Joe is the winner of the Ontario Premiers Award, The Courage to Come Back Award and recently received an Honorary Doctorate from Laurentian University. Twenty-five years ago, Joe was a homeless drug addict pushing a shopping cart around Vancouver's downtown eastside.  At the lowest point of his life, he made a promise if he was ever able to escape adversity he would do something to pay it forward.   The Push for Change was that promise realized.  In September of 2017, Joe completed a 17 month, 9000KM walk across Canada raising awareness and funds for youth homelessness.   Joe lives the idea that "anything is possible".

Stephen "Buddha" Leafloor, is a Canadian B-boy Elder, street dancer, youth outreach worker, speaker and social worker.  Combining his Masters in Social Work with years of involvement in the Canadian Hiphop community, Stephen has developed a highly engaging outreach program that cratively blends modern Hiphop with traditional and cultural components of indigenous and other diverse groups.  Recently, he has been working across Canada with you in correctional facilities.   He is the founder of both Blueprintforlife (www.blueprintforlife.ca) and the non profit Blueprint Pathways.  His art-based approach, which combines best practice mental health techniques with dance, spoken word, meditation and cognitive therapies, has received national and international acclaim.  Blueprint Pathways has been awarded a grant from Justice Canada's Youth Gang and Guns initiative to work with gang-affiliated youth in maximum security facilities across Canada, helping incarcerated youth to build mental healing techniques, create resiliency and move away from gang-related activity.

Brent Kalowinski retired from the Prince Albert Police Service after 27 years spanning a range of policing duties, with a career emphasis on major crime investigations.  In the last 2 years of his service, recognizing the need to change, Brent helped create Community Mobilization Prince Albert, the impetus of risk driven collaborative community safety and well-being in Canada, sitting at both the Hub table as well as the Centre of Responsibility (COR) before moving to the province's Building Partnerships to Reduce Crime consultant team in order to expand these initiatives across Saskatchewan.  In 2012, Brent was the recipient of the 'The Minister of Justice National Youth Justice Policing Award', for this risk driven initiative and work with youth.  Late in 2013, Brent formally retired from policing and relocated to North Bay, Ontario, where he had been instrumental in developing a similar model for community safety and wellness in that city, The Gateway Hub, and other similar models throughout Ontario.

As a founding member of Community Mobilization Prince Albert, a consultant for the province of Saskatchewan, and now as a partner and advisor in The Global Network, Brent has guided more communities through the adoption of these models than anyone else, having directly supported implementations and adaptations in over 30 cities, towns, regions and First Nations communities in Canada and the U.S.  Brent continues to support the evolution of collaborative, risk-driven models across Canada and internationally as the impetus of change for community safety and wellbeing in our communities. 

In addition to these local works, Brent has been an active stakeholder and contributor and advisor to the Ontario Working Group (OWG) a featured contributor to the National Policy Makers Dialogue on Information Sharing, and an adviser to the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety's application and creation of a provincial Risk Tracking Database (RTD), and the author of a Canadian Police Chief Magazine article entitled If We Want to Change the Outcomes, We May Have to Change Ourselves (Winter 2016).

Dr. Lori Triano-Antidormi is a Registered Psychologist in the province of Ontario.  She obtained her Ph.D from York University in 1998.  Dr. Triano-Antidormi currently works in private practice in Hamilton, Ontario.  She has particular interest and expertise in the area of grief and trauma, providing treatment to individuals who have been impacted by a violent crime, a traumatic incident, and/or who have experienced a significant loss.  She is a former board member of Niagara Victim Services and a current board member of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada.  She is currently the Professional Consultant to Bereaved Families of Ontario, South Central region, and she sits on the Standing Committee on Police Interaction with People in Crisis. 

Dr. Triano-Antidormi has given many invited presentations on the issues of grief and trauma, and she has been called upon by the media to speak on these topics.  She has also spoken publicly about her personal experience with a mentally ill offender.  For her personal and professional advocacy in promoting social justice for those living with mental illness, Dr. Triano-Antidormi was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award, presented by the Schizophernia Society of Canada, 2013.

Theoren Fleury, Former NHL All-Star, Stanley Cup winner and Olympic Gold Medalist, two-time bestselling author of Playing with Fire and Conversations with a Rattlesnake, healing motivator, person of great life experience and knowledge in the field of relational trauma.  Theo's mission statement is to help as many people get to where they want to go has taken shape in many forms, whether meeting people for a brief moment on the street or as a dynamic inspirational speaker with the intention of creating healing through conversation.  He loves people, their stories and their journeys.  He is committed to daily transformation through personal growth through self-reflection, mindfulness and new action.  His compassionate spirit allows others to feel safe and whole through experiencing his vulnerabilty.

Theo has been awarded the Canadian Humanitarian Award, The Queen's Jubilee Medallion, he is an Honorary Chief and recipient of the Aboriginal Inspire Award.  In 2014, Theo was awarded with an honorary doctorate in Science from University of Guelph-Humber for outstanding contributions to the Mental Health of Canadians.  Theo pursues excellence in all areas of his life.  Most recently Theo was bestowed with a second honorary doctorate in Laws from Brandon University in recognition for his contributions combating child sexual abuse and for his outstanding efforts to promote healing and recovery.