Meet Our Educators

Jenny-Lee Almeida, BSW

Jenny-Lee is a passionate trauma-informed mental health educator and public speaker with more than 17 years of professional practice. She is a safeTALK instructor, ASIST and Suicide to Hope facilitator and trainer as well as a Living Life to the Full facilitator and Mental Health Works trainer. She is currently a certified community and workplace traumatologist with expertise in compassion fatigue, burnout and secondary trauma. Jenny-Lee is honoured to dedicate her professional career to eradicating the stigma surrounding suicide.

Michelle Belmont, MSW

Michelle is a Peer Support Worker with lived experience in mental health and addictions. She pairs her clinical background and peer support experience with creative activities such as vision boards to provide paths to hope for students attending Wellness & Recovery College.

Carrie Davis, MSW, RSW

Carrie is a certified traumatologist with more than two decades of experience in the social work field, primarily in mental health and addictions. She is committed to continuous professional development and is passionate about reducing stigma and removing barriers to seamlessly access services. Carrie facilitates LivingWorks ASIST and safeTALK, Mental Health First Aid, and other standardized evidence-based workshops.

In her current role, she promotes psychological health and safety in multi-sector workplaces. Carrie uses research to inform all levels of her practice. To promote psychological health and safety, she offers workplace consultation, creates and disseminates needs assessments that advise how to best meet employees in the workplace for one-on-one solution-focused therapeutic supports, as well as to produce educational workshops.

Leanne Laramie, MSW, RSW

Leanne holds a Master of Social Work degree from Wayne State University with a focus in community, policy and leadership. As a Workplace Outreach Worker, Leanne offers comprehensive support to the agricultural sector to promote psychological health and safety in the workplace through individual support, consultation, educational workshops, and service navigation for Temporary Foreign Workers and their employers. 

Her primary goal is to reduce stigma and enhance mental health awareness within the farming industry thereby fostering a psychologically healthy and safe workplace environment for all. 

Sonia McMahon-Comartin

Sonia has worked in mental health and wellness roles within te public sector for over 20 years. She has been with the CMHA-WECB since 2016 and transitioned from her role as Bereavement Educator to Mental Health Educator in March 2022. She is a Certified Trainer and Facilitator in safeTALK, ASIST, and Living Life to the Full. Sonia has diverse experience offering both wellness and bereavement seminars, as well as coordinating and facilitating a multitude of loss-specific grief support groups.