A former country school teacher, while director of Child Development Services, he helped to establish clinical services in rural and northern Manitoba schools. Later, with the Department of Corrections, he sought to emphasize the rehabilitation of offenders by promoting work and education programs. He was central to the development of Project Prevention, one of the first crime prevention programs in Canada involving community volunteers and restorative justice concepts. He greatly assisted with the establishment of Child Find, is a co-founder of the Manitoba Teen Touch crisis line and served as Manitoba’s representative to a UN conference on crime prevention. The recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Excellence in Public Service Management, he has assisted with numerous community projects in Headingley where he is a member of the chamber of commerce and serves on the board of Camp Manitou.
