Lindsay Savard

Lindsay (she/her) is a mother belonging to the Métis Nation of Alberta, a social worker and a doctoral student at the School of Social Work at McGill University. She coordinates the Analysis of Practice and Policy Project with the Canadian Consortium on Child & Youth Trauma. Under the supervision of Dr. Delphine Collin-Vézina and with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Lindsay’s doctoral work aims to center the voices and needs of parents whose children have experienced suicidal ideation or expressed plans to die by suicide within pediatric suicide treatments. Before her Ph.D. studies, Lindsay obtained her Master of Social Work specializing in children and their families at the University of Toronto, where she trained as a child and family therapist with SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health. Lindsay also received her Bachelor of Social Work (Hons.) from the University of Calgary, where she trained as a school social worker and hospital outpatient clinician supporting youth discharged from mental health units. More recently, Lindsay worked as a social worker supporting pregnant and parenting youth.