Antoine Coulombe, MSW, RSW, joined the UBC School of Social Work as Assistant Professor of Teaching on January 1st, 2019.
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Antoine’s career in Social Work started in the late ’90s. He has a BSW from the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi and a MSW from the University of Quebec in Montreal. He has over 12 years of Social Work experience in different areas with individuals, groups and communities in a diversity of health care, school and non-profit settings. He has worked with youth, families, adults, sexual minorities and the homeless, as well as persons with disabilities, chronic disease, and mental illness and from different cultural backgrounds.
Early in his career, as a Social Worker and Community Organizer, he developed and consolidated the first resources to support LGBTQ+ youth in the Quebec City region and organized awareness programs in schools and youth services about LGBTQ+ reality to fight against homophobia. He also contributed to advancing LGBTQ+ rights and was a committee member responsible for writing the first policy against homophobia for the Quebec Government. During his Master’s degree, he researched the empowerment perspective when working with LGBTQ+.
He served as a full-time Social Work instructor at Marie-Victorin College’s School of Social Work. For over ten years, he taught Social Work theory and practice through the delivery of seven different core, elective and COOP courses. He also collaborated on research exploring the applications of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in teaching Social Work.
Antoine moved to Vancouver in the summer of 2016. Here, he focused on Social Work in health care through his roles first as the Director and Social Worker at the British Columbia Resource Centre for persons with Huntington’s Disease and then as Patient Services Manager of the Centre for Brain Health at UBC Hospital.
In his new role at UBC, he is interested in learning more about creating accessible, safe, engaging and reflective learning environments where students can thrive and become active citizens and competent Social Workers.