Marie Beaulieu
Marie Beaulieu Ph. D. (Applied Human Sciences), M.Sc and B.Sc. (Criminology) is full professor at the School of Social Work at Université de
Sherbrooke and researcher at the CSSS-IUGS Research Center on Aging. She holds, since November 2010, the Research Chair on Mistreatment of Older Adults, funded by the Quebec government's Ministry of Family. Social gerontologist, her main work representing 25 years of struggle in the field, addresses mistreatment, older adults' security issues, ethics and aging as well as intervention in end of life situations. Marie Beaulieu is the North American representative at the INPEA (International Network for Prevention of Elder Abuse), she serves on the Board of the CNPEA (Canadian Network for Prevention of Elder Abuses) and she has been a member of the National Seniors Council since 2013. In 2013, she was awarded the Queen's Jubilee Medal in recognition for her numerous commitments aimed at promoting the recognition and inclusion of seniors.

Websites: Mistreatment of Older Adults / Maltraitance des Aines ; Université de Sherbrooke
Telephone: (819) 780-2220 (ext. 45270) / (819) 821-8000 (ext. 65135)
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Sepali Guruge
Dr. Sepali Guruge is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nursing at Ryerson University. Her teaching interests include women's health, mental health, diversity and equity issues, global health, and qualitative research methods. Using a number of approaches, including social determinants of health, ecosystemic frameworks, and feminist theoretical perspectives, Dr. Guruge conducts research focused on immigrant women's health. In particular, she examines violence against women throughout the migration process (i.e., pre-migration, border-crossing, and post-migration contexts). She also co-leads the Nursing Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children at Ryerson University. Presently, Dr. Guruge is engaged in community-based health research on violence against women with colleagues in several countries, supported by a CIHR New Investigator Award.

Website: Ryerson University
Telephone: (416) 979-5000 (ext. 4964)
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Gloria Gutman
Dr. Gutman developed and directed both the Simon Fraser University Gerontology Research Centre and the Gerontology Department (formerly called the Gerontology Program) from 1982 - 2005. In 2010, she was elected the 3rd President of the International Network for Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA); a position she held until August 2014. Currently, and until 2017 she is a member of INPEA's Board of Directors in the position of Immediate Past President. As well, Dr. Gutman is Professor Emerita in the SFU Gerontology Department and a Research Associate in the Gerontology Research Centre.She is widely known in the field of gerontology as an educator, researcher, and consultant. Dr. Gutman’ s research interests are wide-ranging; including seniors’ housing, long term care, health promotion, dementia care, environmental design of age-friendly hospitals and cities, and seniors emergency preparedness.

Website: Simon Fraser University
Telephone: (778) 782-5063
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Joan Harbison
Dr. Harbison is an Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University’s School of Social Work whose research interests encompass the relationships between constructions of aging and older people’s rights, autonomy, and inclusion in society, from the perspective of critical theory. These interests have emerged from ongoing research on the provision of assistance to mistreated older people with her interdisciplinary team from social work, law, and sociology from Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s Universities in Halifax, Canada. Dr. Harbison is also a member of an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia investigating elderly exclusion in Nordic communities.

Website: Dalhousie University

Atsuko Matsuoka
Dr. Matsuoka is an Associate Professor at York University's School of Social Work.  Her past research has been on the intersectionality of oppression and 1) identity issues related to the older population and 2) identity issues among the diaspora population from the Horn of Africa. Continuing her interests in ethnoracial minority older adults, she has been working on abuse among older immigrant adults and developed an intervention model using restorative justice mediation. She continues to work on Wellness Recovery Action Plan with older adults in which she uses strengths-based critical social work and a mental health recovery approach.

Website: York University

Lynn McDonald
Dr. McDonald, Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, is Director of the Institute for Life Course and Aging, Co-Director of the Institute’s Collaborative Program in Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care, and Scientific Director of the National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly (NICE), dedicated to the inter-professional care of older adults. She has been leading the NICE Elder Abuse Team: Knowledge to Action research grant (2008-2011), the NICE Older Women and Financial Literacy grant (2010-2012), and a multi-layered project on Defining and Measuring Elder Abuse and Neglect (2010-2012). Dr. McDonald currently leads several research studies, including a SSHRC Partnership Grant on Engaged Scholarship: Evaluation of Knowledge Mobilization for Older Adults in the Community (2012-2018), and an HRSDC New Horizons for Seniors Program Elder Abuse Awareness Grant entitled a National Survey on the Mistreatment of Older Canadians.

Websites: National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly (NICE) ; University of Toronto
Telephone: (416) 978-5714
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Daphne Nahmiash
Dr. Nahmiash served as a part-time consultant for the CSSS Cavendish, was the Director of Professional Services of the CLSC NDG/Montreal-Ouest, was a Professor in the Social Work department at the University of Laval, and has worked in a variety of social work and management positions over the past 40 years.  She has authored and co-authored many publications dealing with elder abuse, and has traveled extensively, presenting research papers, teaching and organizing intervention projects.  She has also contributed to many book chapters and scientific articles covering such topics as home care, violence, caregiving and the empowerment of seniors.  Currently, she serves as the Chairperson of the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Community Committee on Elder Abuse (NDGCCEA), volunteers on several other committees and continues to write and perform research in the area of elder abuse.

Website: NDG Community Committee on Elder Abuse (NDGCCEA)
Telephone: (514) 903-3550
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Jenny Ploeg
Dr. Ploeg is a professor at McMaster University's School of Nursing.  Her primary research interests include evaluation of community health services for older adults and their caregivers; best practice guideline implementation, sustainability and spread; evidence-informed practice; health promotion and disease prevention; and qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. In 2013, Dr. Ploeg, Dr. Markle-Reid and an interdisciplinary research team of investigators, clinicians, trainees and collaborators from across Canada, were awarded a combined $5.8 million to fund the new Aging, Community and Health Research Unit (ACHRU). The research program will develop and evaluate innovative, community-based primary health care interventions to promote optimal aging at home for older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC) and to support their family caregivers.

Website: McMaster University
Telephone: (905) 525-9140 (Ext. 22294)
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Elizabeth Podnieks
Dr. Elizabeth Podnieks has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Toronto, a master of Environmental Science from York University, Toronto and a Doctor of Education in Sociology from the University of Toronto. She is a founder of the Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (CNPEA) and the Ontario Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (ONPEA). She is also a founding Member and Immediate Vice President, International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) and World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD). She is a Professor Emerita at Ryerson University. Her areas of expertise include research, raising awareness of elder abuse and neglect among children and youth, raising awareness of elder abuse among faith leaders, social media projects(ongoing) for WEAAD in Cyberspace 2013 with partners.

Website: LinkedIn

Charmaine Spencer
Charmaine Spencer focuses on a range of "risk" and older adult abuse issues. Ms. Spencer has been a member of the Gerontology Research Centre's staff since 1991. A member of the Law Society of British Columbia, her legal interests have focussed on disability law, human rights protection, guardianship and labour law issues. She has written on a number of the legal aspects of family relationships with older adults, most recently in light of cases such as Newson vs. Newson. She is past-President of the Advocates for Care Reform, a non-profit society concerned with improving the quality of life for people who live in institutional settings, as well as for those who work there. For two years, she was an active volunteer on a community effort to reform B.C.'s adult guardianship laws.

Website: Simon Fraser University
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Mark Yaffe
Dr. Mark Yaffe is a Tenured Professor of Family Medicine with the Dept. of Family Medicine, St. Mary's Hospital Centre, McGill University. His research interests include: (1) Family Caregiving: (a) the impact of caregiving on lifespan developmental tasks; (b) aspects of caregiving for those with depression, stroke, and other illnesses; (c) interface between family physicians and family caregivers, and factors that impact on such encounters; (c) methods to teach caregiver issues to families, and to medical trainees; (2) Elder Abuse: (a) development of tools to detect it; (b) roles of health professionals in identifying mistreatment of seniors; (c) Elder abuse knowledge translation; see the Elder Abuse Suspicion Index (3) Depression: (a) detection and management of depression in the adult population; (b) collaborative care in depression diagnosis and treatment; (c) defining and measuring the experience of collaborative care in depression management; (4) Patient Self-care: Depression and / or Chronic Physical Illness.

Website: McGill University
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Join us on May 13, 2015 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm EDT for a webinar on:
Restorative Approaches to Senior Safety: The Nova Scotia Experience

DATE:
MAY 13, 2015 

TIME:
1:00-2.30 PM EST

LANGUAGE:
Segments of the webinar in both official languages. PowerPoint slides available in English and French.Two bilingual presenters can respond to questions in both official languages.

In Nova Scotia a collaborative network of community based organizations, academic institutions, government departments and volunteers has been developing a restorative approach to senior safety. The goal of the network is to build a holistic restorative approach to senior safety by undertaking all of our work with seniors, and each other, utilizing the restorative principles of practice.

During this webinar, we will share with you our understanding of relational theory and restorative approach as it relates to seniors. We will share our learnings through the development of our approach and community of practice for working restoratively. We will share the practices that are utilized by our community partners when working with seniors. We will also provide an opportunity for a dialogue on how a restorative approach might be useful from an individual, institutional, societal and cultural perspective when looking at safety for seniors and everyone.

We will offer segments of the webinar in both official languages. Two of our presenters are bilingual and can respond to question in whichever official language you prefer.

Presenters:

Richard Derible is a School Administration Supervisor with the Halifax Regional School Board (HRSB).  This year Richard is on secondment with the Department of Justice, where he is leading the Restorative Approaches in Schools Project (RAISP), a joint project of the Department of Justice and the Department of Education. Richard has also been a classroom teacher, vice principal, principal and Safe Schools consultant with the HRSB.  Before joining the HRSB, Richard worked for the Special Projects Division of the Nova Scotia Department of Community Services where he developed outdoor programs for children with special needs and at-risk youth.  While Principal at École St. Catherine’s School (ESCS) in Halifax, Richard and the ESCS community initiated a restorative approaches pilot project (September 2009) that had a significant and positive impact on the culture and climate at the school.  For the past year, Richard has also been involved in the development of restorative approaches with seniors. Richard has been key in finding the connections between the work in schools and work with seniors.

Sharon Elliott  is coordinator of the Annapolis County Seniors’ Safety Program with the Annapolis District of the RCMP in Nova Scotia.  A program originating in Nova Scotia in 1996, Sharon has lead the development of this position and has assisted with its growth and expansion across Nova Scotia. Through her position, she is also a lead partner in the support and development of a Restorative Approach to Senior Safety and Abuse in Nova Scotia. Sharon is certified as an Elder Planning Counselor through the Canadian Initiative for Elder Planning Studies (CIEPS), and has also worked with the Victims’ Services Branch of the NS Department of Justice - assisting victims of crime through the criminal justice system.

Jennifer Llewellyn is the Viscount Bennett Professor of Law at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her teaching and research is focused in the areas of relational theory, restorative justice, truth commissions, international and domestic human rights law and Canadian constitutional law.  She has written and published extensively on the theory and practice of restorative justice in both transitional contexts and established democracies.  Jennifer had been a key partner in the development of Restorative Approaches to Senior Safety. Her academic work has provided the foundation for the development of this approach in Nova Scotia.

Yvon McCauley is a Caseworker with Tri- County Restorative Justice. He works with youth between the ages of 12 and 17 who have come in conflict with the law and all who have been affected by harm. Working with Restorative Justice helps the public regain confidence in the justice system by giving a voice to everyone affected by a harm and work towards rebuilding relationships in the community instead of casting blame and punishment. Yvon also manages the Bringing Restorative Justice into Schools program at the Yarmouth and Shelburne High schools. Yvon has also been involved with the development of a restorative approach to senior safety since 2011.

Jocelyn Yerxa is the A/Director of Programs and Community Development Coordinator for the Nova Scotia Department of Seniors.  In that role, she focuses on building community capacity to address aging issues, so Nova Scotians can age and live well. Jocelyn also serves on the Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse board and management team for the Knowledge Sharing project.  Since 2011, Jocelyn has been part of the team developing of restorative approaches to senior safety project in the province.  The project is a collaborative endeavour involving more than 30 representatives from community, government, police, health care, law, as well as senior volunteers themselves. She sees a restorative approach as the most promising approach to helping families, communities, and institutions prevent and deal with conflict and harms.

REGISTRATION:
Register for this fireside chat on the CHNET- Works! website
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