PROGRAM GUIDE - American Humane Association
PROGRAM GUIDE - American Humane Association
PROGRAM GUIDE - American Humane Association
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Honouring the Circle, Connections and Wisdom<br />
Tuesday, September 27<br />
8:00 A.M.<br />
Continental Breakfast<br />
8:30 – 9:45 A.M.<br />
Keynote Address<br />
Harry Snowboy, Healer,<br />
Author, Cultural Teacher<br />
Harry Snowboy is a traditional healer from the James Bay Area of Chisasibi,<br />
Quebec. Through cultural teaching and the use of ceremonies, Harry<br />
helps reconnect people to their identity and assists them in contributing<br />
to the well-being of their communities. Harry is a member of the Seven<br />
Generations Healing Network, where he is a cultural advisor and works<br />
with many organizations to help them use ceremonies in order to bring<br />
spirituality and balance into their practice and their lives.<br />
Harry is a frequent presenter and speaker, and has shared his learning<br />
and tools for healing with audiences across Canada, and in Hawaii and<br />
Australia. In his recent book, A Voice from the Wilderness: A Cree Shaman’s<br />
Story, Harry describes his life journey and his calling to be a healer.<br />
9:45 – 10:30 A.M.<br />
Plenary Session<br />
Numbers, Stories, Questions:<br />
Writing the Family<br />
Engagement Research Script<br />
for the Next Decade<br />
Gale Burford, University of<br />
Vermont, Burlington, V.T., USA<br />
Gale Burford, Ph.D., M.S.W., has experience as a foster and group home<br />
parent, a social work practitioner, a supervisor, manager and senior<br />
administrator in services for children, young people and their families.<br />
After completing his M.S.W. at the University of Washington in 1971, he<br />
worked with young people and their families in Montreal in a variety of<br />
positions until taking up an appointment teaching social work at Memorial<br />
University of Newfoundland in 1981. While there, he completed a Ph.D. at<br />
the University of Stirling in Scotland. Gale left Memorial University in 1998<br />
to move back to the U.S., where he is now a professor of social work and<br />
director of the Child Welfare Training Partnership between the University<br />
and the State of Vermont Department for Children and Families. Gale has<br />
experience consulting, training and carrying out research in Canada, the<br />
U.S., the UK and in New Zealand. He is co-editor with Joe Hudson of Family<br />
Group Conferencing: New Directions in Community-Centered Child &<br />
Family Practice (2000, Aldine Transaction Pubs). Gale co-managed and<br />
co-investigated the Newfoundland and Labrador Family Group Decision<br />
Making Project, in which family conferences were used in child protection<br />
situations involving family violence. He is currently evaluating the use of<br />
family engagement strategies in Vermont. Other evaluation research has<br />
focused on the use of drug courts, Vermont’s reparative probation panels,<br />
and Washington, D.C.’s use of family team meetings, youth-run community<br />
living, group care and residential treatment.<br />
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