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BC Probation Officer’s Justice Symposium and Gala Banquet

British Columbia Probation Officer's Association

Updated Sept 30, 2005

Justice Symposium 2005 and Gala Banquet:

Aware of the Risk and Meeting the Need

Thursday, Oct 6 – Friday, Oct 7, 2005 

At Langley’s NEWEST Hotel;
The Cascades Casino, Coast Hotel & Convention Centre, Langley

20393 Fraser Highway
(near the MCFD & PSSG Probation offices)
Langley, BC, V3A 7N2
Ph. (604) 530-1500
Room Reservations: 1-800-716-6199

www.cascadescasino.ca

Agenda

*N.B. ***Speakers are subject to change without notice. Bookmark this website for updates*

Thursday Morning 9:00 AM: Registration & Pre-Symposium tours

All programs are within walking distance of the Hotel:

NB: Everyone is Welcome to attend our Justice symposium. This is a time to learn in a relaxing atmosphere, meet old friends and colleagues, and network with other professionals in the Justice system. Or, Come for JUST the Happy hour and Banquet Thursday evening. Bring a friend!

Servants Anonymous, www.sasurrey.ca

#202 - 17720 - 57 Avenue Cloverdale (Just off #10 Hwy and 177th Street) Phone: 604-576-1141. Look for the sign "Twice But Nice"

A short drive to Cloverdale-transportation is to Servants Anonymous Society **Surrey**. SAS offers a day program and residence for female youth (ages 16-29) who have been victims of sexual exploitation. The young women do not need to be living in one of their two residences to participate in the ASK Learning Centre (High School and Life Skills programs ) located in Cloverdale just above their "Twice But Nice" Thrift Shop at 17720 - 57 Avenue

(Lunch is available for a small fee at SAS.)

Youth Futures, Whytecliffe www.focusbc.org

Ph: (604) 532-1268

Youth Futures and Whytecliff Educational Centre is a provincially certified independent school and learning lab for at-risk youth aged 12 to 17 who are not succeeding in the public school system. Many of our students have dropped out, been excluded or expelled, or have difficulties that the public system is not equipped to handle. We help young people achieve emotional equilibrium, complete formal courses, and develop a positive and more engaged attitude towards learning.

Thursday Noon 12:00 PM: Lunch (ON YOUR OWN)

Lunch is available for a small fee at SAS.

Because of the late start no lunch is provided at the conference but there are a number of great places to eat in downtown Langley. Buffet lunch in the Casino Dining room is only $7.95

Fun things to do in Langley

Dinner Theatre Show Lounge, Casino, Bright meeting rooms

Tourist Info for Langley City: www.city.langley.bc.ca

and Langley Township www.tol.bc.ca/directory/

Langley is home to 5 wineries http://www.winesnw.com/CalendarBC2.htm#Fraser%20Valley Enjoy a tasting tour!

Twilight Drive In: www.twilightdrivein.net 260th Street & Fraser Highway, Langley. Take your partner for a romantic, nostalgic movie:

Greater Vancouver Zoo http://www.gvzoo.com/index.html 5048 - 264th Street, Langley, British Columbia, Canada V4W 1N7 Tel: 604-856-6825

Thursday Afternoon:

1:30 PM Women Offenders in the Justice System:

Moderator Judge Jill Rounthwaite:

The panel will address the following questions

• In what way are the risks to re-offend different for female offenders?

• How can we more satisfactorily meet their needs?

Presenters specializing in female clients
  • Pamela MacDonald, MCFD Youth Probation Officer, Victoria: established Girls group in Kamloops.
  • Terry Denike, MCFD Youth Probation officer, Kamloops: Facilitator of Girls Group
  • Tonia Nicholls: Psychologist Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission.
  • Stephenie Lewis, Adult probation officer, Maple Ridge
  • Allison Grainger-Brown: Recreational Therapist. Alouette CCW & Sumas CC
  • Jane Herndier; Correctional officer, Alouette Correctional Centre for Women Corrections Canada
  • Trina Smith; director of the New Westminster Parole Office for Females (All female offenders Whistler- Hope)
  • Shawn Bayes, Executive Director, Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver. Shawn Bayes holds a BA (Psychology) granted by Simon Fraser University, and an M.M. from McGill. She has been involved in the treatment of adolescents and families in British Columbia since 1983. She has extensive experience with high risk youth and families through residential, treatment and counseling programs with particular expertise related to gender programming for women and girls; and the needs of high risk children. Shawn has worked for the Elizabeth Fry Society for almost 20 years with a brief educational sabbatical for 2 years to study at the University of Laval (Langue Seconde, 1988-89). For the past eight years Shawn, has been employed as the Executive Director of the Society. The work of the Society is currently carried out through roughly 90 employees and 300 volunteers.

3:00 PM Coffee Break:

3:15 PM Terry Waterhouse, UCFV Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice Associate , Director, Institute for Safe Schools of BC

Dr. Waterhouse will describe some of the research that the University College is doing in the area of Community supervision

* the Mission of the Criminology Department

* The Mission of the Institute for Safe Schools

* The plans for UCFV to be granted full university status.

* The plans for the World Trade university on the former CFB lands.

3:45 PM Practical Applications for case management with females: Dr. Tonia Nicholls:

Dr. Nicholls is a Forensic psychologist and senior research fellow for Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission. She recently published an article and co-edited a special issue of a journal on psychopathy and gender. The bulk of her experience is on violence risk assessment with women.

Tonia L. Nicholls is Senior Research Fellow with the Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Law and Forensic Psychology she completed a three-year post-doctoral fellowship with the Department of Psychiatry at UBC and the BC Institute Against Family Violence. Her research has been by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She has published 20+ articles, chapters, and books, most of which focus on aggressive women, violence risk assessment, and domestic violence.

Her work has been recognized by several awards, including the 2004 Canadian Psychological Association’s President’s New Researcher Award for Early Career Contributions and Brain Star awards from the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addictions of the Canadian Institute of Health Research. She received the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions by a Graduate Student for co-authoring the Jail Screening Assessment Tool (JSAT): A Guidelines for Mental Health Screening in Jails (Nicholls et al., 2005) and volunteering her time to develop and research the mental health screening program at the former Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women (BCCW). She is an advisor to London’s Home Office and the UK prison service on the Primrose Project for Dangerous and Severe Personality Disordered (DSPD) women.

5:00 PM BCPOA Annual General meeting. Resolution to create five regional chapters of the BCPOA

(If you can’t attend the whole conference, try and take in the) Thursday Evening:

6:00 PM Happy Hour Reunion No Host bar: A time to meet old friends: former and current PO’s from around BC. Special Music.

7:00 PM Gala Banquet:

(Tickets $35 inc GST & Grat)

  • To Darlene Kennedy, widow of the late Bill Kennedy, a Youth Probation officer who dies in the line of duty.

Presentation to:

  •  Dona Cadman, widow of the late Chuck Cadman, MP, a friend of the BCPOA and advocate for Justice Reform

Plenary Speaker, the Honorable Judge Hugh Stansfield, Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of BC: MORE INFO

Friday Morning: Welcome Remarks

9:30 AM Panel Discussion: Safety during HomeVisits: Panel members will include

Steve Howell, Director of Community Corrections of the PSSG, Darryl Persello, Youth PO an Adult PO (TBA), , Patrick Sheaves, Federal Parole Officer , member of the Corrections Canada Committee to review Safety issues for Community Staff. Bev Shields, Intensive Support and Supervision Program, Abbotsford Youth Resource Centre and.

Moderator, the Hon Paul Forseth, Member of Parliament for Coquitlam/Port Moody (former Probation officer)

MORE INFO

(Coffee will be available during the Panel session)

11:00 Presentation Restorative Justice in the Provincial Court of BC

Moderator: Irene Wesenberg Upper Fraser MCFD

Pam Ackerman , South Fraser MCFD & Debbie McKee Simon Fraser MCFD

12:00 AM: Lunch (included in Registration)

Plenary Speakers: Steve Howell director of Community Corrections (Adult Probation)

And Barry Lynden, Deputy Director for Youth Justice Community and Institutions of the Ministry for Children and Family Development (Youth Justice)

12:30 PM: (Optional During lunch) Video: Skinny Dippers and Brain Injury: MORE INFO A Story about three boys who were staying at a lake cabin. After an enjoyable day of lake activities they began drinking alcohol. After supper they went swimming with a couple of girls. A local youth came along and stole their clothes. They couldn't find him at first. But egged on by the girls, they went looking for the boy, demanding the clothing back. In a few seconds they assaulted the victim so severely that he was left on the beach suffering from a traumatic brain injury. What happens to them?

1:00 PM Video: Death by Jib:

The video takes viewers on to the street to witness the horror where it actually happens.

"It's way better to have an in-your-face video," says Letourneau, Peace Arch Community Services counselling program manager. Teens are less likely to dismiss a message from an authority figure if it's delivered in a way they can relate to by people of their own age, he says.

The idea for the video came in the fall of 2004 as Letourneau became aware of a steady increase in youth needing help with meth addiction. His inspiration was a 1999 film, Wrath of the Dragon, a production of Coquitlam film maker Michael Neitzel that dealt with heroin abuse. It was a no-holds barred journey into the heroin-junkie underworld -- with addicts as the guides.

Letourneau called Neitzel and "we immediately connected over the phone," he says.

With $25,000 from the Fraser Health Authority, Death By Jib was quickly put into production. Letourneau and Neitzel interviewed users from Whalley, Vancouver, Surrey and Abbotsford. The work paid off. Letourneau and Neitzel found teens, young adults, even the mother of a man who committed suicide while coming off meth, to talk graphically about their experiences. The interviews are stark and uncompromising.

"I haven't seen my family in five years," says one teen.

"[Addiction] is like a little box you're trapped in . . . worms that eat your brain," says another.

A Grade 9 girl tells how she started using meth because she was told it would help her lose weight.

"All the guys would love me, I'd be skinny and popular," she says. "I looked basically like a rack."

The Fraser Health Authority now has 60 copies to distribute to mental health centres and counselling centres.

For information on how to screen Death By Jib, contact Maureen Hamblin, director of community relations for Peace Arch Community Services, at 604-531-6226. To buy a copy, call 1-800-263-6910, or go to kineticvideo.com

 1:30 PM Crystal Meth: Panel:

The Basics, the Risks, the Needs, the Treatment

 Panel Members will include,

  • Addictions counselor Kevin Letourneau who directed the Movie Death By Jib,

Moderator, the Hon Mark Warawa, Member of Parliament for Langley

MORE INFO
  • Dr. Nader Sharifi is presently a full-time general practitioner at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital. He is a graduate of Dalhousie University with postgraduate training from the University of British Columbia. He has been in practice for over ten years and is certified in Family and Addiction Medicine. He also works at several BC Corrections Centres. His experience in the remand centres and the hospital’s remand ward bring him into close and frequent contact with patients recently intoxicated or withdrawing from numerous substances of abuse including crystal methamphetamine.
  • Sherry Mumford, Ph.D (ABD) Fraser Health Manager Addiction Programs
  • RCMP Constable Scott Rintoul
  • Vancouver Drug Court Prosecutor Garth Smith
  • Youth Forensic Psychiatric Addictions worker, Katherine Wahlroth

4:00 PM Daphne Blanco, Community Outreach Coordinator Here and Now Headlines Theatre is looking for up to twenty-five people to participate in a week-long Theatre for Living workshop. No acting experience is necessary. Just a willingness to be honest about your experiences and a desire to play!! Participants should have a connection to the issues of violence in the Indo-Canadian community and want to do something about it. Up to twenty-five people to participate in a week-long Theatre for Living workshop. No acting experience is necessary. Just a willingness to be honest about your experiences and a desire to play!?".

COST: If you mail your conference registration and check by September 23 to the BCPOA:

One Day: $40.00

Full Conference: $90.00

Banquet tickets extra: $35.00

Late Reg: $50- 1day: 100.00-2 days

How to register:

(CLICK HERE to print THIS form)

Or Call Darlene Jamieson ,Vice President & Symposium chairperson

Bus Ph: (604) 586-4135

Cell Ph: (604) 308-5813

 

Updated Sept 30, 2005

 

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