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Keynote & Guest Speaker Biography

Carla O’Reilly

Author, Inspirational Speaker and Positive Power Coach CCP

Personal Awards & Nominations

  • 2018 Recipient of PRISM Award in Most Influential category
  • 2013 Nominated for the PRISM Awards

 Smiling Mask team Awards

  • 2011 Canadian Association of Family Resource Programs of Canada Family Legacy Award recipients for outstanding work in the area of mental health promotion through the Smiling Mask project
  • 2010 YWCA Women of Distinction recipients

Turn on the Switch Keynotes

  • 2019 Sylvan Lake Early Childhood Coalition Maternal Mental Health Event
  • 2019 Innisfail Early Childhood Coalition Maternal Mental Health Event
  • 2018 KidsFirst North Staff Education Event
  • 2018 Moose Jaw Maternal Mental Health Public Events (Moose Jaw, Assiniboia and Mortlach)
  • 2017 Guest Speaker Athabasca Health Authority Women’s Wellness Day
  • 2016 Connecting the Common Threads Alberta Conference for First Nations and Inuit Health, Health Canada, Maternal Child and Health, Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Program, FASD and Head Start
  • 2015 Health Canada Saskatchewan Regional Conference
  • 2015 RPNAS AGM
  • 2013 Atco Electric SE Region Health and Safety Days
  • 2012 Atco Electric NE Region Health and Safety Days

Smiling Mask keynotes & Guest Speaker Conferences

  • 2016 Connecting the Hands of the Community Workshop for Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation
  • 2014 Connecting the Hands of the Community Workshop for Yorkton KidsFirst and Yorkton Family Center
  • 2013 St. Boniface Women and Children’s Conference, Winnipeg,MB
  • 2012 Imagine our Future National Early Years Conference,Moose Jaw,SK
  • 2011 FRP National Conference, Montreal, QC
  • 2011FRP Postpartum Depression Conference, New Brunswick, NS
  • 2009 Association of Women’s Health and Obstetrical and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN Canada) Winnipeg, MB
  • 2009 Real Pain-Real People-Real Hope: Unmasking PostpartumDepression National Conference Regina, SK
  • 2009 University of Saskatchewan POGO Women and Children’s Health Conference Saskatoon. SK