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Co-Founders
Nathalie Nadeau
Co-Founder
Nathalie Nadeau is a bilingual (French/English) senior leader and consultant with extensive experience in child and family services, organizational transformation, and system-wide service improvement. With more than 15 years of experience across the North and Atlantic Canada, she brings a strong blend of strategic thinking, operational leadership, and clinical understanding.
Nathalie has led large-scale initiatives focused on redesigning service delivery, strengthening quality assurance, advancing legislative and policy reform, and improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. Her work includes guiding multi-year strategic plans, supporting complex change processes, leading culturally grounded service improvements, and building strong partnerships with Indigenous governments and community organizations.
Her experience spans child protection, mental health and addictions, homelessness and supportive housing, early childhood development, and community wellness. Nathalie is recognized for her ability to navigate high-pressure environments, align teams around shared goals, and drive meaningful, sustainable change across diverse service systems.
With a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Business Administration, Nathalie brings both clinical insight and strategic expertise to her work. She is known for her collaborative approach, clear communication, and commitment to supporting organizations through transformation in ways that honour community strengths and local priorities.
Nathalie is deeply dedicated to advancing culturally informed, evidence-based services that improve the wellbeing of children, families, and communities. Through her work with Nadevos Solutions Inc., she continues to support organizations in building stronger, more responsive, and more equitable systems.
Colette Prevost
Co-Founder
Colette Prevost is a senior executive leader and consultant with more than 30 years of experience in child and family services, public-sector transformation, governance, and large-scale organizational change. She brings deep expertise in strengthening service systems across Northern and Southern Canada, with a career grounded in equity, cultural humility, and partnership with communities and Indigenous governments.
Colette has led major reform initiatives in child welfare, organizational restructuring, clinical and policy framework development, and quality improvement. She has overseen complex change processes, advanced Indigenous child welfare pathways in Northern Ontario, and supported organizations through periods of significant transition, fiscal pressures, and evolving service demands.
A skilled communicator in both French and English, Colette is known for her strategic thinking, strong analytical capacity, and ability to guide organizations through transformative work while strengthening governance, accountability, and service excellence.
Colette holds a Master of Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University, a Bachelor of Social Work from Laurentian University, and completed Public Sector Leadership studies at the Rotman School of Management, grounding her practice in both advanced clinical knowledge and executive-level leadership training.
A long-time academic, Colette has taught social work at Laurentian University, Lakehead University, and Nipissing University, shaping the next generation of practitioners. She is also the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for outstanding contributions to women's services.
Colette's work is rooted in respect, collaboration, and a belief in creating systems that empower communities and uphold the wellbeing of children, youth, and families.
Our Team
Isabelle Caron-Hébert
Senior Consultant
Isabelle Caron-Hébert is a bilingual Senior Consultant specializing in child and family services, adoptions, policy development, and complex case management. She is recognized for her strategic judgment, strong communication, and culturally responsive approach.
As a Senior Consultant, Isabelle brings nearly two decades of specialized experience spanning child and family services, adoptions, program development, policy analysis, and complex case management. A bilingual (French and English) social worker by training, she is known for leading large-scale initiatives, modernizing service standards, and delivering high-quality analytical and operational work in fast-paced and dynamic environments.
Isabelle has held progressive leadership roles across multiple jurisdictions, including the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Her work has included managing territorial child and family services programs, overseeing adoption services and statutory processes, coordinating interprovincial specialized placements, and guiding multi-million-dollar program budgets. She also brings substantial experience in disability case management and vocational rehabilitation planning, supporting individuals with complex medical needs through assessment, coordination, and return-to-work planning.
Isabelle is a Structured Analysis Family Evaluation (SAFE)-certified Home Study Practitioner, with deep expertise in assessing families applying to become foster caregivers and adoptive parents. She is also a published children's book author whose work highlights and celebrates family diversity.
Known for her clear communication, thoughtful analysis, and commitment to culturally grounded practice, Isabelle consistently delivers high-impact, practical solutions across diverse and sensitive areas of service delivery. She holds a Bachelor of Social Work from the Université de Moncton and is an active member of the New Brunswick Association of Social Workers.
Marie-Josée Nadeau
Senior Policy Analyst
As a Senior Policy Analyst , Marie-Josée Nadeau brings a deep commitment to service, integrity, and the wellbeing of children, youth, and families. Fully bilingual in French and English, she holds a Bachelor of Psychology and a Master of Social Work from the Université de Moncton, where she also gained valuable research experience during her graduate studies.
Marie-Josée began her career in frontline child protection, working in the Northwest Territories. These early experiences shaped her understanding of northern realities, community strengths, and the importance of culturally responsive, relationship-based practice.
She later spent eight years within the Workers' Compensation system, where she expanded her expertise in policy development, workplace safety, and occupational health, contributing to decision-making frameworks and client-centered service delivery across complex files.
In her role, Marie-Josée draws on her frontline experience, northern perspective, and strong analytical skills to support the development of thoughtful, culturally grounded, and high-quality child protection policies that uphold the wellbeing of Nunavut's children, youth, and families.
Marie-Josée is also the proud mother of a 1.5-year-old daughter, who inspires her dedication to creating stronger, safer, and more supportive systems for all children and families.
Elizabeth McGiffin
Senior Consultant
As a Senior Consultant, Elizabeth is a Registered Social Worker with extensive experience in child welfare. Originally from Scottsdale, Arizona, she relocated to Canada in 2011 and spent 11 years in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, where she contributed to a wide range of frontline and leadership initiatives. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Alabama, as well as both a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Social Work from Dalhousie University.
With more than a decade of professional practice, Elizabeth's career spans frontline service delivery, supervisory roles, and several years as a trainer supporting workforce development. In recent years, she has specialized in quality assurance, focusing on strengthening practice standards, enhancing accountability, and promoting continuous improvement across child- and family-serving systems.
Elizabeth is deeply committed to advancing the wellbeing of children, youth, and families through systemic improvements and by supporting the effectiveness of services designed to protect, strengthen, and empower them.
Philippe Hébert
Senior Consultant
Philippe Hébert is a bilingual Senior Consultant with Nadevos Solutions Inc., specializing in child and family services, adoptions, policy development, and complex case management. With nearly two decades of experience across New Brunswick, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories, he brings extensive expertise in frontline practice, system development, and culturally grounded service delivery.
His background includes work in child protection, mental health, addictions, crisis intervention, long-term case planning, and rehabilitation case management-including coordinating medical and vocational pathways for individuals recovering from injury. Philippe has also held system-level roles, including leading quality improvement initiatives for Child and Family Services and Adoptions in the Northwest Territories.
A SAFE-certified Home Study Practitioner, he conducts trauma-informed, culturally grounded foster care and adoption assessments that honour family strengths and diverse lived experiences. Philippe holds a Bachelor of Social Work from the Université de Moncton and is an active member of the New Brunswick Association of Social Workers. Known for his empathy, integrity, and thoughtful communication, he approaches his work with cultural humility and a strong commitment to strengthening families and communities.
Mireille Savoie
Senior Consultant
Mireille is a fully bilingual (French/English) Senior Consultant with more than 23 years of progressive leadership and frontline experience in child welfare, youth wellness, and family support services.
She holds a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Social Work from the Université de Moncton, grounding her practice in advanced clinical knowledge, social policy, and systems transformation.
Mireille has extensive experience leading teams responsible for child protection investigations, risk assessment, case planning, and quality assurance. She is recognized for upholding rigorous standards while advancing trauma-informed, family-centred, and culturally responsive approaches that keep children safe and families strong.
Known for her calm yet decisive leadership, clear communication, and unwavering commitment to equitable outcomes, Mireille is an outstanding partner in designing and delivering more effective, compassionate service systems.
Rochelle Montaser
Senior Policy Analyst
Rochelle Montaser is a social work professional with extensive experience across government and non-profit sectors, focused on strengthening services for children, youth, and families. Her work spans direct service delivery, program development, and systems transformation, with a strong emphasis on developing programs, standards, and operational frameworks that meaningfully support families.
Rochelle has led initiatives in program development, implementation, evaluation, policy, research, and practice standards, and has supported numerous organizational change efforts. She brings a practical, systems-informed approach to building responsive and accountable service delivery models.
Rochelle has a strong foundation in child and family services, with experience in prevention, protection, and family support. She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Calgary (specialization in Leadership in Human Services), a Bachelor of Social Work from York University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Carleton University. Her work is grounded in anti-oppressive practice, cultural safety, strengths-based approaches, and family- and client-centered care, with a clear commitment to improving outcomes for children, families, and communities.
Contact Us
6 Longview Drive
Rustico, Prince Edward Island, Canada, C0A 1N0
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