Talking for Change: Documentary Screening & Dialogue on CSA Prevention

Welcome to Talking for Change: Documentary Screening & Dialogue on CSA Prevention! Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking event on Mon May 06 2024 at CAMH, The Arrell Family Foundation Auditorium, 2nd Floor. We will be screening a powerful documentary followed by a dialogue on preventing child sexual abuse (CSA). This event aims to raise awareness, promote discussion, and inspire action to protect children in our communities. Don't miss this opportunity to come together, learn, and make a difference. Let's start talking for change and creating a safer world for our children. See you there!

DOCUMENTARY

Amanda Mustard, Director - Great Photo, Lovely Life

Synopsis:
In the HBO Original documentary Great Photo, Lovely Life, photojournalist Amanda Mustard investigates the decades of serial sexual abuse committed by her grandfather. Revealing interviews, archival photographs, and intimate home movies unravel a world of secrets while illustrating Mustard's efforts to disrupt the cycle of intergenerational trauma and empower the survivors to move forward.

PRESENTER BIOS

1) Challenges of Toronto Police in Dealing with Internet Child Exploitation

Detective Sergeant Barbara Adam, Internet Child Exploitation (ICE), Toronto Police Service

Det. Sgt. Adam has been a member of the Toronto Police Service (TPS) since May 1991 and has worked in four divisions at various ranks. She has primarily worked the last 33 years on the investigative side of policing in uniform, Major Crimes, Street Crimes, Drug Squad, Intelligence – Witness Protection & Undercover Operations, Criminal Investigative Bureau and Professional Standards. She has been in charge of TPS Internet Child Exploitation since May 2021.

2) Breaking the Silence: Preventing Perpetration of Online & Offline Child Sexual Abuse.

Dr. Ainslie Heasman, PhD, CPsych, Talking for Change, CAMH

Dr. Ainslie Heasman is a registered forensic/correctional and clinical psychologist in Ontario, Canada, with over 17 years of experience engaging in the assessment and treatment of adults who have caused sexual harm and/or who have atypical sexual interests. She is employed full-time at the Sexual Behaviours Clinic at the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health in Toronto as well as part-time in private practice. She continues to lead Canada’s first national and federally funded child sexual abuse perpetration prevention program, Talking for Change, housed at CAMH. Dr. Heasman has presented nationally and internationally on child sexual abuse prevention and mandatory reporting. She is a member of the Canadian Psychological Association, the Ontario Psychological Association and is President on the Board of Directors of the Association for the Treatment & Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA).

3) The Evolution of Sexual Abuse Prevention: A Child & Youth Advocacy Centre Perspective

Audrey Rastin, Boost CYAC & Heather Horn, MSW, Family & Children's Services of the Waterloo Region

Audrey Rastin is the Director of Prevention Education at Boost CYAC. She designs and delivers trauma-informed, violence prevention programming for children and youth, training for adults and crisis intervention in communities. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters degree in Education and Transformative Learning from the University of Toronto. Audrey has worked at Boost CYAC for 25 years.

Heather Horn has worked in the field of child welfare for over 16 years in both the role of front-line Protection Worker and as a Protection Supervisor. Heather was a key contributor in the implementation of the CYAC in Waterloo region and continues to work as a supervisor for Family and Children’s Services at this location. Heather also has a private practice where she facilitates a men’s trauma group and provides individual therapy to trauma survivors, offenders, and those who struggle with concerning sexual desires. Heather is passionate about preventing childhood sexual abuse through working with those who may pose a risk to children. Heather holds her Honors Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Trent University, Bachelor of Social Work at the University of Victoria in the Child Welfare distinction specification, and her Master of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University. Heather completed her thesis research in the prevention of child sexual abuse through understanding the phenomenon of adult sexual attraction to children.

4) Interrupting the Cycle of Sexual Abuse: Interventions and Healing Models that Restore Relationships and Community Wellness

Renee Linklater, PhD, Senior Director, Shkaabe Makwa, CAMH

Renee Linklater, PhD is a member of Rainy River First Nations in Northwestern Ontario. She has over 25 years of experience working with Indigenous healing agencies and First Nation communities. Renee has worked across the health and education sectors as a frontline worker, program evaluator, curriculum developer, educator/trainer, and researcher. She is an international speaker on trauma and healing and is the author of Decolonizing trauma work: Indigenous stories and strategies and editor of Connected in Creation: A Collection of Lived Experience through Cultural Expression. Renee is the Senior Director of Shkaabe Makwa - Centre for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Wellness at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and is actively involved in several system level initiatives across the province.

5) Co-Designing With Children: Shifting from Viewing Children Only as Potential Victims to Architects of Prevention

Cheryl Perera, O.Ont, L.L.D, Founder & President, OneChild

Appointed to the Order of Ontario 2018, distinguished as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Windsor; Cheryl Perera is an international children's rights advocate, a social entrepreneur and an acclaimed public speaker.

She is the Founder and President of OneChild, the first organization in the world empowering children and youth to combat the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) through prevention education, advocacy, survivor care, and survivor empowerment, benefiting over +122, 000 in 16 countries and millions through the media.

Her 23 year-long career in child protection has included achievements such launching the first prevention education program on child sex trafficking in Canadian schools; pioneering the Canadian private sector’s engagement in ending the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism; providing shelter and long-term comprehensive care to hundreds of child victims in the Philippines; and multiple training sessions to at-risk-youth, law enforcement, judges, embassy and NGO officials in Cambodia.

Cheryl is a sought-after speaker and has shared the stage with Royalty, Heads of State, UN Secretary-Generals and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Al-Jazeera, CNN, Financial Times of London and many others.

She holds an Executive Master’s Degree in Children’s Rights, University of Geneva, Switzerland and a B.A.(Hons) in Ethics, Society, and Law, Political Science and Women’s Studies, University of Toronto. She has also completed Harvard University and the University of Oxford’s Executive Education Certification Programs in Transformational Leadership and Public Policy and Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok’s Program in Peace and Conflict Resolution.