth lead: “Meet with the children. We have ideas and what we say comes from the heart.”
What a privilege to represent @redcrosscanada at #AFNAGA2019 and learn from young First Nations leaders like @Emma_stevens16 who is using music as a way of preserving her Miꞌkmaq language #inspired
