Counselling services can assist you with personal and social concerns so that your academic success and general quality of life may be enhanced. You can also access assistance with educational and career planning. The goal of these efforts is to help you develop effective problem solving and decision making capabilities.
Involvement in the counselling process may help you resolve or better manage your problems or concerns. Once these concerns are under greater control you may be able to focus more clearly on your educational pursuits with fewer distractions, and increase your success as a student.
Counsellors at College of the North Atlantic provide individual and/or group counselling to current students.
Counsellors at College of the North Atlantic can also provide individual and/or group counselling to prospective students by appointment.
What is sexual violence?
Sexual violence includes acts, physical or psychological in nature, that threatens to intimidate, coerce, or engage in an unwelcomed behaviour of a sexual nature,
without the person’s consent. It includes both in-person and digital/cyber actions. This violence takes different forms including, but not limited to, sexual harassment and sexual assault.
Examples of sexual violence:
- distribution of intimate images without consent
- denying another person’s sexual decision-making rights
- unwanted sexual comments, advances, or solicitation
- threat of reprisal for failure to comply with sexual advances
- sexual contact without consent
What is consent?
As defined by the Criminal Code of Canada, consent refers to voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity. CNA advocates a culture of mutual consent whereby consent to any sexual activity is ongoing, freely given, informed, and can be withdrawn at any time.
Get Support for Sexual Violence
If you’ve been affected by sexual violence on or off campus, we are here to support you. Whether you need crisis intervention, counselling, education, or navigation through the campus policy and procedures, the student services team can help.
Who can you contact?
If you need support, here are some options:
Talk to a CNA guidance counsellor
- This is confidential (in most cases, unless there is a threat of harm to you or someone else).
- Receive support for personal and social concerns, resources, referrals, and advocacy.
- Reach out to a counsellor to book an appointment.
Talk to any CNA employee
- While you can reach out to an employee for support, depending on what you choose to share they may have a duty to consult with a Human Resources or Student Services representative to determine how to best support you.
- Names are usually not provided at this point, but a disclosure can result in action which may include opening an investigation.
Talk to Student Services
- Contact Charlene Walsh, Manager of Student Relations directly at svsupport@cna.nl.ca
- Charlene can explain what is confidential and what is not, help with understanding procedures and options, and discuss available supports.
- You can also decide how you would like to proceed and if you want to participate in any process going forward.
Access 24/7 Support
- Call the End Sexual Violence NL Support Centre for 24 hour confidential support and information at 1-800-726-2743. They can help with in-person support, resources, training and presentations, and accompaniments to the SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) program at St. Clare’s Hospital or Royal Newfoundland Constabulary in St. John’s.
- Call the 811 Healthline to access confidential and free telephone support from experienced Registered Nurses including information on what to do if you’ve experienced sexual violence, and help to decide what steps you can take to manage your physical and mental health.
- Call the Mental Health Crisis Line at 1-888-737-4668 for 24 hour free and confidential telephone crisis intervention by professionally trained Crisis Interveners.
- Text CONNECT to 686868 or 741741 for free 24/7 confidential text support with a trained volunteer crisis responder at Crisis Text Line .
- Contact the Legal Support Navigators with the Journey Project at 1-833-722-2805 for more information on support within the justice system. This is a collaboration between PLIAN and NLCACPC that aims to strengthen the justice support for individuals impacted by sexual violence and/or intimate partner violence in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Give Support for Sexual Violence
Sexual violence support training
As the only provincially-mandated organization dealing directly with the issue of sexual violence in NL, the
End Sexual Violence NL Support Centre has access to a wide range of information, resources, and community groups. Contact their office to discuss your needs or questions and they will work to connect you with relevant information and services.
Sexual Violence Policy
Understand CNA’s
Sexual Violence Policy .
Sexual Violence Procedure
Understand CNA’s
Sexual Violence Procedure for disclosing and reporting.
Questions?
Contact Charlene Walsh, Manager - Student Relations at
svsupport@cna.nl.ca
Each campus has either a professional counsellor or another Student Services professional to assist you.
Some positions cover multiple campuses. Those campuses are:
- Wendy Monk covers Clarenville and Bonavista campuses
- Jeff Patry covers Corner Brook campus and St. Anthony campuses
- Bertha Tobin covers Prince Phillip Drive campus and Seal Cove campuses
- Nicole Pickett covers Bay St. George and Port aux Basques campuses
Bay St. George Campus Allison Lomond | Guidance Counsellor | 709/643-7733 |
allison.lomond@cna.nl.ca Nichole Pickett | Guidance Counsellor | 709/643-7816 |
nicole.pickett@cna.nl.ca Burin Campus Craig Wells | Guidance Counsellor | 709/891-5623 |
craig.wells@cna.nl.ca Carbonear Campus Darrell Noel | Guidance Counsellor |
darrell.noel@cna.nl.ca Sandy Maher | Guidance Counsellor - Online | 709/596-8940 |
sandy.maher@cna.nl.ca Clarenville Campus Suzanne Keeping | Guidance Counsellor - Online | 709/466-6498 |
suzanne.keeping@cna.nl.ca Wendy Monk | Guidance Counsellor | 709/227-6272 |
wendy.monk@cna.nl.ca Corner Brook Campus Jeffrey Patry | Guidance Counsellor | 709/637-8586 |
jeff.patry@cna.nl.ca Julia McDonald | Guidance Counsellor | 709/637-8527 |
julia.mcdonald@cna.nl.ca Gander Campus David Alcock | Guidance Counsellor | 709/651-4842 | 709/290-0646 |
david.alcock@cna.nl.ca Grand Falls - Windsor Campus Frank Williams | Guidance Counsellor | 709/292-5624 |
frank.williams@cna.nl.ca Happy Valley-Goose Bay Campus Lesley Tucker | Guidance Counsellor | 709/896-6306 |
lesley.tucker@cna.nl.ca Headquarters Nadine Humber | Guidance Counsellor - Online | 709/758-7626 |
nadine.humber@cna.nl.ca Labrador West Campus Pamela Meaney-Pieroway | Guidance Counsellor | 709/944-4189 |
pamela.meaney-pieroway@cna.nl.ca Placentia Campus Dorinda Blanche | Guidance Counsellor | 709/227-6273 |
dodie.blanche@cna.nl.ca Prince Philip Drive Campus Bertha Tobin | Guidance Counsellor | 709/758-7136 |
bertha.tobin@cna.nl.ca Karen Moore | Guidance Counsellor | 709/758-7578 |
karen.moore@cna.nl.ca Tara Thomas | Guidance Counsellor | 709/758-7314 |
tara.thomas@cna.nl.ca Ted Power | Guidance Counsellor | 709/758-7368 |
ted.power@cna.nl.ca Ridge Road Campus John Edwards | Guidance Counsellor | 709/758-7035 |
john.edwards@cna.nl.ca
Distributed Learning (Online)
Suzanne Keeping | Guidance Counsellor | 1.877.465.2250 – Option 1 |
suzanne.keeping@cna.nl.ca
Some positions cover multiple campuses. Those campuses are:
- Wendy Monk covers Clarenville and Bonavista campuses
- Jeff Patry covers Corner Brook campus and St. Anthony campuses
- Bertha Tobin covers Prince Phillip Drive campus and Seal Cove campuses
- Nicole Pickett covers Bay St. George and Port aux Basques campuses