Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies

Canadian Association of
Elizabeth Fry Societies
Sallows Fry Conference 2015 – May 21/22, 2015
Interim Schedule of Presentations*
Thursday May 21, 2016
8:30 – Registration
9:00 – Opening Address and Welcome – Senator Lillian Dyck
AM Sessions:
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Canada’s treatment of Immigration detainees with disabling mental health issues:
Brainstorming effective advocacy strategies
Provinces and Territories Speak Out: A four district scan across the country of the state of our
Provincial and Territorial jails and remand centres.
Project Access: Telephone and Visitor Access in Saskatchewan Correctional Centres
PM Sessions:
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Ghosts: Hope in Hard Places
A Tort Remedy: Misfeasance in Public Office and Administrative Segregation
A torture-free U of S: not just a pipe dream
Buffalo Sage Wellness House (BSWH) Section 81 Healing Lodge Process Review
Mental Illness and Sentencing
Listening to ‘Talk Story’: Lessons from the Hawai’i Girls Court for Women’s/Girls’ Corrections in
Atlantic Canada
The Crisis From the Perspective of Defence Counsel: The need in Saskatchewan to recognize,
understand, and apply Gladue principles).
Understanding Past Mistakes, Pursuing Social Equity, and Fostering Belonging: Responsible
Citizenship for Restorative Outcomes
PAWSitive Reflections: How the Work of a St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog Supports a TraumaInformed Approach to Prisoner Health
Indigenous Girls and the Violence of Settler Colonial Policing
But-ton Kidn Doon-ga - Black Women Know: Re-presenting the lived experiences of Australian
Indigenous Women with mental health and wellbeing issues and cognitive disabilities in criminal
justice systems
Identifying Gaps in Services for Women Transitioning From Incarceration to the Community in
Calgary
* subject to change
Friday May 22, 2015
9:00 – Professor Sherene Razack, Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
AM Sessions:
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Women, solitary confinement and the perils of prison reform
Legal Strategies to Address Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls
Walking with White Buffalo Calf Woman: Gladue, Indigenous Women, and Healing
Shoplifting as a Mental Health Issue
PM Sessions:
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Colonization, the Indian Act, and the Criminal Code all have a direct impact on the
negative attitudes currently faced by many Indigenous Women across Canada
Innovative Programming for Aboriginal Prisoners
Gender, Race and Custodial Space
Claiming Digital Space: Violence Against Women and Indigenous Women’s Filmmaking.
Short Film Screening and Discussion
Aboriginal Service Delivery and Cultural Competency
Judicial Sentencing Discourses about the Victimization and Criminalization of Aboriginal
Women
Through the Eyes of Women: What a Co-operative Can Mean in Supporting Women
through Confinement and Integration
Using a Macro Cultural Psychological Approach to Expose Realities and Transform the
Conversation
Risky Business: Democratizing Success and the Case of Federally Sentenced Aboriginal Women
Reception to follow
* subject to change