Michele Jones is the Wellness Consultant for ERLC. She has been an educator for over 20 years and prior to joining Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium, she worked in the areas of teacher and student wellness, both at the district and school levels. As a Health champion since 2008, and a past member of the Black Gold Healthy Schools steering committee, she has a wealth of practical knowledge of implementing wellness routines into everyday life.
Matt Mitschke is a Health Promotion Coordinator (HPC) with the Alberta Health Services Healthy Children and Youth Team in Edmonton. HPCs support school jurisdictions across Alberta to create healthy school communities through a Comprehensive School Health (CSH) approach; an evidence-based approach for improving health and learning outcomes. Matt has a bachelor’s degree in health sciences from the University of Lethbridge, where he focused on applied public health and population health promotion. Matt has experience in vaccine-preventable disease surveillance, indigenous health promotion and school health promotion. He is an energetic and passionate health promoter, with over five years of experience facilitating school health promotion in Alberta. In his spare time, Matt enjoys cooking, travelling, as well as fixing and riding bicycles.
Kate Conroy is a Health Promotion Coordinator, with the Alberta Health Services’ Healthy Children and Youth Team. Kate works with school jurisdictions to support healthy school communities, using a comprehensive school health approach. Kate believes in supporting healthy learning environments and that using this evidence-based approach will help improve student health and learning. Kate has worked with the Healthy Children and Youth team since 2010, working in rural and urban settings to assess school health needs, build action plans, develop policies and celebrate school health successes. Kate has studied internationally in Belgium and Ireland, studying the social, pedagogical and technical aspects of physical activity adapted to the needs of persons with a disability. Living and studying internationally has garnered her with health promotion strategies from around the world. Kate holds a Master’s of Science in Adapted Physical Activity, from KU Leuven and the University of Limerick.