About me
Ronnie is the Clinical Nurse Educator & coordinator for the Central Alberta Sexual Assault Response Team (CASART) & Domestic violence program in the Central Zone, providing edcaution to RCMP, physicians, nurses, students & community partners on sexual assault response, domestic violence & non-fatal strangulation best practices. In 2018, Ronnie developed the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner model, providing Sexual assault response to victims experincing violence. An advocate for change, Ronnie has implemented many programs that support victims of crime including the development of the Domestic Abuse Response team (DART) that has become a Provincial Initiative & was published in The Journal of Family Violence in April 2023, Third Option, Non-Fatal Strangulation Response & recently spear headed a pilot project, to help recognize child exploitation, implementing a screening tool to identify youth at risk. Ronnie has been part of the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre multidisciplinary service delivery team since 2017, serving as the medical representative for AHS.