Executive Leaders
Jonathan Hopkins - Executive Director
Jon has a Bachelors degree in Political Science and Government from the University of Victoria (2008-2009) and a Master of Arts Degree in Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia (2015-2017). He was a graduate Teaching assistant in the University of British Columbia and has served in a variety of duties at the ARC including CRF High Risk Counselor before assuming his current duties as Director of the Community Residential Facility(CRF) in 2018. He has been Executive Director since June of 2023.
Jon has a Bachelors degree in Political Science and Government from the University of Victoria (2008-2009) and a Master of Arts Degree in Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia (2015-2017). He was a graduate Teaching assistant in the University of British Columbia and has served in a variety of duties at the ARC including CRF High Risk Counselor before assuming his current duties as Director of the Community Residential Facility(CRF) in 2018. He has been Executive Director since June of 2023.
Management Team
Karla Rudram- Spiritual Care Coordinator
Karla started her career as a missionary / ESL teacher overseas in Japan. When returning home, she continued her work in international education until starting work at the ARC. She has a bachelor's degree in behavioural science and religious studies and a post graduate certificate in Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care. She has been here at the Victoria ARC since November 2014, and she continues to find great fulfillment in seeking ways of connecting people with what can give them hope and strength in difficult times. Spirituality is all about connection; to oneself, to community, and to the divine. Karla also acts as volunteer coordinator here at the ARC, recruiting and supporting volunteers. Karla is also the Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Trainer for The Salvation Army in Victoria and Nanaimo.
Karla started her career as a missionary / ESL teacher overseas in Japan. When returning home, she continued her work in international education until starting work at the ARC. She has a bachelor's degree in behavioural science and religious studies and a post graduate certificate in Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care. She has been here at the Victoria ARC since November 2014, and she continues to find great fulfillment in seeking ways of connecting people with what can give them hope and strength in difficult times. Spirituality is all about connection; to oneself, to community, and to the divine. Karla also acts as volunteer coordinator here at the ARC, recruiting and supporting volunteers. Karla is also the Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Trainer for The Salvation Army in Victoria and Nanaimo.
Sean Rankin - Food Services Manager
Sean, born and raised in Victoria, started at fourteen as a restaurant dishwasher in a local Esquimalt Pub, later running its night shift while attending high school. He then enrolled in the Camosun College Cook Training program, arranging his own work term placement through a local hotel where he gained a job and apprenticeship. As part of a three year program followed by a full time job for the same company for eighteen years. He progressed through second cook, junior sous chef, executive sous chef and finally executive chef in the same fine dining Victoria Hotel. A chance to move within the company resulted in moving to the biggest hotel in Prince George with three restaurants in casual, fine dining and Japanese restaurant plus catering, where he worked as an executive chef job in in for six years. After this he started working in oil field camps in Fort McMurray, effectively a small city of 9000 workers with three camps, in charge of one camp providing 2400 meals twice a day for five years. He again made a change, when he saw and applied for a posting for Salvation Army Food Service Manager, bringing him to his new calling serving the homeless population here.
Sean, born and raised in Victoria, started at fourteen as a restaurant dishwasher in a local Esquimalt Pub, later running its night shift while attending high school. He then enrolled in the Camosun College Cook Training program, arranging his own work term placement through a local hotel where he gained a job and apprenticeship. As part of a three year program followed by a full time job for the same company for eighteen years. He progressed through second cook, junior sous chef, executive sous chef and finally executive chef in the same fine dining Victoria Hotel. A chance to move within the company resulted in moving to the biggest hotel in Prince George with three restaurants in casual, fine dining and Japanese restaurant plus catering, where he worked as an executive chef job in in for six years. After this he started working in oil field camps in Fort McMurray, effectively a small city of 9000 workers with three camps, in charge of one camp providing 2400 meals twice a day for five years. He again made a change, when he saw and applied for a posting for Salvation Army Food Service Manager, bringing him to his new calling serving the homeless population here.
Program Department Assistant Manager
Community Advisory Council
The ARC is ably supported by a number of community volunteers who lend their expertise to assist the Executive Director in leading the organization. These volunteers assist especially in areas of strategic planning, financial & risk management, property management and community relations.
