As an inclusive facilitator of organizational development processes, Scott has led over 150 organization and community change projects in the past ten years.
In this work, he has partnered with many organizations, including: Canadian Commission for UNESCO, Canadian Mental Health Association, City of Vancouver, City of Surrey, City of Richmond, City of North Vancouver, College of Health Disciplines at UBC, Columbia Basin Trust, Doctors of BC, First Nations Health Authority, First Nations Health Council, Fraser Basin Council, Ministry of Advanced Education, Ministry of Health, Public Health Services Authority, Public Health Agency of Canada, Public Health Services Authority, Vancouver Foundation, United Way of the Lower Mainland, United Nations Development Programme, Vancouver Coastal Health and many others.
Scott holds a Bachelor of Education (with distinction) and a Masters degree in Theory and Policy Studies from the University of Toronto. He has written extensively on the social determinants of health, including a focus on poverty, food security, mental health and problem substance use, as well as community capacity development.
Scott is regularly invited to collaborate in presenting at conferences locally and internationally, with a view to advancing community-led knowledge efforts that shape planning and policy directions. In addition to his appointment at UBC, Scott serves as the Director of Operations and Planning at the First Nations Health Authority.
Scott is a third generation Scottish-Swedish immigrant whose family initially settled on the territory of the Denesuline in northern Saskatchewan. He currently lives on the territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Watuth Nations and is humbly engaged in reflections, learning and actions that help de-colonize his mind, heart, and his related planning practice. He is especially grateful to Musqueam for hosting the ICP program on their homelands and serving a leadership role in supporting and celebrating Indigenous community planning and its power to create just and healthy community development.
Scott is committed to working along-side First Nations and Indigenous organizations in addressing health inequities and issues of poverty, with the goal of advancing community-driven and Nation-based priorities.
He brings extensive experience in community-based participatory action research, program evaluation, strategic planning, policy development, community development, as well as knowledge translation and exchange. He is especially interested in co-designing and co-developing social and health systems that are supportive of the resurgence of Nation-driven pathways to wellness and self-determination.
He is currently partnering with several Indigenous organizations and Nations in the work of re-thinking and re-planning how to align community-based programs and services with Indigenous ways of knowing and being. He is honoured to work with the Gitksan Government Commission and its partner communities in the re-design of social development supports to align with Gitksan ways of being. He is also grateful for his collaboration with the Office of the Wet’suwet’en in support of their efforts to bring about the resurgence of Wet’suwet’en ways of caring for families and children through the Anuk Nu’ At’en Ba’glgh’iyi Z’ilhdic (ANABIP) Program.
