Welcome Jodine Romanuk

OHEA welcomes new student member Jodine Romanuk. Read about Jodine's biography below.

Jodine Romanuk

Born and raised in Kamloops, BC, Jodine loved playing sports which enabled her to attend university in the US to obtain an Associate’s degree in Accounting.  Moving back to Canada, she immediately relocated to Calgary, AB and spent the next 12 years there working in different industries from food and beverage, golf and fitness, and corporate in oil and gas and human resources.

She met her husband in Calgary and started their young family in Alberta before moving to her husband’s hometown of London, ON in 2014.  She has been a stay-at-home mom to her three children (9,8, and 6 years old) since the first was born.  
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While experiencing postpartum depression with her third baby, she attended a PPD group at a local social services center and loved what the two facilitators were doing to help moms experiencing mental health issues.  This intrigued her enough to start looking for higher education programs that work with families and mental health.  What she found was the Human Ecology program in Family Studies and Human Development at Brescia University and started taking courses whenever it fit into her family life.  She loved the Parenting and Close Relationships courses as she was able to apply her new knowledge right away. What she eventually realized is that being a stay-at-home mom utilized all the skills that are found in the Home Economics/Human Ecology stream and how valuable they are to the family and society.

While still open to possibilities to what may come after completing her degree at the end of 2022, she is considering her second career options in the education, personal finance or mental health areas.

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