In your role as an ECE, you work with many children and families and encounter many unique situations. In this session participants will have the opportunity to become refreshed, or introduced to an overview of proposed updates as recommended in the Child Protection Act Review report, as well as a review of situations covered by the Act and those not covered including 3rd party assaults. There will be a brief Child Protection Presentation outlining ECE responsibilities, and provincial resources. The focus of discussion will then be narrowed to child sexual abuse prevention with a review of natural and healthy behaviours and behaviours of concern. Participants will gain tips on ways to respond to children’s sexual behaviours and communicate with parents regarding observed behaviours. A number of resources will also be shared, including a closer look at Tea Tree Tells resource.
* Please Note: This session is a repeat of the one that took place at the previous Fall Conference Director’s Day
Facilitator Bios:
Dr. Wendy Verhoek-Oftedahl, Ph.D. is the Family Violence Prevention and Community Development Coordinator in the Department of Social Development and Housing. She is an injury epidemiologist with over 20 years of experience in family violence prevention whose research focus has been the evaluation of methods for public health surveillance of family violence including child abuse and neglect, and analysis of characteristics of family violence incidents to inform prevention efforts. Since 2009 she has served as resource for the PEI Premier’s Action Committee on Family Violence Prevention and chair of the provincial Child Sexual Abuse Advisory Committee. She serves as provincial representative on the Public Health Agency of Canada Family Violence Prevention Initiative Federal/Provincial/Territorial Working Group and previously served as the provincial representative on the Directors of Child Welfare Federal/Provincial/Territorial Sub-committee on Child Abuse through Sexual Exploitation. She held a research faculty appointment at Brown University from 1992 to 2010 and an adjunct faculty appointment from 2010 to 2018.
Terri MacEwen, RSW, BSW is a Child Protection Social Worker with the Department of Social Development and Housing. She obtained her of Bachelor of Social Work from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and is working on her Master of Social Work from Waterloo University in Waterloo, Ontario which she will complete by September 2020. Within Child Protection she has served on an Investigation/Focused Intervention team. She then worked in Montague on Investigations and now holds a senior permanent position on an Investigation team in Charlottetown. In 2015 she completed specialized child sexual abuse joint interview training and has completed several joint interviews for child sexual abuse with police. She recently held a temporary senior position with the Provincial Intake/Assessment Unit, and is now in the temporary position as Supervisor for that Unit, which receives all Child Protection reports for the province.
Kim Bailey, BA, B.Ed, M.Ed, RSW is Counselling Consultant with the Public Schools Branch. She has 13 years experience as a Registered Social Worker. She has worked in the areas of Child Protection, Mental Health, Adult Protection and Adoption/Foster Care. Kim also worked at Catholic Family Services, providing counselling services to couples, individuals, families. Her areas of focus were adoption and children. For the past 17 years, Kim has worked in the schoolsystem. Six of these years were spent as a school counselor and teacher. The last 11 years has been in the role of Counselling Consultant. She is involved with children from K to grade 12.
Krista MacEachern has been an early childhood educator for over 30 years and has spent the last 10 years as an Early Childhood Coach with the Department of Education and Life Long Learning. Krista has been the early childhood representative for the provinces Child Sexual Abuse Advisory Committee and has served on this committee for the last 3 years. She resides in Rice Point with her husband, son and her amazing little pug, Zoe and will present on the Teatree Tells resource on one of the session days.
Claire Doucette has been an early childhood educator for more than 20 years. The last 10 have been in the role of early childhood coach with the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning. She lives in Summerside with her husband and 2 children will present on the Teatree Tells resource on the alternate session day.
November 13, 2020
9:00 AM
Village Musical Acadien; Angèle Arsenault Hall -- 1747 PE-124, Wellington, PE C0B 2E0