Karen Hoi Lam Wong
Toronto,ON
Summary
Compassionate social worker with 8.5-years of experience in working in women service with anti-oppression approach in counseling and community organizing. Build trust and rapport with women with sensitivity to power and cultural difference in transformative feminist leadership approach. Experience of coaching staff and networking with other stakeholders in community.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Mentor and Facilitator
Herfund Limited, Transformative Feminsit Leadership Project
Hong Kong
08.2023 - 05.2024
- Facilitated 5 workshops for 3 feminist organizations, including refugees, domestic workers, and grassroots women, using a transformative feminist leadership approach.
- Engaged consistently with mentees through coaching by non-violent communication method and leadership skills.
- Appraised by mentees for building team spirit by discovering common core feminist value.
- Coached mentees for organizing transformative feminist project.
Fieldwork Supervisor
Division of Social Sciences,Humanities and Design, College of Professional and Continuing Education
Hong Kong
09.2023 - 03.2024
- Supervised 2 social work students for intake assessment, referral of resources, and service planning using a strength perspective in women service.
- Equipped students with outreaching strategies in working with female caregivers and new commers.
- Equipped students to organize more than 15 women volunteers in a community art project.
Office-in-Charge (Social Worker)
Hong Kong Federation of Women’s Centres
Hong Kong
07.2021 - 06.2023
- Managed two community-based projects serving child care givers, newcomers and grassroots women using an anti-oppression and feminist approach.
- Coached three social workers to implement strength and empowerment perspective in individual and group therapy sessions.
- Collaborated with NGO partners, government department and church to develop community project in enhancing well-being of women
- Developed 3 Care-giver Cafes in drop-in service to create safe and supporting space for women care-giver with stress.
- Coached staff to advocate care- giver friendly community by community music and theatre.
Social Worker
Log-In Club for New Arrivals ELCHK
Hong Kong
04.2016 - 07.2021
- Provided counseling and case management to more than 200 clients, obtaining financial resources, employment information, counseling services, and housing services.
- Training more than 50 women volunteers to advocate for community art project for newcomers.
- Cooperated with the university to provide therapeutic group by art therapy and mindfulness to women with caregiver stress
- Community work has been interviewed by agency annual report, newspaper, and radio program.
Education
Master of Social Science in Social Work -
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong06-2014
Bachelor of Social Sciences - Sociology, Media And Cultural Studies
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong05-2010
Skills
- Transformative feminist leadership
- Volunteer training and advocacy in empowerment and anti-oppression
- Mindfulness practice to enhance self-care and awareness
- Non-violent communication skill
- Art therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Client Records Management
- Client Needs Assessment
Affiliations
- Regular mindfulness practice in Multi-faith Centre at the University of Toronto
- Regular meetings with mentor and facilitators in Transformative Feminist Leadership Project by Herfund Limited.
- Volunteered for Human Library and fund raising event for of marginalized women
Languages
English
Professional
Mandarin
Native/ Bilingual
Cantonese
Native/ Bilingual
Certification
- Certificate in Art therapy group counseling for emotional support and self awareness.
- Certificate of Feminist Capacity Building Workshop
Accomplishments
- Received newspaper and radio interviews about women community work
- Received grants to organized 2 community projects for women in fighting poverty.
- Coached staff to organize grassroots women in joining Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Fieldwork Supervisor
Division of Social Sciences,Humanities and Design, College of Professional and Continuing Education
09.2023 - 03.2024
Mentor and Facilitator
Herfund Limited, Transformative Feminsit Leadership Project
08.2023 - 05.2024
Office-in-Charge (Social Worker)
Hong Kong Federation of Women’s Centres
07.2021 - 06.2023
Social Worker
Log-In Club for New Arrivals ELCHK
04.2016 - 07.2021
Master of Social Science in Social Work -
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Bachelor of Social Sciences - Sociology, Media And Cultural Studies
The University of Hong Kong
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