bring the criminal justice side and the social work side together” Such an
approach was extraordinarily innovative at the time.

To respond to the JIBC’s provincial mandate, Community Programs
staff developed strategies to deliver training programs throughout B.C.
using collaborations and partnerships with other educational institutions
and public safety stakeholders. Regional delivery became embedded as one
strategy to increase students’ access to programs.

By 1991, the division, now called Interdisciplinary Studies, was
offering over 500 courses a year, with 15,000 enrolments. Ross was now
Dean of the division, and Rivkin was a Program Director responsible for
programs in areas such as counselling, trauma, leadership and victim
services. That year, major conferences were held on treating traumatized
children and on juvenile fire-setting, the latter sponsored in conjunction
with the JIBC’s Fire Academy. The JIBC’s longstanding Child Sexual Abuse
Prevention Program was evaluated by Health and Welfare Canada; their
study revealed that the curriculum had a positive effect on reducing the risk

of children being sexually abused. CCC5 instruceer
During the 1990s, the division continued to develop and provide i4Gria-José Dhars2--
skills-based certificate programs such as Working with Youth in Commu- « ccuiselior in she
nity Settings, Child Sexual Abuse Intervention, and Trauma and Post-Trau- field of expicssive
matic Stress. National conferences profiled emerging issues; a conference iherapics, abuse, loss
on workplace stress and trauma had 400 participants from across Canada. 9g irauimu—vorks
Fire fighters, corrections staff, social workers, private agency practitioners wien Studcnis in Courses
and military representatives participated in discussions on developing SUC: OS EXtsessive Play
critical-incident stress programs and measures to reduce the likelihood of Tierany iviciheds aind
workplace violence. Working with community organizations and govern- Sanu Pley theregy.

ment ministries, special projects were part of each year’s activities such as
the development of curriculum on Children Who Witness Abuse produced
on behalf of the B.C./Yukon Society of Transition Houses and the launch
of the Child Protection Pre-employment Program for the then Ministry
for Children and Families (now Ministry of Children and Family Develop-
ment) in cooperation with the Education Alliance (representatives from
the Social Work and Child and Youth Care Education Consortia [which
represent all B.C Schools of Social Work and Child and Youth Care], the
JIBC, colleges and university-colleges around the province).

In 1998 Rivkin was promoted to Director, a position she held until
she left the organization in 2007. Soon after, the division was consolidated
with the Centre for Conflict Resolution to form the new Community and
Social Justice Division.

Caroline White, the current Program Director for the Centre for
Counselling and Community Safety (CCCS) within the new division,
says their goal is to “provide practical and relevant programs for executive
directors, managers, practitioners and frontline supervisors. She goes on

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