Family Advocate Educator

Our Family Advocate Educator, Andrea Bryson works with Law Foundation funded family law advocates to provide training, coaching and mentorship so that they are supported to provide their best support to survivors of family violence.

Andrea provides different opportunities for the advocates in forms of micro training to advanced training. There are:

• weekly Open Office Hours

• monthly “Afternoons with Andrea” for advanced training

• invited guest speakers, who are working in the family law system and can provide a unique perspective based for advocates

• recorded trainings through Rise’s e-learning platform. All Law Foundation funded family law advocates and get free access to the courses.

See full training schedule here. Please note, this page is password protected as it is not a public page. You can request access this page from Andrea or by emailing education@womenslegalcentre.ca

The Family Advocate Educator also collaborates with the FASL Lawyer to provide broad training to front line workers supporting family violence survivors with our supporting workers series.

We are very grateful to the Department of Justice Canada for funding this program.

For questions email, abryson@womenslegalcentre.ca

“Since I am a newer advocate, I often run into new situations where I don't know what the best next step to take is. [FAE] takes time to listen to the details of the issue and works to tackle the issue together. I would not be able to do my job as effectively without the family advocate educator being there.”