Presentations
Presentations are timely, interesting and tailored to your interests and audience
For the last 25+ years Heather has been an educator, trainer and presenter. Her topics of expertise include substance use, homelessness, affordable housing, and working with clients facing these situations. Her presentations are timely, interesting, challenging and cover these topics from practice through to policy contexts. She is available to speak to communities, staff, board members and more. Presentations are tailored for every topic and audience.
Emergency Shelter in Quesnel, BC
Presentation Topics
Working with unhoused people
What causes homelessness?
Understanding substance use
Working with vulnerable people
Working together with peers (people with lived experiences)
Harm reduction & minimal barriers
Best practices: example of a homeless shelter in action
Overdose prevention care and sites
Understanding political ideologies: Vote to make a difference
Developing affordable housing
About supportive housing
The homelessness continuum
Trauma-informed compassionate care
Stages of harm reduction
Creating a safe community for everyone, including unhoused people
How government policies matter in direct practice work with vulnerable clients
Tiny house shelter village
About Heather
For more than 30 years Heather’s education and teaching interests have centered around affordable housing, substance use, homelessness, and working with vulnerable populations.
Heather’s experience includes:
25 years presenting at conferences, staff training, and other public events,
creating and teaching a 36-hour course on homelessness and affordable housing,
developing and delivering a 36-hour course on substance use, including topics such as: harm reduction, minimal barriers, overdose prevention, stages of legalization, trauma-informed compassionate care, and more
over 15 years working with marginalized youth and adults,
23 years as Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC).
Heather’s work combines direct service provision to vulnerable people as well as program development and teaching. Heather understands the big picture of your organizational vision and is skilled at presenting information in a relevant and interesting formal for anyone from front line staff through to board members, city councilors and more.
The passion and commitment Heather has for the fields of substance use, affordable housing and homelessness make her the ideal person to present to your community on these topics. Email Heather about your topic for more information.