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The generosity of the staff and peacefulness of the surroundings has given me a serenity and safety I had never experienced before." - Don
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Caela Thordarson
Residential Community Coordinator
As Residential Community Coordinator for The Canyon, Caela Thordarson fills her days supervising other residential counselors, monitoring the community and training new staff members.
In the past, Thordarson worked in different milieus with adolescents facing crises and emotional trauma. At a short-term crisis intervention shelter in Orange County, she organized groups and coordinated school issues while also facilitating parenting classes. In Los Angeles, Thordarson worked one on one with students with sever learning disabilities and/or behavior problems at a local high school. She has also worked several years in a free medical clinic in L.A. running a volunteer project, spent time in community outreach, and taught many subjects to students ages 5 to 22 years old.
Family weekends at The Canyon are a time Thordarson sees visible change in clients. Through this experience clients and family members show up with so much anger, pain and hopelessness but finish the weekend with renewed hope, forgiveness, closure and healing. She loves seeing how hard the clients and their loved ones work and then how they are rewarded for putting themselves on the line.
When this dedicated, highly motivated worker isn't keeping up with The Canyon's affairs, she spends her time hiking, reading and involved in many family activities.
Advice: Don't give up. Keep your head up; there is a light at the end of the tunnel even if you can't see it now. Never lose hope.
If The Canyon isn't right for you, we'll find the place that is.