Academic Research Associates

Claire V. Crooks, Ph.D., C.Psych.

Associate Director CAMH Centre for Prevention Science ccrooks@uwo.ca

Dr. Crooks is the Associate Director of the CAMH Centre for Prevention Science and an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women
and Children at the University of Western Ontario . Her research involves the development and evaluation of the Fourth R , a relationship-based curriculum aimed at preventing
violence and related risk behaviours in adolescents. She is particularly interested in gender strategic programming that meets the unique needs of girls and boys with respect to
violence prevention. A national dissemination project is also underway, as well as efforts to adapt the program for use with aboriginal youth. Dr. Crooks is also co-director of a Trillium-funded project investigating sustainability of school-based violence prevention strategies.

Dr. Crooks is a co-developer of the Caring Dads program, a parenting intervention for men who have maltreated (or are at-risk to maltreat) their children. She co-wrote the Caring Dads manual, and has facilitated several of the pilot groups at the London site. Dr. Crooks is Faculty member of the US National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and frequently conducts training in the areas of domestic violence, child maltreatment, and custody and access. She is co-author of numerous articles and chapters on topics including children's exposure to domestic violence, child custody and access, adolescent dating
violence and risk behaviour, and intervening with fathers who maltreat their children. She is also co-author of Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Why teens experiment and strategies to keep them safe (Yale University Press, 2006).

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Walter S. DeKeseredy, Ph.D

Professor Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)

Dr. Walter S. DeKeseredy is Professor of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). He has published 12 books and over
70 scientific journal articles on a variety of topics, including woman abuse in intimate relationships and crime in public housing. He also jointly received (with Martin D. Schwartz)
the 2004 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology’s (ASC) Division on Women and Crime and the 2007 inaugural UOIT Research Excellence Award. In 1995, he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the ASC’s Division on Critical Criminology (DCC).

The Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) gave Walter DeKeseredy the Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award (not to be confused with DWC’s own Saltzman award) at their 13th International Conference in San Diego on September 16th.

This award is dedicated to the memory of Linda Saltzman, who dedicated her life to ending intimate partner violence through research. The award encourages continued research in
this field by recognizing either new or established researchers who have made substantial contributions to the field of intimate partner violence.

IVAT’s conference is an interdisciplinary gathering of people from public health to
counselling to criminologists. Many attendees work in violence prevention, research,
education and services attend and receive continuing education credits there. It is especially nice to see people like child custody evaluators, counsellors and others who have a real impact of survivors’ lives being exposed to the critical work of woman abuse researchers.

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Molly Dragiewicz, Ph.D

Molly Dragiewicz is Assistant Professor of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Ontario, Canada. Her research interests focus on the anti-feminist fathers' rights movement, domestic violence and child custody, and violence and gender.

Recent publications include:

(2008) Teaching about human trafficking: Opportunities and challenges for critical engagement. Feminist Teacher, 18(3), 185-201.

(2008) Patriarchy reasserted: Fathers' rights and anti-VAWA Activism. Feminist Criminology, 3(2), 121-144; DeKeseredy, W. and M. Dragiewicz.

(2007) Understanding the complexities of feminist perspectives on woman abuse: A commentary on Donald G. Dutton's Rethinking domestic violence. Violence Against Women, 13(8), 874-884.

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Lori Haskell, Ph.D

Clinical Psychologist Private Practice

Dr. Lori Haskell is a clinical psychologist in private practice. Dr. Haskell’s clinical interests include trauma, revictimization, sexual abuse and sexual violence in relation to
psychological development. She has a status appointment as an assistant professor in psychiatry at the University of Toronto and is an academic research associate with the
Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children.

Dr. Haskell’s research work has focused on victimization and its effects, violence prevention, and trauma and psychological development. She is currently working on projects addressing the impact of trauma on Aboriginal peoples, trauma and the service challenges for developmentally disabled people, and restorative justice and gendered violence.

In recent years she has presented to the Canadian judiciary, both nationally and provincially, on behalf of the National Judicial Institute in Ottawa. She has also provided expert evidence in a number of legal proceedings. Most recently, she testified at the Coroners Inquest of
the domestic homicide of Sunny Park, her son and parents.

Dr. Haskell has presented at workshops, conferences and professional meetings in Canada and internationally on issues relating to violence against women and children. She has educated judges, crown attorneys, police officers, psychiatrists, psychologists, social
workers, nurses, service providers and community groups on these issues. In recent years she has presented to the Canadian judiciary, both nationally and provincially, on behalf of
the National Judicial Institute in Ottawa. She has delivered keynote addresses at provincial conferences in British Columbia and Ontario, at the invitation of the Ontario Women’s Directorate, the Ontario Victim Services Secretariat, Ministry of the Attorney General, and
the B.C. Association of Specialized Victim Assistance and Counseling Programs Conference.

Dr. Haskell has written a book entitled First Stage Trauma Treatment: A Guide for
Therapists Working with Women (Toronto: CAMH, University of Toronto, 2003).

In addition, she has developed and written several other publications, including:

• Disrupted Attachments: A Social Context Complex Trauma Framework and the Lives
• of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Journal of Aboriginal Health, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp.
  48-99, November 2009
  
• “Coping With Abuse Leads to Psychological Adaptations,” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 3, No. 2, April 2007.
  
• Getting the Most out of Trauma Treatment: An Information Guide for Women and Their Families (2004)
  
• Bridging Responses: A Front Line Worker's Guide to Supporting Women Who Have Post Traumatic Stress (2001).
  
• Women: What do these signs have in common? Recognizing the Effects of Abuse- Related Trauma (2000). (for the Women and Trauma Series, a CAMH project)

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Gail Hutchinson, Ph.D

Director Student Development Centre University of Western Ontario

Gail Hutchinson is a founding member of the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children.  She was part of the original Board of Directors of CREVAWC and now has membership on the Advisory Board.  Most recently Gail has been involved with
a research committee investigating interpersonal conflicts and exposure to abuse and violence and the impact these experiences have on the emotional, social and academic life
of university and college students.  A research paper entitled, Negative social experiences,
is in press with the Canadian Journal of Higher Education.

At Western Gail has served for over 20 years as Director of Student Development Centre
and as a psychologist in the Psychological Services area. SDC offers a wide range of services and programs designed to assist graduate and undergraduate students in making the most of their university experience by providing support, skill-development, advocacy and counselling.  SDC is composed of International Student Services, The International Student Centre, The International Exchange Program, Indigenous Services, The Indigenous Services Learning Resource Centre, Learning Skills Services, The Learning Help Centre, Psychological Services, The LGBT Support Program, Services for Students with Disabilities, The Adaptive Computing Technology Centre, The Learning Opportunities Lab, The Volunteers in Progress Program and The Writing Support Centre.  In addition SDC has a highly-respected internship and practicum program that has been in place for close to 40 years.  Gail along with other members of Psychological Services hold adjunct faculty positions in Psychology and the Faculty of Education in recognition of the training and supervision provided to graduate students.

Gail continues to find her involvement on the Advisory Committee of CREVAWC to be invaluable to her role as a university administrator, counselling centre director and psychologist. In addition, staff at Student Development Services have greatly benefited from CREVAWC’s research, publications and educational forums.  

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Holly Johnson, Ph.D

Associate Professor Criminology Department University of Ottawa

Holly Johnson is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. Her interest and involvement in research on violence against women spans two decades. She was
principal investigator of Statistics Canada’s first national survey on violence against women which pioneered a methodology for interviewing women about their experiences of sexual assault and intimate partner violence. This methodology has served as a model for the development of similar surveys in many countries, including the International Violence Against Women Survey on which she is a collaborator. Dr Johnson is author of numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, books and government statistical reports on this topic. She served as expert advisor to the Secretary-General’s report on violence against women, and
is a member of the UNECE Task Force on Violence Against Women Surveys, the UN Expert Group on Indicators on Violence Against Women, the World Health Organization expert
panel on primary prevention of sexual violence and intimate partner violence. She is also
co-investigator of the Canadian Observatory on the Justice System’s Response to Intimate Partner Violence (PI C. Gill, University of New Brunswick) and collaborator with the Canadian Prevention Science Cluster for Children and Youth (PI D. Wolfe, University of Western Ontario).

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Alan Leschied, Ph.D., C. Psych.

Alan is a psychologist and professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario. He began working in children’s mental health in 1977 at the London Family Court Clinic. Since then, he has worked at the Clinic with the exception of from 1980 – 82 when he worked at the Children’s Hospital of Western Ontario. He joined the faculty at Western in 1998.

Alan has served on numerous children’s services Board’s of Directors, including the
Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex, The Coordinating Committee for Children and Youth, and The Canadian Council on Social Development. He currently co-chairs the Board of Directors for London’s Investing in Children. He is a founding member of the International Prisons and Corrections Association, serves on the research advisory
committee of the Sparrow Lake Alliance and, from 1993 to 1998 was the Canadian
Psychology Association’s representative to the Health Care Advisory for Correctional Services Canada.

Alan’s research interests have been in areas related to children’s legislation and how policies promote the welfare of children and families. He has produced numerous publications in areas related to young offender assessment, treatment and rehabilitation. Of note have
been the edited books, The Young Offenders Act: A Revolution in Canadian Juvenile Justice (1991); Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs (2001), and Research and Treatment for Aggression with Adolescent Girls (2002). Alan has provided presentation in many parts of Canada and the United States. Internationally he
has recently traveled to the Netherlands, Argentina and Japan representing Canadian perspectives on youth justice. Alan has appeared as an expert witness in youth courts and
in coroner’s inquests on matters related to youth justice in the provinces of Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.

Currently, Alan’s research interests have included the completion of the clinical trial with Multisystemic Therapy, funded by the National Crime Prevention Centre and the examination of factors related to increases in the demand for child welfare services in London and Middlesex. He chairs the graduate program in Counselling Psychology at Western’s Faculty
of Education. Alan is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychology Association, and a recipient in
2003 of both the Edward G. Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Judge Wendy Robson Award for outstanding service to children. in Ontario.

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Robin Mason, Ph.D.

Women's College Research Institute 416-351-3732 ext, 2764 robin.mason@wchospital.ca

Robin A. Mason is a community-based researcher interested in intimate partner violence
(IPV) in minority cultural communities, as well as training and educating health care professionals about these issues. She is currently a Research Scientist with the Violence
and Health Research Program at the Women's College Research Institute and an Assistant Professor with the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto . Robin
is co-chair of an Expert Panel charged with developing curricula on IPV for Emergency Department staff across the province (funded by the Ontario Women's Directorate) and also manages the REACH program (Research, Education and Action to Create Health and hope
for survivors of violence) at Women's College Hospital.

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Susan Rodger, Ph.D., C. Psych.

Susan is a psychologist and professor at the Faculty of Education, the University of Western Ontario. She received her BA in Philosophy and Fine Art from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1979, and her PhD in psychology from the University of Western Ontario in 2001. Before joining the Faculty of Education in 2002, she was the Coordinator of First Year Programs at Western. In 1998 she created an award-winning academic mentoring and leadership development program for university students. She has presented workshops for educators
in B.C., Ontario and Saskatchewan on this work and continues to focus her research
activities, in different contexts, on academic success.  Her main research interests include student success, teacher effectiveness, student anxiety, child welfare and violence.

Over the past 2 years Susan has worked on research projects with a focus on literacy, academic achievement and school retention for women who experience violence and who do not have a high school diploma. This work continues to develop. She is also currently
involved in a wide range of other projects including research examining rural youth and their access to health information using an online environment, a meta-analysis project
examining developmental criminology and adult offending, and child welfare.

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Charlene Y. Senn, Ph.D

Professor Faculty of Arts and Social Science Senior Research Leadership Chair Department of Psychology and Women’s Studies Program University of Windsor

Charlene Y. Senn, PhD is a Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University
of Windsor and the Faculty of Arts and Social Science Senior Research Leadership Chair (2009-2014). Her research centres primarily on male violence against women and girls and includes work on sexual coercion and rape and the effects of pornography on women. Research conducted with colleagues and graduate students also explores sexual consent
and communication, sexual exploitation of youth, and heterosexual and lesbian women's sexual and physical health. Dr. Senn publishes in a range of interdisciplinary and
psychology journals such as the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Feminism & Psychology, and Psychology of Women Quarterly but also enjoys writing about research for a more general
(often feminist) audience (e.g., chapters in undergraduate textbooks, “You can change the world: Action, participatory, and activist research” and “Violence against women and girls: What feminist counsellors need to know to begin their work with women”). 
 
Charlene’s research has been funded by SSHRC and CIHR. She was a recipient of an Ontario Women’s Health Council Career Award (2005-2008) and with the assistance of this funding (matched by the University) formed the multidisciplinary Health Research Centre for the
Study of Violence against Women (HRC-VAW) at the University of Windsor. The HRC-VAW, which is now directed by Dr. Patti Fritz (Psychology), continues to receive support through
Dr. Senn’s Research Leadership Chair.

For the past six years, Charlene has focused on developing and evaluating an effective sexual assault resistance education program (enhanced with emancipatory sex education)
for young women in high school and the first year of university. This research is an attempt
to put feminist and social psychological theories into practice. She recently received CIHR funding (2011-2016) to do a full evaluation of the program on three Canadian university campuses.

Charlene is also collaborating with Dr. Anne Forrest (U of Windsor) and Drs. Victoria Banyard and Mary Moynihan, from the University of New Hampshire to evaluate the effectiveness of the Bringing in the BystanderTM sexual assault education program. This program will be
offered to male and female first year students in residence on the University of Windsor campus beginning in September 2011 with the support of the President’s Strategic Priority Fund.

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Dora Tam, BSW, MSW, RSW, Ph.D

School of Social Work King’s University College University of Western Ontario dmytam@uwo.ca 519-433-3491 x4516

Dora Tam is an Assistant Professor with the School of Social Work in King’s University
College at the University of Western Ontario, an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University and a Research Associate with the Centre for Social Work Education and Research in the Department of Government at Sun Yat-sen University in China. Dora’s program of research involves violence against women issues, cross-cultural practice and social work education, specifically professional suitability for social work practice. She has strong experience in multi-site collaborative projects. Dora was the Principal Investigator and
worked together with seven other Canadian and Chinese researchers have recently
completed an international research project titled “Collaborative Health Initiatives to Prevent and Intervene in Violence Against Women in China,” which was funded by Canadian
Institutes of Health Research between 2007 - 2009. This project used a participatory
approach and aimed at identifying and developing health initiatives to prevent and intervene in violence against women in China.

Moreover, Dora has a sound record in conducting both quantitative and qualitative research, publishing actively in international journals, and presenting at international and national conferences. She was involved in a study on Chinese Youth in the Criminal Justice System in Canada funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and three studies on professional suitability in social work practice in Alberta, Ontario and
Saskatchewan in 2003 and 2007 respectively.

Dora is a registered social worker in Ontario and has practiced in the field of family services, probation, and health care settings in Canada and Hong Kong. As a social work educator, Dora strongly believes that social work programs should prepare graduates to become evidence-based practitioners. To achieve such commitment, Dora has actively involved in a number of research projects, which provide training opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students in terms of planning, implementation, analysis, and dissemination.
Apart from research, Dora has served a number of community organizations or working groups as a way to keep the pulse of clients’ needs and the changing social context.

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Paul F. Tremblay, Ph.D.

I completed my Ph.D. in 1998 at the University of Western Ontario in the Psychology Department. My training was mainly in the area of quantitative methods and personality theory and research. The main focus of my doctoral research was on dimensions of
academic motivation. After my graduate studies I worked three years in applied settings developing psychometric tests. I am currently working as a scientist in the Social, Prevention and Health Policy Research Department of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. I
also teach a personality course at the University of Western Ontario and supervise a
number of undergraduate students in the Psychology Honours program.

In addition to my collaborations with colleagues at the Centre for Research and Education
on Violence Against Women and Children to examine experiences of harassment by
students in university and college, I have developed a research program in the area of human aggression. My current research focuses on (1) the assessment of aggressive dispositions (2) the interaction between aggressive dispositions, social factors, and alcohol (3) the development of a taxonomy of provoking situations across various domains such as driving, work, and intimate relationships. Of particular interest to me are individual
differences in hostile attribution bias, social factors that impact on provoking situations, the incentives and deterrents associated with retaliation, and the intention of the instigator. My second area of interest is in quantitative methods, especially in the applications of structural
equation modelling and methods to investigate person by situation interactions.

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Leslie Tutty, Ph.D

Professor, Faculty of Social Work Academic Research Coordinator RESOLVE Alberta University of Calgary 403-220-5040 tutty@ucalgary.ca

Dr. Leslie Tutty is a full professor with the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary where she teaches courses in both clinical social work methods and research. Over the past nineteen years, her research has focused on services for family violence including a number of evaluations of shelter and post-shelter programs for abused women, support groups for abused women, treatment for adult and child victims of sexual abuse and groups for men who abuse their partners. Since 1999, Leslie has served as the Academic Research Co-ordinator of RESOLVE Alberta , a tri-provincial research institute on family violence.
RESOLVE is one of Canada 's centres of excellence in research on violence against women and children. As such, Leslie has collaborated with a number of the leading researchers in family violence across the country. Her extensive body of research on domestic violence spans the perspectives of social services, justice, health and mental health and addresses prevention, intervention and policy.

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David A. Wolfe, Ph.D., ABPP*

RBC Chair in Children’s Mental Health, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario

Dr. David Wolfe is a psychologist and author specializing in issues affecting children and youth. He holds the inaugural RBC Chair in Children’s Mental Health at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), where he is Head of the Centre for Prevention Science located in London. He is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of
Toronto, and Editor-in-Chief of Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal. His recent book is entitled Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Why teens experiment and strategies to keep them safe (with P. Jaffe & C. Crooks; Yale University Press, 2006).

Dr. Wolfe has broad research and clinical interests in abnormal child and adolescent psychology, with a special focus on child abuse, domestic violence, and developmental psychopathology.  He has authored numerous articles on these topics, especially in relationship to the impact of early childhood trauma on later development in childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. Dr. Wolfe has been pioneering new approaches to preventing many societal youth problems such as bullying, relationship violence, and substance abuse. David recently received the Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science from the Canadian Psychological Association, and the Blanche L. Ittleson Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Delivery of Childrens Services and the Promotion of Childrens Mental Health from the American Orthopsychiatric Association.

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Community Research Associates

Mohammed Baobaid, Ph.D.

Executive Director The Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration

Mohammed's doctorate in Psychology and Criminology from the Erlangen-Nuremburg University , examined family socialization and juvenile delinquency in Yemen . During this time, Mohammad earned the Friedrich-Ebert Stifiung Scholarship award. Prior to acquiring his doctorate in 1997, Mohammad obtained an M.A in Criminal Science and Forensic Psychology which focused on the characteristics of juvenile psycho-sociological growth in Yemen.

Mohammed has extensive experience working with young offenders and coordinated relevant programs that centered around the protection, prevention, and early intervention of delinquent youth. Dr. Baobaid was the head of the Department of Women Studies for Empirical Research and Women Studies at the University of Sanaa, Yemen. At the University of Sanaa he lectured to both undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of criminal, forensic, and family psychology. In 1999 Dr. Baobaid established and is currently the Chair of The Centre for Youth Research and Development in Yemen.

In recent years, Mohammad has worked as an Integration Counselor at Success Resources London at the Thames Valley District School Board. Currently, he works as a men's counselor at Changing Ways in London Ontario and is the Coordinator for the Muslim Family Safety Project. Mohamed was awarded a grant to investigate access to woman abuse services by Muslim women in London Ontario and is an active board member of the Children's Aid Society.

Along with organizing and facilitating a diverse range of community presentations on culture, violence against women, juvenile delinquency, and human rights, Dr. Baobaid has published a wide range of articles including women in conflict with the law , children in conflict with the law , the attitudes of police toward violence against women , and the causes and prevalence of suicide .

Mohammad's expertise is further extricated by his fluency in English, Arabic and German.

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Mandy Bonisteel

Mandy Bonisteel has worked as an anti-violence advocate, consultant and therapist for over 20 years.  She has worked with both survivors and perpetrators of violence.  Her international work includes: trauma support and community development training with women in Kosovo; NGO capacity building and Family Medicine Nursing curriculum development in Bosnia and Herzegovina; trianing and curriculum recommendations for nurses and social workers in Namibia involed in anti-violence work; consultancy regarding governmental reform (CEDAW) implementation in Azerbaijan and; participatory gender research presentations at the Association for Women in Development in Mexico.  This paper "Measuring Empowerment - The Application of an Empowerment Model to Nursing Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina" is available here.

In Ontario, she authored the Ontario CAS/VAW Collaborative Curriculum for workers supporting children who have witnessed women abuse, developed the Respect-At-Work training materials for CRVAW and delivers curriculum design training to educators.  Mandy coordinates the Assulted Women's and Children's Counsellor/Advocate Program at George Brown College, a unique combination of feminist counselling and social justice courses that combine the skills of support and activism needed to advocate for women, their children, and their communities. Mandy teaches on-line as well as in the classroom and has considerable experience working in diverse environments as well as with diverse learning communities with varying needs. Mandy is a recipient of the Ontario Medal of Citizenship.

Mandy's paper, titled "Shrinking Feminist Space", is available here.

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Jacquie Carr

Jacquie Carr is a proponent for social, legal, economic and political equality for all persons and to that end engages in her work. Jacquie brings the focus and wisdom gained during her 7 years of diverse experience in her roles as advocate, researcher, educator, and facilitator to the field of sexual harassment prevention. Jacquie is a certified trainer for the Respect at Work training approach and contributed to the development of the package.

In addition to being a certified Respect at Work training facilitator, Jacquie delivers specialized presentations providing in-depth examination of workplace sexual harassment with a particular focus on corporate cost, human cost, and internal and external reporting and remedy avenues.

Jacquie has earned a reputation for delivering powerful and engaging workshops. Her presentations have been described as insightful, informative and extremely relevant.

Jacquie has experienced the privilege of sharing the work of valuable projects in the arena of sexual harassment including serving as a member of the coordinating committee and presenter for an innovative, cross sectoral conference, contributor to a video and accompanying discussion guide, promotion of same.

One of Jacquie’s most recent accomplishments as a research team member is the publication of “Workplace Harassment and Violence”, a participatory action research report identifying the range of women’s experience of harassment and violence in the workplace and the resulting harm.

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Pamela Cross

Pamela Cross is a feminist lawyer who works as a consultant in the area of women’s equality and violence against women. In the past, she has held the following positions:

YWCA Canada, Director of Advocacy and Public Policy
National Association of Women and the Law, Executive Director
Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children, Legal Director
Ontario Women’s Justice Network, Legal Director

Pamela is a frequent and well respected media commentator and conference speaker on violence against women and women’s equality. She is a member of Ontario’s Domestic Violence Advisory Committee and of the Management Committee of the Family Law Education for Women Project.

Her recent written work on the issue of violence against women includes:

• “Through the Looking Glass: The Experiences of Unrepresented Abused Women in Family Court,” Luke’s Place, Durham, Ontario 2008
• “Muslim and Canadian Family Laws: A comparative primer,” Canadian Council of Muslim Women, 2006.
• “Should different kinds of people living in the same province be governed by different kinds of laws?” Women Living Under Muslim Laws Dossier 27, 2005
• A review of the Domestic Violence Protocol, Frontenac County, 2006
• Legal writing on Ontario Women’s Justice Network (www.owjn.org)

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Cathy Hird, B.S.W., M.S.W., B. Ed.

Cathy Hird is an educator with the London District Catholic School Board and has over twenty years of experience in violence prevention. Prior to entering the teaching profession, Cathy was a certified social worker with experience in the fields of child welfare, children’s mental health, and school social work. Since 1989, she has been actively involved in developing and implementing school-based violence prevention programs. Consultations are provided to school communities for training staff in violence awareness and evaluating violence prevention initiatives and plans. She is a recipient of two community awards for her contributions to violence prevention: The Francis Brennan Award (London Family Court Clinic) and Crime Stoppers Award (London and District Crime Stoppers Program).
Her current teaching assignment as a secondary teacher involves working with students with learning differences and at-risk youth. She engages actively in facilitating peer-support learning through the introduction of peer tutoring, peer mediation and peer helping. She serves as a Board of Director for two community agencies: St. Leonard’s Community Services - London Region and the Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex. Her connections with the Faculty of Education at Althouse College includes being a mentor for teachers enrolled in Additional Qualifications courses and participating in the Transition to Practice seminars for new teachers.
Her involvement with the Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children has included advisory roles on research projects and accessing research grants to evaluate the forms of interpersonal violence experienced by youth. Her current involvement in the Tools for Change project has allowed her to continue her area of interest in curriculum writing and evaluating violence prevention programs for use by educators in elementary and secondary schools.

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Tim Kelly, B.A.

388 Dundas Street, Suite 302b London , Ontario Canada N6B 1V7 (519) 4438-9869x27; Fax: (519) 438-9780 mailto:timkelly@changingways.on.ca

Tim Kelly is the Executive Director of Changing Ways , a program for men who abuse women in London and Middlesex County, Chatham/Kent County and St. Thomas/Elgin County. He has spoken nationally and internationally on issues related to violence against women and children and community collaborations.

His interest has recently turned in two directions, the first is to expanding the scope of community collaboration and has been working on a Provincial initiative, Neighbours, Friends and Families, a project that provides woman abuse information, training and support to neighbourhood, friends and families who live and support abused women. Secondly, his clinical direction has turned to working with maltreating fathers in partnership with the university, the justice system, woman's advocates and children's advocates to develop and implement Caring Dad's: Helping father value their children, an intervention program with fathers who abuse their children or have exposed their children to woman abuse.

He has also worked broadly with many communities both locally and internationally to develop a frame work for community collaboration and coordination with a focus of ending violence against women and children.

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Maureen Reid, M.S.W.,R.S.W.

Manager Children's Aid Society London and Middlesex P.O. Box 7010, London, Ont. N5Y 5R8 mreid@caslondon.on.ca

Ms. Maureen Reid has worked in the areas of child protection and child physical and sexual abuse for the past twenty-eight years. Within a child welfare agency, Ms. Reid developed a treatment program for families (child victims, perpetrators and non-implicated parents) where sexual abuse has been verified that includes individual, group and family treatment. This program is in its 20th year and provides therapy to over 100 individuals per week. She has also co-facilitated community based groups for adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse. She co-facilitates the Caring Dad’s group in partnership with Changing Ways of London. This is a program for fathers who have been physically abusive with their children or are at risk of being physically abusive. She has been the Child Abuse Consultant for the London and Middlesex Children’s Aid Society and is currently Chair of the Child Abuse Prevention Council in London, Ontario. She is past Chair of the Adult Survivors Committee in London, Ontario.

She is an authorized trainer for the Ministry of Families and Children teaching the modules:
Impact of Child Maltreatment; Interviewing Children; Investigating Sexual Offences Against Children and Forensic Interviewing. She has presented at numerous conferences on topics related to sexual abuse within families and other child protection issues, and has been a consultant to the Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System of the Family Court Clinic and the London Custody and Access Project for the past twenty years.

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Deborah Sinclair

Deborah Sinclair is a senior social worker, consultant, trainer, writer and community organizer in independent practice in Toronto , Ontario . She has a clinical practice specializing in work with trauma survivors, their families and their allies.

For the past 28 years, she has been actively involved in addressing the issue of violence against women and their children with professional and grass roots community advocacy groups across Canada . In October 2002, she testified as an expert witness at the inquest into the murder of Gillian Hadley and suicide of Ralph Hadley.

In January 2003, she was appointed to the Domestic Violence Death Review Committee (DVDRC).

Her publications are available from Springtide Resources online at www.womanabuseprevention.com.

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