Brian Gross - Skills
Certificates/Training:
- Community Capacity Building
- Outcome Mapping with Terry Smutylo, BC Ministry of Health
- Community Readiness Model, Tri-Ethnic Centre, Colorado State University
- Communities of Practice with Etienne Wenger, BC Ministry of Health, BC
- Most Significant Change (MSC) Technique, Fraser Health Authority, BC
- Developmental Evaluation with Michael Quinn Patton, BC Ministry of Health
- Facilitation/Counselling
- Core Addictions Practice Certificate, Fraser Health Authority, BC
- Change Talk: Motivational Interviewing, Fraser Health Authority, BC
- Motivational Interviewing Summit, Fraser Health Authority, BC
- Master Facilitator Certificate, Advance Corporate Training, New Westminster, BC
- Concurrent Disorders with Wayne Skinner & Brian Rush, Fraser Health Authority, BC
- SMART Recovery Facilitator, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Self-Help Network, Inc.
- Hard Skills
- Level 1 Occupational First Aid Certificate, WorkSafeBC (Expires December 2011)
- Certified Specialist, Microsoft Office 2003 & 2007, Microsoft Corporation
- Self-Employment Program Certificate, Douglas College, New Westminster, BC
Degrees:
- Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology, City University of Seattle - Vancouver (in progress)
- Masters Degree in Creative/Critical Writing, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
- Bachelors Degree in Art/Design, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Skills:
- Seasoned parliamentarian and committee chair.
- Interactive workshop developer, leader and train-the-trainer.
- Public speaker, mediator, facilitator, program evaluator, and press contact.
- Staff and board development through retreats and professional opportunities.
- Perfectly-timed, consistently-published press releases, and development of on-going win-win relationships with local, provincial and national media outlets and reporters.
- Grant writing, membership development, corporate sponsor funding packages.
- Fundraiser and artistic event production, coordination and curation.
- Well-versed in the uses and perils of social media and social networking.
- Certified Specialist in Microsoft Office:
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
- Access
- Graphic design, desktop publishing, website and interactive media design, development and maintenance using Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection:
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Dreamweaver
- Contribute
- Flash
- InDesign
- Fireworks
- Soundbooth
- Premiere
- Acrobat Pro
- Expert operation and troubleshooting of computer, video and audio systems.
- Piano, guitar, singing, playwriting, performing.
- Fluent English; conversational French, Spanish, Indonesian & American Sign Language.