Ashley St-Pierre
My Expiernce in the Community Service Sector

To whom this may concern,
I've worked at North Richmond Community Health for over one year. I work as a dental nurse as well as a community worker helping out the public housing residents during the pandemic. As a dental nurse I have come across many vunerable people. As a dental nurse my job is to provide care and to make the patients as comfortable as possible. Some of our patients are indegionous, newly immigrated, suffering from drug addiction and most part of the public resident housing located on the estate of NRCH. During the begining of the pandemic we shut down the clinic and incorporated a covid health promotion. We set up a covid testing clinic at NRCH and also booths infront of every hosuing bulding. My job was to interact with the residents and provide various information on where to get tested, handing out masks and hand sanitiser to the residents, fill out forms if they needed help with food/household essentials for their familes. We provided information on mental health and covid-19 in many difffrent languages. I also went door knocking with DHHS within the community to hand out masks and provide testing information to the residents. My time working during the covid health promotion was very rewarding knowing that I was helping the public hosuing residents in Richmond. It was the time I realised I wanted to pursue a career in community services.