PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
Welcoming Remarks:
Elder Gilbert Whiteduck, Algonquin Anishinabe Knowledge Holder, U Ottawa
Chief (Ret’d) Ken Walker, President, International Association of Chiefs of Police
Councillor Marty Carr, City of Ottawa
Speakers: Setting the Scene
Auke van Dijk, Netherlands Police
Wendy Ellis, Milken Institute of Public Health, George Washington University
Adam Dalrymple, B.C. Crown Counsel Association
M1.1
The Fourth Emergency Service: Marginalised Communities Responding to Crises
M1.2
Beyond the Neurotypical Lens: Police Scotland’s emerging approaches to Neurodivergence in Criminal Justice interactions
M1.3
Strengthening the Families of Public Safety Personnel: Innovations, Experiences, and Emerging Supports
M1.4
Wales 1: ‘Do You See My Trauma?
M1.5
Bridging the public health and public safety divide: perceptions, reality and solutions
P1.1
Vulnerability
P1.2
Health states, health care and law enforcement
MoI 1.1
- Soul Space Ottawa – Collective Care for Community Workers
- Examining Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Risk and Coercive Control: A Collaboration Between Police, Health and Academia
- From Harm to Hope: Panel Discussion – How CORE Transforms Public Safety
MoI 1.2
- Birth of CoLEAD as a Public Order and Safety Response
- Operationalizing a pro-public health lens to service delivery in policing
Speakers:
Karyn McCluskey, Community Justice Scotland
Katy Kamkar, Federal Associate Organizational Ombudsperson
Kofi Barnes, Judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Grand Chief Steven Point, BC First Nations Justice Council
M2.1
Advancing Organizational Health and Resilience
M2.2
Redefining Crisis Response: Systems Transformation through Toronto Community Crisis Services (TCCS)
M2.3
Driving whole system approach to prevention in Scotland – the Scottish Prevention Hub
M2.4
Road safety
M2.5
Supporting Whole Systems Change for Violence Prevention in Wales
P2.1
LE Health and Wellbeing 1
P2.2
ACEs and Trauma-informed Policing 1
P2.3
Violence – sexual, intimate partner and other 1
P2.4
LE and Mental Health 1
MoI 2.1
- The Brain 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
- Entangled: How People With Serious Mental Illness Get Caught in the Misdemeanor System
MoI 2.2
- Is it time for a New 1st Responder Role?
- Toronto Community Crisis Service at TAIBU CHC: A Step In the Right Direction
- How a Multi-System Coordinated System of Care Increases Public Safety While Enhancing Community Connectedness and Reducing Harm for All
MoI 2.3
- Lighting the Fire Within – N’Debwewin (My Truth) – A curriculum to address Gender Based Violence from a Proactive Approach
- Lighting the Fire Within – A Culture and Trauma Informed Curriculum – Delivery and Impacts.
P3.1
ACEs and Trauma-informed Policing 2
P3.2
Violence – sexual, intimate partner and other 2
P3.3
LE and Mental Health 2
P3.4
Drug use, harm reduction and HIV 1
MoI 3.1
- Amplifying the Voices of the Unheard – Creative Research Methodologies to Promote Understanding of Stigma and Shame and Substance Use/Mental Ill-Health
- Evidence to Action: The Ottawa Police CORE Strategic Prevention Framework
MoI 3.2
- Lighting the Fire Within – Come to Play (Aambe Daamnidaa) – A play based curriculum to connect with youth
- Hearing is Believing – The Importance of Storytelling and Story Listening in developing Wisdom about the Experiences of People who are Less Heard
MoI 3.3
- First Responder Mental Health Programs: looking at a continuum of care
- Enhancing Wellbeing and Resilience through Somatic Sound Healing: Chaplain-Supported Wellness for Law Enforcement and First Responders
MoI 3.4
- Harm prevention in police custodial detention
- How to Make Initial Responses to Domestic Violence Calls Brain Injury Sensitive
Speakers:
Mark Bellis, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Lin Haag, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Chris Giacomantonio, Dalhousie University
Amy Barden, City of Seattle, Community Assisted Response & Engagement
M3.1
Championing Policing and Public Health Collaboration
M3.2
Breaking the Cycle: Combating Occupational Stress Wounds, Moral Injuries and PTSD
M3.3
“De-escalation in the Digital Age”: Preparing Future Officers in Mental Health Crisis Response Using Virtual Reality Scenario Training
M3.4
LEPH Collection #2: what would you like to know? what do we need to know from you?
M3.5
Redefining Community, there is no us and them. A radical revisioning of policing wellness and community safety, surprise it’s the same thing.
P4.1
Collaboration in practice
P4.2
ACEs and Trauma-informed Policing 3
P4.3
Violence – sexual, intimate partner and other 3
P4.4
LEPH 1
MoI 4.1
- A New Vision of Blue: How Police-Community Collaboration Transforms Public Safety
- The Alternative Response Research Collective: A Practitioner-Led Initiative Advancing the Future of Community Safety
MoI 4.2
- Training on People with Disabilities for Law Enforcement
- Are We Unsafe or Are We Uncomfortable – The Role of Bias and Lack of Self Reflection when “Helping” Vulnerable People
MoI 4.3
- Now and Then: Applying evidence-based approaches to address crime and violence through Stratified Policing and through preventative trauma-informed approaches to policing
- Hands Off: Reducing police perpetrated violence against vulnerable groups partnership – South African Police Service (SAPS) Dignity, Diversity and Policing (DDP) programme
P5.1
Miscellaneous – the breadth of LEPH
P5.2
Police education and training
P5.3
LEPH in Indigenous Communities
P5.4
LEPH 2
MoI 5.1
- Multidisciplinary Assessment Collaborative (MAC) ZERO
- Restating Power & Control? The Process and Impact of Moral Decision-Making
MoI 5.2
- Assessing autistic women’s experiences of interactions with professional services after experiences of interpersonal violence
- Mapping the Margins: Addressing Racialized Disparities in Justice through Inclusive, Trauma-Informed Victim Response
MoI 5.3
- Preventing Drowning Through Partnerships in Canada’s Capital Region
- Reducing Road Trauma through Road Policing: Strengthening Collaboration Between Research and Frontline Policing
LEPH Oration
Mark Moore, Research Professor of Public Leadership and Management, Harvard Kennedy School
[speaker TBC]
The new Africa Law Enforcement and Public Health Network
Munyaradzi I Katumba, Africa LEPH Network
M4.1
The Need for More Effective Academic and Law Enforcement Collaboration
M4.2
Law Enforcement, Vulnerability and Public Health Approaches: Opportunities and challenges to achieve meaningful change.
M4.3
Bridging Borders to Serve American & Canadian Communities: Protecting Deep and Enduring Traditions on the Front Lines of CSWB
M4.4
Alternative Response Research Roundtable
M5.1
Where to now? Considering the big picture in integrating organisational joint strategies and working relationships
M5.2
Building Trust-Based Partnerships between Law Enforcement and Alternative Emergency Response Teams: Insights from Texas, Florida, and Kansas
M5.3
LEPH Education? What for, what’s important and how to make it happen?
P6.1
Dementia and ABI
P6.2
In and out of Corrections
P6.3
LE Health and Wellbeing 3
- Rapporteur’s report from the conference
- Report from the GLEPHA strategic planning meeting
- Thanks
Next LEPH conference: Leeds, UK – LEPH2026