Carey Phillipps

Director of Services

Our Director has over 25 years of experience working in the field of Special education. Also qualified in Early Intervention, Palliative Care Support and Smoking Cessation and Nicotine Replacement Therapy, she has studied and worked in several countries, including but not limited to Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, USA, Canada and India. Carey Phillipps is also a WHO/Autism Speaks Parent Skills Master Trainer and has also been part of the Multi Disciplinary team of the USAID/NCRHA Zika project.

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Professional Experience

Ms. Phillipps has a Bachelors in Education, a Master in Special Education all majoring in Special Education. She also has post graduate qualifications from the State of Florida as an Infant Toddler Developmental Specialist and a Masters from University of Alabama, Birmingham in Vision Studies which qualifies her to work with persons with visual impairments and Blindness as well as deaf Blindness in the areas education as well as orientation and mobility. Her professional Career has taken her from Vice Principal of a private Catholic School in Jamaica, to Lecturer and head of Division at Mico University College and later External Examiner for Visual Impairments and Blindness as well as Head of the Education Division at the Childrens’ Development Centre, Ministry of Health in Barbados.

Further studies in Palliative Care were undertaken in the USA, at Harvard Medical School and her hospital internship carried out in one of the top five World Health Organization approved hospitals in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala in India, a state known Internationally for their work in Palliative Care. While in India, she had the opportunity to work in some of the best hospitals, as well as resource poor facilities, homes and clinics with the best supervision and highly knowledgeable and experienced medical and other palliative care support professionals.

Qualifications and licensing in Smoking Cessation was also undertaken in the USA where Ms. Phillipps qualified as a Tobacco Treatment specialist, to provide Smoking Cessation and Nicotine replacement therapeutic intervention.

Carey Phillipps has worked as Academic Director for Excel Caribe Learning Centres in Trinidad and served on several boards internationally, including the Council for Exceptional Children in the USA where she served as Director, for the Division of Visual Impairments and Blindness, a judge in the Helen Keller International Art Show as well as the Research Proposal Presentation committe. She has been on the Board of the Directors for the Palliative Care Society of Trinidad and Tobago for the past two years. She continues to serve on other boards and currently volunteers in a hospice in her spare time. She has presented at numerous international conferences throughout the world and has several publications.

She loves all aspects of her work and enjoys working with all ages.