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Trustee Ward 11 Contact Information 80 Sheppard Avenue East, North York, Ontario M2N 6E8 Elementary Schools | Secondary Schools | Biography | Communications | Maps | Trustee Expenses Representing
BiographyMs. Kennedy was first elected as Trustee for the Toronto District Catholic School Board in November 2000 and re-elected for a second term in November 2003, and recently is serving her third term which began November 2006. She is a Registered Nurse and diabetes educator with 35 years of experience at Toronto East General Hospital. She was educated in the Catholic school system in Toronto, attending Corpus Christi Elementary School, Notre Dame High School and St. Joseph’s School of Nursing-Toronto,Ontario. Trustee Kennedy is currently an undergraduate of the post RN Degree Program at Ryerson University and close to completing a Gerontology Certificate at Ryerson University. As a parent, Ms. Kennedy has been extensively involved in the parent-teacher associations and community affiliations of the schools attended by her seven sons. She was founding president of the Brebeuf College School PTA in 1989 and, in 1990, founding president of the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Child Care Centre. She was a member of the Blessed Kateri Catholic School Council for 13 years. Ms. Kennedy was also active in the Federation of Catholic Parent-Teacher Associations of Ontario (now the OAPCE) throughout the 1990s as the Toronto Regional Director. Ms. Kennedy has an interest in occupational heath and safety issues as a result of her participation on the hospital wide Health and Safety Committee representing staff nurses for 10 years. In 1974 she served as the first vice president and then president of the local at The Toronto East General Hospital for ten years. She has served on the Grievance committee, the negotiating committee and as a nurse representative for the local . Ms. Kennedy played the lead role throughout 2000-2002 in developing an innovative partnership between two community health-care centres and TEGH –leading to full and permanent funding from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care . She was instrumental in developing a program to provide diabetes education programs to 1000 newly diagnosed patients in east Toronto with type 2 diabetes – this resulted in the creation of DEC NET (the Diabetes Education Community Network). She was also the principal investigator for a study from 1997-2003 for the Canadian Diabetes Association entitled: “Low Intensity Short Duration Exercise Program for the person with non-insulin dependant diabetes over sixty five years old.” In 1990 she founded TEGH’s first diabetic education program. Currently is part of the Diabetes Care Team at the Toronto East General Hospital working in the Ambulatory Care Department . Ms. Kennedy has been married to Alistair Kennedy (a chartered accountant) for 25 years and they have 7 sons. The family is active in the parish of St. Timothy’s Catholic Church. Alistair coaches with the North York Knights Hockey Organization, where all the boys played, and volunteers for Silent Voice Canada. Angela is a retired “Hockey Mom” after 29 years and now awaits the grandchildren “hitting the ice”. All of their children attended Brebeuf College School, while their grandchildren attended St. Simon Catholic School and Loretto Abbey. During her two terms as Trustee for Ward 11, Ms. Kennedy has served in the capacity of: ü Chair Human Resources Program and Religious Affairs ü Vice chair Special Education Advisory Committee ü Co-chair Asian Heritage Month 2005 ü Member of Race Relations & Multiculturalism Committee ü Member of City Pedestrian Committee ü Member Children and Youth Action Committee ü Member Crime Prevention Committee ü Member Exceptional Circumstance Transportation Review Committee ü Vice Chair of the board ü Member of the No Sweat Uniform Committee ü Member of the Angel Foundation for Learning (MTCEF) Currently Trustee Kennedy holds the following positions: ü Honorary Treasurer of the Board ü Vice Chair Special Education Advisory Committee ü Vice Chair Human Resources,Program and Religious affairs committee ü Trustee Appointed to Toronto Board of Health ü Trustee Appointed to Race Relations Committee ü Trustee appointed to Angel Foundation for Learning ü Advisory Committee to the board for No Sweat Uniforms ü Chair Asian Heritage 2007 Committee Ms. Kennedy is also involved in the following Special Projects: ü O’Connor Irish Heritage House Committee ü Ontario March of Dimes Kids Can Make A Difference Campaign ü Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Walk for the Cure ü Accapella Support for Young Women in their Teens ü Riverdale Artist Network – Arts in the Schools ü Sweatshop Free Uniform Policy, TCDSB ü Aid to women Current Medical Association Memberships include: ü Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) ü Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) ü College of Nurses of Ontario ü Canadian Diabetes Association, Toronto Chapter, Diabetes Educator Section ü Banting and Best Diabetes Care Centre, Diabetes Care and Education Committee Awards 2005 Down’s Syndrome association 2004 Canadian Diabetes Association – for development of culturally sensitive Diabetes Education teaching tool. Exercise Video –Tamil 1987 Silent Voice Canada Volunteer recognition 1991 Umbrella Day Care Award ( Day Care founder Kateri Kids) “My role as Trustee is to ensure that all students in the Toronto Catholic District School Board receive the best education possible. To make this happen, it is critical that every Catholic ratepayer is registered as a Catholic School supporter on the municipal assessment rolls. It makes a difference in how we are funded. We must work very hard to ensure that Catholic schools will be here to provide our students with an education that includes Catholic values and a faith-filled curriculum taught by Catholic teachers. I believe that a strong relationship between the TCDSB and the Toronto Archdiocese is also crucial to our sustainability. It is important to me to ensure that every student be given equal opportunity to succeed, to achieve academic excellence and to be as healthy and safe as possible. We have richness in our cultural diversity that is only surpassed by our oneness in Christ.”
Revised November 2009 Communications
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