Case Studies
Real engagements. Documented outcomes.
Forensic Mental HealthView PosterWaypoint Centre for Mental Health Care
Waypoint Secures $2.3M for Canada's First Mental Health Anti-Violence Hub
An Ontario Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence application that launched MHAV-HEARTS - the Mental Health Anti-Violence Hub for Empowerment, Advocacy, Resilience and Trauma Support, an online hub bridging community and hospital-based GBV mental health services across Central Ontario.
$2.3M awarded · Canada's first GBV-focused mental health hub
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Disability Services · BCView PosterPioneer Community Living Association
9 Months, $200k Raised, Life Skills & Employment
A maternity leave contract requiring reporting for federal, provincial, and municipal grants, and expanding the funding portfolio into corporate foundation funders for a BC disability services organisation.
Navigated diverse grant compliance · Opened new funding channels
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SIDS · Infant Health · AlbertaView PosterUniversity of Calgary · SIDS Calgary Society
The Spatial Manifestation of SIDS in Alberta, Canada
A province-wide GIS analysis of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome events in Alberta, with focused spatial mapping in Calgary and Edmonton to identify geographic clustering, community-level variation, and potential links with socioeconomic risk factors.
1,020 SIDS cases reviewed · 1977-2008 data · Calgary & Edmonton community analysis
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Homelessness Prevention · CalgaryView PosterEmployment and Social Development Canada, Homelessness prevention programs
Using GIS for Program Evaluation in Calgary's Homelessness Prevention Sector
An applied GIS methodology combining de-identified HMIS client data with census, deprivation index, and City of Calgary open data to evaluate whether homelessness prevention programs were reaching the communities with the greatest need - using location quotients and Getis-Ord G* hot spot analysis across Calgary's census tracts.
HMIS · CHF-funded programs · 4-year period (2013–2017)
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Brain Injury · Legal ReformView PosterBrain Injury Canada
Scaling Brain Injury & Access to Justice Across Canada
Built a multi-jurisdictional funding strategy to advance Brain Injury Canada's emerging justice portfolio, developing tailored proposals across Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Yukon. The portfolio moves beyond one-off training toward a scalable model for brain injury awareness, cognitive accessibility, justice-sector capacity building, and systems change.
5 major grant applications · 5 provinces & territories · $718.5K funding sought
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Autism · Employment · HousingView PosterSinneave Family Foundation
From Data to Decision
A multi-phase data intelligence engagement: seven interactive dashboards, an organisation-wide KPI framework, a baseline housing profile for 500+ autistic adults in Alberta, and peer review evaluation of two third-party assessments.
3 phases · 200+ hours · 7 dashboards · housing baseline
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Arts & Mental Health · CalgaryView PosterLOUD Art Society
Four Years, Ten Funders: Building a Funder Ecosystem for Arts-Based Mental Health
Four years of sustained grant management for Calgary's leading therapeutic arts organisation, ten funders across arts, health, and community streams, plus a business plan anchoring the next three years of growth.
10 funders · 4 years · Business Plan 2026–2029
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Mapping Autism Housing Access Across Alberta
A province-wide spatial analysis of housing access for autistic adults in Alberta, mapping service gaps, affordability pressures, and geographic inequity across 30+ municipalities.
500+ adults profiled · 30+ municipalities · housing gap visualisation
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Public Safety · CalgaryView PosterOriginal Research - with University of Calgary, Department of Sociology
A GIS Analysis of Social Disorder Crime in Calgary
A spatial analysis of 163,793 social disorder occurrence reports across Calgary (2012–2016), combining GIS mapping, Statistics Canada census data, and spatial statistics (Moran's I, LISA) to identify significant crime clusters and predict community-level risk using kriging interpolation.
163,793 records analyzed · statistically significant spatial clusters (p<0.01)
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Food Security · Deprivation · Greater VictoriaView PosterCommunity Food Access Mapping
Distance to Food Bank & Deprivation Index: Greater Victoria
A regional GIS analysis mapping food bank locations against neighbourhood-level deprivation across Greater Victoria, showing where geographic access barriers may overlap with higher material deprivation and potential food insecurity risk.
Food bank access mapped · 1-5 km service distances · deprivation index visualisation
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211 Calls · Social Need · CalgaryView PosterUnited Way of Calgary and Area
Calgary 211 Calls Hot Spot Analysis
A city-wide GIS hot spot analysis of Calgary 211 call activity, using Getis-Ord Gi* spatial statistics to identify statistically significant clusters of high and low service-request frequency across the city.
2010 call data mapped · hot spot clusters identified · Calgary city-wide service demand visualisation
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Homelessness & Housing Policy ResearchView PosterThe Creative Coefficient
Turning National Homelessness Data Into a Single-Page Decision Tool
An interactive dashboard synthesizing Point-in-Time count results, the 2024 national homelessness survey, and shelter capacity data into one navigable view - built to help policy and program teams see enumeration trends, equity gaps, and regional variation at a glance.
65,083 people enumerated across 75 communities · 83% chronic homelessness
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Housing Affordability · CalgaryView PosterInternal Project · Calgary Housing Affordability Mapping
Mapping Housing Cost Burden and Low-Income Prevalence in Calgary
A census tract-level spatial analysis of housing unaffordability and low-income prevalence across the Calgary region, using comparative GIS mapping to identify neighbourhoods where financial strain and shelter-cost burden overlap. The analysis highlights concentrated pockets of compounding disadvantage, with unaffordable housing affecting approximately 23% of households and low-income prevalence affecting roughly 9% of residents across the region.
23% of households facing unaffordable housing costs · 9% low-income prevalence · 0.70 tract-level correlation
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Health Research · OntarioView PosterCAMH Driving Simulation Laboratory · University of Toronto
Mitacs Accelerate Research Program Design: Cannabis-Impaired Driving
A multi-year research program design for a Mitacs Accelerate application, structuring biomarker, emerging-product, and age-related cannabis-impairment studies into an integrated four-stream program with a linked trainee plan and knowledge-translation pathway.
4 research streams structured · 6–9 trainee positions planned · $400K–$500K funding architecture
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Homelessness · Palliative CareView PosterKelowna Homelessness Research Centre · BC Centre for Palliative Care
A National Study of Bereavement in the Context of Homelessness
A four-year SSHRC Insight Grant study across Victoria, Yellowknife, Winnipeg, and Halifax - co-designing and piloting culturally safe grief support strategies with people experiencing homelessness, building on prior pilots in Kelowna and Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
$274,900 SSHRC Insight Grant · 4 cities · 4-year study
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Housing · BCView PosterKelowna Homelessness Research Centre (UBC Okanagan)
Building the Evidence Base for Kelowna's First Tiny Home Community
A Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada grant funding a comprehensive evidence base for a tiny-home community pilot in Kelowna - a rental market assessment, social needs assessment, policy gap analysis, and 31 interviews, 3 focus groups, and 40+ interest-holder consultations.
$468,780 federal grant · Technical Report + Implementation Blueprint
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Road Safety · BCView PosterKootenay Emergency Response Physicians Association (KERPA)
Mapping the Kootenays' Deadliest Roads
An exploratory spatial data analysis of motor vehicle incidents across the Regional District of Central Kootenay (2017–2020), combining FDM incident data, ICBC crash records, and census boundaries to identify statistically significant crash hotspots - including a confirmed Crash Black Spot on Highway 3A between Beasley and Bonnington Falls.
4,215 MVI records analyzed · Crash Black Spot identified · 5 road-safety recommendations
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International Policy · AmericasView PosterLatin American Research Centre, FOCAL, and The Carter Center
Mapping the Media in the Americas
A web-based GIS mapping initiative spanning 11 countries across the Americas, layering media ownership, broadcast coverage, and electoral and socio-demographic data to reveal how media access and concentration shape democratic participation - published in the Canadian Journal of Communication.
11 countries mapped · Peer-reviewed, Canadian Journal of Communication (2011)
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Food Security · CanadaView PosterTechnical Contributor - University of Calgary, Department of Community Health Sciences
When Working Is Not Enough: Food Insecurity in the Canadian Labour Force
GIS and technical support for a peer-reviewed study examining food insecurity among Canadian working households, using Canadian Community Health Survey data (2007–2008) to show that employment income alone does not eliminate food insecurity - with racialized minority workers disproportionately affected.
Published in Public Health Nutrition (2014) · CIHR-funded study
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Homelessness · AlbertaView Poster7 Cities on Housing and Homelessness
2018 Alberta Point-in-Time Homeless Count: A Provincial Snapshot
Supported Alberta's third biennial, coordinated Point-in-Time Count - 5,735 people experiencing homelessness enumerated across seven Alberta cities, with analysis of demographics, chronicity, Indigenous overrepresentation, and methodology refinements across count years.
Point-in-Time Count · 7 Alberta cities · Government of Canada (HPS)-funded
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Youth & Family ServicesView PosterThe Bridge Youth & Family Services
Six Voices, One Direction
Six-group stakeholder research with AI-assisted qualitative coding across Board, leadership, staff, youth, adults, and early years, informing a rigorous 2026–2030 strategic plan for a multi-program Kelowna organisation.
30+ interviews · 6 stakeholder groups · 5-year strategic plan
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