The Faith Community Nursing Interest Group
- as an interest group of RNAO, to actively support the initiatives of RNAO
- to provide a forum for communication and exchange of ideas
- to promote awareness of the roles of parish nurses and to serve as liaison with RNAO, CNA and other groups in promoting certification of parish nurses
- to provide professional support for parish nurses
- to encourage the formation of liaison groups throughout Ontario
- to support implementation of standards of practice for parish nursing
- to encourage participation of parish nurses in education and research
- to ascertain the feasibility of the FCNIG being a corporate group member in the Canadian Association for Parish Nursing Ministry
FCNIG's Executive Team
Executives
President/Chair: Ola Babalola
President-elect: Vacant
Past-President: Anne-Marie Mohler
Finance Executive Network Officer: May Tao
Membership Executive Network Officer: Lily Cugliari-Kobayashi
Communication Executive Network Officers: Michelle Solomon and Cathy Newman
Policy and Political Action Executive Network Officer: Dot Klein
Student Executive Network Officer: Khalila Campbell- Fagan and Theresa Santos
Regions and Chapters
Region 1, Lambton: Michelle Solomon
Region 6, Toronto West: Lily Cugliari-Kobayashi, Maria Lippa
Region 7, Toronto East: May Tao
Region 8, Durham: Ola Babalola
Region 9, Kingston: Jeanne Lambert
Region 11, Sudbury: Dot Klein
Regions 2-5,10, and 12 are vacant.
Which region do you live in? Find your local chapter and connect with our execs! We'd love to hear from you!
Vacancies: Please contact us for more information.
At this AGM we had Cathy Newman RN, BScN, SSW talk about the role of the faith community nurse in housing and food security. Here are the take away notes from her talk and resources providing tools for churches to understand and address the housing crisis.
This year we have our guest speaker and talented scholar Cathy Newman RN, BScN, SSW who we welcomed as a Communications ENO for the next term. Cathy’s 45 years of faith guided service to vulnerable populations of Toronto, began as a street Youth Worker in shelters and outreach programs sponsored by Anglican, and Catholic faith communities. After becoming an RN, Cathy spent 31 years providing Nursing care as well as program development, in various settings that included supportive housing initiatives, often backed by Faith Communities. Her formal Faith Community Nursing preparation was obtained through Dayton University, during her time as a Parish Nurse at a large central Toronto congregation.
Health and Social system navigation, focussed on Housing Support and Food Security, has become central to Cathy’s current work as an RN in pro bono independent practice. As well as a director on a non-profit housing board, and member of a supportive housing community council, Cathy is a member of the Ontario Non- Profit Housing Association (ONPHA), and through ONPHA’s educational opportunities obtained certificates in Supportive Housing Work (2025) and Governance Essentials for non-profit Housing Directors (2024). After the pandemic revealed barriers to food security, a crisis that has persisted post pandemic, Cathy completed what she describes as an “eye opening” course in Urban Food Security. Toronto
Metropolitan University (2023).
Last Updated: January 27, 2026