Children and Youth Interview Skills Workshop 2024







Product Type: Course

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Providing meaningful participation to children and youth involved in the legal system

Friday, May 17, 2024
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
CLEBC Office, 500 - 1155 W. Pender St., Vancouver

Who should attend: Lawyers whose practice includes children and families, and all practice areas involving children and youth; judges, family justice counsellors, mediators, arbitrators, parenting coordinators; anyone involved in access to justice; psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers

Learning level: All levels

At this interview training workshop, you will learn how to adapt your practice to ensure that you are creating safe spaces, respecting boundaries, and providing meaningful participation when working with young people involved in the legal system.

This workshop will provide practical tools for professionals who work with young people as clients or as witnesses in legal processes. There will be particular focus on how information can be gathered from young people in a manner that respects and honours them as individual rights bearers.

Attendees will learn skills that will assist them in working with young people involved in family processes.

At this workshop you will learn how to:

  • create a safe, trauma-informed, culturally-aware space for an interview
  • create an Indigenous-informed safe space for Indigenous children and families
  • build rapport with young people
  • invite and encourage young people to share their views
  • ensure young people understand how and why their views are being shared and used
  • assess capacity and ability of each young person
  • access the Child Rights Toolkit and other resources you can start using right away

Law Society of BC CPD Hours: 6 hours (this course will contain a minimum of 1 hour pertaining to professional responsibility and ethics, client care and relations, and/or practice management; approved 6 hours for Mediators and Family Justice Professionals)

Workshop Chairs
Suzette Narbonne — Managing Lawyer, Child and Youth Legal Centre, Society for Children and Youth of BC, Vancouver
Michael Zimmerman — Managing Lawyer (Roster), Child and Youth Legal Centre, Society for Children and Youth of BC, Vancouver

Pricing
EARLY BIRD 
Register by Apr. 19/24
Regular Price
After Apr. 19/24
In-person $584 $654
In-person Articled Student $372 $372

Are you an Indigenous lawyer/Articled Student/legal support staff/paralegal or community member?
We value your contributions and encourage your participation in all of our programs. To increase accessibility, we offer a 50% discount* to all Indigenous lawyers/Articled Students/legal support staff/paralegals and a limited number of free online registrations to non-lawyer Indigenous community members (*discount applies to Regular prices, not Early Bird prices). Please contact Customer Service to find out more.

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Registration includes an electronic copy of the reference materials and lunch.

CLEBC Program Lawyer*
Teresa Sheward
tsheward@cle.bc.ca
*non-practising


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