The Developmental Services Worker:

An evolving profession and growing need in care.

June 23rd | 12:30pm EST

Supportive services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities is changing. Enhanced demands, evolving cultural attitudes, a wider range of needs and our growing understanding of diagnoses, abilities and challenges require that we think ambitiously about self-determination, models of service, and frameworks for impact.

At the centre of all of this are the clients and the workers. On June 23rd, join us alongside three prominent voices from Atlantic Canada, to discuss how the nature of the DSW profession is changing and its effect on organizations, families, governments, workers and clients.

Expert Panelists

Alanna Mason Hounsell

Head Trainer & Recruiter
Gateway Homes

Chad Perrin

Executive Director
Momentum Developmental Supports

  • Alanna Mason Hounsell, BSc, Cert in Gerontology

    Have worked with Gateway Homes Inc. for 31 years; over 20 years as a Supervisor of a small option home as well as 12 years teaching Crisis Management as a MANDT Instructor. Most recently I have taken a job at Gateway as HR - Head Trainer & Recruitment. In my spare time, I am Head Coach of Special Olympics Swimming in Dartmouth, NS (with 31 athletes) as well as the Head Coach for the Provincial Swim Team representing Nova Scotia at the 2014 BC Summer National Games and the 2018 NS Summer National Games.

  • Chad Perrin is the Executive Director for Momentum Developmental Support, a residential support program for persons with I/DD. He is a licensed social worker with the NLCSW, having obtained his BSW from the University of Manitoba and his Clinical MSW from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. He has been working in the social services field for approximately 16 years in the home care, mental health and child welfare sectors. Chad is a certified Dual Diagnosis Specialist (specializing in the co-occurrence of I/DD and mental illness) via the National Association for the Dually Diagnosed, was formerly a member of the Board of Directors for the Autism Society of Newfoundland and Labrador, and currently serves as a Public Interest Representative with the Mental Health Care and Treatment Review Board for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

 
 

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