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Angela Taylor

Angela Taylor is a Mental Health and Accessibility Expert in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Inspire Community Outreach, a Canadian charity supporting families that include children with neurological differences and mental health support needs.

She is the CEO and founder of Supporting Community Together, supporting accessibility in the workplace, neurodivergence coaching, and clinical teams throughout Canada. With nearly 25 years experience in social services and supporting complex populations, she has offered consultation to various government, private and non-profit organizations. She is the co-author of All Kinds of Minds, Get Your Art On! Art for Wellness Guide, and author of Forever on Fire, A Love Letter to Never Fitting In, and Rewriting 40, Choosing Life, Even When it’s Hard.

She is also a visual artist, providing therapeutic art to those online and in person, through Inner Fire Sessions, custom art pieces, and more. Learn more about this at www.emotionalreflection.com.

Life Experience

Angela holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, a Post Baccalaureate in Education, focusing on inclusion and counseling, and a Masters Degree in Disability Studies. She is a PhD Candidate, focusing on effective therapeutic interventions for the neurodivergent. 

Angela is multiply neurodivergent, raises children with complex differences, and has been supporting families that include children living with disabilities for 2 decades.

Angela spent much of her childhood in formal and informal foster care, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She uses her lived experience in connecting with individuals, youth and families who experience hardship and attachment disruption.

Her ability to understand the neurodivergent comes from her lived experience, and her passion to learn and grow with her community while seeing strengths in others, and adapting the environment to invite the community to thrive. She supports multiple social service teams throughout Canada, including specializing in expression of distress through violence of youth to family.

She has volunteered over 20,000 hours to community, and won numerous awards for her work, including the Manitoba Heroes award (2019) and the CTV Mental Health Champion Award (2020).

  • 24 years supporting community members in social services.
  • Creation of unique programs and education supports, to address the needs of those in our community, who remain underserved.
  • Programming developer, trainer, advocate, community and information liaison regarding mental health, complex neurology and behaviour, neurodivergence, therapeutic art, community programming, among others.
  • Researcher, writer, curriculum developer and facilitator for best practice programming and support for individuals of all abilities.
  • Eclectic therapeutic skills, including strength-based support, solution-focused, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Trauma-processing, attachment, peer support, Wrap Around Care, Collaborative and Proactive Solutions, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Level 1, Modified Interaction Guidance, Brainspotting Trauma Processing. 
  • Master’s Thesis: A Parent’s Perspective: The Experience of Accessing Autism Services.
  • Creator of the In-home Stabilization Support Program
  • Clinical lead and specialist for individuals, and families with complex needs, including neurological sensitivities and differences, mental health concerns, aggression, trauma, and cognitive co-occurring differences.
  • Clinical Partner and Consultant with the National Consortium Aggression Towards Family/Caregivers in Childhood &Adolescence

Clinical Experience

Leading diverse team members, including clinicians, specialists, front-line, executive and students, the development of advocacy support and communication, counselling, clinical consultation and qualitative and quantitative assessment, consultation to leading organizations and boards, grant writing, research and knowledge translation, program and curriculum development, facilitation of programming, training, workshops, teaching, collaborative outreach and liaison work with youth, families, community members and professionals.

Training

  • PhD Candidate in education at University of Manitoba. September 2020- current.
  • Masters of Disability Studies, 2019. Thesis: Adaptation of Family Centered Practice for families that include children with diverse needs.
  • Brainspotting Trauma Processing Phase 1, October 2022
  • Wraparound High Fidelity Model, 2021
  • Peer Certification Training, Robyn Priest, Live Your Truth, 2021
  • Compassionate Inquiry Certification Program, February-Current
  • Modified Interaction Guidance Training, August 2020
  • Psychosis Training, October 2019
  • 2 day Cognitive Behaviour Therapy certificate, October 2018
  • Attachment Training 1&2, September and October 2018
  • Yoga certification, January 2018
  • 4 day certification program for Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting, 2017
  • 2 day Counseling certificate program, CTRI, August 2017
  • Post Baccalaureate Diploma in Education, focusing on Inclusion and counselling at the University of Manitoba, 2016.
  • Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Psychology, minor in Sociology at The University of Manitoba, 2006.

Additional Training/Workshops: FASD, Cultural Diversity, Conflict Resolution, Social Role Valorization, Breaking Barriers, Dealing with Interpersonal Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Family Systems Interventions Training Program, Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (Incl. After the Crisis), PATHs, Challenging Behaviour, Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), Mental Health First Aid, Coaching For Confidence, Positive Mental Health.

  1. Jan 2007
  2. Oct 2010
  3. Oct 2013
  4. Jan 2018
  5. Oct 2018

  1. Financial Specialist for Employment Income Assistance and Resource Assistant

    January 2007 – October 2010

    Children’s Special Services and Supported Living, Downtown, Manitoba Government

    Financial management of a large caseload, assessment and review of services, counselling, communication with staff, clinical supports, case managers, and participants. Participants often highly marginalized with multiple barriers: economic, neurological, and developmental, psychologically.

    Communication liaison between team members, community and organizations.

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  2. Clinical Case Manager

    October 2010 – August 2012
    TRAILS Program, New Directions Assessment and review, clinical consultation, management of staff, supportive services to foster parents, biological families and youth, counseling, training and support services, training, teaching, team liaison, work with various levels of high needs population with multiple diagnoses.
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  3. Chief Executive Officer (Founder)

    2013 - Current

    Inspire Community Outreach Inc.

    Creation, development and sustaining growth of charitable social services agency, filling gaps in service for vulnerable and resilient populations. Oversee organizational operations, ensuring Inspire's outreach is consistent with our mandate to support youth and families with unique challenges, like complex disabilities. Maximizing use of community resources, working alongside community to actualize the needs to be filled, financial planning and management, supervision of staff.

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  4. Therapist and Trainer

    January 2018 - March 31, 2020

    Aulneau Renewal Centre

    Providing therapeutic support to children, youth, and adults, offering specialized care for those who are neurodiverse. Training support for caregivers and service providers, including Supporting Exceptional Children.

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  5. Director of Clinical Services

    2018 - Current

    Inspire Community Outreach Inc.

    Providing supervision to clinical staff offering essential services to families that including children with disabilities, behaviour challenges or complex needs who are otherwise going without appropriate service, responding to high levels of distress within families, front-line support through intensive multi-disciplinary  support for families that include children with complex needs, including mental health, neurological differences, cognitive differences and physical needs, research and evaluation, program innovation and development, creation, distribution and facilitation of new curriculum and training, creation of inclusive leisure activities, family centered care and family engagement focused practice. Specializing in child and family centered interdisciplinary and comprehensive care for more complex children, including neurological, psychological and cognitive differences and multiple barriers.

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