The Leadership Team will undertake the collaboration, coordination, and capacity building necessary to lead the Coalition in advancing and implementing the strategies to end homelessness.
Leadership Team
- Kim Hewitt – Representing the Salvation Army, Kim brings extensive experience in supportive housing management and building community collaboration.
- Jay de Montarnal (they/them) – is a youth programmer at Wachiay Friendship Centre who brings extensive experience coordinating collective impact initiatives to the Coalition to End Homelessness. Through their consulting company, Authentic Horizons, Jay and their partner also develop custom diversity, equity, and inclusion training for various organizations in the Comox Valley.
- Julia Henseleit – A public health practitioner with a focus on housing and homelessness, contributing a systems-based health perspective.
- Adrian Yip – Professional in non-profit business operations, and long-term volunteer with experience in urban Indigenous youth mentorship, suicide and crisis response, and housing support.
The role of the Leadership Team is to coordinate the activities of the Coalition and bring items for discussion and decision forward to the members.
Coordinator
- Email: comoxvalleyhousing@gmail.com