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Supporting Survivors Across the Years EVA BC Annual Training Forum Supporting Survivors Across the Years November 28 and 29, 2019 Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel Richmond, BC MEET EVA BC Welcome and Acknowledgements Welcome to the 2019 Annual Training Forum, Supporting Survivors Across the Special thanks to the EVA BC Years, organized by the Ending Violence Board Members and Staff on the Training Forum Planning Association of BC (EVA BC). Committee who planned and coordinated this Forum. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring together those involved in STV Counselling, STV Outreach, Much gratitude and appreciation Multicultural Outreach, Community-Based Victim Services to all of the workshop facilitators programs, Sexual Assault/Woman Assault Centres, and keynote speakers for the and those involved in gender-based violence response time and energy they have and coordination committees from across BC, to learn given us. Many thanks to you! together and from one another about the wide range of issues that affect those who experience gender-based EVA BC would like to violence and abuse at any time of life, from childhood respectfully acknowledge that onward to adulthood and advanced age. our Annual Training Forum takes place on unceded, We want to extend our profound appreciation in ancestral, and traditional acknowledging the following partners and sponsors for territories of the sc̓ əwaθenaɁɬ their donations and support: təməxʷ (Tsawwassen), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Kwantlen, BC Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General Stz’uminus, and xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm Odin Books (Musqueam) peoples. Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel Scotiabank Colour Time Printing & Digital Imaging Uber Span Communications Artwork “Pilgrim’s Journey” kindly provided by Vancouver artist Joey Mallett. © 2019 Joey Mallett. All rights reserved. 2 EVA BC ANNUAL TRAINING FORUM NOVEMBER 28 AND 29, 2019 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES | THURSDAY NOVEMBER 28TH, 2019 grandchildren. Intergenerational trauma Keynote shows itself in various menacing forms many of us are familiar with: an inability to parent (child welfare system); an inability to problem Addresses solve (educational system); an inability to Thursday November 28th, 2019 cope with emotional and mental disturbance (addictions/self-harm); an inability to form healthy relationships (intimate partner violence); an inability to make good decisions (criminal justice system); and an inability to love which fuels it all while generating crisis Myrna and chaos. As a lawyer who has encountered McCallum, trauma in all these forms, both personally and LLB professionally, I have come to understand that the legal system in which I work requires a change in approach. Trauma-informed legal Intergenerational Trauma-Informed Legal practice and advocacy benefits all: survivors, Advocacy advocates, support providers, adjudicators, front-line workers, offenders, and witnesses. Indigenous women are historically and The “do no harm” approach is the first critical disproportionately targeted for violence in step we can all take in engaging with those all its forms. The effects of violence against who carry the wounds of intergenerational Indigenous women are often felt and seen trauma, and the second is to recognize and in the heart of Indigenous communities: the respect the underestimated resilience which children, the grandchildren, and the great- also lives alongside trauma. Myrna McCallum, LLB, is an Indigenous significant difference applying a trauma- (Métis-Cree) lawyer from the Métis informed approach has on the survivors village of Green Lake, Saskatchewan who entrust her to witness their pain, in Treaty Six territory, and she is also a receive their stories, and assess their registered Indian at nearby Waterhen evidence. As a former Indian Residential Lake First Nation. Myrna has spent most School student (Lebret IRS) and foster of her legal career working in Indigenous kid (Sixties/Seventies Scoop), Myrna has communities, most often serving survivors become passionate about educating of sexual violence as a Crown prosecutor, lawyers, judges, and police officers on an Indian Residential School adjudicator, Indigenous intergenerational and direct and an Investigations Director. Throughout trauma as well as trauma-informed legal her legal practice, Myrna learned a great practice. Myrna owns and operates deal about trauma, its impacts on memory, Miyo Pimatisiwin Legal Services in North communication and behaviour, and the Vancouver, BC. EVA BC ANNUAL TRAINING FORUM NOVEMBER 28 AND 29, 2019 3 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES | THURSDAY NOVEMBER 28TH, 2019 cross-sectoral, culturally attuned, and creative responses to support survivors and reduce children and youth’s exposure and Dr. Jennifer its lifelong impacts. This presentation will Charlesworth address four key questions: What patterns are we seeing? What are we learning? What is needed to support children, youth, and young adults who are being impacted? How might we work together and differently to prevent the gender-based violence that Key Questions about Gender-Based is negatively impacting young people in Violence: Supporting BC Children, Youth BC communities? and Young Adults At the Office of the Representative for Gender-based violence is Children and Youth of BC, we pay close attention to what is happening to and complex and pervasive and for children, youth, and young adults requires intentional collaborative, through our advocacy work, case reviews, cross-sectoral, culturally attuned, investigations, and monitoring activities. and creative responses to Gender-based domestic and sexual support survivors and reduce violence are disturbing recurring themes, and children, youth, and young adults children and youth’s exposure throughout BC are being harmed. Gender- and its lifelong impacts. based violence is complex and pervasive and requires intentional collaborative, Dr. Jennifer Charlesworth is British Federation of Community Social Services Columbia’s Representative for Children of BC, and is the founder of the Leadership and Youth. Jennifer has worked in the BC 2020 program for the Federation. She has social and health care sectors since 1977 also been involved with InWithForward and, in front-line child welfare, social policy, for the past two years, has been working program management, and executive roles, with Chief Wedlidi Speck and other leaders and was engaged in formative work on de- to inspire culturally safer workplaces institutionalization and community inclusion for Indigenous staff and people served. for people with disabilities, women’s and girls’ Jennifer has a PhD in Child and Youth Care health, mental health, and youth services. from the University of Victoria, and an MBA As part of her extensive background in the from Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, service of children, Jennifer has taught child England. She is the parent of two vibrant and youth care at the University of Victoria, young women who remind her daily of the has been the Executive Director of the power and promise of young people. 4 EVA BC ANNUAL TRAINING FORUM NOVEMBER 28 AND 29, 2019 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES | THURSDAY NOVEMBER 28TH, 2019 motives and indicators. At the same time, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dr. Myrna continues to underscore the urgent need to Dawson collect national and global data on femicide for knowledge-based policy making and effective prevention. Launched in 2017, the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA) established a visible, national focus on femicide by Femicide in Canada and Globally: documenting the killings of women and girls Identifying Gender-Based Motives/Indicators as they occur in Canada and examining in the Killings of Women and Girls social and state responses to these crimes. Despite international recognition as a social, CFOJA Director Myrna Dawson will legal, public health, and human rights discuss this research, including the problem, femicide remains a relatively new identification of specific indicators that can concept with little public understanding. increase public awareness about femicide Broadly defined as the killing of women and and how these killings are distinct from other girls because they are women and girls, homicides, as well as how social and state more nuanced analyses of femicide during responses contribute to increased risk of the past decade have sought to identify femicide, particularly for some groups of the gendered-based characteristics and women and girls. contexts of such killings, including specific Dr. Myrna Dawson is Professor of Ontario Domestic Violence Death Review Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Committee, she co-authored the foundation Study of Social and Legal Responses to paper upon which the committee was Violence (www.violenceresearch.ca), at the based. She is author/co-author/editor University of Guelph. She is Director of the of numerous publications and reports Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice including Domestic Homicides and Death and Accountability (www.femicideincanada.ca), Reviews: An International Perspective and Co-Director of the Canadian Domestic (2017), Violence Against Women in Canada Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable (2011), and Woman Killing: Intimate Populations (www.cdhpi.ca). For over two Femicide in Ontario, 1991-1994 (1997). decades, Dr. Dawson’s research has She has presented research and delivered focused on patterns in and responses keynotes in Australia, Canada, Italy, the to violence, particularly violence against
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