calvin prowse

My areas of interest and experience include:

• peer support
• mental health
• neurodiversity
• accessibility
• disability justice
• chronic illness
• COVID-19
• queer/trans identity
• dreams, utopia, & futurity
• community work
• group facilitation
• critical scholarship
• workshop & training development
• peer support institutionalization & professionalization
• psychiatric consumer/survivor movement
• peer-based and anti-carceral crisis response

I am a social worker, therapeutic game master, peer worker, futurist, researcher, creative, and community organizer within disability, chronic illness, neurodiverse, mental health, and queer/trans communities, based in Hamilton, Ontario.

My work is informed by Disability Justice, critical disability studies, Mad studies, futures studies, social movement histories, and peer-led approaches to mental health and wellbeing.

As a social worker, my practice is focused on developing supportive environments for neurodiverse youth to develop positive identity, explore meaningful relationships, and navigate life transitions through conversation, creative experimentation, and play. In particular, I have been focused on developing my skills as a Therapeutic Game Master — utilizing TTRPGs like Dungeons & Dragons as a method to deliver therapeutic interventions.

Outside of my direct support work, I am focused on outlining the potentiality of peer futurism as a generative field of inquiry and creative/cultural movement. I understand peer futurism as being compromised of a futurist lens that attends to elements of peerness in the work of dreaming, crafting, and disrupting possible futures.

If you’re interested in getting in touch to explore research collaborations, workshops, or other opportunities, you can reach me via email at info@calvinprowse.ca.

current roles

April 2025 – Present

Social Worker
NowWhat? Support Services

Sept. 2024 – Present

Professor
Seneca Polytechnic, School of Community Services

August 2025 – Present
June 2024 – July 2025

Coordinator, Peer Book Club
Co-Facilitator, Peer Book Club
PeerWorks

Oct. 2021 – Present

Co-Researcher
Disability Justice Network of Ontario