All sessions are interactive: enhanced by your input, questions and examples.
Day 1 – Thursday, April 11, 2013, from 8:30am to 5:00pm
| Time | Activity | Speakers |
| 7:30 – 8:30 am | Buffet breakfast provided | |
| 8:30 – 8:45 am | Welcome and Introductions | PCVI welcome
Pam Hurley – introduction |
| 8:45 – 10:00 am | Snapshots of “who & where we are”
– each organization reports on their road to a fully developed CAC/CYAC |
Each CAC/CYAC will briefly speak to their key recent achievement
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| 10:00 – 10.30 am | Research Update
An overview of research undertaken in the last year. |
Susan McDonald,
Department of Justice, Canada |
| 10:30 – 10.45 am | Break | |
| 10:45 – 12:15 pm | The Role of Crown Prosecutors in the Multi-Disciplinary Team | Shelley Bykewich, Crown Prosecutor, Edmonton, Alberta
Paula Donnachie, Crown Counsel, Victoria, BC Jill Witkin, Deputy Crown Attorney, Toronto, Ontario |
| 12:15 – 1:00 pm | Lunch (in meeting room) | |
| 1:00 – 1.45 pm | Role of child/family advocate | Pearl Rimer, BOOST
Robyn Betker, Regina Children’s Justice Centre |
| 1.45 – 3.00 pm | Impact of Trauma on Children and Youth | Sandra Pribanic, BOOST |
| 3.00 – 3:15 pm | Break | |
| 3:15 – 4.45 pm | Body of Evidence | Linda Nicholas |
| 4.45 – 5:00 pm | Wrap up | Pam Hurley |
Day 2 – Friday April 12, 2013, from 8:30am to 3:00 pm
| Time | Activity | Speakers |
| 7:30 – 8.30 am | Buffet Breakfast provided Introduction of day 2 | |
| 8:30 – 10:15 am | Funding …. The eternal dilemma
– competition for funding – accessing and retaining long-term funders – planning without long-term funding – outcome measurements and funding |
Cathy Mann, fundraising consultant
with Barb Spencer, Zebra |
| 10:15 – 10:30 am | Break | |
| 10:30 am – 12.00 pm | Multi-Disciplinary Teams: Issues, challenges and protocols | Jay Kaufman
Consultant with Karyn Kennedy, BOOST |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch (in meeting room) | |
| 1:00 – 2:00 pm | Cultural competency and the CAC/CYAC | Kevin Berube, Nodin Child and Family Intervention Services, Sioux Lookout
LaRee Walters-Boadway, Safe Centre of Peel and Safer Families Program, Brampton Lisa Whittaker, Family Services of Greater Vancouver |
| 2:00 – 2:30 pm | Strategies for network building and on-going information sharing across CACs/ CYACs | Fred Ford, ORCA Children’s Advocacy Centre Society
Victoria Cindy Paskey, Child Advocacy Centre Niagara |
| 2:30 – 2:45 pm | Evaluation | |
| 2:45 – 3:00 pm | Closing Remarks |