CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTRES

• [Clinton] Toxic Stress and the Brain: Impact of trauma on developing brain

Structural outline of Child Advocacy Centres – building seamless services

• [Hurley] Essential components – seamless services for child victims/witnesses]

Backgrounders

• [McDonald] Statistics – prevalence of the problem
• [Newlin] CACs : What is rationale & need?

Investigations  &  Interviews

• [Cyr] NICHD Protocol: best practices – investigative interviews with children
• [Roberts] Interviewing Children who are Victims or Witnesses

Court Support & Advocacy

• [Bala] Child Witnesses in Criminal Courts: Legislation, Judicial Perceptions & Cases
• [Ainslie] Children in the courtroom

Specialized  Forensic  Medical Examination

• [Ornstein & Smith] Role of Medical Practitioner in CAC

Counselling /  Therapeutic  Services

• [Kennedy] Toronto – BOOST – Support, Assessment,Treatment
• [Joyal] Montreal – Centre d’expertise Marie-Vincent – Services for young sexual assault victims

Tracking,  Monitoring  & Evaluation

• [Newlin] CACs, are we working?
• [Hannah] Case Management Model]

Protocols & Collaborative Partners

• [Kennedy] Toronto – BOOST – Partnerships & collaborations