Wednesday, February 3, 2021

8:00Opening (click on this link for connectionCe lien ouvre un site externe dans une nouvelle fenêtre.)
8:10
(20 min)
Opening Lectures 
  • Geneviève Guilbault, Minister of Public Security
  • Pierre St-Antoine, Director General, École nationale de police du Québec
8:30
(30 min)
Pandemic challenge: What Lies Behind the Silence of Victims of Intimate and Family Violence?
  • Geneviève Lessard, Director of the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la violence familiale et la violence faite aux femmes (CRI-VIFF)
  • Catherine Rossi, Co-director of the CRI-VIFF
9:00 
(45 min)
Legislative Update
  • Maya Ducasse-Hathi, Criminal and Penal Prosecuting Attorney
  • Julie Pelletier, Criminal and Penal Prosecuting Attorney, Bureau des mandats organisationnels
9:45
(15 min)
BREAK 


BLOCK A  


Best Practices (Concurrent with Block B)

10:00
(30 min)
Spousal Assessment: The Approach of the Saint-Jérôme Police Department
  • Caroline Bernard, Assistant Director of Investigations and Strategic Planning, Saint-Jérôme Police Department
10:30
(30 min)
Montreal Kit
  • Anouk St-Onge, Chief of PDQ 27 (Ahuntsic) and Corporate Representative for Domestic and Intrafamily Violence, Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM)
11:00
(30 min)
Carrefour sécurité en violence conjugale
  • Karine Messier Newman, Coordinator of Carrefour Sécurité en violence conjugale
  • Mario Vandal, Administrator on the Board of Directors of the Carrefour sécurité en violence conjugale
BLOCK B Best Practices (Concurrent with Block A)(click on this link for connectionCe lien ouvre un site externe dans une nouvelle fenêtre.)

10:00
(30 min) 

Coercitive Control, Risk Assessment and Evidence of Violence Between Intimate Partners: Police Intervention
  • Carmen Gill, PhD, Full Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of New-Brunswick 
10:30
(30 min)
Interference with Domestic Relations Unit
  • Martin Soucy, Lieutenant Detective, Investigation and Specialized Services Division, Major Crimes Module, Interference with Domestic Relations and Sexual Assault Unit, Service de police de la Ville de Québec
11:00
(30 min)
Akwesasne Family Wellness Program: Housing for Victims of Domestic Violence, Abusive Situations, Self Harm and High Risk Behavior (conférence en anglais)
  • Catherine Lelièvre, Director, Departement of Community and Social Services
 
11:30
(90 min)
LUNCH

BLOCK C

Prevention 
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13:00
(30 min)

Children Exposed to Violence
  • Simon Lapierre, Full Professor, School of Social Work, Ottawa University, Director, Reflets : revue d’intervention sociale et communautaire, Member of the FemAnVi Research Collective
13:30
(30 min)
Domestic Violence in Intimate Relationships Among Young People
  • Andréanne Lapierre, PhD Student in Psychology, Intern in Psychology in the Programme d’aide aux policiers et policières du SPVM, Research and Teaching Assistant, Laboratoire d’étude sur le bien-être des familles et des couples, Université du Québec à Montréal
14:00
(30 min)
Post-Separation Violence and Prevention of Spousal Homicide (Markers to Identify)
  • Maud Pontel, Coordinator of Administration and Community Life, L'Alliance des maisons d'hébergement de 2e étape pour femmes et enfants victimes de violence conjugale (second stage shelter), Co-president, Women's Shelters Canada
14:30
(30 min)
Closing Lectures

Cumulative Vulnerabilities to Domestic Violence Among Seniors, Cultural Communities and Persons with Disabilities
  • Nathalie Sasseville, S.W., PhD, Director of the Clinique universitaire de travail social, Professor, Social Work Teaching Unit, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
  • Émilie St-Pierre, PhD Student – Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
15:00
(5 min)
Closing Remarks and Acknowledgements