2008-05-06
Ottawa Child Protection Mediation Training August 21 - 23
The Centre for Conflict Education and Research at Carleton University, Ottawa, in conjunction with the Ministry of Children and Youth Services, is pleased to offer an approved professional development workshop on Child Protection Mediation.
Date: Thursday August 21st, Friday August 22nd and Saturday August 23rd, 2008.
Location:Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.
The 3-day course will focus on the issues involved in child protection mediation in Ontario and enhance your knowledge and skills. Those who pass the course will be eligible to apply for the Child Protection Mediator Roster of OAFM.
Detailed Course outline found here. Please note that the date is now August 2008 (not reflected in the detailed course outline). The original event was rescheduled due to instructor illness.
Registration fee: $600. (This course is subsidized by a grant from the Ministry of Children and Youth Services.)
The registration form for this event can be found here.
Background:
The Child and Family Services Act was recently amended to pave the way to resolve child protection cases through collaborative inclusive solutions, such as child protection mediation. These new measures require children's aid societies to consider alternative dispute resolution processes, such as mediation, in situations where a child may be in need of protection.
Instructor:
Linda Crush, LL.B, LL.M is an Accredited Family Mediator (OAFM) and a Certified Comprehensive, Family Relations and Financial Mediator (FMC). She has extensive training in mediation and collaborative lawyering. She teaches internationally, most notably in South Africa, and in Canada at Queen's University Faculty of Law. Ms. Crush has an in-depth relationship with the family court system and service providers in southeast Ontario. She established Accord Mediation Services in 2002, a private mediation firm, which provides a range of services from intra-family disputes to custody and access. Ms. Crush has taught two of the inaugural Child Protection Mediation courses in Ontario.
Workshop Assistant: Angela Fallows
Who can Attend?
a) OAFM accredited mediators, ADR Institute or FMC family specialists, or:
b) People with a professional degree or diploma in human services and who have completed a minimum 60 hours family mediation training, including 20 hours of skills training, and 10 family mediation cases mediated to agreement.
How to apply: application form found here. A centralized application process will be receiving applications.
Deadline for application: November 20th, 2007.
NOTE: Limit: 15 participants
For further information on this exciting educational opportunity, please feel free to contact:
Helen Taylor, GCCR
Program Co-ordinator
Centre for Conflict Education and Research
Carleton University
125 Colonel By Drive, Loeb C467BM
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
Tel. 613-520-2600, ext 2621
