Award Type: 
CASW Distinguished Service Award
Award Year: 
2021
Nominating Partner: 
Nova Scotia College of Social Workers
Recipient Bio: 

Serena Lewis (she/her) lives and works in rural Nova Scotia, in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq People.

She is a proud mother of two sons, one dog and is also a registered social worker.

Serena has had the professional privilege of working within mental health ( seniors and adult), federal corrections ( with women incarcerated), SchoolsPlus, Labour and Advanced Education as well as within Hospice and the health care system. She is passionate about community practice, in all of the ways we engage in a sense of community.

She is a local, national and international facilitator on the topics of dying, death and grief. As a member of the Canadian Grief Alliance, she believes that within a resourced and diverse country- our lives, and so too, our deaths matter. Elevating the intersectionality of the bereaved, she is a strong advocate to elevate grief literacy.