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Our Network

Members of the CAEFS network, photographed by Life by Selena Photography : http://www.lifebyselena.ca/

At CAEFS, we often refer to ‘our network’ to describe the different groups of people who we collaborate with on a day-to-day basis to accomplish our work.

NATIONAL OFFICE TEAM

Name	Position
Brianna Bourassa	Lead Advocate, Northern and Pacific Regional Advocacy Team
Courtney Gouthro	Lead Advocate, Prairies Regional Advocacy Team
Emilie Coyle	Executive Director
Fiona Traynor	Lead Advocate, Atlantic Regional Advocacy Team
Jacqueline Omstead	Lead Advocate, Ontario Regional Advocacy Team
Johanne Wendy Bariteau	Peer Outreach Worker
Nyki Kish	Associate Executive Director
Ruchika Gothoskar	Administrative Assistant
Sarah Mckeachnie	Rural and Remote Capacity Development Coordinator

BOARD

Name	Position	Region
Aleksandra Zajko	Board Member	Quebec
Cory Roslyn	President	Ontario
Diane Bergeron	Board Member	Quebec
Jennifer Murphy	Board Member	Pacific
Jennifer Power	Board Member	Atlantic
Judy Murphy	Board Member	Atlantic
Kassandra Churcher	Treasurer	Ontario
Kelly Potvin	Board Member	Ontario
Kelly Redmond	Vice-President	Ontario
Patti Tait	Indigenous Women’s Representative	Prairies
Quinn Saretsky	Board Member	Prairies
Ruth Gagnon	Board Member	Quebec
Toni Sinclair	Board Member	Prairies

MEMBERSHIP

Our membership is comprised of 22 local member societies. These local societies are located across this land known as Canada and offer critical front-line services to their communities. Each organization is self-governing, with its own board of directors, executive director, staff, and volunteer team. Knowing that we are stronger and more effective when we work together, local societies collaborate on key issues, best practices, and funding proposals. Local societies become members of CAEFS through an in-depth application process and sustain their membership through engagement, reporting, and annual membership dues.

Click here to find your local Elizabeth Fry Society

REGIONAL ADVOCATES

CAEFS’ 5 regional advocacy teams monitor the conditions of confinement in the six federal prisons designated for women and two regional psychiatric centers, and advocate alongside the people incarcerated there.

Regional Team	Federal Prison	Psychiatric Center
Atlantic	Nova Institution for Women	None
Quebec	Joliette Institution for Women	Philippe-Pinel National Institute of Legal Psychiatry
Ontario	Grand Valley Institution for Women	None
Prairies	Edmonton Institutino for Women & Okimaw Ochi Healing Lodge	Regional Psychiatric Center
Pacific	Fraser Valley Institution	None

Regional advocates are trained by, and accountable to, CAEFS. Our teams are comprised of staff and leadership from local member societies, and volunteers from the broader community. Regional advocates are an integral part of our advocacy work, which you can read more about here.

See our 2020 / 2021 annual report for a list of our regional advocates.

REGIONAL COUNCILS

Some local member societies have organized themselves into regional councils. The mandate of each council differs, but generally work to represent their local members and advocate for the issues impacting their communities on a provincial and regional level.

Council of Elizabeth Fry Societies of Ontario (CEFSO)

Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba Elizabeth Fry Societies (ASMEFS)

Pacific Region Elizabeth Fry Societies (PREFS)
CRIMINALIZED WOMEN AND GENDER-DIVERSE PEOPLE

CAEFS work is driven by and in collaboration with people who experience incarceration or are at risk of being incarcerated. Criminalized women and gender-diverse people are involved in our network in a number of different capacities, including as part of our national office team, board, advocates, and as executive directors of Local Elizabeth Fry Societies.

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