SUMMIT CHAIR

Dr. Leena Augimeri
Director, Centre for Children Committing Offences and Director, Program Development, Child Development Institute
SNAP® Co-Founder
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Biography

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. David Farrington, O.B.E. – Cost of Crime and Benefits of Early Prevention
Professor of Psychological Criminology
Cambridge University, Institute of Criminology
Past President, American Society of Criminology

Biography

Dr. Rolf Loeber – Risk, Protective and Promotive Factors: Drilling Down the Knowledge
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry
Professor of Psychology, and Epidemiology
University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Professor of Juvenile Delinquency & Social Development
Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Biography

Dr. Debra Pepler – Overview on Childhood Aggression: What We Know
Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology
LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research York University
PREVNet Co-Founder
Senior Research Associate, Child Development Institute & Hospital for Sick Children

Biography

J. Kevin Cameron – Keeping Our Schools Safe: Threat Assessment
Founder and Director, Canadian Centre for Threat Assessment and Trauma Response
Diplomat, American Academy of Expertise in Traumatic Stress and
Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress

Biography

Dr. Marlene M. Moretti – Implementation of Evidence Based Programs
CIHR Senior Research Chair
Professor, Department of Psychology
Registered Psychologist
Simon Fraser University

Biography

Dr. Robert McMahon – Family-Based Interventions for Young Children with Conduct Problems: Their Promise for Delinquency Prevention
Professor and LEEF BC Leadership Chair
Simon Fraser University
Department of Psychology
Scientist Level 3, Child & Family Research Institute
Editor-in-Chief, Prevention Science 

Biography

Biography

Dr. Corine de Ruiter – Translating Risk Assessment to Clinical Risk Management
Professor, Forensic Psychology
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Cognitive Behavior Therapist
President, International Association of Forensic Mental Health
Associate Editor, International Journal of Forensic Mental Health

Biography

Mike Neuts – A Personal Story of Tragedy

Biography

PANEL CHAIRS

Biography

Dr. Bruce Ferguson – Prevention: School-Based Models - It Takes a Community
Director, The Hospital for Sick Children, Community Health Systems Resource Group

Biography

Dr. Christopher Webster – Risk Assessment and Management: Responding to Risks and Needs
Fellow, Canadian Psychological Association and Royal Society of Canada
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Simon Fraser University
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Senior Research Associate, Child Development Institute

Biography

Michael C. Chettleburgh – Applying What We Know to Real Life Practice
President and CEO, Astwood Strategy Corporation
Principal Investigator, National Multisite SNAP Program Evauation

Biography

SUMMIT CHAIR

Dr. Leena Augimeri

Leena K. Augimeri, Ph.D., is a leading authority on young children in conflict with the law. She is the Director, Centre for Children Committing Offences (CCCO) & Program Development, at Child Development Institute in Toronto and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto. The CCCO is a dedicated research, training, model development and knowledge exchange unit specializing in young children in conflict with the law. For the past 26 years, this scientist practitioner has been developing a comprehensive crime prevention model for young children engaged in antisocial behaviour which is currently being adopted worldwide. Dr. Augimeri is the co-founder/developer of the longest and most fully developed evidence-based intervention for children under 12 years of age in conflict with the law – the SNAP® Model. Dr. Augimeri is a noted author, researcher, presenter, and skilled group leader who co-authored the Early Assessment Risk List for Boys (EARL-20B) and Girls (EARL-21G). The EARLs have been translated in various languages and are used to assess risk for future antisocial behaviour in young children and help facilitate effective clinical risk management plans. In addition, she is also known for chairing a task force which led to the development of Canada’s first police-community referral protocol for children under 12 years of age in conflict with the law which has subsequently been adapted by other communities. She consults to numerous national and international projects pertaining to young children at risk for future antisocial behaviour. Dr. Augimeri is a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology and the recipient of the Child Welfare League of Canada’s inaugural Outstanding Achievement Research and Evaluation award. Currently, Dr. Augimeri is working with a number of Aboriginal communities in the adoption of the SNAP® model. For more information please visit either the Child Development Institute or CCCO website.

Key Focus Areas:

• Children’s mental health
• Gender sensitive evidence based intervention and prevention models
• Externalizing and internalizing problem behaviours for children
• Children under 12 in conflict with the law

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. David Farrington, O.B.E. – Cost of Crime and Benefits of Early Prevention

Dr. David Farrington is a leading authority on child delinquency, homicide,risk factors, cost-benefit analysis and experimental criminology. He is a Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Farrington is Director of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, which is a prospective longitudinal survey of over 400 London males from age 8 to age 48. Dr. Farrington is a Fellow of the British Academy and the American Society of Criminology, among others. He is also an Honorary Life Member of the British Society of Criminology and the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology. Dr. Farrington is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist and co-chairs the U.S. National Institute of Justice Study Group on Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime and the Centre for Disease Control’s Expert Panel on Protective Factors against Youth Violence, is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Observatory on Violence in Schools, is a member of 17 journal editorial boards and is joint editor of Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. Dr. Farrington was Co-chair of the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Study Groups on Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders and on Very Young Offenders. Dr. Farrington has received many prestigious awards recognizing his life-long achievements and contributions to his field: the Order of the British Empire, the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquent Prevention Outstanding Contribution Award and European Association of Psychology and Law Award for Outstanding Career-Long Contributions to the Scientific Study of Law and Human Behaviour. Dr. Farrington is published widely in the fields of juvenile delinquency and antisocial behaviour, young homicide offenders and evidence-based crime prevention, experimental and developmental criminology (e.g., 540 published journal articles and book chapters on criminological and psychological topics, over 80 books, monographs and government publications, one of which, Understanding and Controlling Crime (1986) won the prize for distinguished scholarship of the American Sociological Association Criminology Section).

Key Focus Areas:

• Child delinquency and anti-social behaviour
• Young homicide offender
• Evidence-based crime prevention
• Experimental and developmental criminology

  Influential Books Related to Topic:

• Young Homicide Offenders and Victims: Risk Factors, Prediction, and Prevention from Childhood (Loeber & Farrington, 2012)
• Preventing Crime: What Works for Children, Offenders, Victims, and Places (Welsh & Farrington, 2006)
• Saving Children From A Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions (Farrington & Welsh, 2007)
• Child Delinquents: Development, Intervention, & Service Needs (Loeber & Farrington, 2001)

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Dr. Rolf Loeber – Risk, Protective and Promotive Factors: Drilling Down the Knowledge

Rolf Loeber, Ph.D., is a leading authority on child delinquency and antisocial behaviour, substance use and  mental health problems. He is a Distinguished University Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., and Professor of Juvenile Delinquency and Social Development, Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is Co-director of the Life History Program and is principal investigator of three longitudinal studies: the Pittsburgh Youth Study, the Developmental Trends Study, and the Pittsburgh Girls Study. He has published widely in the fields of juvenile antisocial behavior and delinquency, substance use and mental health problems, including 4 books and over 250 scientific papers. Rolf’s interests are in how and why young people develop serious problems in their lives, including serious delinquency, mental problems and drug problems. His challenges are to better understand and document how the behaviours of young people change with development, how risk and protective factors may emerge and persist during that development, and why this information is relevant for prevention and intervention. Rolf has Co-chaired the U.S. Study Group on Child Delinquents and is the Co-chair of the U.S. National Institute of Justice Study Group on Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime. In recognition of his work, Rolf has been the recipient of many awards. 

Key Focus Areas:

• Child delinquency and anti-social behaviour
• Substance use and mental health
• Risk, protective and promotive factors

Influential Books in the Field:

• Tomorrow’s Criminals: The Development of Child Delinquency and Effective Interventions (Loeber, Slot, van der Laan, & Hoeve, 2008)
• Young Homicide Offenders and Victims: Risk Factors, Prediction, and Prevention from Childhood (Loeber & Farrington, 2012)
• Child Delinquents: Development, Intervention, & Service Needs (Loeber & Farrington, 2001)

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Dr. Debra Pepler – Overview on Childhood Aggression: What We Know

Dr. Debra Pepler is Canada’s leading bullying expert. She is a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at York University and Senior Associate Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children. Her research focuses on aggression and victimization among children and adolescents within the peer and family contexts. Her research identifies bullying as a relationship problem that transforms to other problems of power and aggression over the lifespan. She consults and conducts research on four programs: the SNAP® Girls’ Connection – for aggressive girls at the Child Development Institute, Breaking the Cycle – for substance using mothers and their young children, the Youth Outreach Worker program - for marginalized youth, and the Canadian Red Cross Walking the Prevention Circle – a violence prevention program developed by and for Aboriginal communities. Together with Dr. Wendy Craig, Dr. Pepler leads a national network, PREVNet (Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network). PREVNet’s mission is to promote safe and healthy relationships for all Canadian children and youth (www.prevnet.ca). Dr. Pepler has been honoured for her research with numerous awards including the Contribution to Knowledge Award from the Psychology Foundation of Canada, the CPA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public or Community Service, and the Humanitarian Award from Queen’s University Alumni Association. 

Key Focus Areas:

• Bullying and Victimization 
• Childhood and Girlhood Aggression
• Prevention and Intervention

Influential Books Related to Topic:

• Understanding and Addressing Bullying: An International Perspective (Pepler & Craig, 2008)
• The Development and Treatment of Girlhood Aggression (Pepler, Madsen, Webster, & Levene, 2005)
• The Development and Treatment of Childhood Aggression (Pepler & Rubin, 1981)

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J. Kevin Cameron – Keeping Our Schools Safe: Threat Assessment

Mr. Cameron is a leading authority on threat assessment and trauma response. He is a Registered Social Worker and a trained Marital and Family Therapist (MFT) with years of clinical experience working with high-risk children and their families in both the Canadian Child Welfare and Youth Criminal Justice systems. In concert with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Behavioural Sciences Unit, he developed Canada's first comprehensive, multidisciplinary violence threat risk assessment training program for the prevention of serious violence and currently serves on the Canadian Threat Assessment Training Board. He is the lead threat assessment consultant to Surrey School District in British Columbia and serves as the lead External Clinician in the highly successful Surrey WRAP Program; a school-police Anti-Youth Gang Project funded through the Government of Canada’s Youth Gang Prevention Fund which provides “longer-term services and support for gang-associated youth and their families, as well as resources for education of the broader community”. Through consultation with several American sites that had experienced school shootings, and other trauma sites throughout North America, Kevin developed the Traumatic Event Systems (TES) Model. In March 2001, Kevin was invited to Washington, D.C. by the United States Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education, where he presented parts of the TES Model and opened international collaborative relations for the development of threat assessment protocols and related training. Most recently, Mr. Cameron invited to Washington, D.C. by the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. State Department and the OECD, to participate with members of the United States Secret Service and leaders from the September 11th New York City crisis response efforts, in an "International Meeting on Helping Schools Prepare for and Respond to Terrorist Attacks”.

Key Focus Areas:

• Threat assessment
• Trauma response
• Impact of trauma on systems (families, schools, communities, provinces, states, etc.)
• High-risk assessment and intervention with children, youth and families

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Dr. Marlene M. Moretti – Implementation of Evidence Based Programs

Dr. Moretti is a Senior Research Chair with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR -Institute of Gender and Health). She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Simon Fraser University and subsequently completed postdoctoral studies at New York University before serving as an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo. She returned to SFU where she is now a Professor in the Department of Psychology. Dr. Moretti’s research focuses on the development of self-representation and self-regulation in teens and the role of secure attachment in promoting healthy development in girls and boys. Her commitment to translating research into practice led to her development of an attachment based intervention for parents and alternate caregivers of pre-teens and teens at risk for serious behavioural and mental health problems. This program has been implemented in numerous sites across Canada, in Sweden, Italy and in the USA. She currently leads a CIHR funded multidisciplinary team of researchers in the evaluation of this intervention and the investigation of the relational, psychological and neurobiological processes that underlie its’ short and long term effectiveness. Dr. Moretti has received several awards for her work, including the Outstanding Alumni Award for Academic Achievement and the Dean of Arts Medal for Excellence in Teaching, Research & Service from Simon Fraser University, and she is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Orebro in Sweden in recognition of collaborative research on interventions for families at risk.

Key Focus Areas:

• Clinical Science - Developmental psychopathology
• Violence/aggression
• Sex and gender differences
• Attachment;
• Self-regulation
• Intervention for children and adolescents;
• Program evaluation
• Knowledge translation
• Published extensively: peer reviewed journals, book chapter and books

Influential Books related to Topic:

• Girls and Aggression: Contributing Factors and Intervention Principles (Moretti, Odgers & Jackson, 2004)

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Dr. Robert McMahon – Family-Based Interventions for Young Children with Conduct Problems: Their Promise for Delinquency Prevention

Robert J. McMahon, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, where he is the LEEF B.C. Leadership Chair in Proactive Approaches to Reducing Risk for Violence Among Children and Youth. He is also a Scientist Level 3 in the Developmental Neurosciences and Child Health cluster of the Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI) at B.C. Children’s Hospital. To carry out the work of the Chair, Dr. McMahon will direct a new Institute for the Reduction of Youth Violence, which will be based at both SFU and CFRI. Dr. McMahon’s primary research and clinical interests concern the assessment, treatment, and prevention of conduct problems and other problem behavior in youth, especially in the context of the family.  He is a principal investigator on the Fast Track project, which is a large, multisite collaborative study on the prevention of antisocial behavior in school-aged children that began in 1990 and continues today.  It is the largest prevention trial of its type ever funded by the U.S. Federal government. 

Key Focus Areas:

• Proactive Approaches to Reducing Risk for Violence Among Children and Youth
• Youth Violence Reduction
• Assessment, treatment, and prevention of conduct problems

Influential Books related to the Topic: 

• Helping the Noncompliant Child: Family-Based Treatment for Oppositional Behavior (Forehand & McMahon, 1981; McMahon & Forehand, 2003)
• Preventing Childhood Disorders, Substance Abuse, and Delinquency (Peters & McMahon, 1996)

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Dr. Jean Clinton – The Developing Brain: Why Do Children Do The Things They Do?

Dr. Jean Clinton is an Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster, division of Child Psychiatry. She is on staff at McMaster Children’s Hospital and an Associate in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster. Dr. Clinton is also an Associate in the Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Toronto and Sick Children’s Hospital, where she consultants with the Telepsychiatry. She is an Associate Member of the Offord Centre for Child Studies and has been a consultant to child welfare and children’s mental health programs for 25 years. Dr. Clinton is very active in her community. She is a member of the National Advisory committee for the Welcome to Kindergarten Program with The Learning Partnership and has served as an expert advisor for “Invest In Kids Parenting Initiative”. She was a founding Board member and Fellow of Fraser Mustard’s Council for Early Child Development. Her skills as a knowledge translator are frequently called upon, and she gives many presentations to community groups annually, both nationally and internationally. Currently, she is a member of Hamilton’s Best Start Network and leads the Primary Care Engagement Strategy for the enhanced 18-month-well-baby-visit and is the Faculty lead for the provincial primary care education strategy through the Offord Centre. She has authored papers on early child development and poverty, infant neglect, children’s mental health, resilience, and on adolescent brain development. In 2010, Dr. Clinton was awarded the Woman of Distinction award and honoured nationally by receiving the Naomi Rae Grant Award from the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for career commitment and dedication to community intervention, consultation and prevention in the area of early child development in Ontario and Canada.

Key Focus Areas:

• Early child development
• Poverty
• Children’s mental health
• Resilience
• Adolescent brain development

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Dr. Corine de Ruiter– Translating Risk Assessment to Clinical Risk Management

Dr. de Ruiter is a well sought out international expert and leader in the area of risk assessment and clinical risk management. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, is Professor of Forensic Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Together with her colleagues, she developed an internationally oriented English-language Master’s program in Forensic Psychology at Maastricht University. Her primary focus has been on improving mental health through the use of evidence-based assessment and treatment methods with a specialized focus on the prevention of antisocial behavior in children and youth. Dr. de Ruiter has conducted numerous workshops in The Netherlands and abroad on forensic (risk) assessment and treatment planning. She often serves as an expert witness in criminal court cases on issues such as the relationship between mental disorder and offending behaviour, criminal responsibility, false confession, risk of future violence, and required level of supervision and treatment. She regularly consults with investigative police services on issues such as interrogation strategy, vulnerability of suspects/witnesses and offender profiling. Currently, Dr. de Ruiter is President (2011-2013) of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services. She has also published in national and international peer reviewed journals and edited a number of Dutch books in the area of psychological and forensic assessment and serves as Associate Editor for the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health.

Key Focus Areas:

• Mental disorders and violence
• Treatment of antisocial behavior disorders in children and adults
• Assessment of risk for future violence

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Mike Neuts

Father of Miles Neuts. In 1998, ten year old Myles Neuts died after he was found hanging from a hook in his elementary school washroom, victim of a fatal act of bullying. It was alleged at the time that two boys under the age of 12 with a history of antisocial behaviour played a part in his death. This tragedy sparked a long, painful process for the Neuts family, their school and their Chatham, Ontario community. Mike Neuts, has used this experience to work towards affecting change, by delivering an important message of hope. Mike has become an advocate for youth, speaking out against bullying with a frightening truth. His goal is to provide education, support and structure to the young people in our society, in the hopes of ultimately preventing another bullying-related tragedy.

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PANEL CHAIRS

Dr. Alan Leschied – Adopting Evidence-Based/Best Practice Intervention Models

Dr. Leschied is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychology Association, a recipient in 2003 of both the Edward G. Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Judge Wendy Robson Award for outstanding service to children in Ontario, and in 2004, the recipient of a life-time achievement award through the Criminal Justice Section of the Canadian Psychology Association.His research Interests have been in areas related to children’s legislation and how policies and services promote the welfare of children and families. He has published the following books: The Young Offenders Act: A Revolution in Canadian Juvenile Justice (1991); Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs (2001), and Research and Treatment for Aggression with Adolescent Girls (2002).

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Dr. Bruce Ferguson – Prevention: School Based Models - It Takes A Community

Dr. Ferguson works with people across many cultures and backgrounds, including Native and francophone populations. A passionate mentor and collaborator, he networks with researchers and students across Canada, including northern Ontario and Laurentian University. He is a member of the Learning to 18 Policy Working Group with the Ministry of Education, and the Minister's Advisory Group on Mental Health and Addictions Strategy with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. He also sits on the Advisory Council of the Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth. Dr. Ferguson has been honoured by many organizations for his leadership in child and youth mental health and was recently awarded an honourary doctorate of letters degree by Laurentian University. Dr. Ferguson led a landmark study of early school leavers for the Ontario Ministry of Education, of which the study results are having a significant impact on policy to improve high school retention and graduation rates. Since then, Dr. Ferguson has worked with the Ministry on the Learning to 18 and Student Success programs. He is also studying the implementation of changes in classroom instruction to foster academic success in ADHD students.  Dr. Ferguson is an advocate for children and youth, particularly those marginalized by race, poverty, gender, region or ethnicity.

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Dr. Christopher Webster – Risk Assessment and Management: Responding to Risks and Needs

Christopher D. Webster, Ph.D., FRSC, C.Psych. is a leading authority on violence risk assessment and treatment. He received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Dalhousie University in 1967. After a few years as a Research Scientist at the then Addiction Research Foundation in Toronto, he moved to the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and coordinated research and clinical programs for children with severe developmental and conduct problems. In 1975 he was appointed Professor and Director of the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria. Returning to Toronto in 1977, he was again appointed a Research Scientist at the Clarke Institute and also Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Criminology. It was during this period that he developed an interest in forensic mental health, with emphasis on violence risk assessment and treatment. He was as well Head of Psychology at the Institute between 1986 and 1992. In 1993, he was appointed Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. At Simon Fraser University, he is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, and at the University of Toronto, he is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry. He is a Senior Research Consultant at Child Development Institute and others. In addition to several books and numerous articles, he has, in recent years, published with colleagues in Vancouver and Toronto a number of practical manuals for use by mental health and correctional practitioners that focus on the broad-based screening of violence (HCR-20), sex offenders (SVR-20), aggressive children under 12 years old (EARL-20B, EARL-21G) and the Short Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Royal Society of Canada.

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Michael C. Chettleburgh – Applying What We Know to Real Life Practice

Michael C. Chettleburgh is a recognized North American expert on street gangs and President and CEO of Astwood Corporation, a firm he founded in 1991 which serves clients as the RCMP, Ottawa Police Service, National Crime Prevention Centre, Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services, St. Leonard's Society of Toronto, Canadian Training Institute and the Cree Regional Authority, among many others. An economist by training, he is author of the acclaimed non-fiction book and prestigious Donner Book Prize runner-up, Young Thugs: Inside the Dangerous World of Canadian Street Gangs (HarperCollins Canada, 2007), author of the upcoming book, Gladiator School: Life Inside Canadian Prisons (HarperCollins Canada, April 2013), author and photographer of the upcoming photojournalism book Exhoodus: The Faces and Stories of Redemption, and editor and publisher of Lessons From a Gang Cop, by one the world’s leading gang experts, retired LAPD Detective Sergeant Tony “Pac-Man" Moreno. In addition, Michael is principal investigator of several large government funded programs involving youth/street gangs and youth at risk, including but not limited to: the National Multisite Evaluation of the SNAP® Program (three site impact evaluation of the Stop Now And Plan program), the Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Strategy and the Youth Challenge Fund (a $65 million program funded by the Ministry of Children and Youth Services and community partners including the United of Toronto), the Evaluability Assessment of Breaking the Cycle gang exit program, the Evaluation of the Youth Options for Success program (Canada’s first ever implementation of the Gang Resistance Education and Awareness Training (G.R.E.A.T.) program) and many more. Michael is the country’s foremost media commentator on street gangs and related criminal justice matters, with 700+ national and international media credits including CTV National News, CBC’s The National, Canwest Global Television, CBC Radio One, Globe and Mail, National Post, Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, Aljazeera and many more.

Key Focus Area:

• Evidence-based crime prevention
• Process, impact and cost effectiveness evaluation
• Gang exit and intervention
• Gang risk assessment