Mar 4, 2021

Categories: Webinar

March 4, 2021
11am–12:15pm (PST)
Free

With Margaret Jackson, Professor Emerita in the School of Criminology and Director of the FREDA Centre at Simon Fraser University, and Haley Hrymak, who works with Rise Women’s Legal Centre representing self-identifying women in family law matters and conducting research, primarily on topics related to family violence and the family court system.This webinar is part of the Alliance of Canadian Research Centres’ project “Supporting the Health of Survivors of Family Violence in Family Law Proceedings” funded by Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The focus of this webinar will be on Rise’s research results regarding the impacts the family court system had on survivors, particularly to their health. The results of this research can be found in Rise’s recent report, authored by Haley Hrymak and Kim Hawkins.

Register through SFU’s site here: http://websurvey.sfu.ca/survey/393941427

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