Canada Taylor
PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST FACILITATOR
(she/her)
Since 2005 Canada has worked in behavioral health care serving youth and adults, with 6 years focused in deathcare, helping families navigate grief, loss, and trauma, amidst crisis. Relational and restorative approaches are key underpinnings to Canada’s holistic, integrative philosophy to creating change and healing for all. Currently she is the Suicide Prevention Coordinator for the Multnomah County Health Department and serves as Postvention Response Lead for her county.
Canada has a specific passion in serving complex, intersectional communities who have been underserved in behavioral healthcare and brings a unique, creative approach to solving problems. As a youth Canada experienced many of the same social determinants of health that are present in her community today including poverty, homelessness, food insecurity, abuse, and chronic suicidality.
Today she reaches within the depths of her lived experience as a trauma survivor with Complex PTSD and ADHD to promote healing and create a destigmatized, empowered community with others. Canada was honored with the Trillium Health Mental Health Hero award in 2021 for her work in grief and suicide prevention. Grounding spaces in humor, authenticity, and vulnerability are essential to Canada’s professional and personal life, and especially her work in suicide prevention.