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Some really good briefs, webinars, and case law summaries regarding family law and domestic violence.

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Supporting the Health of Survivors of Family Violence in Family Law Proceedings Contribuer à la santé des survivantes de violence familiale dans les procédures de droit de la famille

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Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (Ontario Chapter)

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Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (Ontario Chapter)

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This organization brings together lawyers, mental health professionals, judges, and mediators for education, and to advance various access to justice issues. Children are at the heart of the work.

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AFCC Ontario - Association of Family & Conciliation Courts

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become a member Improving the lives of families The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts is an interdisciplinary association dedicated to the resolution of family conflict through education, innovation, and collaboration.

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This is the parent organization for AFCC-Ontario. Many great resources available for free. With membership, you also get access to their journal - Family Court Review.

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The AFCC Center for Excellence in Family Court Practice is home to policy initiatives and practice guidelines that inform the work of practitioners, policymakers, researchers.

AFCC offers conferences, webinars, and training programs that provide a wide range of information, ideas, and research, for practitioners who work with families in conflict.

Publications, webinars, and practice guidelines for professionals.

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Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

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The AFCC Center for Excellence in Family Court Practice is home to policy initiatives and practice guidelines that inform the work of practitioners, policymakers, researchers. AFCC offers conferences, webinars, and training programs that provide a wide range of information, ideas, and research, for practitioners who work with families in conflict.

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Shared by Konner

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Interview Questions - Lee and Bala (2009)

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Interview Questions - Lee and Bala (2009)

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Shared by Konner.

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a great resouces for children by a local youth therpist. The Resilience Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Gain Confidence, Manage Stress, and Cultivate a Growth Mindset

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Shared by Kerry. The interview instructions taught in this course are part of a larger forensic interview protocol. For those interested in where they come from - Kerry has shared the whole ten steps here.

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Some activities (mom’s house, dad’s house) in this book:

Creative Interventions for Children of Divorce - Liana Lowenstein

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There's a good book called "Your place or mine" by Charlotte Schwartz and "Tug of War" by Judge Harvey Brownstone

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The Resilience Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Gain Confidence, Manage Stress, and Cultivate a Growth Mindset

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HCI is an award-winning team of certified international mediation specialists who teach and train the advanced conflict resolution techniques pioneered by best-selling author, therapist, and lawyer Bill Eddy.

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Link to Webinar on Voice of the Child in DV cases

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Link to Webinar on Voice of the Child in DV cases

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The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child states that the "right of all children [under 18] to be heard and taken seriously constitutes one of the fundamental values of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child". Obtaining children's views and preferences in court processes is now common in many cases, but the right to do so can be marginalized for children in family violence and or parental alienation cases. In addition, more attention has been paid to hearing children's voices generally, than it has to ensuring that those views are taken seriously and given due weight in accordance with the children's ages and maturity. This webinar will consider the issue of how children's rights in all family law court proceedings can be implemented effectively, with the involvement of independent legal representation for children, using the Eight Child Rights Safeguards/Guarantees which the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child states are necessary to do so.
The Honourable Donna J. Martinson, Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Retired

The Honourable Judge Rose Raven, Senior judge of the BC Provincial Court

Phyllis Kenney, Q.C., a Vancouver lawyer with extensive experience in family law and child rights.

Lauren Irvine

Dr. Margaret Jackson, Professor Emerita and Director of the FREDA Centre at SFU.
Webinar Resources:
Presentation Slides

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Implementing Children's Rights in All Family Court Cases

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Family court is filled with self-represented litigants - up to 50% across Canada and closer to 80% in urban centres. Those SRLs include individuals asking for restraining orders (there is no disaggregated data in Ontario) as well as those experiencing family violence seeking custody, access, child support etc.