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The Future of Mental Health
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Our Team
The Stella’s Team is growing as we develop programs and engage young adults as facilitators and peer supporters. We are committed to hiring staff with a diversity of experiences, and assertively hire young adults with lived experience of mental health issues. Our core organizational competencies are the basis for our hiring process, and we have an energetic, compassionate team. Each team member is committed to values-based practice, working collaboratively, with flexibility, and pioneering to create bold and responsive approaches to change the landscape of young adult mental health.

Our Core Team

Jenny Carver

Executive Director

Catherine Dyer

Director of Development

Asante Haughton

Peer Training Support Manager

Venessa D’Souza

Peer Support Worker

Julian Waithe

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Alex Gosselin

Clinician

Heidi Sasek

Access Team Manager

John Choi

Director of Program Operations

Dagmar Schroeder

Communications, Marketing & Stewardship Manager

Farah Malik

Director of Finance

Miriam Mc Laughlin

Clinician

Kayla Cowan

Peer Support Worker

Carol Clarke

Development Officer

Christina Alexiou

Manager, Community Healing Project

Rae Barilea

Peer Support Worker

Allison Dunning

Peer Initiatives Manager

Ajay Gallacher

Access Counsellor

Alyceia Wilson

Relief Peer Support Worker

Nancy Barrs

Food Service Aid

Alex Sawatzky

Creative Marketing Associate

Anmol Samson

Peer Support Worker

Sulmaz Ghoraishi

Executive Assistant

Willow

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Nakeesa Kooshafar

Access Coordinator

Katie Schiralli

Relief Access Coordinator

Alexa Caturay

Family Physician

Jennille Seedial

Youth Peer Mentor Coordinator, CHP

Ashley Ward

Research and Evaluation Manager

Cassandra Myers

Relief Online Peer Support Worker

Sabeena Chopra

Psychiatrist

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Staff Voices

“Stella’s Place means to me an opportunity for new thinking, fresh ideas and an alternative way of doing mental health.”

Shawn Pendenque

Peer Support Training Mentor

“One thing that Stella’s Place will also do is bring mental health treatment to the community and make it more accessible. And I think a critical part of recovery is also being comfortable in what you’re doing or comfortable with what you’re involved with and sometimes the clinical setting is not one that engenders this kind of comfort. So what Stella’s Place will do is circumvent that gap.”

Asante Haughton

Peer Support Training Mentor

“It’s a great privilege to be part of a stellar group of young leaders and staff with such a diverse range of experiences. Each person is passionate about working together in a different way to make change. Our peer supporters and facilitators are leading the charge.”

Jenny Carver

Executive Director

“It's awesome to see a mental health service embracing technology. So many young people live their lives online, it's awesome that a place like Stella's Place wants to serve them there.”

Alicia Raimundo

Young Adult Engagement Facilitator

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