Board of Directors
Jessica Williams, CYC, BA
(She/Her/Hers)
NaloxHome Board Chair
Jessica has been working in Street Youth Services for 15 years where she supports youth and young adults dealing with homelessness and housing issues, addiction and complex mental health. Jessica lives in Calgary, Alberta with her two teenagers and works for Wood’s Homes, one of Alberta’s leading mental health agencies. She has been working the frontlines of the opioid crisis from the start of this epidemic.
Brandon Sidhu, BA, MA
(He/Him/His)
NaloxHome Vice Chair
Some of you may recognize Brandon because he served the Tri Cities community well by working for the City of Coquitlam for many years. Brandon is an expert in supporting youth and their families challenged by social determinants of health. Brandon lives in Edmonton, Alberta with his young and growing family while working for the Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations. He continues to be an advocate and ally for our marginalized.
David Goodison, BBA, CPA
(He/Him/His)
NaloxHome Board Treasurer
David has lived in Port Moody, BC, for over 20 years. Dave is a licensed CPA and has been working as the Controller of Columbia Plastic Ltd for 25+ years. His work with NaloxHome this past year has been some of the most crucial aspects of changing our community advocacy group into a registered not for profit. David has been managing all the agency’s checks and balances of the financial world while educating our executive team on the legal processes of become an NPO.
Melissa Bouwmeester
(She/Her/Hers)
NaloxHome Treasurer
Melissa is a fourth year student at the SFU Beedie School of Business. Her previous accounting experiences include being the bookkeeper for Inlet Skating Club, a Port Moody non-profit, where she handled the payroll, receipts, expenses, bank statements, and assisted the treasurer in event budgeting and financial statement creation. As well, she worked at KPMG as an audit intern examining a variety of companies' in the energy sectors financial statements and assisted in creating quarterly assurance statements. She truly believes in the power of education in tackling the stigma around substances. It takes a unanimous effort built on open conversation, knowledge, and empathy to battle against a public crisis, like BC's overdose one. She would love to utilize the skills she's learned through school and work to become a part of the amazing team and the work that NaloxHome does.
Tisha Scoffins, BA
(She/Her/Hers)
NaloxHome Secretary
Tisha is a BC resident who cares greatly about the ongoing opioid crisis. Her advocacy and commitment to changing our understanding of substance use and the toxic drug supply is seen throughout our work at NaloxHome. She is the one who keeps the Board of Directors ticking by managing our agency administration duties and developing policy and procedure.
Ami Goshalia, BCom, LLB LLM
(She/Her/Hers)
NaloxHome Community Engagement Board Member
Ami has a legal background and diverse expertise in business, community capacity building, and grant seeking. In addition, she has a strong grasp in communication, outreach, and marketing within the nonprofit sector and prioritizes diversity and inclusivity in project management and partnership development.
Roxanne Saxon, Artist Extraordinaire
(She/Her/Hers)
NaloxHome Advocacy Coordinator Board Member
Roxanne Saxon, Artist Extraordinaire
(She/Her/Hers)
NaloxHome Advocacy Coordinator Board Member
Roxanne is the talent behind our advocacy work. She is the one who brings allied not-for-profits together through advocacy awareness events like Black Balloon Day and April 14th. Roxanne firmly believes that we can break down stigma surrounding complex mental health and substance use through artistic expression. Sometimes words don’t work, but art is a universal language.
Sean Mackey-Simpkin, BA
(He/Him/His)
Addictions Specialist Board Member
Sean is the newest member of our Executive team and highly sought after for his skill set and knowledge of addictions and substance use. Sean lives in Calgary, Alberta and is THE Addictions Specialist of Wood’s Homes, one of Alberta’s leading mental health agencies. Sean works on Wood’s Homes Street Youth Services Department where he provides client-centric and strength-based counselling for those struggling with addiction issues and substance abuse.
Executive and Vice Presidents
Chloe Goodison
(She/Her/Hers)
Executive Director & Founder
Chloe Goodison is 22 and the Founder and ED of NaloxHome. A student at SFU in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Chloe is pursuing her BSc. with a Certificate of Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Chloe founded NaloxHome using her lifelong passions for health equity and a desire to intervene in BC’s ongoing overdose crisis with accessible, low-barrier change. Chloe has received numerous accolades for her work, including BC Business 30 Under 30, Surrey Board of Trade 25 Under 25, “Volunteer of the Year” at City of Port Coquitlam and SHARE Family & Community Services.
Sarah Nelson
(she/her/hers)
VP Social Media & Marketing
Sarah Nelson is 23, and a student at Langara College where she is pursuing pre-requisites to become a Dental Hygienist. At NaloxHome Society, Sarah leads the social media and marketing team, which puts out high-quality, fact-based information on our high-trafficked social media sites. Sarah also leads the charge in developing all marketing materials, including posters, brochures, business cards, and handouts. Sarah has been with NaloxHome Society since day one!
Jaiden Potter
(she/her/hers)
VP Finance
Jaiden Potter is 22 and attends Simon Fraser University where she is pursuing a BSc. in Health Sciences. At NaloxHome Society, Jaiden is in charge of maintaining order of expenses, reimbursements, and monthly financial statements. As well, Jaiden has official signing authority on NaloxHome transactions and contributes to major grant applications. Jaiden has been with NaloxHome since day one!
Alex Hinrichs
(she/her)
VP Internal
Alex Hinrichs is 22 and attends Simon Fraser University, where she is pursuing a BA in Political Science (Honours). As VP Internal, Alex is responsible for scheduling all our presentations in school and ensuring our volunteers attend. Alex is also our mastermind behind planning team socials! If you’ve received a friendly email from info@naloxhome.com, you can count on Alex being the face behind the kind words. Alex has been part of NaloxHome since day one!
Adam Noorani
(he/him)
VP Education
Adam Noorani is 22 and pursuing a BSc. in Life Sciences form Queens University. Adam works as the VP of Education at NaloxHome, and in this role he adds curriculum into the presentations and scripts and ensures that NaloxHome uses fact-based and research informed data. Adam liaises with experts to ensure we are accurately reflecting the current climate of BC’s overdose crisis in our work.
David Acland
(he/him)
VP Training
David Acland is a full-time student at Vancouver Community College, where he studies Nursing. David plans on becoming an RN and working in the field of harm reduction and addictions. David has the critical role of training all volunteers at NaloxHome, to ensure they are consistently meeting the high expectations to present accurate, de-stigmatizing, and comprehensive materials in BC secondary schools. David has been with NaloxHome Society since day one and he has trained countless volunteers and presented to hundreds of students.
Mercedes Guerra, BA
(she/they)
VP Human Reso
Mercedes holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Victoria and has recently moved to Spain to pursue her Masters! Mercedes has been a Youth Educator with NaloxHome since day one but became VP HR in 2023 to assist with HR-related situations, including contract diligence, conflict resolution, team training, and EDI-related interventions