Kareen ThompsonKareen has a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree and is a qualified and registered social worker with over thirteen years experience working in Manitoba's child welfare system. Kareen can identify with the concept of the village raising the child base on her own experience of being raised by her neighbour during her teenage years. Born in one of the poor inner-city communities in Kingston, Jamaica, Kareen knows what it is like to live in a community where people take care of each other's children as they would take care of their own children. Kareen spent her early childhood with her mother and father and then lived with her neighbour and her neighbour's husband throughout her adolescent years. Kareen had both her biological grandmother and aunties and also community "grandmas" and "aunties" who shaped and moulded her into the woman she has become: a social worker with a heart and passion to love and care for children and their families. Read More Read Less