Resume: Dawn M. Callan
Employment History
Programmer: Learning Disabilities Association of Kingston
To design and facilitate groups and workshops for members and volunteers of Learning Disabilities Association of Kingston. To support individuals and/or their care givers with personal, educational and life challenging goal achievement through solution focused counselling.
Rural Volunteer Capacity Builder: Trillium Grant
An Ontario Trillium Foundation funded position, located at Country Roads and North Lanark County Community Health Centres. The goal of the three year initiative is to Increase volunteerism through a variety of recruitment and management strategies and achieve the following results: define more volunteer roles and opportunities; support volunteers to take on new leadership roles; train all volunteers with respect to their roles; and provides staff training to meet the expansion of the volunteer program.
Client Support Coordinator: Big Sisters of Kingston
Interview, intake, match and support young girls, women and their mentor volunteers. To plan and implement anti violence Seminar series with female youth, to plan and implement training for volunteers, to plan and implement special events, to operate as a management team member, to supervise and support placement students and to offer group facilitation and other seminars to those working with youth.
Project Coordinator: Industry Education Council, Kingston
Responsible for planning, preparation and presentation of special projects linking youth to career and self development. Coordinator: Words on Work Women’s Speaker Bureau: Area coordinator of speaker training and recruitment (administered through IEC).
Rehabilitation Practitioner: Alberta Social Services RDH (Edmonton)
To facilitate daily group home operations, life style planning, medication administration, conflict / emergency intervention, shift planning, advocacy for children / teenagers dealing with multiple physical and mental health barriers.
Outreach and Development Worker: PSO Kingston
Contract Position Responsible for: Linking with community agencies, peer advocacy and support of membership, promotion, grant maintenance, volunteer & student supervision and daily operations.
Community Programs Worker: Better Beginnings for Kingston Children
Responsible for: staffing and operating a series of parent / child groups. Supervision of 18 full and part-time employees, supervision of students, linking and maintaining community partnerships, budgets, volunteer training and management.
Guest Lecturer: St. Lawrence College Kingston
Entrepreneurship: Planning, preparation, presentation and evaluation of a course for 30 students of entrepreneurship.
Arts and Entertainment: To present lessons concerning areas of performance, finance, techniques and art as related to culture.
Director/Composer/Performer: Gopher Baroque
Responsible for: performance, music and show research / composition / arrangement, sound and technical support, graphics, cartooning, costume / set design and construction. Management role including: contract negotiation, booking, logistics planning, correspondence, marketing initiatives, trade shows, press and publicity.
Head Teacher: YMCA Child Care Division, Kingston
To maintain provincial childcare standards / licensing, daily programming /operations for up to 32 children ages 3.5 - 12 years, supervision of staff, students and volunteers), program marketing / promotion, budget, and liaison with community partners. * Promoted to this position from an assistant teacher.
Partner/Author: Great Lakes Publishing
Research, write and prepare articles, books/booklets, programs and grant proposals.
Long Term Contract Positions:
Logistics Management: MT Sound and Lighting
Communications Department Programmer: Ongwanada Hospital, Kingston
Audio Educational Materials Recorder: FLA County, R.C.S.S. Board
Ontario Travel Counselor: Ministry of Industry and Tourism
Assistant Manager: Black Water Lake Resort
Original Workshop Design and Presentations:
Volunteer Information Centre, Kingston: Conflict Resolution for Volunteers
Jefferson College, Watertown, NY: Canadian Folk Music; Music Composition
Ontario Council of Folk Festivals: Performer Health & Safety, Artistic Directors Round Table; Financial Planning and Resources
Ontario Discharge Planners Association: Team Building (Yukon Gold)
NAFMADA / Smithsonian Museum: Volunteer Management
Town of Goderich, Girl Guides of Canada: Days and Knights: medieval life Numerous Elementary Schools: Instrument Building; Great Canadian Nation
Childcare, Volunteers: Conflict Resolution, Anger Management, Movement & Music, Safety in Children’s Programmes, Diversity, File Folder Games; Creative Play; Games for the young, Medieval Life and Communications
North Kingston Community Health Centre: Team Building, Head Lice; Universal Precautions; Co-facilitation and review of the Volunteer Training Program.
EDUCATION
Behavioural Science Technologist: St. Lawrence College
The study of behaviour modification: contingency management, social learning theory, cognitive behaviour therapy, behavioural assessment, group work, research methods, behavioural medicine, human relations, abnormal psychology, mental retardation, drug effects on human behaviour, and learning disabilities. Associated activities: Associations of College Unions International college representative through Queen’s University. Selected to write and direct a video on grief counselling. Work placements included teaching in the Thistle town school (autism) Toronto, and operating a biofeedback lab in Kingston.
Bachelor of Arts: Social Work Suffield University
(not Canadian Accredited)
Equivalency Challenge: Public Speaking; Maths; computer skills; Basic Biology; Social Welfare (USA); Charity in Western Civilization; Survey Philosophy; Social Work Practice Skills; Human Behaviours in the Social Environment; Applied Research; Social Work Methods; Social Work and the Law (USA); Interviewing in the Helping Professions; Child Welfare Services and Policies (USA); Intro to Group Work and Practice; Mental Health Services and Policies; Field Instruction; Social Statistics; Health Care Services and Policies; Advanced Social Work Methods; Social Work Values and Ethics; Intervention with Families; Child Abuse; Women’s Issues; Social Work Practice for the Aged; Community Social Work; Social Work Supervision.
Travel Careers: Career College
Studies Included: IATA ticketing procedures (Air Canada), International travel & health laws, designation codes, Morse code, time zones, world customs & religions, travel insurance regulations, agent liabilities, responsibilities, ethics, etc.
Business Administration of the Arts: Sir Sandford Fleming College
Business Communications, Small Business Management, Advertising and Display, Exhibitions Workshop, History of Art, Applied Photography, Performing Arts Today, Painting, Ceramics, Drama Production, Museum Management
Early Childhood Education: St Lawrence College
Childcare Administration; Curriculum Design 1 and II; Infant and Toddler Health; Music and Movement *courses 1 and 2, Children’s Media and Early Education.
Queen’s University: Psychology 200: Static’s; Abnormal Psychology
Georgian College: Theatre history, Set & Costume Design, Performance Technique
Professional Training:
Health & Safety: CPR, Defibrillator and First Aid
Province of Alberta Social Services: ABC Behavioural Course
Northern Alberta Medication Administration Certification
Stanford University(USA): Facilitation Training Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions
Girls Inc. Indianapolis: Program Director’s Institute
PAVR-O: Standards of Management Practice
Ontario Arts Council: Marketing; Trade Show Booth Design and Operations; Touring, Block Booking; and Networking
Dave Henson Muppets Inc: Puppet/Muppet Design, Creation & Performance
Ontario Council of Folk Festivals: Income tax and Finances for Performers; College Performance Circuit, Statistical Analysis of Events; Director’s Round Table; Volunteer Mgt.; Managing Crafts &Arts at events; Performer Booking
Walt Disney Tele-conference Training: Marketing Events
O’Keefe / Hummingbird Theatre (Toronto): Theatre Sound, Lighting
Canadian National Ballet: National Ballet Management, Performance Management
North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance: International Touring; International Marketing; Performance and Event Coordinating.
Kingston Chamber of Commerce: E Commerce trends & Web Marketing Strategies
Grants Management/Fund Raising:
LDAK Kingston, TOMMfest, Joe M.I.L.L., Trillium Facilitator, Womens Directorate Facilitator, Ontario Council of Folk Festivals; Edmonton Folk Music Festival; All Folks Festival, Kingston; Sweet Folk All Folk Club, Peer Support of Kingston and Industry Education Council.
Volunteer History:
Joe Chithalen Memorial Music Instrument Lending Library: Grant Writer; TOMMfest Music Committee and Grant Writer; Rural Visions Community Health: Board Member: Family and Youth; Artistic Director: All Folks Festival (4 years); Event Coordinator: Partner’s in Music, Sweet Folk All; Fort Henry Working Group: member
Entertainment Security: Edmonton Music Festival, Summerfolk, Mariposa @ On Place; Program Design and Publicity: Edmonton Folk Music Festival, Kingston All Folks Festival; Volunteer Coordination: Edmonton Folk Festival (800+ volunteers); Partners in Music (80 volunteers); Office & Crew Coordination: Edmonton Folk Music Festival (800+ volunteers); International Year of the Volunteer: Local committee member; Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington: Car Seat Inspector; Strengthening Families together: Schizophrenia Society of Ontario
Professional Arts Accolades:
Award for New Talent: Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Record, Toronto, On *maximum allowable: four awards
Outstanding Achievement: audience development, Education & Outreach,
NAFMADA, Boston, M.A.,
National Publication Award: Canadian Anthology of Poetry, St. Catherine,
*It’s Colder Tonight
The Morbid Song Award: SFA Club of Kingston, On (Multiple consecutive)
Editors’ Choice: Award for poetry (USA)
Writing Related Critical Quotes / Comments:
“The title song (CD: Holdin’ Down The Fort) has such a catchy tune that I hummed it for days until the rest of the household begged me to stop..., Callan is the main song writer and has a real talent for seeing the human impact of historical incidents. In Parson’s Harbour, a wife recalls her memories of family and neighbours as she and her husband pack up their belongings to leave their dying out port community and move to a city where they will have to stand alone.
I particularly enjoyed her songs Somewhere In France, a sweet song of first world war love letters, and It’s Colder Tonight, a country song that deserves to reach a large audience..., Callan’s song writing and the harmony singing are the band’s major strengths and should provide the foundation to their future...”
Nan College: Canadian Folk Music Bulletin, Winnipeg
“Some terrific music, Gustafsen Lake is just excellent” G. Hunter: CKLC radio 2nd Intermission, Kingston
“Lively and inspired songs” D. Fowler LeBlanc, Hon. R. Le Blanc, Governor General of Canada, Ottawa
Re Concert: "Brilliant performance...The concert was phenomenal! Your mastery of the different types of instruments, the history of the songs, and your great range of material made every moment of the concert a delight. I along with my colleagues wished the night would never have ended. Your music captivated the great diversity of our audience...The evening was a distinct highlight in this year’s North Country Writer’s Festival".
Re: Composing and Creativity Workshop: Several students have already commented to me on how creativity is an acquired art and how your workshop helped them delve deeper into their creative selves. Your rapport with students and lengthy discussions you had with them after the workshop also showed your enthusiasm and dedication to your art.
I. Luyt, English Dept, Jefferson College, Watertown, NY
Current / Previous Professional Affiliations:
Gopher Baroque, SOCAN, BMI, and North American Folk Music & Dance Alliance, International Musician’s Union, Ontario Council of Folk Festivals, Seven C’s Enterprises, Joe's Mill Instrument Lending Library and Tommfest.
