Child Intervention Panel: Ministerial panel will EXPLORE ways to improve Alberta’s child intervention system. However, when you read the information further, somebody has changed the Focus to be about recommendations to improve the child death review process, to
• identify recommendations to streamline and strengthen the child death review process, including receiving updates on the status of all internal reviews
• identify which agency should have primary authority for conducting these reviews
• examine internal communications protocols to ensure timely access to information for relevant agencies
• develop possible criteria for which deaths would be reviewed. This could include all children, all children in care, all children receiving child intervention services or some combination of the above
• make recommendations for legislative changes
Next Meeting to be held:
March 30, 2017, 9:00am to 4:00 pm
Mahmawi-atoskiwin
Suite 100, 2323-32nd Avenue, NE
Calgary, AB.
COMMENTS: Keep in mind the titled purpose, and how the purpose has changed!
Q: Who took the initial good idea, of exploring ways to IMPROVE ALBERTA’S CHILD INTERVENTION SYSTEM, and narrowed the focus to be about ONLY the issue of a ‘child death review process? Who has the ’temerity’ to assume the power to take OVER the review process, narrowing it down to focus ONLY on one aspect of the ‘intervention’ by narrowing it down to focus ONLY on the death review process. Isn’t this taking away the POWER from the elected politicians? Who would dare to presume such power? Is it the politicians themselves? OR is it the civil servants employed by the Minister of children’s Services who have removed her elected POWER and AUTHORITY to direct the civil servants, and now the civil servants are again ‘running the minister’!
Q. Our observation is that the ‘optics’ of the ‘panel MLA members’ is that those chosen appear to be persons who are readily and more easily manipulated by the civil servants perspective about their ‘intervention’ work, and that those who do have something concrete to offer, have been conveniently omitted from working on this panel; i.e. Karen McPherson, MLA of Calgary MacKay-Nose Hill. Why is she NOT on this panel? Is it because she is the MLA representing some very outspoken, articulate ’targeted’ families, whose children the Calgary Region, Area 3 civil servants have ‘apprehended’ pursuing a flawed ‘due process’ by NOT dotting every ‘i’ and crossing every ’t’ of the Child Youth and Family Enhancement Act?
Q. The title is misleading and deceptive. As is the habit of the civil servants working with this ministry of children’s services -- they are in the habit of systemically and systematically practicing the ‘art of mendacity’, thus, these civil servants have wrested the subject matter of the review away from what the politicians named the ‘review, and it has actually been redefined and narrowed down to the focus being about:
Q: This Panel is comprised of 13 panel members who are all politicians; and 3 ‘experts’ who are all graduates of the Alberta higher education systems, have degrees in social work, and have worked for the Alberta government child welfare and protection system during their professional pursuits;
The 13-member Ministerial Panel on Child Intervention includes representatives from all parties; along with three [3] leading Alberta experts on child intervention and Indigenous issues:
FYI: The 13 MLA participants are:
• Debbie Jabbour, Panel Chair, Deputy Speaker, MLA for Peace River; email peace.river@assenbkt,ab,ca
• Maria Fitzpatrick, MLA for Lethbridge-East;
• Nicole Goehring, MLA for Edmonton-Castle Downs
• Graham Sucha, MLA for Calgary-Shaw
• Heather Sweet, Deputy Chair of Committees, MLA for Edmonton-Manning
• Cameron Westhead, MLA for Banff-Cochrane
• Jason Nixon, Wildrose caucus, MLA for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre
• Ric McIver, Interim Leader, Progressive Conservative caucus, MLA for Calgary-Hays
• Dr. David Swann, Leader, Alberta Liberal caucus, MLA for Calgary Mountain View;
• Greg Clark, Leader, Alberta Party caucus, MLA for Calgary-Elbow
• Danielle Larivee, Minister of Children’s Services and MLA for Lesser Slave Lake, will sit as an ex-officio member.
Their bios are all included on the original link. Just click on the blue arrow marker, of the original link above and below:
https://www.alberta.ca/child-intervention-panel.aspx
The three [3] leading Alberta experts (??) on child intervention and Indigenous issues are::
Dr. Peter Choate, MSW, PhD; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health, Community and Education, Mount Royal University
Dr. Peter Choate is a Registered Social Worker and Member of the Clinical Registry, Approved Clinical Supervisor for the Alberta College of Registered Social Workers. He holds a PhD in Addictions and a Master of Social Work. He is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta.
Dr. Choate has been engaged in clinical private counseling and an assessment practice with an emphasis on addictions, domestic violence and child protection matters. He has been qualified as an expert witness on many occasions in the Provincial Court of Alberta (Family and Youth Division) in Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton as well as the Court of Queen’s Bench (Calgary and Medicine Hat).
Dr. Choate provides services to Alberta Child Welfare, Youth Probation Services (Calgary) and as a qualified Substance Abuse Professional for the U.S. National Transportation and Highway Safety Act. He is a Continuing Education Instructor at the University of Calgary. His particular emphasis is on child and adolescent mental health including maltreatment, neglect and abuse (physical, sexual, emotional) and these issues within family systems. He has presented nationally and internationally at various conferences and as a trainer for organizations in these areas.
*Bruce MacLaurin, MSW; Professor, University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work. Bruce MacLaurin’s research interests include child maltreatment, child welfare policy and service delivery, foster care outcomes, street youth and youth at risk. He is currently the primary investigator on Service Outcomes for Children and Youth Referred to Out-Of-Home Care, a three-year study for the Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research. He is a co-investigator on three other major studies, including Telling: Examining Cross-Cultural Patterns of Maltreatment Disclosures of Adolescents and Evidence-Based Management in Child Welfare, both funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; and Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement Grant in Homelessness, Housing and Health, funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Professor MacLaurin teaches classes on child maltreatment, social work evaluation, research, social work policy related to child and family issues, and at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In 2007, he was nominated by the Graduate Students’ Association for a teaching excellence award. Before coming to the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Social Work in 2002, he was a research associate at the University of Toronto’s Bell Canada Child Welfare Research Unit.
*Dr. Patti LaBoucane-Benson, PhD; Director of Research and Evaluation, Native Counseling Services of Alberta. Dr. Patti LaBoucane-Benson has a PhD in Human Ecology, focusing on Aboriginal Family and Community Resilience. She was the recipient of the two top Canadian social sciences doctoral awards: The Pierre Elliot Trudeau Scholarship and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship. Patti has worked for Native Counselling Services of Alberta (NCSA) for 21 years and is currently the Director of Research, Training and Communication, providing leadership for research teams undertaking community-based, applied research. Patti also is executive producer and principle investigator for BearPaw Communications, BearPaw Media video productions and BearPaw Legal Education publications and oversees the development and implementation of the historic trauma healing programs for NCSA. Dr. LaBoucane-Benson is also a mentor and lecturer for the Peter Lougheed Leadership College, a lecturer for the University of Alberta Executive Education, and provides Historic Trauma-Informed Service delivery training for Legal Aid Alberta, The Edmonton Police Service and REACH Edmonton. In 2015, Patti’s first novel was published by House of Anansi Press. Based on her PhD research, The Outside Circle is a work of creative non-fiction about healing and reconciliation for an inner-city Aboriginal family struggling with poverty, gang affiliation and hopelessness. The Outside Circle was on the Globe and Mail’s Top Ten Canadian books and was named a CBC “Best Books of 2015”, an Outstanding International Books 2016 by the United States Board on Books for Young People, winner of the Red Deer Reads competition and long-listed for the Canada Reads competition. Patti has been awarded the Alberta Aboriginal Role Model Award for Education; the Legal Aid Access to Justice Award and the Rotary Paul Harris Fellow.: #Albertayouthvoiceradio Informative repost :
Child Intervention Panel: Ministerial panel will EXPLORE ways to improve Alberta’s child intervention system. However, when you read the information further, somebody has changed the Focus to be about recommendations to improve the child death review process, to
• identify recommendations to streamline and strengthen the child death review process, including receiving updates on the status of all internal reviews
• identify which agency should have primary authority for conducting these reviews
• examine internal communications protocols to ensure timely access to information for relevant agencies
• develop possible criteria for which deaths would be reviewed. This could include all children, all children in care, all children receiving child intervention services or some combination of the above
• make recommendations for legislative changes
Next Meeting to be held:
March 30, 2017, 9:00am to 4:00 pm
Mahmawi-atoskiwin
Suite 100, 2323-32nd Avenue, NE
Calgary, AB.
COMMENTS: Keep in mind the titled purpose, and how the purpose has changed!
Q: Who took the initial good idea, of exploring ways to IMPROVE ALBERTA’S CHILD INTERVENTION SYSTEM, and narrowed the focus to be about ONLY the issue of a ‘child death review process? Who has the ’temerity’ to assume the power to take OVER the review process, narrowing it down to focus ONLY on one aspect of the ‘intervention’ by narrowing it down to focus ONLY on the death review process. Isn’t this taking away the POWER from the elected politicians? Who would dare to presume such power? Is it the politicians themselves? OR is it the civil servants employed by the Minister of children’s Services who have removed her elected POWER and AUTHORITY to direct the civil servants, and now the civil servants are again ‘running the minister’!
Q. Our observation is that the ‘optics’ of the ‘panel MLA members’ is that those chosen appear to be persons who are readily and more easily manipulated by the civil servants perspective about their ‘intervention’ work, and that those who do have something concrete to offer, have been conveniently omitted from working on this panel; i.e. Karen McPherson, MLA of Calgary MacKay-Nose Hill. Why is she NOT on this panel? Is it because she is the MLA representing some very outspoken, articulate ’targeted’ families, whose children the Calgary Region, Area 3 civil servants have ‘apprehended’ pursuing a flawed ‘due process’ by NOT dotting every ‘i’ and crossing every ’t’ of the Child Youth and Family Enhancement Act?
Q. The title is misleading and deceptive. As is the habit of the civil servants working with this ministry of children’s services -- they are in the habit of systemically and systematically practicing the ‘art of mendacity’, thus, these civil servants have wrested the subject matter of the review away from what the politicians named the ‘review, and it has actually been redefined and narrowed down to the focus being about:
Q: This Panel is comprised of 13 panel members who are all politicians; and 3 ‘experts’ who are all graduates of the Alberta higher education systems, have degrees in social work, and have worked for the Alberta government child welfare and protection system during their professional pursuits;
The 13-member Ministerial Panel on Child Intervention includes representatives from all parties; along with three [3] leading Alberta experts on child intervention and Indigenous issues:
FYI: The 13 MLA participants are:
• Debbie Jabbour, Panel Chair, Deputy Speaker, MLA for Peace River; email peace.river@assenbkt,ab,ca
• Maria Fitzpatrick, MLA for Lethbridge-East;
• Nicole Goehring, MLA for Edmonton-Castle Downs
• Graham Sucha, MLA for Calgary-Shaw
• Heather Sweet, Deputy Chair of Committees, MLA for Edmonton-Manning
• Cameron Westhead, MLA for Banff-Cochrane
• Jason Nixon, Wildrose caucus, MLA for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre
• Ric McIver, Interim Leader, Progressive Conservative caucus, MLA for Calgary-Hays
• Dr. David Swann, Leader, Alberta Liberal caucus, MLA for Calgary Mountain View;
• Greg Clark, Leader, Alberta Party caucus, MLA for Calgary-Elbow
• Danielle Larivee, Minister of Children’s Services and MLA for Lesser Slave Lake, will sit as an ex-officio member.
Their bios are all included on the original link. Just click on the blue arrow marker, of the original link above and below:
https://www.alberta.ca/child-intervention-panel.aspx
The three [3] leading Alberta experts (??) on child intervention and Indigenous issues are::
Dr. Peter Choate, MSW, PhD; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health, Community and Education, Mount Royal University
Dr. Peter Choate is a Registered Social Worker and Member of the Clinical Registry, Approved Clinical Supervisor for the Alberta College of Registered Social Workers. He holds a PhD in Addictions and a Master of Social Work. He is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta.
Dr. Choate has been engaged in clinical private counseling and an assessment practice with an emphasis on addictions, domestic violence and child protection matters. He has been qualified as an expert witness on many occasions in the Provincial Court of Alberta (Family and Youth Division) in Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton as well as the Court of Queen’s Bench (Calgary and Medicine Hat).
Dr. Choate provides services to Alberta Child Welfare, Youth Probation Services (Calgary) and as a qualified Substance Abuse Professional for the U.S. National Transportation and Highway Safety Act. He is a Continuing Education Instructor at the University of Calgary. His particular emphasis is on child and adolescent mental health including maltreatment, neglect and abuse (physical, sexual, emotional) and these issues within family systems. He has presented nationally and internationally at various conferences and as a trainer for organizations in these areas.
*Bruce MacLaurin, MSW; Professor, University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work. Bruce MacLaurin’s research interests include child maltreatment, child welfare policy and service delivery, foster care outcomes, street youth and youth at risk. He is currently the primary investigator on Service Outcomes for Children and Youth Referred to Out-Of-Home Care, a three-year study for the Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research. He is a co-investigator on three other major studies, including Telling: Examining Cross-Cultural Patterns of Maltreatment Disclosures of Adolescents and Evidence-Based Management in Child Welfare, both funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; and Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement Grant in Homelessness, Housing and Health, funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Professor MacLaurin teaches classes on child maltreatment, social work evaluation, research, social work policy related to child and family issues, and at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In 2007, he was nominated by the Graduate Students’ Association for a teaching excellence award. Before coming to the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Social Work in 2002, he was a research associate at the University of Toronto’s Bell Canada Child Welfare Research Unit.
*Dr. Patti LaBoucane-Benson, PhD; Director of Research and Evaluation, Native Counseling Services of Alberta. Dr. Patti LaBoucane-Benson has a PhD in Human Ecology, focusing on Aboriginal Family and Community Resilience. She was the recipient of the two top Canadian social sciences doctoral awards: The Pierre Elliot Trudeau Scholarship and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship. Patti has worked for Native Counselling Services of Alberta (NCSA) for 21 years and is currently the Director of Research, Training and Communication, providing leadership for research teams undertaking community-based, applied research. Patti also is executive producer and principle investigator for BearPaw Communications, BearPaw Media video productions and BearPaw Legal Education publications and oversees the development and implementation of the historic trauma healing programs for NCSA. Dr. LaBoucane-Benson is also a mentor and lecturer for the Peter Lougheed Leadership College, a lecturer for the University of Alberta Executive Education, and provides Historic Trauma-Informed Service delivery training for Legal Aid Alberta, The Edmonton Police Service and REACH Edmonton. In 2015, Patti’s first novel was published by House of Anansi Press. Based on her PhD research, The Outside Circle is a work of creative non-fiction about healing and reconciliation for an inner-city Aboriginal family struggling with poverty, gang affiliation and hopelessness. The Outside Circle was on the Globe and Mail’s Top Ten Canadian books and was named a CBC “Best Books of 2015”, an Outstanding International Books 2016 by the United States Board on Books for Young People, winner of the Red Deer Reads competition and long-listed for the Canada Reads competition. Patti has been awarded the Alberta Aboriginal Role Model Award for Education; the Legal Aid Access to Justice Award and the Rotary Paul Harris Fellow.
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