Conference Schedule

Tuesday, February 26 &
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Friday, March 1, 2013

Pre-Conference Certificate Programs

AM workshops | PM workshops

AM workshops | PM workshops

Tuesday, February 26 & Wednesday, February 27, 2013

9:00 am – 4:30 pm

A1

Domestic Violence Focused Couples Treatment
Sandra M. Stith, Ph.D., LCMFT

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A2

Creating Safety, Undoing Aloneness and Promoting Healing with Men Who Have Used Violence in Intimate Relationships
Dale Trimble

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A3

Small Acts of Living: Violence, Resistance and the Power in Language
Allan Wade, Ph.D.

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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Keynote
Looking back to see our way forward: Recognizing accomplishments and facing challenges in domestic violence prevention
– Myrna Dawson

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Thursday AM Workshop (1.1 to 1.11)

1.0

Violence in South Asian Families
–Doris Rajan, Meccana Ali, RSW, MSW, Poonam Jit

1.1

Increasing collaboration with women: Survivor Voices Inclusion Project
– Susan Young, Nisha Bansal, Dawn DeSouza, Sue J., and Eva Kratochvil

1.2

Distinguishing Among Types of Intimate Partner Violence: Implications for Policy and Practice
– Michael Johnson

1.3

Creating Safety for Children: "Islands of Safety" Program
– Cathy Richardson

1.4

Facilitating Change in Family Violence Through a Collaborative Model
– Joanne Ginter, MA

1.5

Trance-forming Abuse and Aggression: Exploring how clinical hypnosis can facilitate compassionate interventions that invite change
– Harry Stefanakis

1.6

Genetic Vulnerability or Genetic Responsiveness? Implications for Social Responses to Violence
– Brenda Adams

1.7

Failure to Protect: Issues for Racial and Ethnic Families
– Sarah Maiter

1.8

Safe and Sustainable Housing for Women and Children Leaving Domestic Violence Using a “Housing First” Model
– Leslie Hill

Women’s empowerment in a Rural Community: The Survivor to Thriver Model
– Lauren Power

1.9

“It Freaks Me Out a Lot Being Called High Risk”: An Exploration of the High Risk Case Coordination Program
– Verona Singer

Victimized and Criminalized: Racialized Women’s Experience of Intimate Partner Abuse
– Patrina Duhaney

1.10

The Influence of Trauma, Shame and Language Processing on Men in IPV Groups
– David Delay

The 4 R’s of Domestic Violence and Disability
– Susan Wheeler, BSW, NGH

1.11

Requisites for a Non-Violent Society
– Diane Delaney

Lunch

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Thursday PM Workshop (1.12 to 1.22)

1.12

Breaking the Silence Around Violence in African Nova Scotian Communities
– Wanda Bernard and Rajean Boudreau

1.13

Gender Violence, Substance Use and Mental Health: Conversations About Safety – Identifying Risks and Resources
– Angela MacDougall

1.14

Couples in Groups: Ending IPV
– Cindy King and Dan Beckett

1.15

Conversations about Women's Abuse with Men Who Have Abused
– Tod Augusta-Scott

1.16

Developing Provincial Standards for Mandated Offenders: Alberta’s Provincial Family Violence Treatment Program
– Aggy King-Smith, Deanna Frey, Sheila Mellon and Jay Buhler

1.17

“Challenges in Family Law in Cases of Intimate Domestic Violence”
– Allan Wade, Shelly Bonnah, Linda Coates

1.18

Enhancing Victim and Child Safety Through Supervised Access Services
– Judy Newman and Valya Roberts

Domestic Violence, Custody Access: An Office of the Children’s Lawyer Perspective
– Carolyn Leach and Silvia Novak

1.19

Risks and Strengths Among Religious Immigrant Women: An Analysis of the Maritimes
– Cathy Holtmann

Exploring the Influence of Religious and Spiritual Beliefs in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence
– Leland Maerz

1.20

Parental Alienation: Helping Alienated Families and Dispelling Misunderstandings
– Kathleen Reay

The Journey Away From Abuse: Conversations With Men and Women About Domestic Abuse and Violence
– Marilee Burwash-Brennan and Jane Donovan

1.21

Mothering and Woman Abuse: A Group Program
– Debbie Zweep and Katreena Scott

New Technology to Challenge Violence
– Andrea Gunraj

1.22

Understanding the Impact of IPV: Training Programs for Professionals
– Carmen Gill and Rina Arseneault

1.23

Keynote
Distinguishing Among Types of Intimate Partner Violence: Research Evidence – Michael P. Johnson, Ph.D.

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

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Friday, March 1, 2013

Keynote
Changing the topic: New ways of thinking about men, women and "failure to protect'" when children witness intimate partner abuse
– Julia Krane, Simon LaPierre, Sarah Maiter, Susan Strega

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Friday AM Workshop (2.1 to 2.11)

2.0

Encouraging Positive Outcomes: The Needs ABC Treatment Model for Difficult Clients
– Tom Caplan

2.1

Contempt for Men – In Search of Good Masculine
– Dale Trimble

2.2

Exploring the Intersection of Substance Use and Violence Against Women
– Stephanie Baker

2.3

Trauma Informed Approaches to Care: A Workshop for Clinicians and Consumers dealing With IPV
– Lisebeth Gatkowski and Mary-Lou Martin

2.4

Working With Parents and Children in Groups: The Caring Families Program
– Raghida Mazzawi and Rosanne Nunn

2.5

“Take a Risk, Take a Chance, Make a Change and Break Away: Protection Practices With Mothers in Situations of Child Sexual Abuse
– Julia Krane and Rosemary Carlton

2.6

Together for Justice:  Improving RCMP Responses to Indigenous Families in the Yukon
– Allan Wade, Ann Maje-Raider, Barb McInerney, Kelly MacQuarrier and Cathy Richardson

2.7

“Moving Orthopaedic Surgeons to Action! Building Bridges in IPV Awareness Through Collaboration
– Mohit Bhandari, Emil Schemitsch and Douglas Thomson

2.8

Understanding IPV: A Workplace Training Program
– Carmen Gill (French) and Rina Arseneault

2.9

Key Factors in Community Collaboration and Doordination: Calgary domestic Violence Collective
– Andrea Silverstone, Brigitte Baroday and Corinne Ofstie

Storming Our Own Castle: Interrupting Violence Against Women Across Idealogical Divides
– Lisa Moy, Robert Lee and Erin McMurren

2.10

Abortion and Domestic Violence: Decision-Making Process and the Influence of the Perpetrator
– Isabelle Cote

Talk Around the Kitchen Table: How Do We Keep It Shameless?
– Flora Marcelo

2.11

What’s Religion Got to do With It? The Use of Religious Commitment and Spirituality in Interventions with Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators and Victims
– Claire Renzetti

Lunch

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Friday PM Workshop (2.12 to 2.22)

2.12

Developing Response- Based Emergency Protection Order Hearings: A Study of the NWT
– Allan Wade, Linda Coates and Rebecca Latour

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2.13

The Earliest Warning Signs of Intimate Partner Violence
– Stephanie Lang

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2.14

Evaluating IPV Community Responses: The Niagara Region DV Report Card
– Ian DeGeer and Anne Armstrong

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2.15

How Technology Impacts Women’s Safety – Rhiannon Wong

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2.16

Helping Employers, Supervisors, Union Reps and Workers Respond to IPV
– Barb MacQuarrie

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2.17

Who’s Failing? Child Protection Work with Abused Women
– Simon LaPierre and Isabelle Cote

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2.18

Beyond Batterers: Exploring Roles for Men in Preventing and Reducing Violence Against Women and Girls
– Todd Minerson

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2.19

The Intersection of IPV and Child Protection: The Safer Families Program
– LaRee Walters-Boadway, Barbara Lee and Janet MacLean

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2.20

One Stop For Whom? Questioning a Globalized “One-Stop Shopping: Service Model for Addressing Family Violence
– Nicole Peitsch

Stories of Change in Men: A Collaborative Narrative Inquiry
– Yoshiyuki Takano

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2.21

Making Connections: When Domestic Violence, Mental Health and Substance Use Problems Co-occur
– Robin Mason and Susan O”Rinn

The Impact of Domestic Violence on Infants and Young Children
– Chaya Kulkarni and Angelique Jenney

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2.22

Engaging Domestically Violent Men in Child Welfare
– Susan Strega

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2.23

Media's Horrification and Pornification of Rural Culture
– Walter DeKeseredy

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Keynote
Blessed are the Peacemakers: Religiosity, Religious Self-control, and Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence – Claire M. Renzetti, Ph.D.