Healing Our Nations Staff
Executive Director
Monique Fong
My role in the office has changed over the years. I started volunteering with the office when it first opened in 1993, returning as a summer student and then working my way up to becoming a full-time paid employee. I really enjoy my work and this project is very challenging and has given me more opportunity to work with my favorite part of the job, which is providing training and education to our office, other agencies and the 31 communities that it serves.
Executive Assistant
Trina Khatar
Originally, I am from We'koma'q First Nation in Cape Breton but have been living in Halifax for the past couple of years. I began my employment with Healing Our Nations as Communications Assistant in February of the year. My role is to ensure that all information that comes into our office is up to date and effectively distributed externally and internally throughout the office.
Our Community Health Educators
Theresa Morris
Theresa Morris is from Indian Brook First Nations. She has received her education at St. Mary's and Dalhousie Universities where she acquired a degree in psychology. Theresa has worked in many Mi'kmaq communities since 1991 in the position of addiction counselor and social work aid for a clinical therapist. She is now a community health educator and continues to work in Aboriginal communities in NS and NFLD.
Gabe
Hepatitis C Coordinator
Jullie Thomas
Bookkeeper
Pete Adema
I come from Holliwood Hill ... Indian Brook, First Nation, and have lived here in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) for ... many years. For most of those years I had been employmed at the Mi'Kmaq Friendship Center, holding various titles, including that of Accountant. I perfer the title "bookkeepper" its just not so dressed up. I'm a bit humble at how little I knew of HIV/AIDS, and its effects, before joining Healing Our Nations. I can now appreciate the need to know more about how to help reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS. I encourage you and others to find out more, because knowing what not to do ... can help our communities reduce the spread of HIV and AIDS.