Reet Mae

Experience

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  Mae Productions Inc.

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2014

  Producer / Researcher / Project Manager - Independent Contractor working on projects with

  Development and implementation of new media projects: adult education and training using new media (video, online, digital, mobile technology, iPhone and iPad apps) to support projects in Child and Adult Health/Mental Health. Hospital/Adult Mental Health Projects have included: CE-to-Go, Continuing Education to Go (Mount Sinai Hospital, MSH) Distance Education in psychiatry (Video based Education and Training Programs for Northern Ontario Mental Health Workers), expanded and published by Norton as Psychotherapy Essentials to Go. Pandemic Preparedness Pilot online training for health care and hospital workers (MSH) Stress Vaccine: Hospital Edition (MSH) Dialysis choice - Patient Education Video: (The Scarborough Hospital, TSH) in English and Mandarin It’s a new day: Mission, vision and values (TSH) Educational Video for staff, outlining new directions and mission of TSHChild Mental Health Projects have included: CommuniCAT ( iPad App for client satisfaction , for Child Mental Health) Stop Now And Plan (SNAP®), a CBT-based intervention for children and youth; SNAP-App (iPhone app), Pocket guide with reminders about the CBT strategies used in SNAPSNAP 25th Anniversary Video, celebrating the history and achievements of the programOnline forms for clinical use (Early Assessment Risk List) SNAP for Youth Justice (iPad apps) A series of 12 iPad apps with accompanying workbooks, providing CBT-based strategies for youth in the justice system, currently being piloted in Ontario facilities. A unique feature of this program was MPI's development of an audience response system (ARS) using iPods, while running the program on an iPad and collecting data through intranet, rather than internet.Bishop’s Committee on Prayer: Anglican Fellowship of Prayer, Video/Print Course Documentary: Living Treasures, Kannel Stories, Documentary selected for EstoDocs Festival, Toronto, October, 2005 Show less

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  Mount Sinai Hosptial, Department of Psychiatry

  Mar 2007 - Apr 2008

  Research Coordinator

  Research Coordinator for Critical Incident Stress Strategies –Emergency Medical Services (CISS-EMS) study, Department of Psychiatry, MSH. Researcher/Presenter, working with Project director/Toronto EMS services to identify needs for education/training and intervention for front line workers facing potentially traumatic work-related events.

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  Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Psychiatry

  Jun 2007 - Mar 2009

  Research Coordinator

  Research Coordinator for Pandemic Preparedness Research Study Department of Psychiatry, MSH (Mount Sinai Hospital) Conducted initial research to identify needs for potential training/intervention for staff working through pandemic, scripted scenarios for video elements, produced videos for training and worked with principal investigators to create decision trees for online learning module. One of the authors on the final report submitted for publication.

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  Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2013

  Project Director

  Coordinated a university/community collaborative research project to examine whether a parent-focused ethnographic style of intake interviewing would enable families to access and be retained in Child Mental Health Services. Provided training and supervision to students and volunteers working within the community partner child mental health setting.

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  Child Development Institute

  Oct 2010 - Oct 2012

  Project Coordinator, Evaluation of Intensive Community and Home Services Program

  Researcher, Conducted evaluation of Community Based Intervention Program in child mental health that replaced residential care for latency age children. Conducted evaluations of program, focus groups with parents, summarized and analyzed results and compiled report, knowledge mobilization, presented findings to funders and allied groups.

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  Patterns of Freedom Documentary Film

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2015

  Co-Producer, Co-Director

  Co-Producer, Co-Director of feature length documentary "Patterns of Freedom", (previous title "Keepers of the Loom"), the story of the Estonian women of the Baltic Diaspora and how they kept their culture alive through traditional arts. Embedded within the larger story of human suffering, perseverance and hope that is part of our common human experience. Previewed at EstDocs2014 as the Gala film. Theatrical release under Title Vabaduse Mustrid in Estonia, Fall of 2015. The film was awarded the Cultural Endowment of Estonia 2015 Annual award in the field of folk culture in January 2016.Winner of Bronze Remi at WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival 2015, IndieFest Award of Merit, Accolade Award of Merit.www.patternsoffreedom.comWe are currently working on the associated school materials that will be released along with the film DVD as well as seeking financing to continue to collect the stories of the people of the generation who fled the Baltics in 1944 and are still remaining. We are working on the development of a companion film on the men's stories. Show less

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  Mae Productions Inc.

  Mar 2015 - Aug 2018

  Just completed the first of the short films for the "In Search of Our Fathers" project, focussing on the men's stories of the Baltic Diaspora. We have some outstanding interviews, and looking now to source financing for future films. Lipu Heiskamine/Raising the Flag had its premier screening at EstDocs2017 and Mae Productions Inc together with the Estonian Studies Centre, have made this film our gift to the 100th Anniversary of the Independence of Estonia. To register for a free screening copy of the film, for your event during 2018, please visit the www.insearchofourfathers.com website. Currently seeking funding for the next of the films in the "In Search of Our Fathers" project. Show less Currently working on a confidential project, creating a quality assurance iPad app for a government ministry. App has been successful in initial field testing in 2017 and will be updated for the next phase. Earlier was project manager on a confidential project of updating an App project (12 training sessions, for child mental health). That project was innovative in developing programming to utilize iPods as Audience Response Devices, using intranet connection that could be set up securely without WI-Fi. Show less

  • Co Producer/ Co Director

    Jan 2017 - Aug 2018

  • Researcher/Producer, App Developer, Training Materials Developer.

    Mar 2015 - Jan 2017
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  Baltic Stories 2018, Mae Productions

  Jan 2016 - now

  Interfaith Minister/Documentary Film maker/Artist/ Facilitator

  Recent workshops included: Accessing Ancestral and Personal Trauma through the Medium of SoulCollage™; Mary, the Undoer of Knots, Untie the Knots of our Lives