As a non-profit charitable organization we are governed by a voluntary Board of Directors
Scott Reeves has been Chair of the Board of Directors since 2005. He helped direct the Board and the Agency through its transformation from Planned Parenthood Society of Hamilton to Health Initiatives For Youth Hamilton, a name that better reflected the Agency, its services, role in the community and mandate. This also included its relocation across from Sir John A. MacDonald High School at 151 York Boulevard.
A published author, Scott Reeves has been President of Reeves Financial Services Inc. since 1996. Reeves Financial Services is a full service financial services company with its head office in Hamilton and a branch office in Toronto. A multi-year nominee in the Hamilton Spectator as “Best Financial Planner”, Scott is a member of the Social Investment Organization of Canada, the Independent Financial Brokers of Canada, Canadian Institute of Financial Planners and the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce.
In addition to his volunteer role at HIFY Hamilton and his professional life, Scott enjoys memberships in the Hamilton Club, the Laurier Club, Alliance Française, the McMichael Gallery as well as being a member of the Patron Circle of the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
Scott is also the host of radio’s “Your Money Minute” and “Reeves Financial Tip Of The Day”, heard three times daily on Hamilton’s News Talk Leader AM900 CHML.
Julie Gross
Dr. Rhoda Hassmann
Rhoda Howard-Hassmann is Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights at Wilfrid Laurier University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from McGill University (1976). Her books include Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Ghana (1978), Human Rights in Commonwealth Africa (1986), and Human Rights and the Search for Community (1995). She is also co-Editor of An International Handbook of Human Rights (1987), Economic Rights in the United States and Canada (2006), and The Age of Apology (forthcoming 2007) Dr. Howard-Hassmann's most recent volume, Compassionate Canadians: Civic Leaders Discuss Human Rights (2003) was named 2004 Outstanding Book by the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. Her current research project is on Reparations to Africa. She has also established a website on political apologies, which can be visited at http://www.political-apologies.wlu.ca. Dr. Howard-Hassmann has been a visiting researcher or professor at five universities in the United States, Europe and South Africa, and has presented invited lectures at many others. She is a member of ten journal and press editorial boards. In 2006, she was named the first Distinguished Professor of Human Rights by the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association.
Allyson Ion
Andrew Richardson
Margaret Youmans
The Board of Directors meets the third Tuesday of the month. Board Members provide at least 4 hours of volunteer time each month.
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