Our Staff
Barry Waldman
Executive Director
As a volunteer, Barry administers and supervises all EPIC projects and programs including hiring and proposal writing, reporting and financial oversight. He also serves on the Board as Director of Finance. He holds a Masters in Educational Administration and has a wealth of experience working with marginalized learners. He founded EPIC in 1996.
Delores Feltmate
Program Director
Delores manages the day-to-day operations of the Youth Peer Program since September 2018. Previously, she served as Co-Director in 2014-2015, as well as Breakthrough Facilitator in 2015-2016. We are grateful to have her back with us! Delores has worked extensively with children and youth and as foster mother to 11 children including a daughter, adopted in 2014. She has chaired the Children and Youth in Crisis working group of the United Church of Canada, served on the Nova Scotia Community Services Advisory Committee on the Children and Family Services Act, and chaired the Cape Breton Child Welfare Board.
Kendrick Miller
Volunteers Coordinator
Kendrick is stepping into this important role in September 2021. She has worked with Youth Peer since 2019 as a volunteer tutor/mentor, and, last year, as an Outreach and Online Program Assistant. She holds a Bachelors in Psychology and is currently enrolled in a Bachelor of Social Work program at Dalhousie. She is, as well, a dancer who has taught dancing for many years. Welcome Kendrick!
Susanne Donovan
Creative Arts Instructor
Susanne, has been the Art Instructor at Youth Peer since the creative arts program was added in 2002. She provides youth and their mentors with a wide range of fun, enriching and educational creative activities on Mondays and Fridays. Susanne holds a Fine Arts degree from Mt. Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada.
Emile Conn
Music Instructor
We have been fortunate to have Emile working with our students since 2004.
A patient teacher and talented musician who plays multiple instruments, Emile provides private keyboard and guitar instruction to any interested Youth Peer student every Tuesday and Wednesday.
Each February, EPIC hosts the staff and supports the area's Black Community by attending the African Heritage Dinner and Dance, paid from a board donation. This is from 2014.
Anne Pentecost
Educator
Anne started in with EPIC in 2019 as Educator for the Outreach team in Glace Bay, New Waterford and Northside. In 2022, she expanded her role to include the Sydney site. She is an experienced teacher who now works full time as a Math Coach for teachers at the Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education in Northside middle and high schools.
Anna George
Outreach Coordinator
Anna takes on this role as coordinator of all three Outreach centres in September 2019. She has been a volunteer and Program Assistant with Youth Peer since 2016, starting when she was a high school student. She is currently enrolled at Cape Breton University working toward a Bachelors of Science degree with the intention of going to medical school.
Progam Assistants
Sydney, Glace Bay, New Waterford, Northside, and Online
Our wonderful PAs are all former Youth Peer volunteer/ mentors who have and continue to distinguished themselves
as caring, talented young role models:
Jennifer Nicholson
Adam Thorn
Kaitlyn O'Neill
Michelle McGean
The end-of-year Staff Party in 2016
Ann McPhee
Parents PEACE Facilitator
Ann joined us in January 2016 while still Executive Director of the Ann Terry Project, a non-profit centre that has, since 1986, provided specialized help for women seeking employment. Ann brings her quiet enthusiasm and a wealth of experience and community connections to the parents and caregivers participating in this program.
