Qi Team
Each Coach shares their tool belt of strengths and talents to create awesome with children, families, and schools living with serious illnesses, disabilities, and other life challenges.
“I am because we are.”
Qi Creative Team Members
Success Coaches
Success Coaches use the 4C Approach to Awesome to create meaningful learning and achieve success outcomes with clients. Using a transdisciplinary approach to self-help & adaptive functioning, behaviour, communication and socialization, cognitive development, and physical motor, as well as a coach’s therapeutic tool belt, a success coach is able to empower clients to increase capacity and participate meaningfully in daily occupations. Success coaches include the following types of professionals and designations:
Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)
Speech-Language Pathologists collaborate with clients to screen, assess, identify, and treat speech, language, voice, fluency (stuttering), cognitive communication, social communication, pre-literacy and literacy skills, and feeding and swallowing challenges, as well as advocate for the prevention of these types of disorders.
Alberta College of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists and Speech and Audiology Canada
Occupational Therapist (OT)
Occupational Therapists collaborate with clients who experience challenges due to impairment of body structure, a change in function, or barriers in social and physical environments to engage in meaningful activities of everyday life by exploring and enhancing factors in the person, the environment and their activities.
Alberta College of Occupational Therapists
Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists
Physical Therapist (PT)
Physical Therapists collaborate with clients to create meaningful individualized treatment plans that include therapeutic exercises, functional activities, specialized equipment, education, and play to promote independence, lifelong fitness, health and wellness. PTs support physical function and participation in movement, activities of daily living, and play/recreation in the home, school and community.
Physiotherapy Alberta College and Association and Canadian Physiotherapy Association
Behaviour Specialist
Behaviour Specialists collaborate with clients to create positive behaviour outcomes that will increase meaningful participation in every day life. They are trained in one or more therapeutic practices dealing with behavioural issues such as: positive behaviour strategies, functional behaviour analysis, cognitive behaviour therapy, and behaviour modification plans. Behaviour specialists may also have a professional designation from another discipline such as occupational therapy, speech language pathology, human ecology, and physical therapy, among others.
Trauma Specialist
Trauma Specialists collaborate with clients who have been negatively impacted (traumatized) by adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), such as violence, abuse, and neglect, to name a few. A trauma informed approach based on safety, connection, patience, and structure, as well as creative interventions focused on movement, expression, and resilience are used to heal the physiological and psychological impacts of trauma.
Human Ecologist (P.HEc)
Human Ecologists collaborate with clients to enhance their well-being and quality of life at home, at work, and in the community. They provide advocacy, counselling, management, research, and education services related to family functioning, parenting, consumer education, money management, textiles and clothing, foods and nutrition, and community resources.
Alberta Human Ecology Association
Social Work Practice
Social Workers collaborate with clients that have a broad range of challenges, including psychological, financial, health, relationship, and substance abuse. They act as advocates, educate and teach clients new skills, link clients to essential resources within the community, protect vulnerable clients, ensure that their best interests are observed, counsel clients, and research problems to look for solutions.
Alberta College of Social Workers
Triple P Practitioners
Triple P Practitioners teach parents the skills needed to raise confident, secure, and healthy children and teenagers, as well as to build strong family relationships. The role of the practitioner is to provide parents simple and practical strategies that they can adapt to suit their own values, beliefs and needs. The benefits can be significant and long-lasting. An accredited Triple P Practitioner may also have a professional designation, such as OT, SLP, and PT for example, and can deliver Level 3 Primary Care Teen, Level 4 Standard Stepping Stones both individual or Group, Level 5 Enhanced and Pathways.
Qi Creative Administration
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
The Chief Executive Officer is the chief energy officer and is responsible for leading the development and execution of Qi Creative’s long-term strategy to create market value and promote industry innovation. The CEO is the official spokesperson of the practice and acts on behalf of Qi Creative at industry functions, media outlets, and community events.
Creator of Outstanding Operations (COO)
The COO is the creator of outstanding operations for Qi Creative and is responsible for the development, design, operation, and improvement of the systems that are created and delivered. The COO ensures that daily practice operations are efficient and effective and that proper guidance and management is in place to support the overall function and flow of the practice.
Clinical Director (CD)
The Clinical Director is the catalyst for connecting clients with the very best success coaching team. The CD meets all new clients through an initial intake visit, creates the initial service plan, collaborates with the appropriate stakeholders to set up services, and assigns clients to a success coaching team.
Chief Technical Officer (CTO)
The Chief Technical Officer is responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of the practice and manages, maintains, and enhances Qi Creative’s technology assets by supporting the various systems Qi Creative owns and operates. These include, but are not limited to: Qi Pads (iPads), Qi Books (MacBooks), recording devices, licensed software and additional media used for presentations and client visits. The CTO ensures that the daily operation of technology is maintained and supported to provide consistent and reliable operation.
The Chief Technical Officer also consults with families in specific cases involving information technology and assistive technology, to ensure their capacity to use technology is supported. The CTO provides training with various programs, devices, and provides support for assistive technology.
Director of Communications
The Director of Communications is the craft communicator responsible for producing and sharing communications related to practice changes and updates, programs and adventures, events, and news, among others. They are also key to the service delivery of the practice, being both the first as well as the last Qi/key team member to converse with (prospective) clients, at intake and completion of services, respectively.