Currently working directly with community members who use drugs and are experiencing homelessness in various settings including shelters, drop-ins and encampments.

Over 25 years of experience specializing in street outreach.

Co-founder of Peregrine Outreach Waterloo, trusted in providing invaluable insight and guidance to fellow outreach partners and multiple levels of local government officials.

Experience in community-based qualitative health research. Focus on opioid use, overdose prevention, and the implementation of public health interventions targeted toward people who use drugs. 

Experience working with the nationally-renowned Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council until it was defunded in 2022. Michael continues to advance issues of upstream prevention, community safety initiatives, and a plethora of life-saving drug strategies, programs, laws and policies, at national, provincial, and municipal levels. 

Experience working with survivors of violence and criminalized people, including grassroots efforts to move away from the harms of criminalization, towards community-based care led by Indigenous, Black, and racialized folks. 

Experience working with substance use in the shelter system and community outreach, both in Canada and in the UK. Supported the work of the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council in the capacity of chair and member for over twenty years. 

Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Faculty of Social Work. Bill’s research is inclusive of harm reduction/substance use; equitable healthcare practice/services; and identity construction.