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Ontario agency offers
wide range of services
St. Leonard’s Community Services
London & Region enjoys a 40-year
history of serving London and area.
The agency delivers a broad range of
programs that reach from prevention
programs in area schools through to
high-support residential centres that
address complex needs of men and
women requiring transitional housing.
The agency appreciates the opportunity to work with a number of
collaborating partners in the Justice System and the Human Service
System in delivering service to Special Needs Offenders. Together this
work promotes a safer community
and a higher quality of life for persons
who live with special needs and find
themselves in the Justice System.
Conferences such as those offered
by the International Institute on
Special Needs Offenders and Policy
Research (Canada) help ensure that
policy makers, leaders and practitioners within the Justice System and
Human Service System continue to
collaborate in the best interests of our
community and the people we serve.
Web site provides
information portal
The International Institute on Special
Needs Offenders and Policy Research
(Canada) web site – www.specialneeds
offenders.org – exists as an information portal for organizations, service
providers and services users on behalf
of mentally ill and/or developmentally disabled persons, or persons who
have special needs, who are in conflict
with the law.
As such, we invite you to submit
information on organizations or associations, industry resources, related
activities or other events, research or
articles of interest for possible posting
on our site.
Information can be submitted to
[email protected] for
consideration.
The 2010 International Conference on Special Needs Offenders
Striving Towards Excellence
Treatment of Special Needs Offenders
in Prisons, Forensic Psychiatric Units
and the Community
September 19-22 • Sheraton on the Falls
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
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Situated on Falls Ave., the Sheraton on the Falls is a superb meeting location. The hotel boasts 670
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which is only a one-minute stroll
from the hotel’s front doors. The
hotel is also part of the 20-acre
Falls Ave. complex, directly connected to Casino Niagara and the
Falls Ave. shopping, entertainment
and dining district. The meeting
space is unparalleled in the region,
and will provide a comfortable
setting for conference sessions and
networking alike.
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Objectives of the Institute
The International Institute on Special
Needs Offenders and Policy
Research (Canada) was established as a non-profit organization. The objectives of the
organization are outlined in the incorporation documents as follows:
• working with governmental and nongovernmental organizations, service
providers and services users in countries throughout the world to improve
the quality of care, treatment and wellbeing of adults and adolescents who
are mentally ill and/or developmentally disabled persons or persons with
other special needs, in a culturally sensitive manner through training, educating, joint research and information
sharing;
• promoting and engaging in the education of mentally ill and/or developmentally disabled persons or persons with
special needs who are in conflict with
the law, and their families, about the
criminal justice processes in which they
are involved;
• advocacy with and on behalf of mentally
ill and/or developmentally disabled persons or persons who have special needs
Values
Social Justice: We believe that offenders
with special needs must receive the same
level of humane and equal care provided to
all other offenders.
Individual and Collective Responsibility:
We believe that positively addressing these
special needs will lead to reduced harm to
offenders and improved personal and public
safety.
Self-Determination: We believe that
healthy communities are the responsibility
of everyone, that the lives of people who
are mentally ill and/or developmentally disabled or who have special needs can improve
and that crime prevention can result in safer
communities.
Community Integration: We respect the
differences among people and the right of
individuals and the community to make
who are in conflict with the law;
• promoting the integration of education, health, housing, social welfare and
criminal justice systems at local, national
and international levels, as well as links
between different levels of governments
and links between direct and indirect
service providers, to enable and encourage the delivery of care and treatment
to adult and adolescent offenders who
are mentally ill and/or developmentally
disabled or who have special needs,
both while incarcerated and while in
the community, in the least restrictive
and most enlightened manner possible
while ensuring the safety of the public.
Mission
The International Institute on Special Needs
Offenders and Policy Research (Canada)
works to ensure both short- and long-term
personal and public safety and security by
promotion of a variety of improved systems
and services for adult and adolescent offenders who are mentally ill and/or developmentally disabled and have other special needs,
utilizing the least restrictive and most cost
effective and efficient methods possible.
choices and decisions based on unique beliefs
and community norms; and we believe that
these needs will be best met by promoting
cultural sensitivity and social inclusiveness.
Knowledge Transfer: We value activities
that facilitate knowledge transfer to enhance
practice standards.
System Accountability: We are committed
to ensuring communication, cooperation and
collaboration between service providers, service users, their families and social supports
to ensure programs and services meet the
needs and expectations of the community.
Accountability of Our Organization: We
are guided by our shared mission, goals and
values. As a not-for-profit organization we
are committed to using our resources to
ensure efficiency and effectiveness in our
work and to report back on our successes.
Board of Directors
• Dr. Michael Phillips
Chair
• Pauline Radley
• Erica Townson
• Glenn Thompson
• Morris Zbar
• Judge Lloyd Budzinski
• Judge Richard Schneider
• Art Daniels
• Dr. Howard Barbaree
• Dr. Steve Wormith
• Dr. John Bradford
Affiliations
The International Institute
on Special Needs Offenders is associated with the
Faculty of Health at the
University of Central Lancashire and the WHO Collaborating Centre Institute
of Psychiatry, London.
Organization goals
• To assure quality of
care, treatment and well
being for the client and
the community
• Education of the client
group and their families
• Advocacy with/on
behalf of client group
• Integration of planning,
programs and service
delivery across the many
fields that provide for
this client group
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The 2010 International Conference
on Special Needs Offenders
Program
Sunday, September 19
Pre-conference workshops
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Mental Health Courts: Putting a Human Face
to the Administration of Justice
Sponsored by
Co-chairs: Supreme Court Justice Matthew D’Emic, King County Supreme
Court, Brooklyn, N.Y.; The Honourable Mr. Justice Richard D. Schneider,
Ontario Court of Justice
Panel: Judge Paul Clark, Designated District Judge, West London, England;
Judge David Orr, Provincial Court, Newfoundland, Canada; Judge David
Simpson, West London Youth Court, England; Judge Ginger Lerner Wren
and Janis Blenden, the Broward County Mental Health Court, Florida,
U.S.A.; Dr. Greg Brown, Institute for Applied Social Research, Nipissing
University; Joanne Capoozi, Crown Attorney’s Office Toronto; Samantha
Buchy, Mental Health Court Outreach Worker, CMHA Sudbury-Manitoulin, Ontario; David Taylor, Barrister & Solicitor
Mental Health Court System
The unanswered question of what constitutes a mental health court or
mental health court program has led to differences in the way courts
operate. This workshop will examine issues contributing to these differences through presentations and discussions from six court sites: Ontario’s Toronto, Scarborough and Newmarket; Saint John, New Brunswick;
London, England; and Florida, U.S.A.
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Post-Gladue: Impact on Aboriginal Offenders
Presenter: Jonathan Rudin, Program Director, Aboriginal Legal Services of
Toronto (ALST)
In 1999 the Supreme Court of Canada released its groundbreaking decision in R v. Gladue, directing judges to do what they could through the
sentencing process to reduce Aboriginal over-representation in prison.
The reach of Gladue has extended beyond sentencing and its principles
apply to Aboriginal offenders in jail and through the parole process. This
session will look at Gladue and the issue of Aboriginal over-representation generally, then examine some initiatives taken to see that Gladue
becomes a reality in the criminal justice system, and look at opportunities
and challenges to applying Gladue from admission through to parole.
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Opening conference reception
Welcome comments by Morris Zbar, Board of Directors, International Institute on Special Needs Offenders and Policy Research (Canada)
OUR MODERATORS
Glenn R. Thompson, BA, MSW, RSW, has
an extensive background in non-profit and
governmental organizations dealing with individuals, social problems and public policy.
He spent 16 years as deputy minister of
six Ontario government ministries, including Deputy Minister of Correctional Services
between 1975 and 1981, before retiring in 1991.
Since then he has served in various capacities with organizations such as the Canadian
Mental Health Association, the Government
of Nunavut, the Ministry of Health in the
UK, the Canadian Criminal Justice Association in Ottawa and the Mental Health
Commission of Canada. More recently, he
has been involved in establishing the Mental
Health Partnerships of Canada, a national
mental health charity that has developed a
strategic alliance with the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation.
J. Stephen Wormith, a psychology professor
at the University of Saskatchewan and acting
director of the Forensic Centre Initiative,
provides forensic clinical consultation services
to various criminal justice agencies and organizations, including youth and adult courts in
Saskatchewan, the Ministry of Corrections,
Public Safety and Policing (Saskatchewan), the
Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (Ontario), the Regional Psychiatric Centre (Prairies), Correctional Service
Canada and the National Parole Board.
Dr. Wormith’s research activities have
concentrated on the assessment, treatment and
therapeutic processes of offenders, including
various special offender groups.
He is the Canadian Psychological Association’s representative on the National Associations Active in Criminal Justice, and is on the
board of directors of the Canadian Training
Institute, the International Institute on Special
Needs Offenders and Policy Research (Canada),
and Crime Prevention Saskatchewan.
Marg Welch, Regional Director, Adult
Institutional Services, Western Region, has 27
years’ experience with the Ontario Ministry of
Community Safety and Correctional Services.
She has participated in or chaired numerous provincial committees, including serving
as co-chair of the Ministries Task Force
on Female Offender Reform, the Systemic
Change Steering Committee and, currently,
the Executive Lead of Women in Corrections
and the Management co-Chair of the Ministry Employee Relations Committee.
Ms. Welch is a former superintendent at St.
Lawrence Valley Correctional and Treatment
Centre in Brockville, and at the Ontario Correctional Institute in Brampton. She has also
served as assistant Deputy Minister, Adult
Institutional Services.
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OUR PRESENTERS
Don Andrews is Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of
Psychology and in the Institute of Criminology
and Criminal Justice at Carleton University in
Ottawa, Ontario.
He is interested in the assessment and treatment of criminal offenders, the psychology of
criminal conduct, and the social psychology of
textbook criminological knowledge. His primary
theoretical orientation is a general personality
and cognitive social learning perspective.
Grace Anyango Joshua, SSp (MA, OGW), is
Assistant Commissioner of Prisoners, currently
heading Langata Women Maximum Prison in
Kenya.
She holds an MA degree in Sociology from
the Univeristy of Nairobi. In 2007 she won the
Order of the Grand Warrior of Kenya presidential award for her innovation and dedication to
duty. The International Corrections and Prisons
Association also honoured her with the 2009
ICPA outstanding correctional service employee
of the year award for the significant body of work
she dedicates to correctional service.
Grace is also a member of the International
Association for Correctional and Forensic
Psychology.
Allen Benson, Chief Executive Officer, Native
Counselling Services of Alberta, is a member of
the Beaver Lake First Nation. His life experience
has fostered the development of strong family
and community values which he has transformed
into innovative service delivery, communitybased action and a strong vision for the future of
Aboriginal people.
In his almost 30 years with Native Counselling Services of Alberta he has led the agency in
the development of cutting-edge programs for
Aboriginal people, particularly in the areas of
restorative and social justice, health, housing and
homelessness. He has also advanced the cause of
Aboriginal control of community-based research
and applied Aboriginal knowledge to issues
facing Aboriginal people.
He has received numerous awards, including
an honorary doctorate from the University of
Alberta.
Justice Annemarie Bonkalo will this year succeed Chief Justice Brian W. Lennox as the head
of the Ontario Court of Justice, becoming the
first woman to lead the Ontario Court and only
the second female chief justice in Ontario.
The new chief has extensive judicial and
administrative experience. She has been the
associate chief justice of the Ontario Court since
2005.
She was first appointed to the provincial
court bench in 1990, presiding in Brampton and
Toronto. She has served as the local administrative judge at the College Park court in downtown
Toronto and was appointed regional senior judge
for the Toronto region in 2004.
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Monday, September 20
Day 1 Moderator: Glenn Thompson, Board of Directors, International Institute on Special Needs Offenders and Policy Research (Canada)
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Buffet breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions
Michael Phillips, Chair, International Institute on
Special Needs Offenders (Canada)
Opening ceremony / Elder Prayer
Renee Thomas-Hill
Elder, Mohawk, Turtle Clan member, Six Nations
9:15 – 9:35 a.m.
Opening Keynote Address:
STRIVING TOWARDS EXCELLENCE
Treatment of Special Needs Offenders in
Prisons, Forensic Psychiatric Units and the
Community
Glenn Thompson, Board of Directors, International
Institute on Special Needs Offenders and Policy
Research (Canada)
9:35 – 9:45 a.m.
International Institute on Special Needs
Offenders, UK – Welcome and Update
Mike Farrar (DVD presentation)
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.
Emerging Issues in Aboriginal Corrections
& Community Participation
Allen Benson, Chief Executive Office, Native
Counselling Services of Alberta
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Refreshments
11:00 – 11:45 a.m.
The Good Old Days: We Were Not As Good
Joel A. Dvoskin, Forensic Psychologist, University of
Arizona, College of Medicine
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Responding to the Special Needs of Offenders
in a Constantly Changing Environment
Howard Sapers, Correctional Investigator of Canada
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (8)
2:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Refreshments
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (8)
4:15 – 5:00 p.m.
Response from the Bench
The Hon. Justice Annemarie E. Bonkalo, Chief
Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice; The Hon.
Justice Richard D. Schneider, Ontario Court of Justice
The Hon. Justice Peter Griffiths, Associate Chief Justice
of the Ontario Court of Justice
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Evening on own
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Day 2 Moderator: Dr. Steve Wormith, Chair of Forensic Psychology, University of Saskatchewan / Board of Directors, International Institute on Special
Needs Offenders and Policy Research (Canada)
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Buffet breakfast
9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
Perceptions of a Practitioner: Prison-based
Mental Health Issues in Australia and Kenya
Glenn Ross, Associate Professor, School of Law and
Justice, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.
A Unit for Special Needs Offenders: The
Challenges of Combining Healthcare and
Corrections Philosophy
John Bradford, Associate Chief, Integrated
Forensic Program of the Royal Ottawa Health Care
Group Brockville Mental Health Centre
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Refreshments
11:00 – 11:45 a.m.
Research – A Key Requirement for Excellence
in Treatment and Programming
Brian A. Grant, Director General, Research, Policy
Sector, Correctional Service Canada
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Cikema: We have to Confirm What We Cannot
Reasonably Doubt
Madeleine K.D. Stout, President, Dion Stout
Reflections Inc.; Board Member, Mental Health
Commission of Canada
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (8)
2:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Refreshments
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (8)
4:00 – 4:15 p.m.
Refreshments
4:15 – 5:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (8)
6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Conference Gala Dinner Banquet
Sponsored by
Guest speaker: Valerie Pringle, award-winning
television broadcaster. Introduction by Peter Aharan,
Executive Director, St. Leonard’s Community
Services London and Region
Justice Bonkalo has sat on the Ontario Judicial
Council, the Criminal and Family Rules Committee, the Judicial Appointments Advisory
Committee, and other committees.
Dr. John Bradford is the Associate Chief
(Forensic) of the Royal Ottawa Health Care
Group in Ottawa, Ontario. He is professor
and head of the division of Forensic Psychiatry,
professor of Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine,
with a cross appointment as professor in the
Department of Criminology at the University of
Ottawa. He is also a professor in the Department
of Psychiatry, Queen’s University and adjunct
professor of Psychiatry at the University of
Saskatchewan.
His research interests focus on the assessment and treatment of the paraphilias, as well as
impulse control disorders. His expertise in the
field of forensic psychiatry is well recognized, not
only from his peers, the media and judiciary but
from various levels of government as well. He has
sat on task forces and expert panels, and served as
expert witness and provided special consultation
to national and international working groups.
His work has been recognized by the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, having
received the Seymour Pollock award in 2007.
He was awarded the designation of Fellow of the
Canadian Psychiatric Association in 2008.
Harvey J. Cenaiko is the chairperson of the
National Parole Board of Canada.
He was a member of the Alberta Legislative
Assembly and, from 2004 to 2006, Solicitor
General and Minister of Public Security prior to
joining the NPB Prairies Region and ultimately
being appointed to his current position.
Before running for public office Mr. Cenaiko
had a distinguished 25-year career as a member
of the Calgary Police Service, focusing in
particular on the development and implementation of community law enforcement programs
throughout Alberta, and on work in the area of
Aboriginal Policing and First Nations communities, and with victim services.
His community work has included chair of the
Aboriginal Health Council, Calgary Regional
Health Authority, and president and vice-president of the Alberta Community Crime Prevention Council. He has been a board member with
the Kerby Centre Shelter for Abused Seniors,
Calgary Regional Health Authority, and other
police-related community and provincial committees.
Dr. Joel A. Dvoskin, Ph.D, ABFP, is board
certified in forensic psychology by the American
Board of Professional Psychology, and is a Fellow
of the American Psychological Association.
He is the former Acting Commissioner of
Mental Health for the State of New York, prior
to which he served for more than a decade as
Associate Commissioner, in charge of New York’s
forensic and correctional mental health systems.
His consultation clients have included a wide
array of organizations, including the U.S. Secret
Service, the NBA, and numerous corporations
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and government agencies across the U.S.
Dr. Dvoskin currently teaches at the University of Arizona Medical School, and has a
consulting practice in forensic psychology in
Tucson, Arizona. In addition to providing expert
testimony on civil and criminal matters, he
provides a wide array of consulting services to
state mental health and criminal justice agencies,
federal courts, corporations and universities.
Mike Farrar is chief executive of NHS North
West, the Strategic Health Authority for the
north west of England.
He had been chief executive of West Yorkshire
SHA and of South Yorkshire SHA before that.
Other previous posts include chief executive of
Tees Health Authority and Head of Primary
Care at the Department of Health.
During his time at the Department of Health,
Mike was responsible for establishing primary
care groups, primary care trusts and Personal
Medical Services.
Mike chaired the Strategic Health Authority Chief Executives’ Group from its inception
to 2009, was the National Programme Director
of NHS Live and is a board member of York
Health Economics Consortium. In addition, he
leads the work on International Benchmarking
of Quality for the National Quality Board and
sits on the National Migration Impacts Forum.
Dr. Brian Grant is the Director General,
Research for Correctional Service Canada.
He received his Ph.D. in social psychology in
1985 from Queen’s University and has worked
as a researcher with CSC since 1992. He has
managed a wide variety of research and program
development projects in the areas of mental
health, women offenders, Aboriginal offenders, FASD, and correctional interventions and
assessment.
Don Head became Commissioner of Correctional Service Canada in 2008 after holding the
position of Senior Deputy Commissioner since
2002.
As Senior Deputy Commissioner, he had
direct responsibility for key initiatives, including
leading the CSC Transformation Team, established in spring 2008. He was also responsible
for the Aboriginal Initiatives Directorate, the
Incident Investigation Branch, the Information
Management Services Branch, the Performance
Assurance, and the Management Structures and
Deployment Standards.
He previously served as superintendent of the
Whitehorse Correctional Centre and then as the
director of Territorial Probation and Correctional
Services for the Yukon Justice Department,
following tenure as Assistant Deputy Minister, responsible for probation and correctional
services, with the Saskatchewan Department of
Corrections and Public Safety.
Renee Thomas-Hill is a mother, grandmother
and great-grandmother. Renee takes her job
as Grandmother very seriously, as she is the
Grandmother of anyone who wishes to share the
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Wednesday, September 22
Day 3 Moderator: Marg Welch, Regional Director – Adult Institutional
Services, Western Region, Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional
Services
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Buffet breakfast
9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
The National Parole Board – Addressing the
Special Needs of Offenders and Victims in
Parole Hearings
Harvey J. Cenaiko, Chairperson, National Parole
Board (NPB)
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.
Effective Supervision in the Community:
The Challenges
Donald Evans, Senior Fellow, the Canadian
Training Institute, and Chair, Citizen’s Advisory
Committee, Toronto Parole Office
10:30 – 11 a.m.
Refreshments
11 – 11:45 a.m.
The Impact of Imprisonment on Women and
Their Children
Grace Anyango Joshua, Assistant Commissioner of
Prisoners, Langata Women Prison, Kenya
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Closing Remarks
Pauline Radley, Board of Directors, International
Institute on Special Needs Offenders & Policy
Research (Canada)
2011 International Conference on Emerging
Best Practices for Special Needs Offenders –
Nairobi, Kenya
His Excellency Simon W. Nabukwesi, High
Commission of Kenya, Canada
Closing ceremony / Elder Prayer
Renee Thomas-Hill
Elder, Mohawk, Turtle Clan member, Six Nations
Conference ends; lunch on own
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teaching of the Grandmothers.
Renee resides at Six Nations, the
largest First Nation in Canada with
a population of about 20,000 people,
many of whom are returning home.
She has worked within a helping
profession for the majority of her adult
life, having worked in health, corrections and education. Renee is currently
the Cultural Coordinator at Native
Horizons Healing Lodge, an alcohol
and drug treatment centre at the New
Credit First Nation. She also sits on
various boards and committees.
Simon W. Nabukwesi is in his first
diplomatic posting as the High Commissioner to Canada.
Mr. Nabukwesi’s career started as a
teacher in 1989 and through the years
he rose to become a principal in one of
the top schools in Kenya, a position he
held for 11 years. During his career, he
became one of the top officials of the
Kenya Secondary Schools Principals
Association, through which he travelled to various countries for conferences and policy exchange programs.
He has done a post-graduate degree
in Education Planning and Management, and a further management
course at Hiroshima University, Japan.
Valerie Pringle, a renowned Canadian
TV broadcaster, is active in several
not-for-profit organizations.
She is on the foundation boards for
the Centre for Addiction and Mental
Health, Women’s College Hospital
and the Canada Post Foundation for
Mental Health, as well as sitting on
the board of The Niagara Project. She
is also the spokesperson for the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research.
Named to the Order of Canada in
2006 for her contributions to the communications field, Ms. Pringle is also
a seven-time Gemini Award nominee
and winner of an inaugural Alumni
Award of Distinction from Ryerson
University, from which she graduated
in 1974.
After distinguished stays at CBC
and CTV, she moved into freelance
and has been producer and/or host of
many nationally prominent series and
documentaries.
Glenn Ross is now involved in
academics and in the UNODC counter-piracy program in East Africa, following an extensive career in prisons
management in several Australian
states.
His role with the program involves
assisting in capacity building in those
prisons housing Somali pirates.
Mr. Ross holds Masters degrees
in Social Work, Criminology and in
Correctional Management.
The Hon. Richard D. Schneider is a
Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice,
where he presides at Toronto’s Mental
Health Court, and Alternate Chair
of the Ontario and Nunavut Review
Boards. He is also an assistant professor
in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of
Toronto, and an adjunct lecturer in the
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
Prior to his appointment to the
bench, Justice Schneider was a criminal
defence lawyer, a clinical psychologist,
and counsel to the Ontario Review
Board. He was recently appointed
honorary president of the Canadian
Psychological Association.
He has published extensively in the
area of mental disorder and the law.
Madeleine Kētēskwew Dion Stout,
BN, MA, Ph.D, has shown, through
her numerous accomplishments as a
nurse, teacher and philosopher, that
she is a leader in the health development of Aboriginal people.
After graduating as a registered
nurse in 1968, she returned to school
to complete a Bachelor of Nursing
with Distinction, then completed her
MA in International Affairs. She later
received an honorary doctorate from
the University of British Columbia,
and in 2008 the Canadian Nurses
Association chose her for the Centennial Award that was given to 100
outstanding nurses.
Ms. Dion Stout was appointed by
former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
to the National Forum on Health.
Recently, she became vice-chair of
the Mental Health Commission of
Canada.
Morris Zbar started his career in 1975
as a correctional officer in the Ontario
Correctional System. He worked as
probation and parole officer and, in
1985, became responsible for implementation of the Young Offender Act
in Metro Toronto.
Following this assignment, he held
a series of management jobs, including
Head of Institutional Professional
Services, Freedom of Information Coordinator, and Director of Operational
Review and Investigations. He spent
10 years in government and non-government agencies before returning to
the Ontario Ministry of Correctional
Services as the Assistant Deputy
Minister of Community and Young
Offender Services in 1998.
He was appointed Deputy Minister
in 2000 and retired in 2002.
He was was appointed leader of the
Transformation Team in 2008.
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Concurrent Session Descriptions
Monday, Sept. 20, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
C1-1
Research
Revolving Doors: Tracking System Involvement
of the Common Inmate/Patient Clients
Gregory Brown
Description: In June 2005 the Ministry of Community Safety and
Correctional Services, with funding made available through the Service
Enhancement Strategy, undertook a study to determine the prevalence
and psychiatric care needs of adult inmates in Ontario correctional
facilities. A total of 522 face-to-face mental health assessments with
inmates across 14 facilities were completed.
In February 2010 approval was given to undertake a case by case
linkage study to merge information obtained in the N=522 and a
random comparison sample of N=1200 inmates with psychiatric
admissions/discharge case files held by the Ontario Ministry of Health
and Long-Term Care.
This workshop reports on the preliminary findings from the case
linkage study, focusing on the characteristics of the common inmates/
patient client.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Gregory P. Brown is Associate Professor, Criminal
Justice & Sociology, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Applied Research (IASR) at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario. Dr. Brown serves as Chair of the Ontario
Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services Research
Committee and is a member of the Ontario Ministry of Children and
Youth Services Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Brown is also an
Associate Member of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, and
Associate Fellow, interRAI. Dr. Brown recently completed the study of
the prevalence of mental illness and mental health care needs among
inmates in the Ontario correctional system, and is now undertaking a
follow-up study linking inmate re-contacts across the correctional and
the mental health care systems. Dr. Brown is also consultant to the
University of Michigan study of mental illness among inmates in the
state prison system.
Contact: Gregory P. Brown, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice & Legal Studies
Director, Institute for Applied Social Research (IASR)
Nipissing University
100 College Drive, Box 5002, North Bay, Ontario P1B 8L7 Canada
Tel: 705-474-3461 ext. 4454
E-mail: [email protected]
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Youth
Rehabilitating Youth: The Impact of Matching
Court-Ordered Treatment Services According
to Youths’ Individual Risk, Need and
Responsivity Factors
Michele Peterson Badali, Tracey Skilling
Description: Under Canada’s youth justice policy, rehabilitation is
an important principle. A conceptually driven, empirically supported
model of service delivery attending to the principles of risk level, criminogenic need, and responsivity (the Risk-Need-Responsivity – RNR
– framework) provides direction regarding interventions most likely to
achieve this goal.
To date, research on this model has evaluated the principles at
a group level but it is unclear how the principles of risk, need and
responsivity are addressed with individual youth. Drawing on previous
RNR research literature as well as our current research program and
forensic practice, the proposed session will focus on the assessment
of youth based on RNR principles, developing recommendations for
service based on assessed risk level, criminogenic needs and responsivity
factors, as well as goals and challenges with respect to matching youths’
individual needs with appropriate services.
Particular attention will be given to elucidating the responsivity
construct which, although critical to the RNR framework, has received
relatively little attention in the literature. In addition we examine the
use of the RNR framework through a gender lens to consider whether
and how gender needs to be considered a responsivity factor in case
management.
Speaker Profiles:
Michele Peterson-Badali is an associate professor in school and clinical child psychology the Department of Human Development and
Applied Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research
interests include children’s and adolescents’ knowledge, reasoning,
perceptions and experiences of rights; young people’s legal capacities;
and youth justice policy.
Tracey A. Skilling is a forensic psychologist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and assistant professor in the Department of
Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests
include antisocial behaviour, mental health issues, and substance use in
adolescents; the construct of psychopathy; and risk assessment issues in
young offenders.
Contact:
Michele Peterson Badali
OISE, University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West, 9th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0937
E-mail: [email protected]
Tracey Skilling
Centre for Addiction & Mental Health
250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Tel: 416-585-8501 ext. 4578 E-mail: [email protected]
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Female
20 Years Later: Where Are We Now? Revisiting
the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women
Kim Allenby, Kelly Taylor
Description: In 1989, a team of researchers surveyed all women
offenders serving federal sentences in Canada. The results from this
survey provided insight into the lives and experiences of these women
and the ensuing report provided a number of recommendations for
change. Given the significant changes that have occurred in women’s
corrections since this time, Correctional Service Canada’s Research
Branch engaged in a research initiative which focused on an update to
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the original survey. Areas covered within the survey included, but were
not limited to: health (physical and mental), substance use, victimization, family, correctional programs and release plans. One hundred and
seventy eight women responded, representing approximately 34% of
the women offender population who were incarcerated at the time of
data collection. This research initiative will be discussed; among other
areas, this will include the presentation of results pertaining to: access
to physical and mental health services, challenges faced in maintaining
contact with family, the need for increased work, education and training
opportunities, and women’s concerns regarding their eventual release.
Speaker Profiles:
Kim Allenby graduated from the University of Ottawa with an Honours Baccaleurate majoring in Criminology and Psychology. She has
worked as a research assistant with the Woman Offender Research
Division of the Correctional Service of Canada’s Research Branch since
2007, where she has contributed to such initiatives as the National
Survey of Women Offenders, assessment of the Women’s Violence Prevention Program pilot and Understanding Pathways to Female Sexual
Offending. Her research interests include women offenders, with a
focus on female sexual offending and violent offending, and program
assessment and development.
Kelly Taylor completed her doctorate in Psychology at the University
of Ottawa in 2008. Her dissertation research examined employment
assessment, vocational interests and employment intervention with
federally sentenced offenders in Canada. Dr. Taylor is currently the
Acting Senior Director of the Correctional Research Division, and
the Director of Women Offender Research for Correctional Service
Canada (CSC). To date, Dr. Taylor’s research has focused on security classification, program evaluation, hostage-taking behaviour and
gender differences in aggression. Current research interests are in the
area of mental health needs of women offenders, female sex offenders,
therapeutic alliance, risk assessment and programming with women
offenders.
Contact:
Kim Allenby
Correctional Service Canada
340 Laurier Ave. W., Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0P9
Tel: 613-992-8405 Fax: 613-941-8477
E-mail: [email protected]
Kelly Taylor, PhD.
Correctional Service Canada
340 Laurier Ave. W., Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0P9
Tel: 613-943-2827 Fax: 613-941-8477
E-mail: [email protected]
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Risk/Violence
Military Service, Violence and Incarceration
Isabelle Coté
Description: In 2001 Canada began its military contribution to
Afghanistan and in 2008 a confidence motion was passed in the
House of Commons to keep Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan until
2011. Since Canada first deployed troops in Afghanistan the number
of soldiers suffering from operational stress injuries, such as PTSD,
has increased considerably. Further, military charges against Canadian
Forces (CF) members have risen dramatically. At this time, the actual
number of military personnel and veterans incarcerated in correctional
facilities in Canada is unknown.
This session will examine factors leading to violent and aggressive
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behaviour in the aftermath of deployment to war zones and identify
characteristics of the incarcerated veteran population. The case of an
inmate pending trial in a detention centre, a former soldier from the
CF deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan, will be reported. The implication of knowing inmates’ past and/or current military service history
will be discussed.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Coté completed a degree in Medicine from
McGill University, Montreal in 1985 and specialist qualifications in
Psychiatry from the University of Toronto, Toronto in 1990. She has
a private practice in general and forensic psychiatry in St. Catharines
and Hamilton, Ontario. She has been retained as an expert witness
for numerous criminal and civil cases. She currently holds the rank of
lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
She is a contractor psychiatrist at the Niagara Detention Centre,
the Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre and the Brantford Jail
(Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services). As a civilian, she is also a contractor psychiatrist at 32 Canadian Forces Health
Services Centre in Toronto (Canadian Forces/Department of National
Defence). She is a psychiatrist-member of the Ontario Review Board
and the Consent and Capacity Board. She has been a speaker at many
medical and legal conferences. She has also written a number of articles
related to forensic psychiatry.
Contact: Dr. Isabelle Coté
691 Upper James St., Hamilton, Ontario L9C 2Z4
Tel: 905-524-2667 E-mail: [email protected]
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Collaboration
Crisis Intervention Team Training for Law
Enforcement and Corrections, New Dimensions
and Direction for Persons with Mental Illness
and Special Needs
Bruce Handler
Description: Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training has existed for
over 20 years for law enforcement and is currently embraced by agencies throughout Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Israel and the U.S.
to safely resolve encounters with individuals in crisis who have mental
illness and disabilities. Often these same issues continue or arise while
in jail. We embarked on adapting a 40-hour weeklong training using
techniques of educating correction officers on signs and symptoms of
mental illness and disability in the context of being a “first responder”,
since they are the eyes and ears for health care providers in the jail.
Additional segments on suicide recognition/prevention and sexual
violence were included. Family and consumer panels lent a face to the
effects on incarcerated individuals and loved ones. Role-playing, using
professional actors who have stable mental illness, allowed officers
to practice newly acquired “tools” of de-escalation techniques (body
language, tone, active listening and empathy statements) to resolve situations with those in crisis safely and without use of force. This program
addressed correction officers’ observations regarding lack of training
and tools to resolve daily issues in the jail.
Building an effective program that can change attitudes and stereotype
thinking, and erase stigma is a process. By the completion of the program
officer comments ranged from “wish I had this years ago” to “you’re not
trying to make us clinicians but this is what we need” to “best training
I’ve had” and “please allow more time for role playing”. Overcoming
training inertia, turf battles and administrative silos by identifying a
champion leading the charge and stakeholders who embrace using new
approaches for the current jail population of employing CIT tactics
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Tel: 905-522-1155, ext. 36786 Fax: 905-381-5605
E-mail: [email protected]
instead of command and control for the safety and security in corrections
will be included in this session. Discussion on expanding CIT to community corrections, probation and parole will also be presented.
Troy Huisman
Dual Diagnosis Justice Case Manager, Bethesda Services
3280 Schmon Parkway, Thorold, Ontario L2V 4Y6 Canada
Tel: 905-684-6918, ext. 307 Fax: 905-684-5866
E-mail: [email protected]
Speaker Profile: Bruce Handler, MD instructed law enforcement and
corrections for six years in the recognition of those with intellectual
disability and mental illness. Currently he serves as director of CIT
training for the Cook County Sheriffs Training Institute, the largest
single sight jail in the U.S. He is a family member of relatives with
disability and mental illness, NAMI family to family and parents and
teachers as allies facilitator.
Contact: Bruce Handler, MDCIT
Program Director, Cook County Sheriffs Training Institute
3800 N. Lake Shore Dr., #3E, Chicago, IL 60613 U.S.A.
Tel: 773-935-1093 E-mail: [email protected]
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Dual Diagnosis/FASD
Developing Excellence in the Care of Individuals
with Developmental Disability: A Collaborative
Practice
Michelle Fram-Kovar, Troy Huisman
Description: Within the criminal justice system, it has been estimated
that between 10% and 15% of the population are individuals with a
developmental disability. A large number of these individuals remain in
correctional facilities and the forensic mental health system, due in part
to a lack of service integration.
This session will describe a process of navigating through the justice,
mental health and social service systems to advocate for the unique
challenges of special needs clients when they are not able to do so for
themselves. Through an extensive collaborative process with service
providers, the needs of the client were identified and attempts made to
address these concerns.
Following a process of collective responsibility, the client will be
re-integrated into the community, paying special attention to individual
needs and public safety. We will identify the successes, challenges and
barriers to accessing necessary resources, report outcomes and make
recommendations for improving service integration.
This session will be of special interest to all service providers within
the community, forensic mental health programs and the criminal
justice system.
Speaker Profiles:
Michelle Fram-Kovar is a Registered Social Worker with 18 years
experience working in a variety of settings, including child welfare,
child and adolescent mental health, residential treatment and adult
mental health. Her most recent experience at St. Joseph’s Healthcare
includes an in-patient forensic mental health unit.
Troy Huisman has 20 years experience in various front line roles in
treatment programs and most recently in his role as Dual Diagnosis
Justice Case Manager for Bethesda Services. Troy has a Law and Security diploma and has almost completed his Developmental Services
Worker certificate.
Contact:
Michelle Fram-Kovar, B.A., B.S.W., R.S.W.
Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Forensic Service
100 West 5th Street, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3K7 Canada
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Treatment
Institutional and Community Programs for
Special Needs Offenders in Kenya Prisons
Mary Khaemba
Description: While there is considerable research on institutional
and community programs for offenders in Kenya, the issues related to
offenders with special needs have received little attention. The general
attitude of the Kenyan prison officers towards this category of offenders
is one of resignation. This target group is the forgotten lot. Due to this,
possibly, they suffer stigmatization, not only as prisoners but as a result
of their physical and mental challenges.
A study is currently underway that is expected to identify the specific
needs and programs for this target group while they are in prisons and
in the community. It will also identify the pillars and necessary support
structures for an environment that can facilitate the change to desired
attitudes in the institutions and in the community.
Apart from desk research the field study will target a total of 150
prisoners, 20 prison officers, 20 medical staff from 10 maximum security prisons and 10 family members of the offenders, randomly selected.
Recommendations will be made to all stake holders to align the
programs for the prisoners with special needs with those of other
offenders.
In this session Mary will discuss the challenges facing the Kenya
prison system and the work that is currently underway to improve the
system for special needs offenders.
Speaker Profile: Mary Khaemba is a Counselor Psychologist with 23
years experience working with the prisons department in Kenya. Mary
is the Director, Rehabilitation Kenya Prisons and she plans, implements and supervises rehabilitation programs. She has a great desire
to facilitate positive people change and is an advocate for special needs
offenders.
Contact: Mary Khaemba, HSC M.Sc.
Director Rehabilitation Kenya Prisons
P.O. Box 30175, Code 00 200, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: 254 733842681 E-mail: [email protected]
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Reintegration
The ‘Victim’ Experience of Families in the
Context of Mental Illness: What Helps, What
Hinders
Laura Rudy
Description: Family members of offenders living with mental illness
play an important role in supporting the recovery and rehabilitation of
their relative. Some of these families also have the experience of being
verbally or physically harmed by their loved one, thereby creating the
dual identities of caregiver and victim.
The needs of families who have been “victimized” and the overall
“victim” experience of family members has been largely unexplored.
Consequently, families can feel disempowered and face considerable
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challenges in getting the support that they need.
The Justice and Mental Health Program ( JAMH) of the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario is dedicated to supporting families of
people with mental illness who are in conflict with the law.
This session will explore the “victim” experience of families in the
context of mental illness and highlight important considerations when
supporting families in these unique circumstances.
Participants will have the opportunity to hear about the victim
experience from a family member’s perspective and broaden their
knowledge of how to support families who are faced with these life
circumstances. Participants will also gain a better understanding and
awareness of the unique issues associated with family victimization in
the context of mental illness.
Speaker Profile: Laura Rudy has her M.S.W. (R.S.W.) and has worked
in the mental health field in a variety of capacities for the past six years.
She joined the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario in November 2009 to
coordinate the Justice and Mental Health program and provide support
to families involved in the mental health and criminal justice system.
Contact: Laura Rudy
Coordinator, Justice and Mental Health Program
Schizophrenia Society of Ontario
130 Spadina Ave., Suite 302, Toronto, Ontario M5V 2L4 Canada
Tel: 416.449.6830 x244 Fax: 416.449.8434
E-mail: [email protected]
Monday, Sept. 20, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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Research
National Implementation of Computerized
Mental Health Intake Screening within
Correctional Service Canada
Gordana Eljdupovic, Brian Farrell,
Geoffrey Wilton
Description: One of the key priorities of Correctional Service Canada
(CSC) is to improve its capacity to address the increasing mental
health needs of offenders. A key component of a comprehensive mental
health strategy is mental health screening at admission.
Recently, CSC has implemented a national standardized screening
process. The Computerized Mental Health Intake Screening System
(CoMHISS) is comprised of a battery of psychological tests. CoMHISS provides early identification of offenders experiencing symptoms
suggestive of mental illness at intake. Once identified, these offenders
are referred for further follow-up and/or mental health assessment and
intervention. CoMHISS also provides mental health prevalence data as
a basis for mental health interventions and the long-term planning of
mental health care.
The session will involve a presentation of the research, administrative and clinical implications of the implementation of this screening
protocol. The first part of the presentation will provide an overview of
CoMHISS, the agency context for this national project. Secondly, we
will present the results of the research from the pilot of the screening
system, including the profile of the mental health problems of federal
offenders based on various cutoff scores and population norms and the
agreement of the screening results with clinical follow-up. Additional
research will examine the extent of co-occurring disorders. Lastly, we
will present the clinical, policy and administrative implications that
follow the identification of significantly high rates of psychological
distress among offender populations and the agency response to address
the issues of mental health in offender populations.
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Speaker Profiles:
Dr. Gordana Eljdupovic is a clinical and forensic psychologist. She
completed her PhD in Psychology at Carleton University with dissertation research in the area of women offenders and mothering. She
worked for six years as a psychologist at Grand Valley Institution for
Women, a multi-level institution for federally incarcerated female
offenders. She is a project manager and national trainer for Dialectical
Behavioural Therapy and mental health; she developed and delivered
trainings to both community and institutional staff working with
offenders. Currently, she is the project manager for Computerized
Mental Health Intake Screening System, Institutional Mental Health
Initiative, National Headquarters.
Dr. Brian Farrell is the chief psychologist in charge of Computerized
Mental Health Intake Screening System at the Millhaven Assessment Unit within Correctional Service Canada. He obtained his B.
Sc. degree in Psychology (Honours) from McGill University and his
M.A. and Ph.D. from Queen’s University. He had been employed as a
psychologist in the Ontario provincial correctional system for 19 years
before joining CSC in 2009. He was also an associate instructor in the
provincial correctional system and was involved in training staff regarding “The Identification and Management of Suicidal Offenders”and
“Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder”.
Contact:
Dr. Gordana Eljdupovic, C. Psych.
Project Manager, CoMHISS, Institutional Mental Health Initiatives
Health Services, Correctional Service Canada
Tel: 613-277-7468 Fax: 613-995-6277
Dr. Brian Farrell, C.Psych.
Chief Psychologist, CoMHISS, Institutional Mental Health Initiatives
Millhaven Institution
5575 Highway 33, P.O. Box 280, Bath, Ontario K0H 1G0
Tel: 613-351-8181 Fax: 613-351-8186
E-mail : [email protected]
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Youth
Behavioural Management Practices for Youth
with Complex Mental Health Issues
Terry McQuaid, Lott Mamabolo
Description: Research has shown that many of the youth involved
in legal systems of care have significant mental health needs and have
experienced trauma. Historically, correctional facilities have operationalized the concepts of power and control as corrective measures toward
youth custody. Traumatic experiences have an impact on the mental
health of youth. Behavioural management practices that enforce correctional frameworks may influence increased criminogenic behaviours
among this group. Understanding a youth’s unique developmental
needs can be challenging. Gender-responsive and culturally sensitive
strategies employed by staff used to establish the custody relationship
with youth is a fundamental first step. These strategies presented are
effective behavioural management practices to reduce disruptive and
aggressive behaviours among youth in treatment.
Speaker Profiles:
Dr. Terry McQuaid holds a position with Roy McMurtry Youth
Centre, and the Traumatology Institute (Canada). Dr. McQuaid is
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has worked extensively in the areas of mental health, abuse, trauma,
personality development and substance abuse.
involved in developing evidence-based mental health training and
practice for the youth centre. She has provided services to hospitals,
university centres, private clinics and corporations with a focus on
emotional well-being.
Mr. Wiafe is a Clinical Social Worker with the Community Mental
Health Initiative. He has worked as a Primary Worker at Grand Valley
Institution and in his role as a Social Worker he works closely with the
case management team to advocate and build relationships with community partners to support his clients.
Lott Mamabolo is a manager of psychological services at Roy McMurtry Youth Centre. He has presented papers on the assessment and
treatment of youth at clinical conferences in Canada and the U.S. As
well, he has published clinical articles in referred psychological journals
in the area of assessment and treatment of youth who have sexually
offended.
Contact:
Dr. Terry McQuaid, Registered Psychologist
Ministry of Children and Youth Services
Youth Justice Division, Roy McMurtry Youth Centre
8500 McLaughlin Rd. South, Brampton, Ontario L6Y 0N6 Canada
Tel: 905-454-5000 ext. 5342 Fax: 905-452-6930
E-mail: [email protected]
Lott Mamabolo, Ph.D, C.Psych.
Manager of Psychological Services, Roy McMurtry Youth Centre
8500 McLaughlin Rd. South, Brampton, Ontario L6Y 0N6 Canada
Tel: 905-452-6613 ext. 5342 E-mail: [email protected]
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Female
A Continuum of Care for Female Offenders
with Mental Disorders: The Dawning of
a New Era
Janine Cutler, Duane Wiafe
Description: Mental health issues currently are a major focus for
Correctional Service Canada and many of its partners. The IMHI and
CMHI initiatives were launched in 2007 and are part of CSC’s Mental
Health Strategy, encompassing key elements in the delivery of mental
health services in CSC institutions and community sites. IMHI and
CMHI teams work closely with offenders throughout their sentence.
IMHI and CMHI Ontario Region and Grand Valley Institution
for Women and CMHI Hamilton have co-ordinated their efforts to
ensure continuity of service and safe and successful reintegration into
the community for women offenders with mental health issues.
This session will focus on the IMHI and CMHI initiatives within
GVI and the Kitchener-Waterloo and Hamilton areas, and the creative
collaborative strategies developed to meet the needs of these women
from the day they enter the institution right up until the end of their
sentence. A continuum of care is essential for the safe and successful
reintegration into the community for our women. We will demonstrate
how our combined efforts have enhanced discharge planning from the
institution to the community until the end of a woman’s sentence and
created linkages with our community partners for aftercare.
Contact:
Janine Cutler, Ph.D., C. Psych
Andrew Shaul Psychology Professional Corporation
Psychological Services
421 Eglinton Avenue West, Suites 1, 3 & 4
Toronto, Ontario M5N 1A4
Tel: 416-780-1791 Fax: 416-487-1977
Duane Wiafe, RSW
Clinical Social Worker, Community Mental Health Initiative
Correctional Service Canada
55 Bay Street North, 2nd Floor, Hamilton, Ontario L8R 3P7 Canada
Tel: 905-572-2695 Fax: 905-572-2072
E-mail: [email protected]
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Risk/Violence
Promoting Human Rights-based Practices in
Mental Health Care in Correctional Facilities
Paul Tarbuck
Description: Experience in western democracies has shown that the
closure of large psychiatric institutions has led to over-representation of
the mentally disordered in the prison population. Ensuring that prisoners with mental disorders are treated humanely and receive appropriate
care is a major and on-going challenge. Work in England and Wales to
ensure that prisoners have their human rights preserved while in prison,
using “standards” and “expectations” methodologies, is described. Participants will be invited to comment and contribute experiences from
the perspectives of their own jurisdictions.
Speaker Profile: Paul has worked in the NHS and independent health
sectors, in the UK and abroad, in general and mental health settings
for over 37 years. He has managed low-, medium- and high-secure
psychiatric services. A former head of professional studies, he has
published a number of articles and edited the textbook Forensic Mental
Health Nursing – Policy and Strategy and recently worked on research
projects in the field of youth justice and health. The chairman of the
IISNO – UK, he has completed projects in several countries in Africa
and Europe.
Contact: Paul Tarbuck, SRN RMN RNT
TCert ForensicCert DipM DipN BA
Depuy Head of Healthcare Inspection
HM Inspectorate of Prisons
E-mail: [email protected]
Speaker Profiles:
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Dr. Cutler currently is a supervising psychologist at Andrew Shaul
Psychology Professional Corporation. She previously was the Chief of
Psychology at Grand Valley Institution for Women. She has research
and clinical expertise in the assessment and treatment of violent, sexual
and/or special needs male and female federal and provincial offenders within both correctional and community settings. Dr. Cutler has a
special interest in working with high-risk, high-needs offenders. She
Mary Joe Dickson, Amy Kroll
Collaboration
The Sequential Intercept Model in Allegheny
County, PA
Description: Allegheny County, PA uses the Sequential Intercept
Model (2005, Griffin and Munetz) as its framework for diverting indi-
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viduals with mental illness and/or co-occurring substance use disorders
from the criminal justice system to a path of recovery.
Intercept 1 – Pre-arrest Diversion Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)
consists of certified police officers to address and de-escalate situations
where behavioural health issues may be included on-scene.
Intercept 2 – Post-arrest Diversion Post-booking diversion assists
individuals released from the County Jail with transition into the community.
Intercept 3 – Specialty Courts Mental Health and Drug Courts offer
special dockets of criminal court that diverts offenders to treatment
rather than incarceration.
Intercept 4 – Re-entry to the Community from Jails, Prisons and
Hospitals, Justice-Related State Support is for persons with mental
illness who have completed a maximum state prison sentence.
Intercept 5 – Community Corrections and Community Support
Services (Probation/Parole) Related County Support provides service
coordination for individuals who have not served a maximum sentence.
CROMISA is a voluntary program providing treatment, training
and recovery-oriented services. CROMISA is a 20-bed therapeutic
community supporting men with co-occurring mental illness and
substance use disorder who are on probation or parole. CROMISA fits
into Intercepts 4 and 5.
Speaker Profiles:
Mary Jo Dickson is the administrator for the Bureau of Adult Mental
Health Services with the Allegheny County Office of Behavioral
Health/Department of Human Services in Pittsburgh, PA. She has
worked in various capacities within the County Mental Health Services
for more than 30 years. Her responsibilities include oversight and management of mental health services to the residents of Allegheny County.
Ms. Kroll is the director of Justice-Related Services ( JRS) in the Office
of Behavioral Health, Allegheny County Department of Human
Services, with direct oversight of all JRS pre- and post-diversion/support services: Diversion, Support, Drug and Mental Health Courts, the
CROMISA program, and the JRS State Support Services.
Contact:
Mary Jo Dickson
Administrator, Bureau of Adult Mental Health Services
Allegheny County Office of Behavioral Health
Human Services Building, 1 Smithfield St., 1st Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Phone: 412-350-4293 Fax: 412-350-5477
Amy Kroll
Director, Justice Related Services, Office of Behavioral Health
Allegheny County Dept. of Human Services
Human Services Bldg., 1 Smithfield St., 3rd Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2221 U.S.A.
Tel: 412-350-7339 E-mail: [email protected]
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Dual Diagnosis/FASD
Recognition of and Effective Practices for
Offenders with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders (FASD)
Mary Cunningham
Description: The permanent brain damage of FASD has been shown
to produce offenders who have extremely high needs and are at high
risk to re-offend. FASD is the most common birth defect in North
America and is highly over-represented in prison and forensic populations. FASD is a root cause of the dramatic increase in special needs
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offenders.
Most offenders with FASD will exhibit two or more identifiable
mental health disorders and drug and/or alcohol addictions. They are an
enormous challenge for all the parts of our criminal justice system. This
session will show any professional working in the law enforcement and
justice/correctional arenas how to recognize offenders who have or may
have FASD and how to react appropriately in ways that will improve
outcomes for offenders and the system. Effective practices for working
with this challenging population will conclude the session.
Speaker Profile: Mary Cunningham is a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder (FASD) educator and advocate. In 1998 she became personally and profoundly aware of FASD and the costly social and personal
problems it causes. Her current efforts focus on the welfare of offenders
with FASD in the justice system and success for students with FASD
in the education system. She is published and presents widely on these
topics across Canada.
Contact: Mary K. Cunningham, P.H.Ec. B.Ed.
FASD Educator and Advocate, KWC FASD Education and Support
6C-350 Doon Valley Drive, Kitchener, Ontario N2P 2M9 Canada
Tel: 519-893-7393 E-mail: [email protected]
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Treatment
Positive Connections in Correctional and
Forensic Mental Settings: Researching &
Developing Understanding and Alliances with
‘Unpopular’ Patients
Mick McKeown, Karen Wright, Tommy Dickinson
Description: Some patients make “caring” easy. They are responsive,
compliant, grateful and in concordance that therapeutic work needs to
be undertaken by all parties. Special needs offenders, however, may be
non-compliant, “reluctant”, or have conflicting views from practitioners, “testing the patience” of services and informal carers alike.
This presentation considers the mental health care of individuals
carrying a diagnosis of personality disorder, arguably viewed differently
from people in other categories of mental disorder.
The discussion focuses upon UK policy critical of mainstream mental
health services for previously operating to exclude such individuals, and
recent growth in more progressive services.
Previous research and commentary has remarked upon the implications for practice of a perceived negative attitude amongst care staff.
Critical theory and personal biography are drawn on to offer insights
into public, patient and practitioner discourse and implications for
therapeutic alliances. The assumption that a helping relationship
requires an alliance based upon mutual agreement and shared understanding of goals and tasks is debated in a context of policy, service and
education developments that promote the thorough involvement of
service users in clinical practice, strategic developments and practitioner
training and research. This is exemplified in our university’s approach to
service user involvement.
Speaker Profiles:
Mick McKeown is principal lecturer in the division of Mental Health
Nursing at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He previously
worked in a range of secure settings and maintains clinical practice
with special needs offenders in the community. Mick supports UCLan’s
service user involvement program, reflected in the book Service User
and Carer Involvement in Education for Health and Social Care (2010,
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Wiley-Blackwell).
Karen Wright is a principal lecturer within the division of Mental
Health Nursing at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She is
the school specialist for personality disorder and previously was nurse
consultant in this field in a high security setting. Publications include
“Reclaiming the Humanity in Personality Disorder: IJMHN 2007”.
Tommy Dickinson is currently a senior lecturer in mental health. Previous to this he worked as a registered nurse in various nursing roles in
mental health across the UK and Australia. He is currently studying for
a PhD entitled: “The Historical Intersection of ‘Sexual Deviation’ and
Psychiatry”.
Contact:
Mick McKeown
Principal Lecturer, School of Nursing & Caring Sciences
Brook Building, University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE UK
Tel: 00 44 01772 89379 Fax: 00 44 01772 892998
E-mail: [email protected]
Karen Wright
Principal Lecturer, School of Nursing & Caring Sciences
Brook Building, University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE UK
Tel: 00 44 01772 89363 Fax: 00 44 01772 892998
E-mail: [email protected]
establishment of a support system that can and will be accessed by
clients upon warrant expiry.
SLSC has conducted this research with one major issue guiding our
objective: to recognize that the needs of offenders who have mental
health disorders do not end concurrently with warrant expiry, and it
is this reality that motivates and demands that we continue on the
journey of creating stronger, healthier and more reliable community
connections.
For the purposes of this session, the presentation will include comments on the process and findings which led to the creation of the
Community Connections handbook.
Speaker Profile: Elizabeth White is the Executive Director of the St.
Leonard’s Society of Canada (1996). Previously, she was the Executive Director of the Council of Elizabeth Fry Societies (Ontario).
The Society is a membership-based charity dedicated to community
safety which provides a forum for affiliated agencies. Members have
designed and provided innovative community corrections and crime
prevention programs for more than 45 years. Current key issues are the
effectiveness of transitional residences, the importance and relevance
of pardons, and what works to help people who have mental disorders
avoid conflict with the law both pre- and post-incarceration.
Contact: Elizabeth White
Executive Director, St. Leonard’s Society of Canada
208-211 Bronson, Ottawa, Ontario K1R 6H5
Tel: 613-233-5170 Fax: 613-233-5122
E-mail: [email protected]
Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Tommy Dickinson, MSc (Dist), BSc (Hons), Adv Dip He, RN, FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE UK
Tel: 00 44 01772 895531
E-mail: [email protected]
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Description: The Forensic Interdisciplinary Research in Saskatchewan
Team (FIRST) is a recently formed group with the goal of providing
evidence-based research to address the needs of the increasingly complex mentally ill offender population in our province.
In an effort to break down silos, FIRST is made up of health care
providers, researchers and educators, from the University of Saskatchewan and the community, representing nursing, psychiatry, sociology,
law and psychology.
In this session we will describe our history of working together
through the Forensic Interest Group of Saskatchewan (FIGS), the Provincial Corrections Research Forum and a recently funded Initiative for
the Prairie Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science and Justice Studies.
The goal of FIRST, however, is to build and sustain an interdisciplinary
research team that will provide ongoing professional and collaborative
relationships across disciplines. Through this venture we have brought
together senior and junior faculty as equal learners to build exciting and
fundable research agendas. The health and mental health issues of offenders and their families are vast and worthy of a program and lifetime of
research activities. FIRST is looking forward to these challenges.
Highlights from our current projects will be shared with those in
attendance.
Reintegration
Successful Reintegration and Community
Connections
Elizabeth White
Description: The scope of the Community Connections handbook
moves beyond “Towards an Integrated Network” (SLSC 2008) by
focusing on those who are not diverted from the criminal justice system
and who – sometimes repeatedly – enter this system struggling with
mental health disorders.
Based on the experiences of SLSC and its affiliates, and research
conducted in this field, there is evidence of a need for integrated and
cooperative approaches for the successful reintegration of offenders
who have mental health disorders.
Beyond successful diversion practices, SLSC has identified four
major principles to consider when approaching the issue of successful reintegration and community connections for residents at Community-based Residential Facilities (CBRFs) living with mental
health disorders. These include: accurate diagnoses, treatment, and
discharge planning beginning within the prison; successful in reach
efforts between CBRFs and the offender prior to release; successful
partnerships between the CBRF, the resident and at least one mental
health partner – inclusive of a mental health agency within the local
community; and finally, adequate discharge planning that involves the
Research
FIRST Addresses the Plight of Mentally Ill
Offenders in Saskatchewan
Arlene Kent Wilkinson, Cindy Peternelj-Taylor,
Mansfield Mela
Speaker Profiles:
Arlene Kent-Wilkinson, RN, BSN, MN, PhD, Associate Professor,
College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, has launched many
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multidisciplinary forensic nursing programs and online graduate and
undergraduate courses on Aboriginal health. She has been recognized
nationally and internationally for her expertise in forensic nursing
practice and education.
Cindy Peternelj-Taylor, RN, MSc, PhD(c), Professor, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, has explored clinical and ethical issues
common to forensic mental health settings through her research and
clinical practice. She is a Distinguished Fellow with the International
Association of Forensic Nurses and is currently Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Forensic Nursing.
Mansfield Mela, MBBS, FWACP, MRC (Psych), MSc, FRCPC,
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, is a forensic psychiatrist
and Ag Head of the Forensic Division at the University of Saskatchewan. He consults at the Regional Psychiatric Centre focusing on
treatment of female offenders and repeat offenders. Research interests
include reintegration of offenders, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
and criminality.
Contact:
Dr. Arlene Kent-Wilkinson
Associate Professor, College of Nursing
St. Andrew’s College Building, Room 314, University of Saskatchewan
107 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E5 Canada
Tel: 306-966-6897 Fax: 306-966-1745
E-mail: [email protected]
Cindy Peternelj-Taylor
Professor, College of Nursing
St. Andrew’s College Building, Room 401, University of Saskatchewan
107 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E5 Canada
Tel: 306-966-6238 Fax: 306-966-1745(H)
Dr. Mansfield Mela
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Ag Head of the Forensic Division at the University of Saskatchewan
Tel: 306-966-8232 Fax: 306-966-8237
E-mail: mansfi[email protected]
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Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Vancouver Community College’s Trade
and Transport facility to restore a 1935 Ford (police parade car) and to
build a replica 1960 Cobra sports car. Six girls, 14 boys and one parent
attend the program. While some of our participants are well known to
police (targeted), we also have some great young community leaders
(peer leaders) in the program.
Speaker Profiles:
Aleksandar (Alex) Vasiljeviæ has been working with youth and families at Ray-Cam Community Centre on the Downtown Eastside of
Vancouver for over nine years. A member of the Serbian community in
Canada, Alex lives in North Vancouver with his wife and two children.
Tim Houchen is a 22-year veteran of policing with hands-on involvement with NASKARZ. He did an 11-year stint with the Toronto
police department, seven of those in infamous Division 51. Currently
he works at the Vancouver Police Department where recently he was
promoted to Sergeant. Tim is the recipient of the 2010 BC Solicitor
General Crime Prevention Award for his involvement in NASKARZ.
Rory Morrison is currently the department head of Auto Collision
Refinishing Programs at Vancouver Community College. He has over
20 years experience in the trade, starting at age 15. He also manages a
shop in Surrey. Originally from Vancouver Island, Rory now lives in
Burnaby with his wife, Deidre.
Contacts:
Aleks Vasiljevic
Ray Cam Centre, 920 E Hastings Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 3T1 Canada
Tel: 604-257-6949 E-mail: [email protected]
Web site: www.nascarzprogram.com
Tim Houchen
Sergeant, Vancouver Police Department
Tel: 778-329-3950 E-mail: [email protected]
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Rory Morrison
Head of Auto Collision Department
Vancouver Community College
Tel: 604-871-7543 E-mail: [email protected]
Aleks Vasiljevic, Tim Houchen, Rory Morrison
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Youth
NASKARZ Program – Starved for
Opportunity
Description: The NASKARZ (Never Again Steal KarZ) program for
high-risk youth in the Hastings Corridor area of Vancouver, British Columbia has been passionately supported and developed for the
past two years by Ram-Cam Cooperative Community Centre and its
partner organizations.
Early in 2008 Vancouver Community College, Vancouver Police
Department and ICBC joined the partnership, recognizing its exceptional potential to not only reduce youth crime but to propel these
same youth toward new opportunities for education, training/employment and recreation. Since then the partnership expanded with support
from Vancity Foundation, Canadian Direct Insurance and Face the
World Foundation.
Leveraging youth’s interest in cars, the program addresses auto theft
and joy riding – two opportunistic crimes that have become a way for
youth to “have some fun”. In the past this “fun” has resulted in tragedy,
with the death of not only those stealing the vehicle but also those
riding with them, and the uninvolved public.
The following example is typical of the activity NASKARZ
addresses: Currently, there are 20 NASKARZ participants working
Female
Gender-Informed Intervention: Women’s
Violence Prevention Programs
Doris Fortin, Dena Derkzen
Description: Evidence suggests that programs that are responsive to
gender (e.g., trauma-informed, address emotional regulation difficulties,
recognize gendered pathways to crime) are achieving positive results for
women offenders. Recently, Correctional Service Canada (CSC) introduced a Women’s Violence Prevention Program (WVPP) for federal
women who have a history of violent offending. Evaluation of WVPP
is particularly important given that it is a new treatment approach for
women offenders and assessing its implementation and outcomes are
essential in order to ensure its success. In order to examine treatmentrelated change on various treatment targets, pre- and post-results on
approximately 75 women were assessed using the following psychometric measures: Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire, Criminal
Sentiments Scale, University of Rhode Island Change Assessment
and Social Problem Solving Questionnaire. Program implementation
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was assessed through facilitator and participant feedback on various
aspects, such as program content, group experience and overall impression. Finally, preliminary program outcomes in terms of institutional
behaviour will be discussed in relation to program completion. The
implications of these findings for our understanding of women’s violence and for the further advancement of gender-informed treatment
are provided.
Speaker Profiles:
Doris Fortin completed a Bachelor’s degree, with a specialization in
psychology, at Concordia University. She began her career in Correctional Service Canada as a correctional officer in a medium-security
penitentiary for men. In 2001 she was assigned to the position of Manager, Programs for Women Offenders in the Reintegration Programs
Division, with responsibility for overseeing program design, program
development and program. In 2009 she became Manager, Interventions
& Policy in the Women Offender Sector. Her responsibilities include
mental health for women offenders, development of correctional
programs and employment programs, as well as many services available
to women in the institutions and the community. She provides expert
advice to district directors in the community, wardens and managers at
the regional facilities for women offenders across Canada, as well as the
Women Offender Sector.
Dena Derkzen completed her M.A. in Applied Social Psychology with
a Forensic Concentration from the University of Saskatchewan and she
is completing a Ph.D. in Psychology at Carleton University. Prior to
her current position, Ms. Derkzen has been employed as a psychometrist, Young Offender probation officer, and has acted as a research consultant in the criminal justice domain. Her research interests include
assessment and treatment of violent offenders, female offenders and
program evaluation.
Contact:
Doris Fortin
Manager, Interventions & Policy
Women Offender Sector, Correctional Services of Canada
340 Laurier Ave West, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0P9
Tel: 613-947-4400 E-mail: [email protected]
Dena Derkzen
Correctional Services of Canada
340 Laurier Ave West, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0P9
Tel: 613-943-2599 E-mail: [email protected]
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Risk/Violence
Is There Evidence of a Post-Goffmanesque
Culture in English Forensic Hospital Settings?
Mark Chandley
Description: This session is presented by a nurse-researcher in an English high-secure hospital. The dominant interpretation of this world
is, rightly, the official one, supported by prescriptive approaches and
upheld by a powerful professional argot.
Anyone involved in public life might recognize these ideas and ways
of working. However, special hospitals are different in that they are
socially isolated (and vulnerable to cultural drift) and detain people for
significant periods of time.
This paper has sociology as its epistemological anchorage and utilizes
socio-philosophical approaches. It explores the notion that the official
view and the world-view of the little man are not one and the same
and advances a world-view using a sociological multi-method qualitative analysis. Belief, knowledge and meanings reveal what is arguably a
post-Goffmanesque ward culture.
Traditional notions of an “us and them” cultural fracturing along the
lines of ward staff versus patients are not apparent, replaced by a worldview whereby the ward is understood by its participants as a singlecultured, subordinate unit whose members are less valuable than those
within the greater institution.
Various emergent themes allow an exploration of this social situation. Finally, this session suggests that the explanations of the little man
should influence.
Speaker Profile: Mark Chandley has 28 years of forensic clinical
experience. He has published on many related subjects and has studied
to PhD level. He frequently teaches on risk, the positive management
of extreme behaviour and the management of violence and aggression.
This session is a product of PhD studies and the examination of wards
in an English special hospital.
Contact: Mark Chandley, RMN, BA(Hon’s), Ph.D
Ashworth Hospital, APT Training & Consultancy
3 Grange Road, Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom PR9 9AB
Tel: 0151 473 0303 E-mail: [email protected]
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Collaboration
The Mental Health and Law Clinic: A CrossDisciplinary Approach – Hotel Dieu Hospital,
Kingston, Ontario
Duncan Scott, Giselle Roddy, Elaine Senis
Description: The Mental Health and Law Clinic was designed as
a cross section of mental-health, criminal justice and social services
systems, integrated within the setting of an ambulatory academic
health science centre. Its primary goal is to reduce the criminalization
of individuals exhibiting behaviours that may be indicative of mental
illness and may result in criminal charges by providing early assessment
and treatment, and prompt referral to appropriate services.
An integrated, coordinated, early intervention model of care was
formulated. A one-year audit was performed, looking at wait time
management and service outcome.
The implementation of the clinic resulted in streamlining of the
various systems, and facilitated early identification, access and utilization of appropriate resources. Early intervention resulted by raising
awareness, leading to early detection and reduction of severity of illness,
and improved capacity of full recovery. Wait times associated with the
court system and community/hospital-based mental health services
were decreased.
Conclusion: This approach has led to improvement of recovery
outcomes and a reduction in the frequency of incarceration for minor
offences, resulting in decreased costs for inpatient/outpatient care and
community-based services. Of greatest benefit was the diversion away
from the criminal justice system.
Speaker Profiles:
Dr. Duncan Scott, B.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.P.(C), Deputy Head, Department of Psychiatry, Queen’s University, Associate Professor. Medical
Director, Hotel Dieu Hospital, Clinical Director, Forensic Mental
Health Services, Regional Forensic Program, Providence Care Centre.
Consultant, correctional system (prov/fed), Government of Ontario,
Quinte Detention Centre, Immigration Holding Centre and Warkworth Penitentiary.
Giselle Roddy, RN, has been nursing for 24 years. She currently
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works as an Intake Coordinator for the Adult Mental Health
Program – Ambulatory Academic Health Science Centre at Hotel
Dieu Hospital. In her current role she’s involved in clinical assessments and providing cognitive behavioural interventions, as well
as recommendations of community-based resources and public
education.
Elaine Senis, MSW RSW, works as an Intake Coordinator for the
Adult Mental Health Program – Ambulatory Academic Health
Science Centre at Hotel Dieu Hospital. By identifying the needs
of the community she redesigned, implemented and delivered more
efficient and effective adult mental health services to individuals
residing within South East LHIN district. Also, she is a member of
the Health Professionals Advisory Committee for the South East
LHIN.
Contact: Dr. Duncan Scott, B.Sc., M.D.,FRCP; Giselle Roddy, RN;
Elaine Senis, M.S.W., R.S.W
Hotel Dieu Hospital, 166 Brock Street
Kingston, Ontario K7L 5G2 Canada
Tel: 613-544-3400 x2903 or 613-546-1101 x5914
E-mail: [email protected]
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Dual Diagnosis/FASD
The Bridge Program – Making the Transition
to Adulthood a Positive Experience for Young
People Living with FASD
Ray Hartley, Sara Dewar
Description: The transition to adulthood for youth with FASD is
often a forced transition into an adult world ill equipped and underresourced to meet their needs. As a result, many of these young people,
because they have no community-based supports to help them access
adult services, end up in the criminal justice system.
The Bridge Program, a demonstration project delivered by PLEA
Community Services Society of BC, is a unique service delivery model
that provides individualized, integrative and coordinated support
services to young people with FASD, ages 18-27 years, living in the
Vancouver area.
This session will include a discussion of key project activities and
lessons learned, a review of a successful community reintegration of an
offender and a description of the experiences of youth and families who
have received support in the areas of housing, life skills, employment,
financial assistance, parenting, the legal system, mental health, addictions, and social and cultural activities.
Participants will also learn about the advocacy and capacity-building
efforts of The Bridge Program to bring together key stakeholders from
multiple larger service systems to improve accessibility and appropriateness of services for young adults living with FASD.
Speaker Profiles:
Ray Hartley has 30 years experience working with youth and families
in a variety of settings, including treatment centres, residential programs and family counselling programs. He was the project coordinator
for the Specialized Assessment and Program Pilot Project for Young
Offenders with FASD and is responsible for the design and delivery of
FASD programs at PLEA.
Sara Dewar has over 15 years experience working with individuals
living with FASD. She has been a foster parent, worked in a specialized FASD school program and as an FASD coordinator. She is the
program manager for the residential program, U Turn Specialized
Residential Services at PLEA.
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Contact:
Ray Hartley
Program Manager, PLEA Community Services Society of BC
3894 Commercial Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V5N 4G2 Canada
Tel: 604-351-0814 Fax: 604-871-0408 E-mail: [email protected]
Sara Dewar
Program Manager, PLEA Community Services Society of BC
3894 Commercial Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V5N 4G2
Tel: 604-871-0450 Fax: 604-871-0408 E-mail: [email protected]
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Treatment
Part One: A Unique Treatment Milieu for
Provincially Sentenced Mentally Disordered
Offenders – Sexual and Non-Sexual Offenders
Brad Booth, Wendy Stewart, Brian Patterson
Description: The St. Lawrence Valley Correctional and Treatment
Centre’s Secure Treatment Unit (STU) is a unique and innovative
inter-ministerial contractual relationship formed between the Provincial
Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (MCSCS),
and the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, delivering psychiatric
services to the mentally ill adult male offender. Presenting our findings
will assist in the dissemination of who we are, who we serve and how we
are doing, and will provide a venue to develop further partnerships and
provide knowledge translation to potential community partners.
Of the four programs offered at the STU, this session will also focus
on the Sexual Behaviours Program. The correctional system has seen
the exponential growth of mentally ill and intellectually disabled individuals. This growth has also been witnessed among sexual offenders.
This population presents special challenges, including diagnosis, housing, treatment and discharge planning. This presentation will review
the population of MDSOs at the St. Lawrence Valley Correctional and
Treatment Centre, an innovative correctional institute which also operates as a mental health centre. The treatment methods for various types
of MDSOs and the challenges will also be discussed.
Speaker Profiles:
Dr. Booth is a forensic psychiatrist with extensive training and experience in the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders. He currently
is the director of the sexual behaviours program at the St. Lawrence
Valley Correctional and Treatment Centre. He has published and
presented internationally on this topic.
Wendy Stewart is the Director, Patient Care Services at the STU, with
oversight of over 100 staff and resources associated with delivering
psychiatric services at the STU. Ms. Stewart also has many years of
experience as a social worker on the Forensic Assessment Unit at the
Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre’s Forensic Program, Champlain,
in addition to managing corporate projects of the ROHCG.
Brian Patterson has operational oversight of Correctional Programming at the STU.
Contact:
Dr. Brad Booth, MD, FRCPC, DABPN, DABFP
1145 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 7K4
Tel: 613-722-6521 x6365 E-mail: [email protected]
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Wendy Stewart, M.S.W., R.S.W.
Director, Patent Care Services
Secure Treatment, Integrated Forensic Program, Southeast
1804 Hwy 2 East, P.O. Box 1050, Brockville, Ontario K6V 5W7
Tel: 613-341-2870 x1326 Cell: 613-818-5271 Fax: 613 341-2884
E-mail: [email protected]
Brian Patterson
Deputy of Programs, Royal Ottawa Health Care Group
1145 Carling Ave., Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 7K1 Canada
Tel : 613-341-2870 x.2888 Fax : 613 341-2884
E-mail: [email protected]
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Reintegration
Forensic Services in Kenya: Challenges and
Opportunities
Asaria Onyango, Monique Mucheru
Description: Kenya is located in the eastern part of Africa with a
population of approximately 38.7 million and an area of 532,000 sq
kms. The country has a Mental Health Act but no mental health policy.
There are 75 psychiatrists, 21 of whom are in the public service. The
administrative units are Provinces and Districts.
Mathari hospital, located in Nairobi, is the country’s only forensic
in-patient facility; remand, special category and convicted offenders
are managed at the facility. Special category offenders are released by
an advisory board that is chaired by the Attorney General. Outpatient
services are available at National, Provincial and District levels.
The majority of people who suffer mental disorders in prison are
missed out for lack of awareness by prison wardens and police officers.
Those detected to suffer mental disorders are subjected to a revolving
door syndrome due to their inability to access adequate medical care.
Some have their records disappear and end up staying in prison for the
rest of their lives.
According to the laws of Kenya, people who commit a crime without
knowing cannot be held criminally liable. The law absolves them but
does not set them free. The law provides for special treatment, with the
President having powers to intervene in court proceedings.
There are many challenges:
• Lack of Mental Health Policy
• A delay in referring patients by the police and prison officers
• A delay in collection after treatment
• Overcrowding
• Paucity of staff at the facility
• Lack of security leading to absconding
• Financial constraints
• Stigmatization of the offender in the community
• No mental health services in the prisons to detect mentally
ill persons
• Lack of proper legislation that adequately cover mental
health issues
There are also opportunities:
• The collaboration of the justice, mental health and social
service systems is required so as to improve forensic services
• Creating awareness and sharing the limited resources to
improve management of people with mental disorders
• The diversion of mentally ill offenders from criminal justice
system would go a long way in lessening their suffering
Speaker Profiles:
Dr. Asaria Onyango is a consultant psychiatrist with the Ministry of
Health and currently working with the ministry as the Provincial Psychiatrist at the New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital in Kisumu.
Asaria has worked with the mentally ill population for the last 17 years.
He was the in-charge of the National and Teaching Mental Hospital in
Kenya from 2001-2004. Currently he works as the Provincial Psychiatrist and also runs a forensic psychiatric clinic within the province.
Dr. Monique Mucheru is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Forensic
Unit, Mathari Teaching & Referral Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. She
has been a psychiatrist since August 2006.
Contact:
Dr. Asaria Onyango
Provincial Psychiatrist, New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital
P.O. Box 849-40100, Kisumu, Kenya
Tel: +254722771262/+254734834205
E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Monique Mucheru
Consultant Psychiatrist, Forensic Unit
Mathari Teaching & Referral Hospital
P. O. Box 40663-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254722604909/+254734604909
E-mail: [email protected]
Tuesday, Sept. 21, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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Research
Inuit Community Maintenance Program
Pitsula Akavak, Ellen Hamilton
Description: The first pilot of the Inuit Community Maintenance
Program will be delivered in August, in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The program
is based on national models of community maintenance adapted to
Inuit culture and language. Several features are unique to the Inuit
Maintenance Program, including the Community Links component,
established in the Inuit institutional programs delivered at Fenbrook,
including the Tupiq Sex Offender Treatment Program. The goal of
the Inuit Maintenance Program is to review the individual’s self-management plan and skills learned in the institution, and practice these
skills in the community with the support of facilitators. The program
is delivered in Inuktitut and all handouts are provided in both English
and Inuktitut.
Speaker Profiles:
Pitsula Akavak is co-facilitator of the pilot delivery of the Inuit Community Maintenance Program. She currently facilitates land-based
correctional programs in Nunavut, providing treatment and corrections
programming to Inuit offenders in the territorial corrections system.
She was a program officer in the Tupiq Program at Fenbrook Institution for three years and is also one of the contributors to the development of the Tupiq program model.
Ellen Hamilton is co-facilitator of the pilot delivery of the Inuit Community Maintenance Program in Iqaluit. She currently coordinates
community programs for the Nunavut Arctic College. She wrote the
Inuit Community Maintenance Program and is the principal writer of
the Tupiq Sex Offender Treatment Program and the Qarmaq Family
Violence Prevention Program delivered at Fenbrook Institution. Ellen
coordinated the Tupiq Program at Fenbrook Institution for eight years,
between 2000 and 2008.
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Contact: Ellen Hamilton
Coordinator Community Programs North Baffin
Nunavut Arctic College
Box 600, Iqaluit, Nunavut X0A 0H0
Tel: 867-979-7241
E-mail: [email protected]
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Youth
Evidence of Effective Substance Abuse
Treatment for Adolescent Offenders in Canada
Hendricus Van Wilgenburg
Description: Earlier, we developed a personally-meaningful set of
interventions for preventing alcohol misuse in high personality risk
adolescents. We applied this method with youth in conflict with the
law. Process and outcome evaluation of the method occurred. Correctional staff identified the need for programming to assist youth with
drug related issues and develop healthy problem-solving and communication skills.
We also investigated associations between personality factors and
drinking motives as applied to teens’ alcohol use and other risky
behaviour among youth in a correctional facility in Manitoba. Findings
supported the development of personality-matched, motive-specific
early interventions to meet at-risk adolescents’ needs. The program has
been found to be effective interventions in substance abuse treatment
for adolescent offenders in Canada.
Five dependent measures served as outcome variables in a randomized control study (N=15): number of drinks, a measure of problems
related to drinking, a measure of risky behaviour including illegal drug
use, number of cigarettes and frequency of other drug use (marijuana,
solvents and pills combined).
The intervention (not just passage of time) resulted in decreased
alcohol use quantity, decreased alcohol-related problems and decreased
risk taking more generally. These results persist in both more complete
analyses and more stringent intent-to-treat analyses.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Hendricus Van Wilgenburg is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie
University, Nova Scotia. Dr. Van Wilgenburg specializes in process and
outcome evaluation, and applied qualitative research methods.
Contact: Dr. Hendricus Van Wilgenburg
School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
6100 University Avenue, Suite 5010, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5
Canada
Tel: 902-678-3844 Fax: 902-678-3844 E-mail: [email protected]
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Female
Self-Injurious Behaviour in Federal Correctional
Institutions: Theory, Research and Practice
Jenelle Power
Description: Self-injurious behaviour (SIB), such as cutting, burning,
head banging and ligature use, poses a serious challenge to the ability
of Correctional Service Canada (CSC) to provide a safe environment
for offenders. CSC has placed increased emphasis on improving understanding of this behaviour so that prevention and treatment efforts can
be enhanced. Several research initiatives, including national studies of
SIB in women and men, have been undertaken to address this issue.
These studies were designed to improve understanding of SIB by profiling the characteristics of offenders who engage in SIB, the reasons for
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engaging in these behaviours and the difference between offenders who
self-injure and those who do not. The studies incorporated qualitative
and quantitative data obtained through in-person interviews, questionnaires and archival data. This presentation will review the research on
SIB in CSC, as well as the current policies and practices implemented
by CSC to address self-injury.
Speaker Profile: Jenelle Power received her Masters of Arts in Kinesiology and Health Science from York University (2005) and is currently
a doctoral candidate at Carleton University in forensic psychology.
In the past, Ms. Power has conducted research in the area of health
psychology. She began her career with Correctional Service Canada
in 2007, as a student with the Research Branch, where she is currently
a research manager. Since joining CSC she has been involved with
research on sexual offenders, violence prevention programming and
mental health. She has taught psychology courses at college and university. Her primary research focus is self-injurious behaviour in offenders.
Contact: Jenelle Power
Correctional Service Canada
304 Laurier Ave. E., Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0P9
Tel: 613-995-6701 E-mail: [email protected]
C4-4
Risk/Violence
Aboriginal Reintegration Team (ART)
Lesley Monkman
Description: In July 2008, Aboriginal People represented 22.8% of
federally sentenced offenders; however they comprise 3.3% of the
Canadian adult population. Aboriginal offenders are more likely to
be incarcerated for crimes against the person and/or violent offences
(2006-07 – 83%). Aboriginal offender representation is broken down
to 76% First Nations, 21% Metis and 3% Inuit. They show the highest level of needs in personal/emotional (96%) and substance abuse
(92%). Ninety-seven percent of Aboriginal offenders have served a
previous youth/adult sentence and 16% have gang affiliations. They are
more likely to be classified as maximum security than non-Aboriginal
counterparts. Aboriginal offenders tend to be younger and have greater
health problems and higher mental health needs. They tend to serve
their sentences further away from their home community and serve a
greater portion of their sentence in the institution. When one examines
the prospects for the future in Aboriginal corrections, Aboriginal youth
are accounting for nearly one quarter of the total admissions. In Manitoba, 75% of sentenced custody admissions are identified as Aboriginal,
with Saskatchewan recording a similar statistic of 74%.
The Aboriginal Continuum of Care (ART) model was first adopted
in 2003 through a consultative process with Aboriginal stakeholders
and has evolved to the point whereby Correctional Service Canada
(CSC) uses the model to identify priorities for action. While much
has been accomplished with institutions, a need has been identified
to further develop and implement Aboriginal initiatives within this
model and to fully integrate correctional initiatives at the community
level. Aboriginal community research confirms that the major factors
contributing to Aboriginal offenders’ success upon release were their
participation in spiritual and cultural activities and programs delivered
by Aboriginal people, as well as the support they received from the
community and family.
ART is a team of staff who is focused on enhancing community corrections through collaboration and incorporation of the Continuum of
Care in reintegration planning for Aboriginal offenders, from institution to community.
The session will explore the gaps identified and the role that ART
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has played in assisting institutional and community correctional staff in
helping offenders in their reintegration.
Speaker Profile: During her 13 years with Correctional Service
Canada, Lesley Monkman has worked in various areas of Aboriginal
corrections, starting as a Correctional Program Officer, Supervisor
Aboriginal Iniatives and Pathways Healing Unit Coordinator. She
works extensively with regional and national headquarters in developing and implementing new initiatives. Lesley is regularly called upon
to provide guidance and support to RHQ, working closely with the
Aboriginal Iniative Team. Most recently Lesley has completed regionally based training at all sites in the Prairie Region on Aboriginal
Transformation Agenda items. Lesley is currently working at CSC’s
MB/SASK/NW/ONT District Office as a project manager – Continuum of Care, Aboriginal Offenders. Her substantive position is
Manager Aboriginal Initiatives at Stony Mountain Institution. As an
Aboriginal female, Lesley is proud of the work that CSC is doing in
advancing the agenda for Aboriginal offenders, but recognizes that
there is a lot of work still to be done.
Contact: Lesley Monkman
Project Manager, Continuum of Care – Aboriginal Offenders
MB/SASK.NW ONT District Office
300-140 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 3C5
Tel: 204-984-0853 Fax: 204-984-8500
E-mail: [email protected]
C4-5
Collaboration
Breaking Down the Barriers
Dianne Stewart
Description: In Sudbury, we have been innovative with respect to the
collaboration between the justice, mental health and social services
systems. Being in the north, with a large geographical area, we have
been fortunate in breaking down barriers between our agencies. Having
limited resources, these alliances have allowed us to increase the community support that is needed by many individuals. We have also been
successful in taking mental health clients out of the legal system and
putting them into the mental health system, where they belong.
In 2002, the Justice Case Manager from the Canadian Mental
Health Association (CMHA) and the Community Treatment Order
(CTO) Coordinator met to discuss the potential of merging CTO’s
with court diversion plans. Our idea was supported by our forensic
psychiatrist and from there our plans blossomed. The CTO and Justice
programs have expanded our community supports to include court
diversion plans, bail conditions, probation and parole orders, the developmental sector, as well as working with the Ontario Review Board
with respect to conditional discharges.
These unions have been very well received in our court system by
judges, Crown Attorneys, lawyers, clients, family members, etc.
Speaker Profile: Dianne Stewart is a Registered Nurse with a Bachelor
of Science in Nursing. She also has a certificate in Forensic Mental
Health for Practicing Professions and The Osgoode Certification in
Mental Health Law. She has been in psychiatric nursing for 15 years
and initiated the CTO Program in November 2001.
Contact: Dianne Stewart, RN, BSc
NCTO Coordinator, HRSRH, Kirkwood
Site 680 Kirkwood Drive, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 1X3 Canada
Tel: 705-675-5900 ext. 8904 Fax 705-671-2349
E-mail: [email protected]
C4-6
Dual Diagnosis/FASD
Accommodation Counsel for Youth Living with
FASD
Corey La Berge
Description: This session will describe a model of legal services being
provided for youth living with FASD in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Most
lawyers are not particularly knowledgeable about FASD and most individuals living with FASD lack any formal diagnosis, have no apparent
disability, and may not be aware of having a disability or have insight as
to its relevance within the criminal justice system.
As a result, young persons living with this disability are at a
disproportionate risk of becoming involved in the youth criminal
justice system without having their disability recognized or accommodated. Failure to recognize and accommodate youth living with
FASD can undermine their Charter rights as well as the principles of
rehabilitation, fair and proportionate accountability, and meaningful
consequences as declared within Canada’s Youth Criminal Justice Act
(YCJA).
Notwithstanding efforts in the prevention of FASD, the recognition of this disability has been increasing consistent with advances in
diagnosis, lending to it’s saliency within the justice system.
Participants within this session will be provided with a brief overview of FASD, its relevance within Canadian youth criminal justice
and how Legal Aid Manitoba, in partnership with the Department of
Justice Canada and the Province of Manitoba, is attempting to address
this issue.
Speaker Profile: Corey La Berge is a staff lawyer with Legal Aid Manitoba and social-cultural anthropologist. He has been researching and
working within the area of FASD for 15 years, including co-production
of “In Search of Justice’’, a video on FASD and the criminal justice
system. He is also chairperson of FASD Life’s Journey, a non-profit
agency in Winnipeg providing support and services to adolescents and
adults living with FASD.
Contact:
Corey La Berge, B.A., M.A., LL.B.
Accommodation Counsel for Youth Living with FASD
Legal Aid Manitoba
300 294 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0B9 Canada
Tel: 204-985-9744 (office) E-mail: [email protected]
C4-7
Treatment
Part Two: A Unique Treatment Milieu for
Provincially Sentenced Mentally Disordered
Offenders – The Treatment of Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder and Dysfunctional Anger
Colin Cameron, Diane Watson, Jeff Robinson
Description: This session will review various approaches and experiences of the Trauma Disorders and the Aggressive Behaviour Modulation (ABM) programs at the Integrated Forensic Program-Secure
Treatment Unit, each a 25-bed unit with a complement of group and
individual treatments for sentenced adult provincial male offenders
from across the province of Ontario.
Correctional populations have consistently been found to have
higher rates of PTSD than the general population, and to report significantly higher rates of traumatic life events and childhood trauma.
This presentation will review the literature on trauma disorders in
correctional populations and their treatment. The ABM program is
an empirically based program at St. Lawrence Correctional Treat-
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ment Centre. It targets high risk, high need and mentally disordered
adult male offenders who are at risk of committing future violent
offences.
The overall program is divided into three phases: (i) Assessment
and Motivation, (ii) Focused Treatment and (iii) Consolidation and
Reintegration. Within each of these phases a multidisciplinary team
develops an individualized treatment plan combining psychosocial and
psychiatric interventions.
The ABM program addresses the following goals: increasing responsibility and insight for one’s behaviour, increasing coping skills and
emotional self-regulation, the treatment of co-morbid Axis I & II disorders (including impulsivity), improving pro-social attitudes and skills,
and community re-integration leading to the ultimate goal of decreased
recidivism and improved quality of life.
Speaker Profiles:
Dr. Cameron is a Clinical Director of the Integrated Forensic Program,
Secure Treatment Unit, Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, where he
also serves as unit director of a 25-bed trauma disorders unit. Previously, Dr. Cameron served for three years as a staff psychiatrist at the
Operational Trauma and Stress Support Centre of the Canadian Forces
Health Services Centre (Ottawa), and for eight years at the Royal
Ottawa Hospital as director of four inpatient units, caring for complex,
refractory patients.
Dr. Diane Watson, MD, FRCPC, is currently Program Director of the
Aggressive Behaviour Modulation Program, Secure Treatment Unit,
Integrated Forensic Program, Royal Ottawa Health Care Group. She is
an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of
Ottawa and Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine at University of British Columbia.
Jeff Robinson, M Psych (Forensic), is involved with the assessment
and treatment of high risk, high needs offenders. Additionally, Jeff is
currently occupied running two anger management treatment groups
– one a CBT-based brief therapy and the other with developmentally
delayed offenders.
Contact:
Dr. Colin Cameron, MDCM, FRCPC
Clinical Director, Royal Ottawa Health Care Group
Secure Treatment Unit, Integrated Forensic Program,
1802 Hwy 2 East, Brockville, Ontario K6V 5W7
Tel: 613-341-2870 x1331 E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Diane Watson, MD, FRCPC
Aggressive Behaviour Modulation Program Director
Secure Treatment, Integrated Forensic Program, Southeast
1804 Hwy 2 East, P.O. Box 1050, Brockville, Ontario K6V 5W7
Tel: 613-341-2870 ext. 1337 Fax: 613-341-2884
E-mail: [email protected]
Jeff Robinson, M Psych (Forensic)
Sr. Psychometrist
Secure Treatment Unit, Integrated Forensic Program, Southeast
1804 Hwy 2 East, P.O. Box 1050, Brockville, Ontario K6V 5W7
Tel: (613) 341-2870 ext. 1233
C4-8
Reintegration
Community Based Reintegration of Psychiatric
Offenders: Kenya Probation Service
Florence Mueni
Description: Kenya has embarked on a comprehensive reform of its
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probation services, which involves increased information for the courts,
rehabilitation, reintegration and resettlement of ex-offenders, as well as
crime prevention strategies. This reform has resulted in a major shift in
the probation services approach to crime management and a new range
of programs, including establishing an inter-ministerial Special Needs
Offenders Committee which is leading and directing the reforms for
special needs offenders across the country.
As part of the Probation Department’s program of resettlement and
reintegration of offenders back into the community, the aftercare program tries to ensure a smooth reintegration of the psychiatric offender
while encouraging community acceptance.
Categories of Aftercare Supervisees
a. Ex-Borstal inmates
• Youthful offenders with or without mental health problems
discharged from Borstal Institutions to serve the remaining
part of their sentence in the community under the
probation officer’s supervision.
b. Long term prisoners
• Prisoners on long term sentences of seven years and above.
Discharged by a board of review to the care of a probation
officer. The prisoner seeks help from the department on
voluntary basis. There is no order/conditions to observe or
stipulated period of supervision.
c. Special Category Offenders (Psychiatric)
• This category comprises of offenders who commit offences
when their mental state is unstable. On being certified
mentally sound their cases are referred to the department
for a social report to ascertain the resettlement requirement.
• The role of the probation officer is to ensure continued
medication.
• Before the advisory board meeting, the probation officer
makes visits for purposes of conducting social enquiries and
writing a comprehensive report on the home/community
situation. The views of the offender’s family, the victim
and their family, as well as those of the relevant community
organs, are sought and included in this report.
• The report is very crucial when determining whether to
release the offender back into the community.
• Once the advisory board has reached a decision to release
the offender, the probation officer’s duty of resettlement
“proper” begins. The officer involves the community in the
plan and if there are conditions for acceptance the officer is
to assist the offender to fulfill the same.
• The department will help build a small house for the
offender, and when necessary provide tools to start an
income generating activity.
Challenges to Aftercare for Psychiatric Offenders
a. Hostility/stigma from the immediate community and victim/
family
b. Lack of halfway houses for those who do not have immediate
places of abode
c. Inadequate training of probation officers in psychosocial
interventions
d. Detection of mental health problems is not given special attention,
especially among young offenders
e. No facilities for rehabilitation of juveniles with mental health
problems
Speaker Profile: Florence Meuni has worked as a probation officer
for Kenya Probation and Aftercare Department for 16 years. She is
currently Chief Probation Officer, based at the Probation headquarters.
She holds a Master of Arts degree in Sociology from the University
of Nairobi. She is also an accredited child therapist and counsellor
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supervisor. Florence is a member of the Special Needs Offenders Committee.
Contact: Florence Mueni
Chief Probation Officer, Office of the Vice President
Ministry of Home Affairs, Probation and Aftercare Department
P.O. Box 42335, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: 254-219-8719 E-mail: fl[email protected]
Tuesday, Sept. 21, 4:15 - 5:15 p.m.
C5-1
Research
Using Critical Theory to Understand Special
Needs Offenders and Secure Care
Environments
Mick McKeown, Dave Mercer
Description: This session explores the contribution of critical theory
to the study of mentally disordered offenders. Drawing on our own
research, we reflect upon different forms of inquiry (Q methodology,
discourse analysis and participatory action research) in consideration
of relationships between epistemology, researcher and participant roles,
and the potential for transformative change. Our analysis explores
reflexivity and identity issues for practitioners and service users in a
context where theoretical abstractions of “otherness” and “the abject”
are writ large in personal biographies and public discourse.
Legitimacy claims in knowledge production are contextualized in
debates about knowledge and power in the conduct and application of
research. We will be interested in the boundaries drawn around social
“categories” of academic, service user and activist, with a particular
interest in possibilities for hybrid identities. This opens up reflections
on our own identities as forensic nurses, researchers, academics and
sometime activists, engaging with recent theorizing about social movements – with the mental health survivor movement being an interesting example.
Conclusions focus on the potential that various theoretical standpoints offer for an academic or practitioner role in radical critique of
the institutions of care, exploring the tensions between productive
alliances on the one hand, and tricky delineation of difference on the
other.
Speaker Profiles:
Mick McKeown is Principal Lecturer in the division of Mental Health
Nursing at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He previously
worked in a range of secure settings and maintains clinical practice
with special needs offenders in the community. Mick supports UCLan’s
service user involvement program, reflected in the book Service User
and Carer Involvement in Education for Health and Social Care (2010,
Wiley-Blackwell).
Dave Mercer is a mental health nurse lecturer and researcher with a
background in sociology and criminology. His longstanding interest in
the treatment of the mentally disordered offender is reflected in a range
of publications and invited international conference presentations. In
2000 he received an Achievement Award from the IAFN.
Contact:
Mick McKeown
Principal Lecturer, School of Nursing & Caring Sciences
Brook Building, University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE UK
Tel: 01772 893818 Fax: 01772 892998
E-mail: [email protected]
Dave Mercer
Lecturer, Directorate of Nursing, The University of Liverpool
The Whelan Building, QuadrangleBrownlow Hill
Liverpool L69 3GB UK
Tel: 0151 794 4742 Fax: 0151 794 5719
E-mail: [email protected]
C5-2
Youth
Engaging the Video Game Generation
Marg Stanowski, Mark Schuler
Description: Meaningfully engaging at-risk youth in programming that
reaches, teaches and improves outcomes is a challenge facing our sector.
Based on years of development, Operation Springboard converted
several of its evidence-based youth programs to a life-sized video game
format referred to as the “HUB”. Instead of racing virtual cars, youth
are working on fully interactive exercises that address the dynamic
risk factors of criminal offending: substance abuse, aggression, lack of
impulse control, idolization of criminal lifestyles and marginalization
from mainstream education.
Guided by best practice literature, modeled after cognitive behavioural and skill development principles, the HUB has also relied on
feedback from thousands of youth to ensure the content and learning
style promotes engagement and improves motivation to learn.
Successful completion rates for youth in the justice system, initially
respectable at 75%, soared to 90% once the program was converted
from a paper-based format to a digital format.
This session will describe and demonstrate the digital HUB programming and also focus on: HUB evaluation toolkit, HUB replication
in other communities, building a community of practice to promote
best practices, support youth in program design and enable continuous
improvement to the program.
Speaker Profiles:
Marg Stanowski is Executive Director of Operation Springboard,
serving those involved in the criminal justice system, individuals with
developmental disabilities and those needing employment. Marg was
a parole officer and superintendent with Correctional Service Canada
and Volunteer Ontario’s Executive Director. She volunteers with local
and national organizations, including community colleges.
Mark Schuler has worked with at-risk youth in a variety of settings,
including open custody homes, a child welfare residence, section classrooms and an attendance program. Mark’s background is in philosophy
(B.A.) and social anthropology (M.A.). While at Springboard’s Attendance Program he worked with the staff team to develop interactive,
play-based skill development programs for at-risk youth. Based on best
practice principles for CBT programming, the modules developed at
the Springboard Attendance Program have been successfully delivered
to thousands of youth in the past decade. Mark currently works as the
supervisor of Springboard’s Youth Learning Hub project.
Contact:
Marg Stanowski
Executive Director, Operation Springboard
2 Carlton Street, Suite 800, Toronto, Ontario
Tel: 416-977-0089 ext. 222
E-mail: [email protected]
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Mark Schuler
Supervisor, The Youth Learning Hub
Operation Springboard
2568 Lawrence Avenue East
Toronto, Ontario M1P 2R7
Tel: 416-615-0788
E-mail: [email protected]
C5-3
Female
Women Working Wonders
Marni Ziegler, Shawn Bayes
Description: Criminalized women have specific needs related to daily
living and employment skills that are essential for their long term community stability.
The Women Working Wonders (WWW) program was a two-year
pilot to design a curriculum to enhance the ability of marginalized
women to participate in red seal training with the roofing sector in
British Columbia.
Through experiential learning and development of the nine Essential
Skills within the context of the roofing trade, women were assisted to
enhance their capacity to learn and participate in Interprovincial red
seal training for the Level One Roofing Certificate, the first of their
three journeyperson certifications and then placed in paid employment.
The project was supported through a national advisory committee of
other women serving organizations, and was developed for national
replication.
To date, two initiatives have similarly been developed. The WWW
program partnered with the Roofing Contractors Association of BC
(RCABC) to provide training and paid practicum placement.
Speaker Profiles:
Marni Ziegler is the Director of Community Initiatives of the
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver. She holds an M.A. from
Royal Roads University. Ms. Ziegler developed the methodology
and evaluative design for the Women Working Wonders essential
and employment skills program for marginalized and criminalized
women.
Shawn Bayes is the Executive Director of the Elizabeth Fry Society
of Greater Vancouver, a non-profit organization providing support to
women, girls and children involved in or affected by the justice system.
She holds a B.A. from Simon Fraser University and M.M. from
McGill. Ms. Bayes writes and is a frequent speaker on the subject of
the children of prisoners, women and criminal justice, and Canadian
social policy.
Contact:
Marni Ziegler
Director, Community Initiatives
The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver
402 East Columbia Street
New Westminster, British Columbia V3L 3X1 Canada
Tel: 604-520-1166 ext. 233
E-mail: [email protected]
Shawn Bayes
Executive Director
The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver
402 East Columbia Street
New Westminster, British Columbia V3L 3X1 Canada
Tel: 604-520-1166 ext. 210
E-mail: [email protected]
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C5-4
Risk/Violence
Reducing Restraint and Seclusion by
Changing Practice and Transforming Culture
while Balancing Safety
Mary Lou Martin, Fran Szypula, Leeann Weibe
Description: Restraint and seclusion can cause injury and death to
both patients and staff. Although restraint and seclusion continues to
be used as a response to disturbed behaviour there is limited evidence
to support its use as a safe therapeutic intervention.
Leaders must initiate and be confident in taking an active and participatory role in reducing and eliminating restraint and seclusion, and
finding safe alternative interventions with forensic clients.
This session will describe the beginnings of a culture change that is
committed to balancing safety and using evidence to reduce the use
of restraint and seclusion even in complex cases with special needs. A
multi-faceted framework using best practice and a strategic plan to
shift the organizational culture will be described.
Speaker Profiles:
Mary-Lou Martin is a clinical nurse specialist at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and is an Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster
University. She is actively involved in prevention, workforce development and leadership related to seclusion and restraint.
Fran Syzpula is a Nurse Educator at St. Jospeh’s Healthcare Hamilton.
She is actively involved in data evaluation, workforce development and
leadership related to the seclusion and restraint initiative.
LeeAnn Wiebe is a Nurse Educator on the Forensics Service and is
actively involved in the education of clinical staff related to the seclusion and restraint initiative.
Contact: Mary-Lou Martin
Clinical Nurse Specialist/Associate Clinical Professor
St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, West 5th Campus
100 West 5th, Box 585, Hamilton, Ontario L8N3K7 Canada
Tel: 905-522-1155 x36365 E-mail: [email protected]
C5-5
Collaboration
The Community Integration of Special Needs
Offenders – Keeping It Simple at OCI
Brad Gill Tamcsu, Tom Poray, George Seymour
Description: The Ontario Correctional Institute (OCI) located in
Brampton, Ontario is a unique and progressive correctional treatment
facility. One of six of the treatment units is designated as a Special
Needs Unit, housing individuals meeting specific admission criteria.
The OCI Special Needs Unit utilizes treatment approaches that
over the years have proven to be effective in addressing criminogenic
factors. Combining dynamic/relationship based security principles and
a positive psychological appoach along with Risk, Need and Responsivity considerations have proven to ensure the broad and challenging
treatment needs of Special Needs offenders are met. The Case Management-multidisciplinary approach has also proven to be effective in the
community reintegration of this population.
Collaboration between the OCI treatment team and the CMHA
Peel Reintegration Worker serves to support the successful reintegra-
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tion of high need offenders. Specific illustrations will be used in this
discussion to support the “keeping it simple’’ approach to treatment and
community reintegration.
Speaker Profiles:
Brad Gill Tamcsu is the Deputy Superintendent of Programs and
Treatment at the Ontario Correctional Institute – a 220-bed provincial
correctional treatment facility located in Brampton, Ontario.
Tom Poray is the CMHA - PEEL Release from Custody Worker
(associated with the Peel CMHA Mental Health Justice Services
program).
George Seymour is the Case Coordinator (Social Worker) assigned to
the Special Needs Unit. He facilitates unit programs, provides individual support and works in collaboration with Unit Case Managers
and with the CMHA PEEL.
Contact: Brad Gill Tamcsu
Deputy Superintendent Programs & Treatment
Ontario Correctional Institute
109 McLaughlin Road South, Brampton, Ontario L6Y 2C8 Canada
Tel: 905-457-7050 ext. 262 E-mail: [email protected]
C5-6
Dual Diagnosis/FASD
Changing Public Policy with the Juvenile
Courts: What Works for Children Who Have
FAS/FASD
William J. Edwards
Description: Many families that enter the child welfare system
through the dependency and delinquency courts do so with drug and
alcohol abuse as a major component of the familial dynamic. In spite of
many of these children exhibiting signs of FAS/FASD only a few have
not been formally diagnosed or evaluated by competent experts. This
is in spite of research that indicates early diagnosis is important and
that later born siblings of alcoholic mothers are at much greater risk for
having anomalies and FASD than their older siblings.
It is therefore important that all persons working in the juvenile
courts, including judges and attorneys, receive at least some training
in FASD issues. The attorney representing the child must ensure they
file adequate motions to have experts appointed that can provide a
detailed social history, birth records, school records and a history on the
mother’s use of drugs and/or alcohol.
In order to understand children who have FASD in the juvenile
courts, judges, probation officers, prosecutors, social workers and other
professionals must also undergo a paradigm shift in their approach to
these children. This approach must recognize the importance of accommodating the cognitive and physical disabilities through appropriate support systems, rather than attempting to attain compliance by
intermediate sanctions.
Once diagnosed with FASD, the child must receive appropriate
services from a state or federal disability organization. However, many
of these organizations do not recognize FASD, especially if the child
has an IQ higher than 70. Regardless of IQ, ongoing support is needed,
and the judge must follow up to make sure all agencies are doing their
part to provide services for the child.
This session will explore options for changing public policy in
regard to children who enter the court system and are diagnosed with
FAS/FASD.
Speaker Profile: William J. Edwards is a deputy public defender with
the Los Angeles County Public Defenders Office, and has served
in that position since 2001. He is currently assigned to the mental
health court where he represents people with mental retardation and
mental illness. Prior to working in Los Angeles, Mr. Edwards worked
with the Office of the Public Defender in San Diego and Riverside
County, California. From 1999 to 2001 he worked as a staff attorney
for the Office of the Capital Collateral Counsel in Tallahassee, Florida.
Mr. Edwards represented inmates under sentence of death in state
and federal court. Since 1996, on a pro bono basis, he has represented
inmates with mental retardation or mental illness on death row across
the U.S., including inmates in Texas, Nebraska, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Florida. In 2006 and again in 2008 Mr. Edwards was appointed by
then-President George W. Bush to serve on the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. In 2009 he was appointed
to the editorial board of the “The Journal of Psychiatry and Law” and
appointed as “special editor” of a special issue on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the law.
Contact: William J. Edwards
Deputy Public Defender
Office of the Los Angeles County Public Defender
Mental Health Court
1150 N. San Fernando Rd., Second Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90065
Tel: 323-226-8159
C5-7
Treatment
Pathway Units/Ranges within Correctional
Service Canada: Healing While Incarcerated
Alvin Kube, Marlene Buller-Lesage
Description: Pathways unit/range provides a path of healing within
institutions for offenders who make a commitment to follow traditional healing as a way of life, 24 hours a day. Pathways units/ranges
provide, first and foremost, a healing and supportive environment – an
environment committed to following the Aboriginal traditional and
spiritual way of life. Only offenders who have already made a serious
commitment to pursue their healing journey and who have worked
significantly with Elders to address areas of healing are to be placed on
a Pathways unit/range. The Elder services, programming and interventions provided in this environment are intensive and directed to
individuals’ personal healing.
This session will outline the benefits of Pathways units/ranges,
elements of a successful Pathways unit and the key steps to beginning a Pathways unit/range. The session will also outline the Pathways
Guidelines, and lessons learned from past barriers and roadblocks in
Pathways units.
Speaker Profiles:
Alvin Kube is a member of the Saulteau First Nations who has worked
for Correctional Service Canada for more than 20 years in various
capacities. At National Headquarters, Alvin is a manager, Aboriginal
Relations; in the regions, he was a project officer, parole officer and a
deputy warden. Prior to his CSC service, Alvin worked for the Government of British Columbia and was a member of the Princess Patricia’s
Canadian Light Infantry, decorated for his service with the United
Nations Emergency Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.
Marlene Buller-Lesage is as Ojibway Aboriginal woman from northern
Ontario. Her family comes from the Garden River First Nation. She is
currently the manager within Aboriginal Initiatives with Correctional
Service Canada. She was previously the policy advisor of Aboriginal
Offender Issues at the Ministry of Correctional Services, and was
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a longstanding member of the Canadian Criminal Justice Association. Ms. Buller-Lesage has a degree in criminology and has worked
primarily with Aboriginal communities in the field of corrections. Prior
to working with the Province of Ontario she worked in a variety of
positions in the Aboriginal community, both on and off reserve, for a
number of years in northern Ontario. She has experience in the areas
of community corrections at the national, regional and local levels.
In her current role she works with more than 400 Aboriginal staff
from across the country, and is involved in developing policy, services
and interventions for Aboriginal prisoners in the federal correctional
system.
Contact:
Alvin Kube
A/Director, Operations
Aboriginal Initiatives Directorate, CSC NHQ
5C-340 Laurier Ave. West, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0P9 Canada
Tel: 613-992-6005 E-mail: [email protected]
Marlene Buller-Lesage
Manager, Aboriginal Relations
Aboriginal Initiatives Directorate, CSC NHQ
5C-340 Laurier Ave. West, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0P9 Canada
Tel: 705-941-3075 or 705-471-0195 E-mail: [email protected]
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Reintegration
TWO APPROACHES TO COMMUNITY
REINTEGRATION:
101st Street Apartments Treatment Model
Sandra Moreno
Minimizing Risk Of Sexually Offending
Behaviours
Janice Vince, Wayne Easterbrook, Jackie Caza
Description:
101st Street Apartments is a community-based residential special
needs treatment facility/halfway house operated by the Edmonton John
Howard Society. Residency is available to approximately 33 adult males
on release under the authority of Correctional Service Canada. It serves
individuals with various psychiatric disorders, physical disabilities and
brain injuries.
101st Street Apartments offers each resident on-site skilled caseworkers, a psychiatrist, a psychiatric nurse, weekly clinics and in-house
programs. A treatment plan is developed for each resident in consultation with Edmonton Urban Parole (parole officer, psychology department and program staff ) and the Edmonton Police Service detectives
assigned to monitor our higher risk residents.
Concurrent Sessions
Community Living Chatham-Kent: Historically, research shows that
persons who commit sexual offences will likely reoffend. This is no
different for persons with intellectual disabilities. Our “Focus Group” is
designed as a support group for persons supported within our agency
with inappropriate socio-sexual tendencies.
The dilemma we encounter is advocating for the rights of and ensuring that participants of the group lead the essence of a “normalized”
lifestyle with the least possible restrictions.
At each “Focus Group” meeting, the men review group rules and
their last session, and share any recent accomplishments and activities
for self-esteem building. “Focus” provides a venue to discuss issues and
concerns while providing educational insight. Due to the nature of the
tendency of the men to reoffend, constant review of coping mechanisms and reinforcing tools is a necessity. “Focus” provides this.
The most positive aspect is that the group members are fundamentally satisfied with their lives. They are now contributing members of
society who feel a sense of security and belonging.
Speaker Profiles:
Sandra Moreno has worked with the Edmonton John Howard Society
for over eight years. In 2007, she became the program facilitator for the
Community Reintegration Program. Sandra has extensive experience
working with the Mental Health population.
Jan Vince is a day program manager with Community Living Chatham-Kent and has experience in multiple agency settings.
Wayne Easterbrook is a support coordinator with Community Living
Chatham-Kent and has been a part of “Focus Group” since its inception.
Jackie supports Transitional Age Youth, with extensive experience in
varied settings.
Contact:
Sandra Moreno, CRP
Facilitator/Caseworker, Edmonton John Howard Society
11908 101st St., Edmonton, Alberta T5G 2B9 Canada
Tel : 471-4525 Fax: 474-4404 E-mail: [email protected]
Janice Vince
Community Living Chatham-Kent
P.O. Box 967, Chatham, Ontario N7M 5L3 Canada
Tel: 519-352-1174 ext. 280 E-mail: [email protected]
Wayne Easterbrook
Community Living Chatham-Kent
P.O. Box 967, Chatham, Ontario N7M 5L3 Canada
Tel: 519-352-1174 ext. 280 E-mail: [email protected]
Jackie Caza
Community Living Chatham-Kent
P.O. Box 967, Chatham, Ontario N7M 5L3 Canada
Tel: 519-352-1174 ext. 280 E-mail: [email protected]
Valerie Pringle will speak at the Conference Gala Dinner Banquet,
6:30 - 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 21.
Named to the Order of Canada in 2006 for her contributions to the communications field, Ms. Pringle, a renowned Canadian TV broadcaster, is also a member of the
foundation boards for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Women’s College
Hospital and the Canada Post Foundation for Mental Health, as well as sitting on the
board of The Niagara Project.
She is the spokesperson for the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research.
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Notes
Conference Sponsors
Correctional Service
Canada
Aboriginal
Initiatives
Branch
Department of Justice
Canada
Service correctionnel
Canada
La direction des
initiatives pour
les Autochtones
Ministère de la Justice
Canada
Public Safety
Canada
Sécurité publique
Canada
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The 2011
International Conference on
Special Needs Offenders:
An Area of Global Concern
& Collaborative Responsibility
The 2012
International Conference on
Special Needs Offenders
July 3-6, 2011
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August 26-29, 2012
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