Welcome to Zero to Five
Jane Gillespie, MSW, RCSW
I am a Registered Clinical Social Worker with over two decades of experience and have devoted my career to assisting at-risk families. I have a Clinical Master of Social Work (MSW) in children's mental health and specialize in assessment and intervention with children impacted by family violence, involved in family law matters, or caught up in contentious parenting disputes. My training includes family mediation and the creation of developmentally sensitive parenting plans, play therapy and developmental screening of young children. I have worked alongside family law professionals throughout my career, across multiple organizational landscapes, have extensive experience as a witness in family court and have been qualified as an expert.
In 2020 I co-created a Therapeutic Access program used exclusively with separated and divorced families or where there is a history of family violence. I have worked extensively in the area of family violence throughout my career including as a member of a specialized team established to create a family violence screening program for Alberta Children's Services, in collaboration with Homefront and the Calgary Police Service Domestic Conflict Unit.
I have lectured at the University level and have presented both locally and internationally on the topic of Therapeutic Access. I am a member of the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW), the Social Workers Association of Alberta (SWAA), the Alberta Family Mediation Society (AFMS) and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) where I currently hold a position on the Alberta Chapter Board of Directors.
Alan McLuckie, PhD, RMFT, RCSW
Alan McLuckie earned his Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Toronto, his MSW (Clinical Specialization) from the University of Calgary, and his BSW and BA in Psychology from Western University. His research, supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, focuses on infant, child and adolescent mental health, parenting & family stress, and family-based psychosocial interventions. He has published in numerous journals, authored several book chapters, and has presented his work at national and international conferences. Along with, Senator, Dr. Stan Kutcher, Dr. McLuckie co-authored Evergreen: A Child and Youth Mental Health Framework for Canada, on behalf of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Dr. McLuckie has received teaching awards at Dalhousie University, Department of Psychiatry and at the University of Calgary where he is currently an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Social Work. His commitment to the field of mental health has been honored through the receipt of the inaugural Hilary M. Weston Award, presented by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
Dr. McLuckie is a Registered Clinical Social Worker in Alberta, and the recipient of the 2018 Alberta College of Social Workers, Clinical Social Work Practice Award, for outstanding contributions to the profession. He has been a member of the ACSW Clinical Committee and Competency Committees to support the capacity of clinical social workers across the country. Along with a team of clinicians at Alberta Health Services, his clinical work and research related to interventions for adverse childhood experiences was recognized via the University of Calgary, Dr. Keith Pearce Award for creativity and innovation in health service delivery. Dr. McLuckie is a Registered Marriage & Family Therapist and supervisor with both the American and Canadian Associations for Marriage and Family Therapy. His clinical background includes acting as the supervisor of the family therapy programming at the IWK Children’s Health Centre in Halifax, and working for a decade as a family therapist at the Calgary Family Therapy Centre, the country’s leading family therapy, where he worked closely with Dr. Karl Tomm.
As a registered clinical social worker, family therapist and play therapist, Dr. McLuckie has dedicated his career to providing effective assessment and intervention services to infants, children, adolescents, and families affected by mental health difficulties and related socio-emotional-behavioural issues. His clinical work specializes in childhood behavioural issues, parent-child conflict, parent/family stress, and co-parenting issues, as well as factors related to divorce/separation, family violence, trauma and childhood adversity.
Normand Carrey
Dr. Normand Carrey is an infant, child and adolescent clinician researcher with over 25 years of clinical and research experience. His main areas of research are 1)- realist reviews of parenting interventions for preschoolers within the Child Welfare system, 2) systemic knowledge mobilization around attachment-based models and interventions for preschoolers (0-5), especially the Circle of Security intervention (translator of the French version), 3) Empathy syndromes (fetal alcohol syndrome, conduct-problems- callous-unemotional traits, pervasive developmental disorders), systematic reviews 4) models of supervision in Family Therapy.