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naima.bentayeb.ccomtl [at] ssss.gouv.qc.ca (Naïma Bentayeb) |
Adjunct Professor |
Naïma Bentayeb is an adjunct professor at ENAP and coordinator of evaluation and ETMISSS (Evaluation of technologies and modes of intervention in health and social services) projects at the University Institute SHERPA at CIUSSS West Central Montreal. Dr. Bentayeb conducts evaluations and research focused on both community and institutional practice settings. She is particularly interested in structural and systemic issues related to the reception, settlement, and integration of immigrants, as well as in community and institutional responses to the needs of this population. She is also interested in youth protection and youth mental health, particularly in an ethnocultural context. Dr. Bentayeb advocates a developmental and participative approach Research interest: - Program evaluation and policy analysis - Interorganizational collaboration - Intersectoral collaboration for complex public action - Reception, settlement and integration of immigrants - Child and Youth welfare and mental health - Interpretation in intervention with the allophone population - Evaluation of public action sustainability -Participative and developmental evaluation approaches -Qualitative research |
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melanie.doucet [at] mcgill.ca (Melanie Doucet) |
Adjunct Professor |
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Adjunct Professor | Tonino Esposito, Ph.D., joined the McGill Centre for Research on Children and Families (CRCF) in 2007 with eight years of experience as a child welfare and mental health social worker and was appointed Associate Director of the CRCF from 2012 to 2014. Tonino is currently an Adjunct Professor at McGill University and an Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal, and nominated for a Tier II Canadian Research Chair in Social Services for Vulnerable Children and Families. |
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zelda.freitas.cvd [at] ssss.gouv.qc.ca (Zelda Freitas) |
Adjunct Professor |
Graduate of the McGill University School of Social Work with extensive experience in the delivery of services to older adults, their caregivers and families. For 12 years, I was the clinical supervisor in a CLSC offering services to persons in loss of autonomy, including older adults and palliative care in a home-based program, as well as for the Elder Mistreatment Helpline. Presently, Coordinator of the Developing Practices in support of Caregivers of the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal, Center for Research and Expertise in Social Gerontology. Member of the Council on Palliative Care since 1998, offering education presentations on topics related to caregiving issues, grief and loss, and access to care. Several collaborative research projects, presentations and publications related to psychosocial and interdisciplinary intervention, caregiving issues and psychosocial palliative care. |
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wanda.gabriel [at] mcgill.ca (Wanda Gabriel) |
Professor of Practice |
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Adjunct Professor |
Myra Giberovitch has more than 25 years of experience in gerontological social work practice, specializing in developing services and programs for survivors of mass atrocities. She initiated the first community-based social service program for Holocaust survivors in Canada and subsequently founded Services for Holocaust Survivors at the Cummings Centre in Montreal. Her topics include social work practice with older adults and trauma and aging. |
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sarilee.kahn [at] mcgill.ca (Sarilee Kahn) |
Adjunct Professor |
Dr. Sarilee Kahn, formerly Associate Professor at the McGill University School of Social Work, is currently serving as Adjunct Professor. Dr. Kahn’s research focuses on experiences of trauma and resilience for individuals and communities holding intersecting marginalized identities. One of the first researchers to highlight the mental health and psychosocial needs of sexual and gender minority (SGM) migrants, she has conducted research with this multiply marginalized population of migrants in Canada, the US, Austria, the Netherlands, and South Africa. Her work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Culture, Health & Sexuality, the Journal of Sex Research, the Journal of Traumatic Stress, and Transcultural Psychiatry. She was chosen as a panellist for the 2020 Best Brains Exchange, advising Canadian Government health authorities on the psychosocial needs of SGM migrants in urban and rural settings across the country, and is currently working with a team of researchers to develop and pilot best practices for SGM migrants in Quebec. As an instructor, Dr. Kahn has taught Trauma and Resilience in International Populations; Adult Mental Health; Use of Self; and Introduction to Practicum, among other courses. She also has over 20 years of clinical experience providing psychological support to refugees and asylum seekers and serving as an expert witness for torture survivors seeking asylum in the US, including SGM claimants. |
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amanda.keller [at] mcgill.ca (Amanda Keller) |
Amanda Keller, PhD, is an Adjunct Professor at the McGill University School of Social Work and an FRQS-funded Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université de Montréal. Her research examines the long-term health, mental health, relational, educational, and economic outcomes of adults with histories of child welfare involvement, with particular attention to transitions out of care, parenthood after institutionalization, and the social conditions that support healing and well-being across the life course. Drawing on qualitative, participatory, life-course, and knowledge mobilization approaches, Dr. Keller’s work bridges scholarship, policy, and lived-experience advocacy. Her current projects include research on mental health needs before, during, and after child welfare placements; financial well-being after child welfare placement; and community-engaged initiatives to strengthen trauma-informed child welfare research and advocacy.
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emilie.lefebvre5 [at] mcgill.ca (Emilie Le Febvre) |
Affiliate Member |
Emilie Le Febvre (PhD. Oxford) is a researcher with the Global Peace and Social Justice initiative at McGill University’s School of Social Work. Her research explores how people construct their social worlds, represent their experiences, and share stories about their pasts in conflict-affected landscapes. Prioritizing interdisciplinary research, her work draws on people’s own social and historical orientations and experimental ethnographic methods. She is highly committed to creating knowledge mobilization (KMb) and translation (KT) projects that innovate the co-creation and accessibility of scholarship. She is currently collaborating with Karonhiahente and Amal Elsana to document the restorative history-making and indigenous social justice practices of Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) and Badu (Bedouin) matriarchs over the last centuries. Research Interests: · Local knowledge production and representational politics · Restorative history-making, global indigeneity, and social justice · Archival and intergenerational activisms in conflict settings · Multimodal storytelling, historicity, and ethnography · Tribally-organized societies · Knowledge mobilization and translation |
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zack.marshall [at] mcgill.ca (Zack Marshall) |
Adjunct Professor |
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lpacheco [at] ssss.gouv.qc.ca (Laura Pacheco) |
Adjunct Professor |
Laura Pacheco, Ph.D., is a graduate of McGill University and a clinical researcher who coordinates a specialized, evidence-based parenting service for people with intellectual disabilities in Montreal. She has personal, clinical, and advocacy experience working with individuals, groups, couples, and families in disability from an intersectionality perspective. She is also a consultant to workers in the government, community, and legal systems. Laura is involved in several research and clinical projects, including her postdoctoral work on an SSHRC-funded project exploring the support needs and service gaps of parents with intellectual impairment in Canada. Her research interests include the intersections of gender, disability, reproductive justice, and caregiving; the social and health disparities faced by women with disabilities; critical reflection on social work practice and decision-making within health and social service settings; and narrative and participatory approaches to research. Laura is a member of IASIDD's Special Interest Group in Parenting and has conducted international training, workshops, and conferences in this field. |
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katherine.maurer [at] mcgill.ca (Kate Maurer) |
Adjunct Professor |
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Adjunct Professor |
David Rothwell is an Adjunct Professor of Social Work at McGill University. His research interests include poverty and economic inequality, with a specialization in social development and asset-based interventions. He earned his doctorate in social welfare from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and his MSW from Tulane University. Before academia, He worked as a social worker in adult mental health (Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans) and community-based economic development (Hawai'i). |
