About me
Tina Skakun is a school health mentor for the APPLE Schools project and brings experience as an APPLE Schools Health Facilitator to her role as School Health Mentor. She has an Elementary Education Degree from the University Of Alberta with a specialty focusing on Inclusive Education. She also holds a diploma from Mount Royal College in the area of Community Rehabilitation Services. Tina is a veteran educator with 18 years of experience, working in many areas of elementary education.
Tina says she enjoys working in health promotion because “empowering students, staff, and community to make healthy choices through the comprehensive school health approach impacts everyone positively for life”. She is excited to support schools to continue to make the healthy choice, the easy choice.
In her spare time, Tina loves spending time with her family camping and fishing. She is also an avid runner, curler, golfer, and coach in her community. If Tina isn’t out on the course or hitting the running trails, you can often find her hiding in her vegetable garden or cooking and canning in her kitchen.