Executive Director

Heather Cameron, BScN., RN. (she/her)  heather@bcapop.ca

Heather Cameron is honoured to work, play and live on the ancestral, traditional and unceded territory of the Secwepemc Nation.  Heather is a Registered Nurse with a Perinatal Specialty Certificate who has been working with pregnant people in a variety of settings since 2005.  Her experience includes program planning, public speaking, and spearheading community development events. As a Registered Nurse, Heather has worked in several fields including withdrawal management, labour & delivery, and maternity.  

Heather has a proven track record of being able to bring communities together with her experience organizing conferences, creating grass-roots programs, and influencing system changes at the local, regional, and provincial levels.  Two projects that Heather is most proud of include a peer-based recovery support group for birth parents affected by substance use, Mothers for Recovery, and the Healthy Care Pregnancy Program that supports perinatal people who use substances.  Heather may be most well-known for her Perinatal Substance Use Training that she created and has been presenting since 2007 throughout BC, Canada and beyond.  Her volunteer involvement on a variety of committees including Foundry Kamloops, Make Children First, Perinatal Connections, Raise-a Reader, and S.W.A.T. (Sex Workers Accessing Treatment) has influenced Heather’s knowledge base and ability to create impactful change within communities.  Heather’s experience, passion and credentials all contribute to her drive to guide BCAPOP as Executive Director. 

DIrector of operations

Andrea Grady, BA, MSc. (she/her) andrea@bcapop.ca

Andrea Grady is honoured to live, work, and play on the beautiful and unceded territories of the Lhtako Dene Nation. 

Andrea has over twenty years of experience of working in various roles and capacities for health regions, school divisions, and different levels of government.  She started working with youth in addiction services in Northern BC and then spent several years in Alberta contributing to provincial and federal strategies ranging from tobacco reduction, children/youth initiatives, and HEP C/HIV prevention funding.  As a Program Consultant for PHAC on the Healthy Children and Youth Team, she worked primarily in Aboriginal Head Start however closely collaborated with the CPNP program.​  She was also the coordinator of a school and community wellness project after a forest fire ripped through a town and left a third of its residents homeless and overcoming many obstacles.  Andrea has a passion for mitigating the social determinants of health and helping to reduce those inequities.  

In her spare time, Andrea is often seen volunteering with her local swim club or at the ski hill helping out with the ski school program.