Samantha Mills-Wiseman
Capacity Development Specialist
samantha.mills-wiseman@weareaurelia.ca
ID: Samantha is standing outside of a white house and holding a black and white dog. She is looking at the camera and laughing.
Samantha comes from the small town of Shoal Harbour, Trinity Bay, and is a proud baygirl, even though she’s officially been a townie for half of her life. She moved to St. John’s to attend university and then moved on to complete a diploma in Child and Youth Care Work. After graduating, Samantha was hired as a child and youth worker at Caregivers, a small, family-owned business where she learned more than she ever did in school. She continued to work with the same team as they transitioned to Blue Sky, where she became a certified trainer of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention and Children and Residential Experiences. Since that time, Samantha has enjoyed working (and learning!) with a number of organizations in a wide variety of roles, with a focus on community work, residential child care, mental health and addictions, and most recently as a post-secondary instructor teaching child and youth care students. She secretly loves it when she talks about her 16 years of experience in the field and people respond with “Sure you’re not old enough to have done all that!”
Samantha is a passionate advocate for the young people she’s had the privilege of working with and has appreciated the opportunity to learn as much from them as they have from her. She’s enjoyed many adventures with “her” young people over the years including horseback riding and rock climbing, swimming in the ocean and snowshoeing, befriending snakes and lizards, and riding an antique streetcar across the highest streetcar river crossing in the world. There were admittedly a few things that she didn’t enjoy, but to be fair, they involved shoveling manure and providing foot care for the biggest horse she’s ever seen.
Although her heart will always be in the Harbour, Samantha lives in St. John’s with her partner Glenn, a townie and musician. She’s working towards a Bachelor of Education (Post-Secondary), runs a small business, and volunteers with the Board of directors of the Victoria Park Foundation. She enjoys spending time outdoors, hanging her clothes out on the line, and hanging out with her nieces and nephews and their chickens.
Samantha is a passionate advocate for the young people she’s had the privilege of working with and has appreciated the opportunity to learn as much from them as they have from her. She’s enjoyed many adventures with “her” young people over the years including horseback riding and rock climbing, swimming in the ocean and snowshoeing, befriending snakes and lizards, and riding an antique streetcar across the highest streetcar river crossing in the world. There were admittedly a few things that she didn’t enjoy, but to be fair, they involved shoveling manure and providing foot care for the biggest horse she’s ever seen.
Although her heart will always be in the Harbour, Samantha lives in St. John’s with her partner Glenn, a townie and musician. She’s working towards a Bachelor of Education (Post-Secondary), runs a small business, and volunteers with the Board of directors of the Victoria Park Foundation. She enjoys spending time outdoors, hanging her clothes out on the line, and hanging out with her nieces and nephews and their chickens.