Leadership

Our Leadership teams bring wide range of valuable expertise and experience to PLEA. These teams include our:

Board of Directors
Senior Management


Board of Directors – 2009/2010
David S. Duncan, President is a retired CEO of the BC Legal Services Society and a former Assistant Deputy Attorney General. Margaret Wright is Associate Professor at the School of Social Work and Family Studies, University of British Columbia. Roland Bishop is a retired regional director of national parole services and regional manager of offender programs with Correctional Services Canada. Joy MacPhail is a business person. As MLA for Vancouver-Hastings until 2005, she served as Minister in the Social Services, Health, Labour, Education and Finance portfolios, as Deputy Premier and as Leader of the Official Opposition. John Fleming is a faculty member in the Criminology Department at Douglas College, and teaches in the Youth Justice Worker Program. Gayle Bedard is District Principal of Aboriginal Education for the Surrey School District. Parmjit Pawa practices law in Burnaby. He has served on the Boards of the Court Mediation Program and the Renfrew Collingwood Senior's Society. Allen Hutton is a business person. He has been involved with the Family Court and Youth Justice Committee in Burnaby. Joyce Preston is a retired social worker and child welfare manager. She was also the Director of Social Planning for the City of Vancouver and was British Columbia's first Child, Youth and Family Advocate.


Our Senior Management Team	Contact Information
Tim Agg has been Executive Director of PLEA since 1982. He has chaired the Board of Directors of the United Community Services Co-op, and is Treasurer of PARCA, the BC community justice federation. He previously served as a special advisor to the Attorney General of British Columbia on legal aid (1992 - 1994), as a member of the Secure Care Task Force and as a director of the Community Social Services Employers' Association. He has been a Board member of the McCreary Centre Society and the BC Human Rights Coalition.	tagg@plea.bc.ca
Ann Alexander has been a Program Director with PLEA since 1984. She began working as a one-to-one DARE worker in 1976 and trained as a Probation Officer in 1979. She is a former member of the Youth Program Committee of the BC Corrections Branch. Ann is a leading expert in youth services and youth justice issues in BC	aalexander@plea.bc.ca
Stewart Smith has been a Program Director with PLEA since 1985. He joined PLEA in 1982 after a career in residential services. He is the leading expert in the PLEA model of family care comprehensive residential services, including FolkStone Family Care Homes and specialized residential services for children placed by the Government of the Northwest Territories.	ssmith@plea.bc.ca
Michelle Hawco began working for PLEA in 1995, becoming a Program Director in 2004 and Director of Operations in 2009. She is responsible for PLEA’s Youth Addiction Services and has extensive experience in individual and family counseling, employment readiness programs, and addictions and concurrent disorders. She is a Board member with the United Community Services Co-op and McCreary Centre Society.	mhawco@plea.bc.ca
Rory Cleave has been a Program Director with PLEA since 2006. He first joined as a DARE worker in 1984, then supervising the KidStart Mentoring Program and becoming a manager in 1997. He is responsible for PLEA’s Tri-Cities and Ridge Meadows integrated youth services teams.	rscleave@plea.bc.ca
Mike Jeffreys has been a Program Director with PLEA since 2008. Following a teaching career in the UK, Mike joined PLEA as a one-to-one DARE worker in 1988 and became a Program Manager in 1998. His is responsible for the Youth Justice programs for the Vancouver Coastal region.	mjeffreys@plea.bc.ca