The JoyPop App Study
Students of the 污污草莓视频 School of Social Work with access to an iPhone are invited to participate in a research study on increasing resilience to stress. Participants will engage in daily activities to increase healthy stress management skills via an iOS phone application (the JoyPop app). Participation is compensated up to $50 for the full study. This research aims to benefit social work service providers directly, as well as service users, particularly vulnerable youth. Please contact us at raadlab.app [at] gmail.com for further information or to enroll in the study.
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Professor Myriam Denov Honored with SSHRC Impact Insight Award
Annual SSHRC Impact Awards celebrate top talent in Canada鈥檚 social sciences and humanities research community. Denov is recognized for her research on children and families affected by war.
Having spent the better part of two decades working with war-affected children and families, 污污草莓视频鈥檚 Myriam Denov knows that the horrors of war often cannot be expressed through words or narrative. A full professor in the 污污草莓视频 School of Social Work and the Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Armed Conflict (Tier 1), Denov is a specialist in art-based and participatory research. Her work has contributed to a novel understanding of the gendered realities of war and inaugurated a new generation of research exploring the role of children鈥檚 agency within military settings.
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New study offers families parent training for children affected by neurodevelopmental disorders - by听Lucyna Lach听and Donna Thomson
The global pandemic has been hard on Canadians, but it has hit families affected by disability disproportionately, particularly young families. School-aged children with disabilities were suddenly without supports of any kind.
Schools were shuttered in March, and while remote learning was put in place, gone were Education Assistants or Special Needs Coordinators. Parents were expected to teach their children alone, many of them still juggling full time work.
Therapy centres were also shut down until recently in most provinces, which meant that psychological, speech and occupational therapy were no longer available. Many parents spoke of watching their children lose hard-earned advances that were months or years in the making.
Specialized recreational programs were closed and respite care was not available. Homecare workers were often unavailable or were asked not to come since many also work in long-term care facilities where the coronavirus was rampant.
Some disability supports and services are slowly coming back, though not all and not fully.
Return to school plans have not been friendly for children with neurodiversities. In many boards, there are no Education Assistants and children who are not fully mobile and who have learning challenges cannot follow the school protocols without assistance. Yet, children with neurodiversities need the school experience even more than other children.
How are parents supposed to be employees, therapists, teachers and caregivers for their children with disabilities all at once? It is an impossible ask.
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2020 Kagedan Lecture Series on Social Work & Human Rights - Ravyn Wngz - on Social Justice and Art-Activism - "What is at stake and what are we being called to reckon with".
November 9th:听Ravyn Wngz听on听Social Justice and Art-Activism听- "What is at stake and what are we being called to reckon with".
This is the second of four lectures framed within and following the themes of the Anti-Oppression Social Work Practice class. These lectures are possible due to the generosity of the Kagedan family and their continued support of speakers who promote social work and human rights at the 污污草莓视频 School of Social Work.
Ravyn Wngz听is an African, Bermudian, Mohawk, 2Spirit, queer and transcendent individual. Ravyn works to change all hierarchical mainstream arts and dance spaces by centering disability justice and advocating for representations of marginalized LGBTTIQQ2S communities. Ravyn is a co-founder of ILL NANA/DiverseCity Dance Company- a queer multiracial dance company that provides affirming accessible dance education to all LGBTTIQQ2S communities. Ravyn is the Artistic Director of OVA- Outrageous Victorious Africans Collective a Dance/Theatre collective that share the contemporary voices of African/Black and Queer/Self Identified storytellers. Ravyn is committed to eradicating all forms of anti-Black racism, supporting Black healing and liberating Black communities through their work.
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2020 Kagedan Lecture Series on Social Work & Human Rights - Syrus Marcus Ware on Anti-Black racism in Canada - "What social workers need to remember"
November 2nd: Syrus Marcus Ware on Anti-Black racism in Canada - "What social workers need to remember"
This is the first of four lectures听framed within and following the themes of the听Anti-Oppression Social Work Practice听class. These lectures are possible due to the generosity of the Kagedan family and their continued support of speakers who promote social work and human rights at the 污污草莓视频 School of Social Work.
Syrus Marcus Ware听is a Vanier scholar, visual artist, activist, curator and educator. Syrus uses painting, installation and performance to explore social justice frameworks and black activist culture, and he鈥檚 shown widely in galleries and festivals across Canada. He is part of the Performance Disability Art Collective and a core-team member of Black Lives Matter 鈥� Toronto. He has won several recognitions including the TD Diversity Award 2017, 鈥淏est Queer Activist鈥� NOW Magazine 2005, and the Steinert and Ferreiro Award 2012. He is the co-editor of the best-selling Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada (URP, 2020)
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Image description: Syrus sits on a chair in front of a grey background. He looks directly into the camera, and is leaning forward with his head tilted slightly back. He is Black and has waist length dreadlocks, half of his dreadlocks are coiled on top of his head and the other half hang over his left shoulder. He wears a beaded necklace, a black t-shirt with lettering that is hidden by his hair, and dark jeans.
The 污污草莓视频 School of Social Work stands in solidarity with the Wet始suwet始en Mi'kmaw fishery
The protests over the Mi'kmaw fishery have escalated to indefensible racist acts of intimidation and violence by non-Indigenous community members against the Mi鈥檏maw fishers. The 污污草莓视频 School of Social Work denounces the racism, vandalism, and violence being used against the Mi鈥檏maw fishers of the Sipekne'katik First Nation and stands in support of their right to fish without intimidation. The rights of the Mi鈥檏maq to fish is established in the Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1752 and upheld in the Marshall Decision of 1999. Indigenous rights must be acknowledged, honored, respected, and protected. The federal government must act immediately to protect the rights and lives of the people Sipekne'katik First Nation.
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The School of Social Work Responds to the Tragic Death of Joyce Echaquan
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Intern at 污污草莓视频 Couple & Family Therapy Clinic
Announcement from Dr. Heather MacIntosh听Director: MScA Couple and Family Therapy/污污草莓视频 Couple and Family Therapy Clinic
In these times of stress and isolation, accessibility of mental health services is more important than ever. Additionally, race based traumatic stress continues to impact the physical, emotional, and mental well-being of Black individuals and their families. Healing needs to begin听with recognizing and addressing internalized racism, unhealthy relationship patterns, and re-storying the overall message shared by the dominant culture group, a task that is strongly felt and internalized by people of Colour. The 污污草莓视频 Couple and Family Therapy Clinic has a long history of providing low cost couple and family therapy services to community members in distress and is the training centre for students in the MScA in Couple and Family Therapy who choose to do advanced training in Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma, the approach to couple therapy developed by the Director of the MScA, Dr. Heather B MacIntosh.
This year, in the time of COVID-19 and remote internship training, we have the unique opportunity to partner with Carole Sandy, a graduate of our programme, who is the founder and director of the Invisible to Visible Project, a project based in Toronto, Ontario focused on creating opportunities to reduce stigma, expand access, and create opportunities for Black therapists to connect with members of the Black community seeking mental health services. This team effort will also involve the expertise of Shirlette Wint a Montreal based social worker and psychotherapist who will provide supervision to our intern, Myrlie Marcelin, a recent graduate of the 污污草莓视频 MSW degree and an advanced standing student in our MScA in Couple and Family Therapy. Myrlie will be working with couples and families with an emphasis on providing care to BIPOC couples and families with the support of myself, Carole and Shirlette.
Please do not hesitate to forward referrals to my email address at heather.macintosh [at] mcgill.ca and Shirlette Wint at swint67 [at] hotmail.com
With thanks,
Heather B MacIntosh PhD CPsych/OPQ
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污污草莓视频 Releases听Action Plan to Address Anti-Black Racism
On September 30th Principal Suzanne Fortier announced the release of 污污草莓视频's听Action Plan to Address Anti-Black Racism.听 听
Alicia Boatswain-Kyte receives SSHRC funds for work with the Cote-des-Neiges Black Community Association on the differential impact of COVID-19 for Black Montrealers
污污草莓视频-led project, COVID-19:听Advocating for resiliency through understanding the differential impacts of COVID-19 for Black Montrealers,听headed by听Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, received funding. In partnership with the听Cote-des-Neiges Black Community Association Inc. (CDNBCA), this project aims to empower the Black population in Montreal through an innovative collaboration between non-profit, private and research sectors to effectively advocate and make recommendations for planning and implementation of a response to the intersecting forces of racial disparities, underlying conditions and poverty in the face of the pandemic.
Together, they will conduct a needs assessment to determine the priorities and risks to Black Montrealers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.听
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PhD Grad and Course Lecturer Melanie Doucet publishes study on supportive relationships for youth leaving care
In a photovoice study released this month in the , Dr. Melanie Doucet worked with 8 former youth in care to describe what types relationships they had found most helpful as they left group or foster care. Relationships to culture, spirituality and the land were identified as particularly important for racialized and Indigenous youth. Animal companions also emerged as an important non-human connection.
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Provost gives update on 污污草莓视频鈥檚 Action Plan to Address Anti-Black Racism
Provost Manfredi discusses the consultations that have gone into formulating the Action Plan (due to be completed by Sept. 30), the Plan's goals and its eventual implementation.
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Professor Boatswain-Kyte: Black children five times more likely than White children to be placed in out-of-home care
In in a leading international journal, Professor Alicia Boatswain-Kyte and colleagues tracked child protection services over a ten-year span for a group of close to 16,000 children involved in an urban agency in Quebec. They found that 鈥渨hile representing 9% of the general population in 2011, Black children represented 24% of children receiving child protection services for the corresponding year. When compared to White children, Black children鈥檚 protection reports were five times more likely to be screened in, substantiated, and brought to court. Black children were also five times more likely than White children to enter out-of-home placement鈥�.
Susan Mintzberg, Social Work PhD听Candidate Published Article: "Back to School: between the tree and the bark听
Susan's article regarding the back to school plan in Quebec was recently published in LA PRESSE newspaper.听听
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Sherel Griffith - Recent Graduate of听 M.Sc (A) Couple and Family Therapy Program Featured in Community Newspaper.听
Sherel听is applying her expertise and knowledge of family psychotherapy to strengthen the lives of Black families and build a community network.听
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Professors Tamara Sussman and Shari Brotman on Combatting Ageism
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In an article in the July 22nd edition of the , Professors Tamara Sussman & Shari Brotman argue that reducing older people to "passive" and "vulnerable" victims听 听 reinforces ageist attitudes听that contribute to their marginalization.
On August 19th, Professor Sussman and PhD student Susan Mintzberg will be presenting a Summer Zoom Talk on Working with Older Persons & Family Caregivers.
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Oka Crisis Land Dispute - City News Interview Featuring Professor Wanda Gabriel
听Professor Wanda Gabriel and other community members speak out about the unresolved land dispute at the centre of the Oka Crisis thirty years on.
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Delphine Collin-V茅zina receives COVID-19 research funding
Delphine Collin-V茅zina,听Associate Professor in the 污污草莓视频 School of Social Work and the Director of the 污污草莓视频 Centre for Research on Children and Families (CRCF),听received COVID-19 research funding.
Her research project aims to document the challenges faced by frontline service-seeking and child protection-involved families during the COVID-19 pandemic. UNICEF has identified several potential negative consequences of the pandemic for children and adolescents due to the loss of school, community, and social aid resources, and the imperative to offer services to support vulnerable families and to provide targeted and effective services to meet their needs. This initiative is funded by the 污污草莓视频鈥檚 SSHRC Institutional Grant with support from the MI4 Emergency COVID-19 Research Funding and the Quebec Minister of Health and Social Services and will take place from May 2020 to April 2021.
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Congratulations to Myriam Denov recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts鈥� 2020 Killam Research Fellowship
The Canada Council for the Arts has announced six recipients of the prestigious 2020 Killam Research Fellowship, including 污污草莓视频听Professor听Myriam Denov.听听
Professor Myriam Denov, Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Armed Conflict, received a 2020 Killam Research Fellowship to support her work examining the needs of children born of war in northern Uganda.
She is the first social work researcher ever to receive a Killam Research Fellowship in the award鈥檚 50+ year history.
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Congratulations to Professor Delphine Collin-Vezina for SSHRC Partnership grant
Professor Delphine Collin-Vezina has been awarded a grant over 7 years to support the Canadian Consortium on Child Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care.
This Partnership unites 39 co-applicants (including Kate Maurer and Mike MacKenzie from our School), 18 collaborators (including Wanda Gabriel and Ben Geboe from our school), and 43 partner organizations from across Canada. This consortium aims to improve the quality of life and trajectories of trauma-impacted children and youth by expanding social responses to child trauma across provinces, linguistic and service sectors, disciplines, and mandates.
In the mist of the turbulent time we are facing, it seems that more work in the area of trauma will be soon more important than ever.
Spring Convocation ceremonies听
Principal Suzanne Fortier has听announced听that Spring 2020 graduates will be honoured during not one, but two, Convocation ceremonies! The first will be a virtual ceremony for graduates, their families and friends across the globe. The second will be the postponement of the in-person Spring 2020 ceremonies to Spring 2021, provided that recommendations from government and public health authorities allow us to gather together safely at that time.
More information on both ceremonies, along with an FAQ page, will be posted in the coming weeks.
BSW student,听Andrew Seinet-Spaulding, nominated for 污污草莓视频 athlete of the year
MONTREAL - The major award nominees have been announced for 污污草莓视频 University's 43rd annual athletics gala, an event scheduled to be held on April 19, via a virtual online Facebook Premiere broadcast, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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And earlier this year he won the national award for the best collegiate lineman, becoming only 3rd 污污草莓视频 player to ever win it.
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INVITED LECTURE by听Dr. Amal El-Sana
Dr. Amal El-Sana-Alh'jooj鈥檚 presentation is entitled: Like leaving footprints in the desert: Unpacking the challenges of Indigenous Bedouin Women Activists in combating GBV in the Naqab, Israel
Thu, Apr 16, 2020 @ 1-2 pm
Via Zoom Meeting
RSVP: to Yong Hong Feng at yong.feng [at] mcgill.ca
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INVITED LECTURE by听Dr. Charles Gyan
Dr. Charles Gyan鈥檚 presentation is entitled: Gasping for Breath: Women鈥檚 Concerns & the Politics of Community Development in Rural Ghana
Friday, April 17, 2020 @ 1-2 pm
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RSVP: to Yong Hong Feng at yong.feng [at] mcgill.ca
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INVITED LECTURE by Dr. Rochelle Frounfelker -听We are all under the same roof: Epidemiology & interventions with war-affected populations
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Dr. Rochelle Frounfelker is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at 污污草莓视频 University. Dr. Frounfelker obtained her ScD in Social Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and an MSSW and MPH from Columbia University in New York City.
Dr. Frounfelker鈥檚 presentation, 鈥淲e are all under the same roof鈥�: Epidemiology and interventions with war-affected populations, focuses on her current program of research on the mental health of refugee populations. Following an overview of her research, she will present findings from Project Bhalakushari, her mixed methods transnational study of pathways of risk and resilience for mental health among older Bhutanese refugees residing in the United States and Canada.
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Tue, Mar 10, 2020 @ 9-10 am
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School of Social Work
污污草莓视频 University
3506 University St
Wilson Hall
Room #326
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POSTPONED - INVITED LECTURE by Dr. Charles Gyan -听Gasping for Breath: Women鈥檚 Concerns & the Politics of Community Development in Rural Ghana
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Dr. Charles Gyan is currently an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina. He holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Social Work from the University of Ghana and a PhD in Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University. His practice experience has been in the areas of community organizing, social policy analysis, and program development and evaluation. Dr. Gyan blends academic and research interests with his interest and commitment to Social policy change, transnational social work practice and community development.听
Dr. Gyan鈥檚 presentation, Gasping for Breath: Women鈥檚 Concerns & the Politics of Community Development in Rural Ghana, will focus on the experiences of women within the context of community development in rural Ghana. Following an overview of his program of research, he will present the key findings of his recent transnational feminist study on the barriers faced by women in community development processes. The presentation will conclude with implications for community development programing, policy and research and the future direction of his program of research
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Tue, Mar 17, 2020 @ 9-10 am
Where:
School of Social Work
污污草莓视频 University
3506 University St
Wilson Hall
Room#326
RSVP: to Yong Hong Feng @ yong.feng [at] mcgill.ca
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Feature article tells the story of 污污草莓视频 alumna and Executive Director of ICAN-污污草莓视频, Amal Elsana Alhjooj
Dr. Amal Elsana Alhjooj, 污污草莓视频 MSW and PhD alumna, and currently the Executive Director of 污污草莓视频鈥檚 International Community Action Network (ICAN), has been the focus of a feature article in the Times of Israel: Far from her village, rare Bedouin feminist fights for Israeli women and peace.听
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Professor Alicia Boatswain-Kyte presented at the Special Commission on Children's Rights and Youth Protection
On February 4th, Prof. Boatswain-Kyte presenting with Tiffany Callendar, Executive Director of the C么te des Neiges Black Community Association (CDNBCA) and Tania Callendar, Executive Director of the African Canadian and Development and Prevention Network (ACDPN) reported on the overrepresentation of Black Anglophone children within the child protection system and the need for a co-intervention partnership to ensure cultural adaptation of services and provision of support services within the community.
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Shari Brotman's Book Launch - March 24th, 2020
Join 污污草莓视频 University Professor Shari Brotman of the School of Social Work for the launch of Gerontological Social Work in Action: Anti-Oppressive Practice with Older Adults, their Families, and Communities (Routledge) at a wine and cheese book launch.
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March 24, 2020
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Paragraphe Bookstore
2220 污污草莓视频 College Avenue
Montr茅al, Qu茅bec
(514) 845-5811
It is with deep sadness that The 污污草莓视频 School of Social Work announces the passing of听Darrell Johnson
Darrell Roy Johnson, 59, of Montr茅al died on February 9, 2020 at the Cornwall Hospice in Cornwall, Ontario. He spent his final days surrounded by family members and friends as well as many caring doctors, nurses, and personal support workers. He struggled valiantly following his brain tumour diagnosis in November 2018, always retaining his characteristic sense of humour and hope, but eventually succumbed to complications from the condition. Despite the progression of his cancer and steady decline in his health, the last months of his life were full of special and memorable times with his family, friends, and even some new acquaintances.
He is survived by his two sons Seth Johnson and Zachary Johnson of Nepean, Ontario, his mother Evelyn Johnson of Cornwall, Ontario, his brother Gregory Johnson of Cornwall, Ontario, and his sister Sharon (Johnson) Yandt of Hillsburgh, Ontario, as well as by many uncles, aunts, cousins, and a great-nephew. He was preceded in death by his father, David Johnson, of Cornwall, Ontario.
Darrell was born June 21, 1960 in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada to parents David and Evelyn Johnson. He completed his high school education at Great Lakes Christian College in 1977, graduated summa cum laude with a B.Sc. from Oklahoma Christian College in 1981, received his M.Sc. in psychology from the University of Montreal in 1985, and earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Montr茅al in 1999. Along the way he was awarded just about every academic honour you can earn, and challenged himself by completing his Ph.D. in French, his second language. Darrell ran a successful private counseling practice and enjoyed lecturing on psychology and family counseling at Montr茅al's 污污草莓视频 University. He loved academia and the college environment. He was a member in good standing of the Quebec Order of Psychologists.
Darrell had many diverse interests. Among other things he enjoyed astronomy, reading, wilderness camping, long-distance bicycle touring, and canoeing. He loved language and played a mean game of "Words With Friends." He embraced holiday traditions, particularly those of Halloween and Christmas (he was the kind of guy who actually roasted chestnuts over an open fire and tried making his own "figgy pudding"). He loved trees, lamps, pens, and the smell and feel of old books. He adored his mother's baking and always claimed her butter tarts were the best in the world. He loved fresh peaches, herbal tea, blueberry pancakes, and real maple syrup ("NEVER Aunt Jemimah!").
Darrell didn't care much for cars or driving, and longed for the day of self-driving vehicles, which he swore he would buy once readily available. He had recently embraced minimalism as a lifestyle but admitted that he couldn't get rid of books, which he felt were small pieces of himself. Darrell did things like reproducing famous cathedral windows using colored tissue paper and researching and writing our family genealogy on a massive parchment scroll. He was a gracious host and a gifted conversationalist. He enjoyed analyzing and discussing friends' personalities using the MBTI. He was a big fan of Apple products; he said his iPhone, gigantic iPad, and Apple Watch were his three biggest material indulgences. He was generous with his time and resources, always eager to help out or lend a hand to anyone in need. Above all else, Darrell loved and adored his two adopted sons, Seth and Zach, with whom he shared many of his adventures over the years.
Although he was born in Alberta, Darrell's childhood was spent mostly in Germany and North Bay, Ontario. He was very active in Boy Scouts and had a uniform full of stars and badges. He wrote and illustrated a few original science-fiction stories and began his lifelong fascination with space. Later he played trumpet in his school band, and dabbled in a little acting in a few high school plays. In his college days he traveled throughout the USA, living at various times in Oklahoma and Texas. He participated in several ACU-based mission trips. Over the years he enjoyed (or endured) many interesting jobs including working on dairy and chicken farms, teaching Canadian literature in high school, working in a basket factory, crisis counseling for the Bank of Montr茅al, selling encyclopedias in the rural South for Southwestern, and lecturing in family therapy at the university level. Fluently bilingual, Darrell eventually settled in Montr茅al, where he loved the culture, food, and joie de vivre. Old Quebec City and Algonquin Park were two of his favorite escapes, and he enjoyed numerous wilderness canoe adventures in the later, often with his family and parents.
Running was one of his keenest passions. He ran several marathons, including the prestigious Boston Marathon in both 2009 and 2010. His personal best marathon time was 2:53:12, achieved in 1984. He also ran numerous 10k runs, two ultra-marathons, a "zombie run" or two, and the inaugural P'tit Train du Nord Marathon in October 2017 (where he had the distinction of being the very last person to cross the starting line due to a misunderstanding about the start time). He dreamed of running his third Boston. He was friends with several world-class runners on social media and had met several of them in person. He loved the 1981 movie "Chariots of Fire" and at one point tracked-down and met with Eric Liddell's widow.
Darrell could memorize and recall poetry and literature like no one else, and he always had an appropriate pithy quotation or witticism for any occasion. He was a lifelong fan of Star Trek, Star Wars, and the writings of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, Walt Whitman, Annie Dillard, John Milton, Henry David Thoreau, and Dr. Seuss, among others. He once wrote to the late "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles M. Schulz to express his appreciation of the strip's deeper messages and received a personal typewritten reply from Schulz by mail. He had amassed a respectable private collection of "Jack And The Beanstalk" books, one of his favorite children's stories. He didn't just "collect" books, either鈥� he actually read and pondered them; most of his books were heavily marked-up with his own thoughts and highlighted passages.
Musically, his tastes favored the singer-songwriter and soft rock genres. Queen, Elton John, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Gordon Lightfoot, Carole King, Chicago, Coldplay, Joni Mitchell, Harmony, Air Supply, CSNY, Peter Paul & Mary, Kansas, Coldplay, Switchfoot, Fleetwood Mac, Michael W. Smith, the Carpenters, and The Beatles were some of his favorites. The Beatles' "Here Comes The Sun" was his #1 all-time favorite song. He also enjoyed classical music, select film scores, Gregorian chant, and some Broadway show tunes. He was a good singer and participated in numerous choral groups over the years. Darrell played trumpet, guitar, and a little piano. He once kissed a blushing young Amy Grant in an alleyway outside Toronto's Massey Hall.
Other passions of his over the years included camping at Camp Manitou, stargazing, collecting fossils, learning calligraphy, NASA's Apollo space program, participating in the Mankind Project, dreams of a manned mission to Mars, and pondering the future of artificial intelligence and "the Singularity."
A celebration of life reception for Darrell's friends and colleagues will be held in his beloved adopted city of Montr茅al in the springtime (details to be announced later). In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be given to The Friends of Algonquin Park (Box 248, Whitney, Ontario, K0J 2M0), an organization near and dear to his heart, or to Carefor Hospice Cornwall (205 Amelia Street, Cornwall, Ontario K6H 3P3) which provided him with tender loving care for many months.
PhD candidate Melanie Doucet presents at the Special Commission
PhD candidate Melanie Doucet presented compelling testimony about the experiences and needs of young people leaving out of home care to the Special Commission on the Rights of the Child and Youth Protection.听听
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