11th IIRP World Conference

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11th IIRP World Conference

Restoring Community in a Disconnected World

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Plenary Sessions

Plenary session speakers will include:

Cathy Ashley, speaking about family group conferencing (also known as family group decision making)
		Cathy Ashley is chief executive of Family Rights Group, a UK charity that advises families whose children are involved with social care services and is a major supporter and provider of family group conferencing. She has contributed to and edited several publications related to family group conferencing and social care services.

A panel of Canadian educators, discussing restorative practices in Canada schools
		Bruce Schenk is director of IIRP Canada and has served as the chaplain at Brookside Youth Centre since 1988. For a decade he has been working in various restorative justice-based capacities, most recently spending two years as the full-time restorative practices advisor for Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board.
		Helen Fox is superintendent of education with the York Region District School Board. She has worked in secondary schools as a vice-principal and principal and has also led the Safe and Supportive Schools portfolio.
		Rusty Hick is superintendent of education with the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board and has responsibility for the Safe, Caring, and Restorative Schools portfolio and the overall operations portfolio. He has been a high school administrator in five schools.
		Lynn Zammit has created programs for suspended and expelled students in Toronto and Waterloo. She established Canada's first education-based restorative justice conferencing model, has written two books on the topic and now offers training and consulting to school boards and communities wishing to start RJ projects.

Judge Leoberto Brancher and Dominic Barter, speaking about restorative practices in Brazil's youth justice and public school systems
		Judge Leoberto Brancher has been applying restorative justice at the Child and Youth Court of Porto Alegre, capital of Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state, since 2002. He is former president of the Brazilian Youth Court Magistrates’ Association.
		Dominic Barter is a restorative justice consultant for the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, working to develop effective models and training programs for practitioners to address youth crime and its consequences, as well as working with judges and school administrators in supervising implementation.

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