Sana Afridi, Social Worker, MSW

I graduated from York University with a Masters in Social Work. My focus included mental health and social work with refugees and immigrants and racialized communities.

My masters research explorered the social and emotional impacts of Islamophobia on Muslim youth.

After graduating, I worked as a case manager for racialized youth with mental health issues in Toronto and later as a youth settlement worker in Vancouver.

I currently work as a case manager with adults with mental health issues at a community mental health centre near Vancouver, BC.

I also work with the ASPIRE community caseworker program with the Muslim Food Bank as the program supervisor. My areas of practice are mental health and addictions, youth, adults and settlement.

My approaches include trauma informed, anti-racist, strengths based, crisis intervention, solution focused, motivational interviewing and Cognitive behavioural therapy.