Executive Director

Heather Cameron, BScN., RN. (she/her)  heather@bcapop.ca

Heather Cameron is honoured to live, work and play on the ancestral, traditional and unceded territory of the Secwépemc Nation.

Heather is a Registered Nurse with a Perinatal Specialty Certificate and has worked with pregnant and postpartum people since 2005. Her clinical experience includes labour and delivery, maternity care and withdrawal management, alongside extensive experience in program development, education, community engagement and systems change.

As Executive Director of BC Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programs (BCAPOP), Heather works to strengthen supports for pregnant and postpartum people and the professionals who serve them across British Columbia. She has led the development of innovative initiatives including Mothers for Recovery, a peer-based recovery support program for parents affected by substance use disorder, and the Healthy Care Pregnancy Program, developed to improve care for perinatal people who use substances.

Heather is also the creator of BCAPOP's Perinatal Substance Use Training, which she has delivered since 2007 to audiences throughout British Columbia, across Canada and beyond. Her work is grounded in bringing people, organizations and systems together to create practical and meaningful change for pregnant and postpartum people and their families.

DIrector of operations

Andrea Grady, BA, MSc. (she/her) andrea@bcapop.ca

Andrea Grady is honoured to live, work, and play on the beautiful and unceded territories of the Lhtako Dene Nation. 

Andrea has over twenty years of experience of working in various roles and capacities for health regions, school divisions, and different levels of government.  She started working with youth in addiction services in Northern BC and then spent several years in Alberta contributing to provincial and federal strategies ranging from tobacco reduction, children/youth initiatives, and HEP C/HIV prevention funding.  As a Program Consultant for PHAC on the Healthy Children and Youth Team, she worked primarily in Aboriginal Head Start however closely collaborated with the CPNP program.​  She was also the coordinator of a school and community wellness project after a forest fire ripped through a town and left a third of its residents homeless and overcoming many obstacles.  Andrea has a passion for mitigating the social determinants of health and helping to reduce those inequities.  

In her spare time, Andrea is often seen volunteering with her local swim club or at the ski hill helping out with the ski school program.