Trudy Blumstein is an advisor with Indigenous Access McGill and project assistant in the First Nations and Inuit Education Project and a graduate of McGill (BA '70, BSW '03). She is also a consultant and does foster parent training for Batshaw Youth and Family Centres. She has been working in many areas of social services as a practitioner, trainer, manager and consultant since 1970. She has worked as Director of Religious Education with the Unitarian Church of Montreal for 7 years and been involved in curriculum/ program development on a continental level. She has also worked for Batshaw's Retrouvailles (adoption reunion) Services as a searcher and counsellor and at CLSC Rene Cassin in Homecare and Caregiver Support services.
She returned to McGill as a Mature student in 2000 after 30 years and knows first-hand the personal as well as academic challenges and adjustments necessary for university success. A social psychology course put her on the path of interest in Indigenous issues and led to being a Consultant/Instructor in the Northern Certificate Program in Social Work and currently at IAM.
Along with this goes a lifelong commitment to social justice, environmental awareness and interest in Inuit and First Nations cultures. She has a strong commitment to helping mature and Indigenous learners achieve their career goals.
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