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Robert Wright
Robert Seymour Wright is a social worker who has worked with children, youth and families in a wide variety of settings over the past 20 years. He holds both Bachelor and Master’s degrees in social work and has done some post graduate studies in the same field.
He has worked in community based settings as an anti poverty advocate and family mediator; in education, as a counsellor for at risk students and as a race relations coordinator; in child welfare, as a front line worker, supervisor, forensic clinician, and Executive Director; and in justice, as a correctional mental health specialist. In May of 2007, Mr. Wright was appointed to serve as the Executive Director of the Child and Youth Strategy of the Province of Nova Scotia. In this role, he is coordinating the efforts of five (5) key government departments as they work together to improve services to and outcomes of children and youth.
Over the past several years, in addition to his various “day jobs”, Mr. Wright has been active thinking and teaching about the culturally specific needs of African Nova Scotians and other cultural communities in Nova Scotia. He is keenly interested in promoting Culturally Specific Interventions and Approaches to persons requiring service from a number of government departments.
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