May 9 to 11, 2007 * London, Ontario, Canada
Friday, May 11
This is the program for the second day of the conference.
Day at a Glance
Continental breakfast (8 a.m. to 9 a.m.)
Plenary address (9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.)
Nine concurrent symposia (10:45 a.m. to noon)
Lunch and plenary address (noon to 1:30 p.m.)
Nine concurrent symposia (1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.)
Theatre production (3:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.)
Closing remarks (4:30 p.m.)
Plenary Address (9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.)
"It's In Our Hands: Stop Violence Against Women"
Aldijana Sisic, Amnesty International - London, UK
Break (10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.)
Nine Concurrent Symposia (10:45 a.m. to 12:00 noon)
Symposium I
Effective Community Programs for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
The aims of this workshop are to detail the theory and research behind the Preschool Kids Club Program and how each session addresses particular aspects of children's adjustment following exposure to violence; to describe the process of implementing the program in various communities; and, to learn about the evaluation of the intervention program for preschool children and mothers including measures used to assess change. Results show which children are best helped by this program.
Sandra Graham-Bermann, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan
Symposium II
Innovations and Awareness and Effective Programs for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence in African-American Communities
This workshop will outline the importance of creating effective service-delivery strategies that will reduce violence among African Americans and ethnically sensitive practice. Also stressed is the importance of conducting community- based research on issues and barriers inhibiting the reduction of family and community violence among African Americans. The workshop also examines issues associated with the intersection between parenting, fatherhood and domestic violence.
Oliver Williams, Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community - St. Paul, Minnesota
Symposium III
Shelters: Research, Trends, and Implications for Practice
Typically half the residents in women's emergency shelters are children and they are in need of specialized responses and services. The Alberta Council of Women's Shelters has developed research programs, interventions, and education for member shelters addressing these needs in light of the provincial realities of unprecedented growth, coupled with the country's highest domestic violence indicators. This workshop outlines the innovative work of ACWS in providing an effective response to domestic violence in Alberta.
Jan Reimer, Alberta Council of Women's Shelters - Edmonton, Alberta
Kate Woodman, Alberta Council of Women's Shelters - Edmonton, Alberta
Symposium IV
Getting the Word Out
To provide an opportunity for participants to collaborate on the development of training and awareness tools, training programs for elementary school teachers and emergency department nurses will be demonstrated. Communication tools developed for a community-based public awareness campaign will be explained. This session enables participants to explore how a variety of tools, and the lesson learned by the expert panels who developed them, can be adapted to other projects.
Representatives of the expert panels
Symposium V
Supervised Visitation and Exchange Centers for Domestic Violence: An Environmental Scan of Canadian Programs
This project conducted an environmental scan of supervised visitation and monitored exchange programs across Canaada, examining how the programs are stuctured, their standards of practice, how they ensure safety, whether they have been evaluated and what best practices they suggest. The implications of the results are presented.
Leslie Tutty, RESOLVE - Calgary, Alberta
Symposium VI
Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) and Other Strategies for Engaging Men in Gender Violence Prevention
A series of strategies for inspiring men, young men, and boys to work in collaboration with women to change the social norms that tolerate or condone some men’s sexist or abusive behaviours. This workshop includes an introduction to the MVP model, the leading gender violence prevention education initiative in college and professional sports.
Jackson Katz, Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society - Boston, Massachusetts
Symposium VII
Women and Child Abuse: A Public Health Responsibility
This presentation outlines the implementation and evaluation of the Family Abuse Prevention Project at the Middlesex-London Health Unit. The focus is on an innovative model of providing public health nursing services to women's and family shelters with an emphasis on providing care to those children zero to three years living in shelters.
Mary Huffman, Middlesex London Health Unit - London, Ontario
Janet Izumi, Middlesex London Health Unit - London, OntarioStrengthening the Mother-Child Relationship: A Paradigm Shift in Philosophy and Services
Presenters explore lessons learned from a new Pennsylvania pilot program enhancing services to children through home-based services to support and educate battered parents. The poignant story of a former child witness illustrates the need for this empirically supported paradigm shift in philosophy and services to promote resiliency in children.
Barbara Nissley, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence - Harrisburg, PA
Casey Keene, National Resource Centre on Domestic Violence - Harrisburg, PAAddressing Domestic Violence within the Context of Home Visitation
Domestic Violence is very prevalent among clients receiving home visitation services. We provided technical assistance on domestic violence to 40 home visitation program sites throughout the United States. Our findings led to a series of recommendations to promote a more coordinated response to domestic violence during home visitation.
Linda Chamberlain, Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project - Homer, AK
Rebecca Levenson, Family Violence Prevention Fund - Homer, AK
Symposium VII
"Bursting the Bubble" - Creative Engagement Strategies for Children and Young People Exposed to Domestic Violence: What Works Online and in Training?
This workshop will explore creative engagement with young people exposed to domestic violence and how services can best empower young domestic violence survivors. The presentation will be divided into two parts and will use two case examples from our work in Australia at the Victorian Domestic Violence & Incest Resource Centre. Part one: The award winning Bursting the Bubble website, an interactive site aims to assist young people experiencing family violence or child abuse will be demonstrated and evaluated. This workshop will be useful for services wishing to know how to use the internet to target young people. Participants will learn about what young people say works online in terms of a website’s look and feel, content, style, tone, illustrations, forms of interactivity and how service information is provided. Part two: building on the success of the website I developed a training program for professionals and involved young survivors of violence in its delivery and evaluation. A number of key learnings in relation to the participation of young people in training of professionals, the barriers to this and the successes will be explored and a model provided to ensure their voices are heard.
Donna Zander, Domestic Violence and Incest Resource Centre - Collingwood, AU
Symposium IX
Children in Shelters Learning in Primary School with Pleasure: A Focus on Everyday Practice of Teachers and Shelter-Workers
In the Netherlands, there has been cooperation between shelters and schools for a long time. However, there are no detailed descriptions of how this 'good practice' works to the benefit of children who lived with domestic violence. This small-scale project contains an in-depth description of the needs and everyday practice of teachers and shelter workers to improve the well-being of these children in school.
Sietske Dijkstra, Lector Domestic Violence and Applied Researcher - Bilthoven, Netherlands
Community Collaboration in Addressing the Needs of Hidden Victims of Domestic Violence
This presentation describes extensive collaboration in British Columbia in addressing the needs of Children Exposed to Domestic Violence. The workshop will enlighten participants's knowledge about specialized program and service for children exposed to domestic violence, Mental Health Programs at British Columbia's Children's Hospital with a focus on working with diversity. Implementations of key community collaboration to enhance community responses to hidden victims of domestic violence will be explored.
Sue Penfold, BC Children's Hospital - Vancouver, British Columbia
Shahnaz Rahman, BC Yukon Society of Transition Houses - Vancouver, British ColumbiaC
Lunch (12:00 noon to 12:30 p.m.)
Plenary Address (12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.)
"The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help"
Jackson Katz, Northeastern University
Nine Concurrent Symposia (1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.)
Symposium I
Responsible Intervention with Fathers who Have Been Violent in their Families
This presentation introduces the Caring Dads: Helping Fathers Value their Children program. Designed and researched by a team of academics and community stakeholders, this 17-week group intervention focuses on helping men end the use of abusive parenting, recognize attitudes that support healthy and unhealthy father-child relationships, and appreciate the impact of violence on children. More broadly, by promoting change among men and providing feedback to the broader intervention system, Caring Dads ultimately aims to improve the safety and well being of children
Katreena Scott, OISE, University of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario
Tim Kelly, Changing Ways Ltd - London, Ontario
Lars Naumberg, Social Service of Norrtalje City - Sweden
Symposium II
Abused Women as Mothers: Evidence, Issues and Controversies
This workshop will focus on how abused women function as mothers. Evidence about the quality of mothering will be reviewed. Reasons why these mothers may exhibit problematic parenting practices will be discussed. Some of the optimal ways that these mothers cope will be identified. Finally, controversial issues, including "failure to protect" will be addressed.
George Holden, University of Texas at Austin - Austin, Texas
Symposium III
Stories of Working with Fathers who have Used Violence and Abuse
This panel will be made up of two presentations regarding innovative research and practice. The first presentation will primarily focus on discussing the theory of narrative therapy and will review preliminary themes from researching these practices in group work with men who have used abuse. The second presentation will describe how these themes play out in current practices in Being a Dad, a treatment program for men whose child(ren) have witnessed woman abuse.
Laura Beres, King's University College, University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
Melissa Nichols, King's University College, University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
Carl Naraine, Catholic Family Services of Toronto - North York, Ontario
Symposium IV
The Canadian Child Welfare Response to Cases of Exposure to Domestic Violence: Analysis of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect
The Canadian Incidence Study (CIS) documented a 259% increase in the rate of substantiated exposure to domestic violence (e.g., 1.72 cases per 1,000 children in 1998 to 6.17 in 2003). This paper examines the response of the child welfare system to these cases in comparison to the response to other forms of maltreatment.
Tara Black, University of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario
Controversies in Psychological Practices with Families Experiencing both Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment: A Perspective from Africa
This research paper exposes the controversies in which families and children are placed in Africa, with regards to domestic violence and child maltreatment. Much consideration on children's rights instruments in Africa - case study Cameroon, and Institutional aspect of child protection. Some causes to this psychosocial practices are observed with possible solutions. More proposals shall be welcome if any.
Raiffeison Ndumea Ngoh, Cameroon Association of Volunteers for Youths Promotion and Humanitarian Action - Cameroon, Africa
Controversies in Psychosocial Practices with Families Experiencing both Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment: A Perspective from Quebec
This workshop presents the results of an action-research treating the controversies associated with child custody in practice with families facing both domestic violence and child maltreatment. Possible solutions to resolve these controversies will be discussed
Genevieve Lessard, Université Laval - Québec, Québec
Pierre Turcotte, Université Laval - Québec, Québec
Dominique Damant, Université Laval - Québec, Québec
Symposium V
Understanding and Preventing Intimate Partner Homicide
The murder or attempted murder of a child's mother in the context of domestic violence has traumatic implications for children. From a preventive and child-centred perspective this workshop will highlight the factors that place women at risk for femicide and the interventions that are required to keep her safe.
Stephanie Holt, Trinity College, University of Dublin - Dublin, Ireland
Domestic Violence and Post-Separation Contact
This presentation examines the process and outcome of decision-making regarding post separation contact for children with their fathers, where there has been a history of domestic violence. Specifically it explores how this process can be made more child friendly, child safe and child focused.
Stephanie Holt, Trinity College, University of Dublin - Dublin, Ireland
Link Between Domestic Violence, Legal Custody or Legal Visitation to Children
This presentation focuses on findings of a research project undertaken collaboratively between Assistance aux Femmes de Montréal - a shelter for victims of domestic violence - and the CRI-VIFF. We will elaborate upon the qualitative interviews conducted with women who experienced post-separation violence. The different forms of domestic violence that these women underwent, and how this differs from the violence they experienced prior to separation, will be explored.
Nicole Maillé, Université de Montréal - Montréal, Québec
Myriam Dubé, Université de Montréal - Montréal, Québec
Symposium VI
Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Initiative in Hamilton County, Ohio: Lessons Learned and Keys to Success
This workshop will examine prevention-oriented, collaborative public health model responses to children exposed to domestic violence (CEDV). The workshop will review lessons learned, keys to success, and cost effective methods to replicate multi-phased regional approaches that trains professionals on effects of CEDV and provides unique and coordinated services to high risks families and CEDV.
Kathryn Boller-Koch, Hamilton County Juvenile Court Magistrate - Cincinnati, Ohio
Kristin Smith Shrimplin, YWCA of Greater Cincinnati - Cincinnati, Ohio
Symposium VII
A Policy of Legislation Addressing Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
This presentation reviews and analyzes policies/legislative changes in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand to address childhood exposure to domestic violence. It describes strengths, challenges and gaps in these legislative approaches to the problem. Implications for front-line workers, administrators and policy makers will be highlighted.
Kendra Nixon, University of Calgary - Calgary, Alberta
Leslie Tutty, RESOLVE - Calgary, AlbertaIntimate Partner Women Abuse in Alberta's Child Protection Policy and the Impact on Abused Mothers and Their Children
The increased attention to childhood exposure to intimate partner violence has resulted in serious changes to child protection policy. Despite the well-intended nature of these changes, they have been criticized for producing serious unintended consequences, such as further victimizing abused women. The presentation will share the findings of a study which examined one province's child protection policy and the experiences of abused mothers. Recommendations for improving child protection work will be offered.
Kendra Nixon, University of Calgary - Calgary, Alberta
The Impact of Domestic Violence on Children, the Child Perspective of the Violence and Family Relationships as Mediating Variables
After presenting the results of this study that measured the effects of intermediate variables (child's perspective of the violence and the child's perspective of family relationships) on the adaptation of children exposed to domestic violence, the presentation will centre itself on the discussion on the implications of these results for practice with mothers and their children.
Dominique Damant, Université Laval - Québec, Québec
Symposium VIII
Basic Practices to Helping Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Youth Alive Uganda "Education for Life" Approach and Experience
The program entails orienting and facilitating children and parents with skills of how to promote non-violent conflict resolution. It involves play and artistic expressions of children's concerns which allows children to become more open and grow in confidence. It provides participants with skills to prevent domestic violence and mitigate its impact
Tezikuba Mathias, Youth Alive Central Region - Kampala, Uganda
Recognizing and Developing Support Services for Children and Women Living in Abusive Homes
This project by Public Health and other Non governmental Organizations is centered at calling for a law to define and end domestic violence towards children and their mothers. Children as witness to violence develop behavioural, social and emotional problems including, but not limited to, terror, guilt, horror, irritability, anxiety, hostility and depression. The joint goal is to has been to increase awareness through dramatizing the horrors of abusive homes while calling for change and actions.
Fred Scott Mutebi, Kampala City Council, Public Health Department - Bwaise Kampala, Uganda
Maurice Musaga, Kampala City Council, Public Health Department - Bwaise Kampala, Uganda
Symposium IX
Preventing Domestic Violence in a Muslim Community through Building Relationship: Lessons Learned from the Muslim Family Safety Project
The presentation outlines the development and the implementation of the Muslim Family Safety Project, an innovative community-based project that brought anti-violence agencies and the London Muslim community together to address domestic violence in a culturally competent manner. The focus is on both the opportunities and the existing challenges while working collaboratively with the Muslim community in the field of domestic violence.
Mohammed Baobaid, Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children - London, Ontario
Break (2:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.)
Interactive Forum Theatre Production (3:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.)
"Missed Opportunities" by Toni Wilson & Gillian Fournier
Closing Remarks