Program – Monday 14 July

M2.1 Advancing Organizational Health and Resilience     

Convenor: Katy Kamkar
Chair:
Panellists:

• The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Study: An Overview with Recent Results and Opportunities for all Police
  Nicholas Carleton, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Regina

• Advancing Organizational Health and Resilience
  Mark Crowell, Chief of Police, Waterloo Regional Police Service

• Building Organizational Resiliency
  Chris Harkins, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Deputy Commissioner

• Creating Resilient Organizations: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Leadership and Workforce Well-Being
  Katy Kamkar, Clinical Psychologist and Federal Associate Organizational Ombudsperson, PSPC

• Advancing Organizational and Community Health & Resilience Through Leadership and Care
  Shahin Mehdizadeh, Chief of Police, Lethbridge Police Service, Alberta;

• “Stories are Science”: Developing Personal Narratives to Enhance Leadership Skills
  Jeff Thompson, Retired NYPD Detective; Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

M2.2 Redefining Crisis Response: Systems Transformation through Toronto Community Crisis Services (TCCS)

Convenor: Amna Iqbal
Chair: Liben Gebremikael (CEO, TAIBU CHC)
Panellists:

• Racquel Hamlet, Executive Director, Wellness and Community Crisis, TAIBU CHC
• Nicole Watson, Policy Development Officer, City of Toronto
• TBD (Research/Policy/Academic Perspective)

M2.3 LEPH Education? What for, what’s important and how to make it happen?

Convenor: Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron
Chair:
Panellists:

• Inga Heyman, Edinburgh Napier University
• Larissa Engelmann, VPFKRC
• Denise Martin, Northumbria University
• Yasmeen Krameddine, University of Alberta

M2.4 Bridging the public health and public safety divide: perceptions, reality and solutions

Convenor: Lt (Rtd) Diane Goldstein
Chair:
Panellists:

• Chief Brendan Cox, Albany Police Department
• Lisa Daugard, Co-Executive Director, Purpose Dignity Action
• Kassandra Frederique, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance
• Chief Brandon del Pozo, Assistant Professor, Brown University

M2.5 Road safety

Convenor: Levi Anderson
Chair:

• The Role of Police Uniforms and Views of Police Legitimacy in Reducing Young Driver Offending
  Levi Anderson, PhD Candidate, Griffith University
  Co-authors: Lyndel Bates, Lacey Schaefer

• Police Legitimacy and Traffic Offending: Examining the Impact of Police Legitimacy on Perceptions of Enforcement and Traffic Offendings
  Levi Anderson, Research Associate, University of the Sunshine Coast
  Co-author: Dr Verity Truelove, University of the Sunshine Coast

• Police Officers and Camera-Based Enforcement – Impact of Enforcement on Driver Perceptions and Offending Behaviour
  Levi Anderson, Research Associate, University of the Sunshine Coast
  Co-author: Dr Verity Truelove, University of the Sunshine Coast

• Police perceptions after two different types of random breath test operations
  Lyndel Bates, Associate Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute; and School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
  Co-authors: Dr Elise Sargeant, Dr Margo Van Felius, Dr Shane Doyle, Michael Pass, Corey Allen, Emma Bures, Professor Peter Martin, Peter Hosking

• Risky road use and perceptions of the safe system
  Lyndel Bates, Associate Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute; and School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
  Co-authors: Dr Candice Potter, Michael Pass

• How do police officers adapt a procedural justice script during random roadside breath tests? Body-worn camera analysis during a randomised control trial.
  Margo van Felius, Lecturer, Griffith Criminology Institute and School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
  Co-authors: Associate Professor Lyndel Bates, Dr Elise Sargeant, Dr Shane Doyle, Michael Pass, Corey Allen, Professor Peter Martin, Peter Hosking

• Caution or Consequence? Evaluating the Impact of Traffic Infringement Cautions on Road Safety in Tasmania
  Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, Associate Professor, Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania
  Co-author: James Dwyer

M2.6 Supporting Whole Systems Change for Violence Prevention in Wales

Convenor: Dr Joanne Hopkins, Public Health Wales and Visiting Professor, Wrexham University

• Wales Without Violence: Development of a Shared Framework for Preventing Violence Among Children and Young People
  Emma Barton, Wales Violence Prevention Unit, Public Health Wales

• Wales Without Violence: Integrating Behavioural Science to Support Whole System Change for Violence Prevention
  Bryony Parry, Violence Prevention Unit, Public Health Wales

• Developing a national conversation on trauma and adversity in Wales
  Joseff Bromwell, Public Health Wales

• Understanding the Health Needs of Women at Risk of Entering the Criminal Justice System (CJS) in North Wales – Community Based Support to Build Trust and promote Whole Systems Leadership
  Joanne Hopkins, Public Health Wales and Visiting Professor, Wrexham University

P3.1 LE Health and Wellbeing 1

• The psychological and physical health impacts associated with assaults against Canadian police officers
  Adam D. Vaughan, Associate Professor, University of Regina
  Co-author: Greg S. Anderson

• Risk factors for suicide and suicidal behaviour among public safety personnel: findings from a systematic review
  Joseph K. Burns, Senior Clinical Research Coordinator, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Neurosciences Program
  Co-authors: Nicole Edgar, Simon Hatcher

• Police Suicide Investigations: The Science, Honor, and Dignity of Stories
  Jeff Thompson, Researcher, Lipscomb University

• Segmenting the Rape and Serious Sexual Offence (RASSO) investigator workforce: implications for wellbeing and burnout
  Richard Harding, Senior Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence in Equity for Uniformed Public Services (CEEUPS), Anglia Ruskin University (ARU)
  Co-authors: Dr Arun Sondhi, Prof Emma Williams

P3.2 ACEs and Trauma-informed Policing 1

• Trauma-Informed Policing: Addressing Gender-Based Violence and Building Resilient Communities
  Jessenia Ogunade, Licensed Mental Health Clinician, Larimar Counseling Services LMSW PLLC

• Sentencing sexual offenders in Victoria, Australia: the presence, recognition, and application of antecedent and ongoing offender trauma within sentencing pronouncements and outcomes
  Clare Farmer, Associate Professor, Criminology, Deakin University, Australia
  Co-authors: Tahee Guala, Professor Peter Miller

• How to build trauma informed services in Justice Nursing teams . Blending meaning , policy and team work, with a study of routine inquiry into non fatal strangulation in  Sexual Assault Response Co-ordinating Centre (SARCS) in Scotland
  Jessica Davidson, National Lead Nurse for SARCS Network , Scotland
  Co-authors: Claire Danskin; Lisaw White

• Trauma from The System: The Impact of State Surveillance on the Reintegration of Parolees with Life or Extremely Prolonged Sentences
  Dan Jones, Chair, Justice Studies, NorQuest College

• A Case Study of a Human Trafficking Investigation Involving Migrant Women in the Sex Trade and the Shift to a Victim-Centric Approach by a Municipal Police Service
  Ricky Ho, Sergeant of Training & Education Bureau, York Regional Police
  Co-author: Suyang Yu

• Developing a trauma informed system- the journey to “Trauma Informed Lancashire”
  Justin Srivastava, Director of Justin Srivastava Consulting Limited, Retired UK Police Superintendent for the National Police Chief’s Council and Lancashire Violence Reduction Network
  Co-author: Dr Warren Larkin

P3.3 Violence – sexual, intimate partner and other 1

• ‘Cuckooing’ Victimisation as a Form of Adult Grooming and Exploitation
  Laura Bainbridge, Associate Professor, Criminal Justice, University of Leeds

• Presenting a Desistance Practice Framework to support police professionals working with people with sexual convictions
  Stephanie Kewley, Professor of Forensic and Criminal Justice, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
  Co-author: Dr Sarah Pemberton

• Developing quality standards through co-production – a community response to online child sexual eploitation and abuse victimisation
  Larissa Engelmann, Research Fellow, ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre, University of Leeds, UK
  Co-authors: Professor Corinne May-Chahal, Dr Christine A Weirich

• Vigilante Justice: Do ‘Paedophile Hunters’ Help or Hinder Law Enforcement?
  Stephanie Kewley, Professor of Forensic and Criminal Justice, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
  Co-author: Paige Barker

• A Population Health Approach to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Youth (CSEC) in Nova Scotia: Complementing a justice-based model
  Lila Pavey and Jenna Hopson, Prevention and Health Promotion Specialists

P3.4 LE and Mental Health 1

• The Invention of Urgency: The Transformation of the Police Role in Society’s Response to Mental Illness, 1900-1980
  David Thacher, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning, University of Michigan

• Early Mental Health Indicators in Child and Youth Police Encounters: Insights from the interRAI BMHS
  Roxana Vernescu, Assistant Professor, CHFS and PSYC, Nipissing University
  Co-authors: Hoffman, R., Brown, G., Mathias, K.

• The Mental Wellbeing Response Team: Adopting a Different Approach For Access to Mental Health Care in the Community
  Ashleigh Hewer, Advanced Care Paramedic and Mental Wellbeing Response Team Member with the Ottawa Paramedic Service

• Developing Evidence-Based Psychosis Training for Police: The UPSKILL Programme
  Carolina Campodonico, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Central Lancashire

MoI 2.1

Chair:

The Brain of a First Responder

Convenor: Stephanie Neuman, Former Police Sgt., LCSW

Stephanie has been a mental health therapist for over 13 years. Prior to that she served 10 years in law enforcement as a Detention Officer, Patrol Officer and Patrol Sergeant. Stephanie brings to life the reality of trauma in the brain for participants. The Brain of a First Responder takes participants inside their minds and allows for understanding as to how trauma has impacted their world while being in the role of a first responder.

Addressing the High Frequency of Mental Health Calls Within Canadian Policing: Promoting a Priority Shift in Educational Policy to Direct Practice          

Convenor: Lisa Deveau, PhD candidate, Queen’s University

Policing today highlights a gap between officer training and preparedness, and the realities of responding to vulnerable populations, particularly individuals with mental illnesses or in crisis. Research can address these challenges and reveal opportunities for discussions on how to address the realities. In this discussion, I will share research using Statistics Canada data showing that mental health-related calls often occupy more of a patrol officer’s time than traditional criminal matters.

Entangled: How People With Serious Mental Illness Get Caught in the Misdemeanor System

Convenor: Leah Pope, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Behavioral Medicine, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute

In this session, we examine the contexts and behaviors that lead to the arrest and processing of people with serious mental illnesses through the misdemeanor criminal legal system. We use data from our four-site study of misdemeanor processing among people with serious mental illnesses, as well as related projects, to gain an understanding of how, despite significant resources, commitment, and effort, individuals with serious mental illnesses remain entangled in misdemeanor systems. We also explore developments in the criminal legal and mental health systems that hold promise for advancing solutions for what has proven to be an intractable problem.

MoI 2.2

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Restating Power & Control? The Process and Impact of Moral Decision-Making

Convenor: Antje Joel, PhD Researcher at University of Central Lancashire

Our perception of the genders shapes our understanding of intimate partner violence. It determines which responses we deem “reasonable” and “just”. If our moral beliefs about gender and violence remain the same, new policies are doomed to fail. Not least, because it is the powerful in our societies that are reserved the right to execute them. Police officers’ perception of domestic violence remains traditional. In IPV-callouts, women who retaliate are three times as likely to get arrested than the original abuser.

Toronto Community Crisis Service at TAIBU CHC: A Step In the Right Direction

Convenor: Racquel Hamlet, Executive Director of Wellness and Community Crisis, TAIBU CHC

Toronto Community Crisis Service is a community-led, community driven mental health mobile crisis team which has established a healthy working relationship with law enforcement since 2022. TCCS works in tandem in the community when needed to attend calls that may be of a mental health nature but also a safety concern that we cannot manage. TCCS is a part of assisting with specific training modules for new recruit police officers as well as community neighborhood police liaisons. We help to inform their understanding of how to work with community members that have mental health challenges.

MoI 2.3

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Lighting the Fire Within – N’Debwewin (My Truth) – A curriculum to address Gender Based Violence from a Proactive Approach

Convenor: Taylor Sayers, Director of Corporate Services, UCCM Anishnaabe Police Service

The UCCM Police developed the N’Debwewin curriculum as a part of the Lighting the Fire Within (LTFW) project. LTFW was created with a specific goal to reduce the gender-based violence (GBV) statistics in the Indigenous communities that the police served. The curriculum was created to teach individuals about their roles in a relationship, and what a healthy family structure looks like. It uses Indigenous cultural teachings to teach about the roles and responsibilities of individuals in a family unit.

P4.1 LE Health and Wellbeing 2

• Evaluating Officer Wellbeing Initiatives in the Maltese Police Service
  Prof Jyoti Belur, Professor of Policing, University College London
  Co-authors: Dr Sandra Scicluna, Annabel Cuff

• A Review of Police Personnel Wellbeing Interventions in the UK: What Trauma Support is Available?
  Dr Eleanor Craig, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
  Co-author: Dr Fazeelat Duran

• Promising Practices to Support the Health and Wellness of Law Enforcement Personnel
  Mauranne Ste-Marie, Senior Research Analyst, Program Research and Development, Sensitive and Specialized Investigative Services, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  Co-author: Cheryl Tremblay

• Preview: Mitigating Impacts of Exposure (Taking Care of the Caregivers) Health and Wellness Training
  Cheryl Tremblay, Manager, Health and Wellness Program, Sensitive and Specialized Investigative Services, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  Co-author: Mauranne Ste-Marie

P4.2 ACEs and Trauma-informed Policing 2

• Breaking Cycles, Building Trust: A Trauma-Informed Lens on Youth, Violence, and Justice
  Andy Luu, Concurrent Disorder Service Coordinator – NaAve Child and Family Services Toronto

• Empathy’s Burden: The Complexities of Nurturing Relationships
  Dr Tegan Brierley-Sollis, Lecturer in Policing, Criminology and Trauma Informed Approaches at Wrexham University
  Co-author: Dr Caroline Hughes

• Conceptions and Applications of Trauma-informed Policing: International Perspectives – Preliminary Insights
  Michele Pich, PhD Candidate, Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University, USA

• Mapping the Margins: Addressing Racialized Disparities in Justice through Inclusive, Trauma-Informed Victim Response
  Nela Kalpic, Natioanal Victim Rights Advocate, State Director at Marsy’s Law for Wisconsin

P4.3 Violence – sexual, intimate partner and other 2

• Mitigating Gender-Based Violence with Sexuality Education Among Colleges of Education Students in Ogun State, Nigeria: An Experimental Approach
  Dr. Rebecca Oluwafunmibi Ojeniyi, Senior Lecturer, Federal College of Education, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

• Delivering integrated responses to domestic and family violence: Challenges of cross sector partnering
  Dr Margo van Felius, Lecturer, Griffith Criminology Institute and School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
  Co-authors: Professor Christine Bond (GCI), Professor Janet Ransley

• Ethical Leadership Approaches in times of crisis: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Gender-Based Violence Among Women and Girls in Rural Migori County, Kenya
  Dr. Kutisha Ebron, Adjunct Faculty , Southern New Hampshire University

• Community-Led Approaches to Youth Violence Prevention: Lessons from the UK’s Neighbourhood Fund
  Rebecca Bates, Researcher, Liverpool John Moores University (UK)
  Co-authors: Zara Quigg, Andy Newton

• Police visibility and community information sharing: Keys to combating Crime in Kumasi, Ghana
  Emmanuel Kusi, Station Officer, Ghana Police Service

P4.4 LE and Mental Health 2

• Blurring the Lines: Policing at the Front Line of Mental Health Crisis
  Dr Carolina Campodonico, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Central Lancashire

• Mental health policing policy in England: Moving towards the ‘Right care’ or throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
  Dr Claire Warrington, Research Fellow, ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre & Institute for Mental Health Research at York, University of York, UK

• Police Mental Health Act Apprehensions: Who Gets Taken to Hospital?
  Dr. Ron Hoffman, Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Nipissing University;
  Co-author: Professor Gregory P. Brown

• Mental Health Indicators at First Police Contact: Unique vs.Repeat Encounters
  Rozana Vernescu, Assistant Professor, CHFS and PSYC, Nipissing University
  Co-authors: Hoffman, R., Brown, G., Mathias, K. – CRJS, Nipissing University

P4.5 Drug use, harm reduction and HIV 1

• Evaluating the effects of Toronto’s supervised consumption sites on crime: multiple baseline interrupted time series analyses with and without synthetic controls
  Geoff Ingram, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada
  Co-authors: Dimitra Panagiotoglou, Jihoon Lim, Mariam El Sheikh, Imen Farhat, Xander Bjornsson, Maximilian Schaefer

• Perceptions and Experiences with Police among People Who Use Drugs in the Initial Year of British Columbia’s Decriminalization of Illegal Drugs Policy
  Cayley Russell, Research Manager, Ontario Node, Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters (CRISM)
  Co-authors: Geoff Bardwell, Matthew Bonn, Jade Boyd, Elaine Hyshka, Jurgen Rehm, Farihah Ali

• Out-of-treatment people using crack cocaine in an English town: the role for social policy and law enforcement
  Dr Andrew Papworth, Research Associate, School for Business and Society, University of York, UK
  Co-authors: Geoff Page, Tiggey May, Bina Bhardwa, Charlie Lloyd

• Police officers’ opinions and experiences of British Columbia’s drug decriminalization policy one year after implementation
  Dr Amanda Butler, Assistant Professor, Criminology, Simon Fraser University
  Co-authors: Dr Winnie Agnew-Pauley, Sarah Ferencz, Dr Alissa Greer

• A Safer Downtown for All: Involving People Who Use Drugs in Solutions to Public Safety
  Rob Boyd, Chief Executive Officer, Ottawa Inner City Health

MoI 3.1

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Amplifying the Voices of the Unheard – Creative Research Methodologies to Promote Understanding of Stigma and Shame and Substance Use/Mental Ill-Health

Convenor: Joanne Hopkins, Programme Director, ACEs, Criminal Justice and Violence Prevention, Public Health Wales

People with lived experience of adversity and trauma experience stigma and shame, which often prevents them seeking help or being able to trust people or organisations. Storytelling through visual and creative arts has provided an opportunity for people recovering from substance use to advocate and influence for change. A short series of animations by people with lived experience of substance use, stigma and shame, co-developed by people with lived experience, Dyfed Powys Police and Powys Health Board, to challenge perceptions of public services that they are trauma-informed towards substance users

MoI 3.2

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Lighting the Fire Within – Come to Play (Aambe Daamnidaa) – A play based curriculum to connect with youth

Convenor: Taylor Sayers, Director of Corporate Services, UCCM Anishnaabe Police Service

The UCCM Police has developed and tested a Come to Play (Aambe Daamnidaa) curriculum that was developed by many as a part of the Lighting the Fire Within (LTFW) project. LTFW was created with a specific goal to reduce the gender-based violence (GBV) statistics in the Indigenous communities that the police served. The play-based program includes everyone and teaches the youth about Mino Bimaadziwin (living a good life). It teaches them about the importance of taking care of themselves, their communities, and allows them to learn the Indigenous cultural teachings.

Hearing is Believing – The Importance of Storytelling and Story Listening in developing Wisdom about the Experiences of People who are Less Heard

Convenor: Joanne Hopkins, Programme Director, ACEs, Criminal Justice and Violence Prevention, Public Health Wales

Marginalised and racialised communities in Wales feel, and often are excluded – story telling and deep listening is an effective way to engage, build trust and inform change. Story telling is overlooked by decision makers in favour of statistics and ‘hard’ data – losing the complexity and nuance of cross-cultural individual, community and intergenerational experience. This work seeks to engage people in being heard. Films and animations from people with lived experience,  how their stories brought change, activities and material to take away.

MoI 3.3

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What about the families? Introducing Garnet Families

Convenor: Heidi Cramm, Professor, Queen’s University

Public safety families serve alongside their loved ones, navigating a complex array of lifestyle dimensions. The public safety community increasingly looks to better understand where and how organizations might engage with and support families. Garnet Families has evolved in response to these needs, bringing police and public safety families together, along with those that study, serve, and support them, creating a mutually-informing research ecosystem to create and disseminate free, evidence-based resources like PSPNET Families to everyone.

First Responder Mental Health Programs: looking at a continuum of care

Convenor: Bailey Puchyr-Chartier, Registered Psychologist-AB, Doctoral student California Southern University

With a decade of experience in treating first responders and several years prior working alongside first responders, this talk will focus on the far less discussed stressors and traumas in law enforcement professionals’ lives, which do not rise to the level of being a critical incident and yet can be debilitating. A significant amount of public safety personnel (PSP) experience occupational stress injuries (OSI) that are not directly related to critical incidents; these, too, can lead to a range of mental health challenges and impacts on health. This talk will use case vignettes from the last decade of my work that will be anonymized for privacy. It will allow for an interactive talk in which we look at the kinds of stressors and crises in the lives of law enforcement that do not rise to the level of a critical incident but nonetheless impact well-being, sleep, mood, functioning, and job performance.

Enhancing Wellbeing and Resilience through Somatic Sound Healing: Chaplain-Supported Wellness for Law Enforcement and First Responders

Convenor: Orisha A. Bowers, Executive Director, Orixa Healing Arts Wellness and Spiritual Centre

This workshop addresses the critical need for effective stress management and resilience building specifically among law enforcement officers and first responders of color who are at disproportionate risk of various physical and mental health challenges. By integrating somatic sound healing with chaplain support, participants are offered a unique, holistic approach to wellness that acknowledges and addresses the interconnected aspects of health affected by their demanding roles.

MoI 3.4

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Harm prevention in police custodial detention

Convenor: Ross Hendy, Lecturer, Monash University, Australia

This interactive workshop seeks to build a dialogue between police researchers and public health practitioners towards reducing deaths and other harms in police custodial detention. We are working on an international comparison to identify best practices in police custodial detention in Australia, England, New Zealand and Scotland. The session will commence with a 20-minute overview of our international research programme and then seek dialogue with other practitioners on a series of questions and discussion prompts.

How to Make Initial Responses to Domestic Violence Calls Brain Injury Sensitive

Convenor: Halina (Lin) Haag, Research Fellow & Contract Faculty Member, Wilfrid Laurier University

The intersection of intimate partner violence-related brain injury (IPV-BI) has been almost entirely overlooked in research, policy, and practice. Physical violence during IPV can cause BIs, both through blows to the face, head, and neck, and through non-fatal strangulation. A general lack of IPV-BI awareness, gaps in screening, and unique barriers to healthcare and law enforcement leave many survivors undiagnosed and/or unaware of their BI, further complicating identification and support. Our session will be a structured group discussion seeking to gain insight into existing knowledge around IPV-BI, daily practice in answering domestic violence calls, and how to build on current success while addressing challenges to positive outcomes. This session is intended to be part of an ongoing research project tasked with developing IPV-BI training for law enforcement and healthcare professionals. As such, it will be offered in a focus group style with guiding questions and open discussion with participants.

MoI 3.5

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Evidence to Action: The Ottawa Police CORE Strategic Prevention Framework

Convenor: Paul Stam, Sergeant, Ottawa Police. Evidence-Based Policing and CORE Strategy

Public health and safety share a mutual aim of preventing harm. Crime and overdose are concentrated in particular places, disproportionately affecting vulnerable, and marginalized groups. Traditional responses seldom address the systemic barriers fueling these problems. CORE is a ground-up, evidence-based initiative that unites community members, frontline service providers, and emergency responders. Its central feature is the Integrated Community Situation Table—created by those on the ground—to steer at-risk individuals away from repeated criminalization and into coordinated care.

Birth of CoLEAD as a Public Order and Safety Response

Convenor: Lisa Daugaard, Co-Executive Director, Purpose Dignity Action:

CoLEAD is pioneering a new model of care and lodging for hundreds of people who had been living in public spaces. CoLEAD engages individuals with substance use and mental health issues who are living unsheltered, and historically overpoliced/underserviced by healthcare or legal services. CoLEAD reduces the chance that individuals will be re-engaged in the justice system, and addresses needs through immediate and continuing assessments, on-site care, and care connections. This Discussion Group will engage with these questions: What is trauma-informed awareness? What is a harm reduction approach to policing, public health, and housing? What can these look like in practice? Participants will generate ideas for collaborating across criminal-legal, health, and shelter sectors to keep high acuity, high-barrier populations safely housed and out of jail.