CREVAW webinar: Supporting Safety Together for Survivors and their Children Navigating Child Welfare

Join CREVAW for an upcoming webinar, “Supporting Safety Together for Survivors and their Children Navigating Child Welfare” on Tuesday, July 14th at 1pm EST. Register today!

This webinar will guide participants through the findings and calls to action of West Coast LEAF’s Safety Together: Addressing gender-based violence and the family policing system report. Participants will also be introduced to new public legal education materials on knowing your rights during a child welfare investigation in British Columbia (BC), which includes a toolkit for lawyers and parents’ guide.

This Webinar will run in English with simultaneous French and American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. Register today

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By attending this webinar, participants will be better able to:

Enhance their understanding of the main sites and intersections of gender-based violence and the family policing/child welfare system and how this impacts survivors and their children through a family policing framework
Gain an understanding of the calls to action for how we can better support survivors and their children from a community member, service provider and institutional level
Learn about the new public legal education materials for navigating investigations in BC

SPEAKERS

Kate Feeney (she/her) is the Director of Litigation at West Coast LEAF, a gender equality organization based on the homelands of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Throughout her legal career, she has used a variety of legal strategies to help advance human rights, substantive equality, and child and family well-being.
Sandra Pronteau is an award-winning Cree-Metis, disabled, mother of 4 and a Kokum (grandmother). She sits on boards for multiple social justice organizations, is a keynote speaker and is an active member for DAWN (Disabled Action Women’s Network) Canada. She’s an artist, performer and intersectional feminist advocate and was on the steering committee for Safety Together.
Heather Spence (she/her) is the Program Manager of Ray of Hope Healing Lodge, founder of KANDU (Knowledging All Nations & Developing Unity), and an Indigenous advocate, mother, and grandmother. She also serves as a leader within PACK and helped facilitate community engagement sessions for the Safety Together initiative, bringing lived experience and community-driven perspectives to the work
Sharnelle Jenkins-Thompson (she/her) is the former Manager of Community Outreach with West Coast LEAF who led community engagement for the Safety Together research report. She is a founding member of Families and Allies in Resistance (FAIR) Support Cooperative.
Amy Zhou is the Project Coordinator of Program Innovations at Mothers Matter Canada. Amy leads the Men Like Me (MLM) program, a bilingual (French and English) initiative designed to prevent gender-based violence (GBV) and was on the steering committee for Safety Together
Cheyenne Stonechild is Cree (Nehiyaw) and Irish and a member of the Muscowpetung Saulteaux Nation in Saskatchewan. Cheyenne has been an advocate for Indigenous children involved with the Ministry of Child and Family Development since 2012 and was on the steering committee for Safety Together.