Executive Council
Child, Youth and Family Services
November 16, 2009
Media Advisory: Speakers to
Address the
Prevention of Violence Against Children at Provincial
Conference
The Honourable Joan
Burke, Minister of Child, Youth and Family Services,
will deliver the opening address at the fourth annual
provincial Violence Prevention Initiative Stakeholders�
Conference tomorrow (Tuesday, November 17) at 9:15 a.m.
at the Holiday Inn in St. John�s. The event will take
place in Salons B, C and D.
Media are also invited to attend the following sessions
of the conference:
9:40 a.m. Keynote Presentation: The Impact of Children
Witnessing Violence � Gary Direnfeld, Ontario social
worker with 27 years experience working with children
and families. He has a weekly parenting column in his
city's daily newspaper as well as his own reality show
working with newlywed couples.
1:40 p.m. Keynote Presentation: Beyond Borders &
Cybertip.ca � Rosalind Prober, founder of Canada�s
national tipline to report online sexual victimization,
cybertip.ca. Her activism resulted in the Prober
Amendment to Canada�s child sex tourism legislation in
1996 and the founding of Beyond Borders, a non-profit
organization working to stop global child sexual
exploitation.
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Media contacts:
Erin
Molloy
Communications Specialist
Women�s Policy Office
709-729-6225, 693-7938
erinmolloy@gov.nl.ca |
Susanne Hiller
Director of Communications
Department of Child, Youth and Family Services
709-729-5148, 697-3760
susannehiller@gov.nl.ca |
2009 11 16
10:55 a.m. |