Bonnie Randall
Bonnie Randall has been a clinical social worker in her home province of Alberta for close to 30
years. Her early career was spent working alongside Kevin Cameron as a Family School Liaison
Counselor with Horizon School Division in the years leading up to the Taber School Shooting.
Following that, she held an 11-year tenure with Child Protection in West-Central Alberta,
carrying an investigation caseload and acting as case manager for high-risk teens.
Bonnie moved into a therapeutic role in 2005 for Alberta Health Services Addictions and Mental
Health. Years of providing clinical counseling to clients with substance abuse disorders and
historical trauma allowed Bonnie to reflect deeply on metrics like the Adverse Childhood
Experiences (ACEs) Scale and the Resiliency Scale—each of which measure how early adversity
and early supports quite literally change the trajectory of brain development. It was that work
which inspired Bonnie to pioneer her own workshop: ACEs High, But Resiliency Holds The
Winning Hand, then the supplement training of ACEs Through A VTRA Lens which examines
the many intersects between a high ACEs score and the traits of the Individuals of Concern we
often refer to as ‘Empty Vessels’ in Violent Threat Risk Assessment. The seriousness of early
adversity combined with the measure of hope within resiliency make these workshops truly
unique and inspirational; healing is not only possible but also attainable when we match
resource to risk then support people in making the lasting gains which, quite literally, change
their lives.
Bonnie lives in the Greater Edmonton Area with her husband, an educator and school principal
for close to thirty years. When she is not immersed in clinical practice or out on the road for C-
TIP, Bonnie is a fiction novelist whose most recent fiction title, the Critically Acclaimed novel
The Shadow Collector, rapidly became an Amazon #1 Bestseller upon its release in May 2023.
She is currently busy working on Book II in her Shadow Valley series.