Jocelyn is a Program Supervisor. Jocelyn Taniwa has been working in the field of child and youth for many years. Jocelyn has a three-year child and youth worker diploma, graduating with distinction from St. Lawrence College. This three-year diploma provides extensive training in mental health and strategies to help support clients. Her education and background also help her work with and create plans to support youth with their diagnosis and trauma.
Jocelyn has worked in a sexual assault crisis centre supporting survivors in hospitals and trained and facilitated programs for workers for hospital support. She has also counselled survivors of sexual assault in ongoing sessions. Jocelyn has also worked in women’s shelters and spoke at the Halifax Homeless Conference in 2019 to approximately 350 people. She has worked on job readiness programs with youth and supported them with employment opportunities. Jocelyn has been a ten-year residential counsellor at Peel Children’s Centre treatment facility, working through a trauma-informed lens. This treatment centre housed eight youth with many diagnoses and effects of abuse. Jocelyn is an introvert who seems more of an extrovert when she is passionate about empowering others. She was born in Moncton, N.B. and raised in Toronto and Lindsay, Ontario. Jocelyn has seven grandchildren, four girls and three boys, and still counting. She enjoys nature and exploring the outdoors while driving in the jeep with her husband. Jocelyn misses the sound of the Atlantic Ocean and its seafood, which will always be home.
