Sparrow Lake Alliance | 13th Annual Meeting: April 26-27, 2002

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	Speaker List

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		13^th Annual Meeting April 26-27, 2002 Bayview-Wildwood Resort

		THEME: “Integrating Research, Policy & Practice”

		This year’s Annual Meeting brought together an exciting roster of leaders in the fields of child and youth research, policy, and advocacy. The goal of the meeting was to explore how we as service providers, decision-makers, and community members can better translate and apply cutting-edge research evidence to our work with, and for children, youth, and their families.


	13^th Annual Meeting April 26-27, 2002 Bayview-Wildwood Resort

	“Integrating Research, Policy & Practice”

Keynote Address

“The Quality of Decision-Making”
George Thomson
Executive Director, National Judicial Institute
Former Deputy Minister, Justice Canada

From various perspectives, as judge, policy-maker, senior public servant, and educator, George Thomson has observed and participated in over thirty years of legal and policy reform on behalf of children and families. In this address, he uses that experience to illustrate his belief that the primary measure of success is whether or not policy reforms enhance or diminish the quality of the always-fallible, individual decision-making of those who work with children and families at risk.


	Download the address by the keynote speaker from this year's annual meeting, George Thomson, Executive Director, National Judicial Institute and Former Deputy Minister, Justice Canada - “The Quality of Decision-Making”

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Speaker List

“The National Longitudinal Survey of Children & Youth”
Daniel Boothby, Assistant Director, Applied Research Branch, Strategic Policy, Human Resource Development Canada (HRDC)

“The State of Aboriginal Children and Youth”
Joyce Pelletier, Executive Director, Dilico Ojibway Child & Family Services

“The Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse & Neglect - Implications for Policy & Practice”
Nico Trocmé, AssociateProfessor,
Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto; Director, Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare and Bell Canada Child Welfare Research Unit

“The Civic Community”
Dan Offord, M.D., Director, The Canadian Centre for Studies for Children at Risk; Head, Division of Child Psychiatry, McMaster University; Research Director, Chedoke Child and Family Centre
Ainsworth Morgan,Teacher,
Nelson Mandela Park Public School
Jessica Hill, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities

Conference Photos

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