July 1989

vol 1/#2

Principal Larry Goble (far right) with the Canadian Medical Association accreditation team. Left to right:
Margaret Dukes, Dr. Allen Ausford, Dr. Kathy Suma, Frank Adamson, Ron McManus and Dr. Chris Rubls.

EHS academy wins Canadian Medical
Association accreditation
by Tony Williams, Director, EHS Academy

cific mention of the enthusiasm
and motivation shown by Program Director Kelly Murphy,
Co-ordinator Vic Barron and
their instructional team. Derek
White received mention for the
support services he provides to
the instructional team and also
for co-ordinating the whole
review package and on-site survey. ·
The review process was.truly a
team effort; ambulance super-

Following an extensive review of
the program documentation and
a three day on-site survey, the accreditation team from the
Canadian Medical Association
awarded accreditation to all three
levels of EHS Academy programs.
The Academy continues to be the
only school in Canada to be
accredited at all three levels.
During their survey report to a
board room packed with Academy
staff, the survey team made spe-

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visors, former students, medical
consultants, and clinical nurseinstructors all played an important role. The Academy staff
worked particularly hard. Special mention must be made of the
support staff for their work behind the scenes since last September: Kathryn Waldie, Jeanne
Karim, Cora Austria, Lisa Freshwater, Brenda Miller, Cecilia Ip,
Solvia Ng, Pauline Boyle and Barbara Penner. 0

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Fire Academy • Police Academy • Corrections Academy • Finance and Administration Division
Educational Services Division • Emergency Health Services Academy • Provincial Emergency Programs Academy

Corrections staff establish
sex offender certificate
program
AB adult and adolescent sexual

offenders become more common
in the Corrections work load,
staff need special skills to deal
effectively with the necessary
supervisory and counselling role,
and to work effectively with forensic staff. To provide these special
skills, the Corrections Academy
has recently established a
program to certify corrections
staff who have completed the
training and passed a competency
test in dealing with either adult
or adolescent sexual offenders.
The three-level certificate program was developed by Karen

Beyer. It includes training sessions in basic skills (level I), advanced skills (level II), and
working with groups (level III).
A number of students have already completed their training at
levels I and II, and planning is
now underway for a pilot course
for level III. Resource people
for the training include Tim
Kahn and Tim Smith of
Washington state, staff from
the South East Sexual Offender
Unit, Corrections Branch, Vancouver, and staff of the British
Columbia Forensic Services Commission. 0

Rumours - revisited
by Larry Goble, Principal

In the last issue of The JI News I
wrote that I did not have any
specific information related to the
future of the Jericho Hill site. Following is the latest and most upto-date information available to
me on this topic as of the end of
June:
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Ministry of Education has
definite plans to relocate the
Jericho Hill School for the Deaf
from its present site by 1992.
-Since that decision was made,
Dennis Murray, the Deputy
Solicitor General, has asked that
we, together with the British
Columbia Building Corporation,
undertake a study to determine
what sites would be suitable for
relocation of the Justice Institute
if the Government decides to free
the land for other uses in 1992.
The first part of the study will
involve evaluating our training
needs, translating them into
facility requirements, identifying
suitable campus sites, and
developing a concept design that
meets our training needs. The
study group will involve the JIBC
Board, the Executive Committee,
and representatives from B.C.
Buildings Corporation. 0

Five JI
divisions/
academies plan
stress workshop
It's not often that so many Justice
Institute divisions/academies
have an opportunity to work
together, but planning for a critical incident stress workshop to be
held this fall has involved staff
from Emergency Health Services,
Fire, Police and Corrections
Academies, as well as Extension
Programs.
· The workshop will be held on
November 16 and 17 in the
auditorium of the Workers' Compensation Board in Richmond.
The resource person will be Dr. J effrey Mitchell, a professor in the
Emergency Health Services
Department of the University of
Baltimore County and a Consulting Psychologist for the Maryland
Institute of Emergency Medical
Services. Dr. Mitchell has developed a peer debriefing approach to
help first line responders cope
with what they have seen or experienced in their work with major
disasters and daily emergencies.
The Critical Incident Stress
Debriefing (CISD) process is a
specific, intervention focused procedure that will help responders
release pent up emotions, obtain
specific skills for coping with
stress, and provide support for
each other. The workshop is designed for personnel in emergency
and public safety related work
such as paramedics, police, firefighters, correction officers, emergency medical technicians,
emergency room staff, administrators, dispatchers, clergy, disaster planners and crisis
counsellors.
For further information on the
workshop contact: John Oakley,
Emergency Health Services
Academy; Steve Hess, Police
Academy; Jackie Goodwin, Fire
Academy; Karole Conway, Corrections Academy; or Shelley Rivkin,
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• • • SPOTLIGHT • • •
Jim Bond, Program Developer with Fire
Academy, was presented with the Fire
Academy Director'• Award at the
annual Fire Chlers Conference held
In Richmond In early June. Jim Is
seen In the photo on the left receiving
the award from Academy Director
Paul Smith (right). The award Is
presented annually for outstanding
contributions to training In the B.C.
Fire Ser11lce and may be presented
to anyone meeting this criteria.
Previous years' winners Include
Inspector Ian Faulkner, Office of the
Fire Commissioner, 1986; and
Andy Grierson, Kelowna Fire
Department, 1987.

On staff
Changes On June 19, Gail Makowsky
joined Educational Services
Division as Secretary to both
PTEC and Court Services. Gail
came to the JI from First City
Trust where she worked as a
secretary for five years. Still in
Ed Services, Alison Campbell
has been hired as a temporary Office Assistant in the Resource
Centre. Her term runs from July
4 to September 1, 1989.
Registration Processing Clerk
Cindy Douglas will be leaving
Vancouver and has resigned effective July 27. Her position has
been advertised.
Lorraine Ordano who has
been at the JI on temporary assignments -- first as part time
switchboard relief operator/administrative clerk in Finance and
Administration, and then as temporary PTEC/Court Services
secretary -- became a permanent
Office Assistant, Finance and Administration, on June 5. Lorraine
will continue as part time
switchboard relief operator/administrative clerk. Finance and
Administration also has a new Accounts Payable Clerk (office assistant): Cynthia Teo started in
her new position on June 12.
Mary Watson returned to her
duties in Finance and Administration on May 1 after a six months'
lea¥e of absence.
Two staff changes have recently taken place in Emergency
Health Services Academy:
Jeanne Karim's temporary, part
time position as Office Assistant
became permanent effective May
29; while Leia Andrusiek will
join the Academy on July 5 as
Office Assistant to Derek

White.
Maria Mendoza has resigned
her position as Office Assistant in
Fire Academy effective June 6,
but she will continue to work for
the JI on an on-call basis.

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Programs, Educational Services
Division, in April, has been appointed to the National Advisory
Board to the Social Support Training Project. This program for
parents of abused pre-school
children is a joint project of the
UBC School of Social Work,
Project Parent East and Project
Parent West.

Conferences Education JI educators just can't seem to
get enough education. Irvin Devries in Fire Academy is working
on a Master's Degree in Higher
Education at UBC; Brenda
Sampson, Police Academy, will
return to UBC full time this fall;
and Extension Programs Co-ordinators Shelley Rivkin and
Marje Burdine will also be at
UBC. Shelley will work, parttime, on her Master's Degree in
Social Work, while Marje will continue work on her MA in Counselling Psychology.
The Police Academy's Rick
Evans has just returned from the
Canadian Police College in Ottawa after completing a two-week
Instructional Techniques course.

Recognition Flora MacLeod, who became
Program Director of Extension

~rry Gruber, Registration,
and Linda West, PEP, joined participants from Alberta, Northwest
Territories, and New Brunswick
at a two and one-half day Course
Administration Seminar at the
Canadian Emergency Preparedness College in Arnprior, Ontario,
on June 18-21. They attended on
behalf of the PEP Academy.
The aim of the seminar was to
familiarize participants with the
selection criteria and registration
process for courses offered by the
Canadian Emergency Preparedness College.
Ottawa was also the location of
a national consultation on child
sexual abuse sponsored by Rix
Rogers, National Advisor on child
sexual abuse to the Minister of
Health and Welfare. Extension
Programs' Program Director
Flora MacLeod and Coordinator Shelley Rivkin were

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Information
systems
group holds
training
sessions
The Information Systems Group
was established by the JI's Executive Committee in October 1988 to
provide for a more integrated approach to the Institute's use of
computer hardware and software.
Chaired by John Laverock, the
Group holds monthly meetings to
discuss communication networks,
software applications, graphics,
hardware inventories, standardization of equipment, and training
needs.
As a result of these discussions,
and in response to identified training needs, the Group recently arranged a series of four staff training sessions in the use of WordPerfect, Lotus 123, and DOS. Additional training sessions are planned in both basic and advanced
word processing during July.
The Information Systems
Group will continue to meet to discuss cross-system issues and needs
including networks, software,
data bases, and security. Contact
your academy representative for
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SPOTLIGHT .. . continued from page 3
part of the team of conference
facilitators.
EHS Academy Program Director, Kelly Murphy, spoke to a full
house on Tips and Traps of Skills
Teaching at the National Conference on Pre-hospital and Emergency Medicine held recently in
Banff. A large contingent of
Academy staff made the trek into
the Rockies and all have returned
-- although it reportedly took
some of the instructors several
days to find the coast again.
In July, Marje Burdine, Co-ordinator of the Centre for Conflict
Resolution, Extension Programs,
will conduct a one-day workshop
on Dealing with Anger, Hostility
and Resistance in Mediation at
the Sixth Annual Academy of
Family Mediators Conference in
Breckenridge, Colorado. The
focus of this conference will be on
the application of mediation to
family and interpersonal conflict.
Deputy Police Academy Director Bob Hull and Program
Developer Ingrid Pipke attended the Police Educators Conference in Halifax during May.
Topics ranged from ethics to the
use of deadly force. Ingrid
presided over the Canadian Police
Video Awards ceremony, an annual program which she initiated
and has facilitated for the past
two years. The awards ceremoney
has become an integral element of
these conferences.
Also in May, Sgt. Keith
Hutchinson, Police Academy Administrator, attended the annual
Assessors Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Although
the focus of the conference was on
assessments in the business
milieu, Keith reported that the
the public sector, including
diverse police agencies, was well
represented. The annual Assessors Conference provides the only
opportunity for the Academy to
share and exchange information
on this topic. Following the
Pittsburgh conference Keith met,
in Washington, D.C., with the Assessment Centre Administrator
for the Metropolitan Police.

On former staff
Former JI Administrative Assistant Marianne Farmer has
recently been appointed the new
RCMP school liaison officer for Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam.
Marianne became interested in
police work while she was at the
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On visitors
Former principal Bernie
Doyle, who is now Deputy
Minister for Social Services and
Corrections in the Northwest Territories, was at the JI on June 2.
Bernie was in Vancouver on personal business and dropped by
the Justice Institute just to say
hello and visit old friends.
Adrian Brooks, an ambulance
supervisor from South Australia,
will arrive in September to spend
a few months at the Emergency
Health Services Academy. Mr.
Brooks travels into remote areas
of Australia teaching first aid to
aboriginal people. EHS reports
that Mr. Brooks, who has only
seen snow once in his life, sounds
like a regular "Crocodile Dundee"
and should be a colourful character on campus.
Scott Reid, Director General
of Indian and Northern Affairs
Canada, arrived from Ottawa on
April 27 to visit the Justice Institute Fire Academy. Mr. Reid
spent approximately two hours at
the Academy and touring the Institute.
Recent visitors to Police
Academy have included Inspector Graham Smith of the New
South Wales Police, Australia, Inspector Keith Lawrence, West
Yorkshire Police, and Mr. Roy
Jackson, National Society for
Cruelty to Children in Britain. Inspector Smith visited the
Academy to study the Assessment
Centre, while Inspector Lawrence
and Mr. Jackson were here to discuss child abuse investigation
training. 0

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centre graduates 25

JI staff plan
two fall
conferences
Staff from Extension Programs
and Corrections Academy are
helping to plan and organize two
major conferences that will take
place this fall.

AIDS Counselling
Conference

Conflict resolution graduates and instructors. Front row,
left to right: Marje Burdine, Co-ordinator; Mary Anne Auguste·,
Laney Bryenton and Hank Smidstra, Graduates. Back row: Paula
Temrick, Instructor; Tim Langdon, Graduate; Michael Fogel,
Instructor; Donna Dussault and John Wakefield, Graduates.
The JI's Centre for Conflict Resolution
Training
(Extension
Programs) held its third annual
graduation on June 29. The 25
graduates had each completed 210
hours of training and two competency-based assessments to
receive their Conflict Resolution
Certificate.
Many of the 250 participants
who have completed the Program
since it was established in 1986
state that it offers the most valuable, practical training that they
have ever experienced. And they
say the informal graduation evening signifies a very personal and
significant accomplishment.
The Program draws from a
wide range of professionals who
deal with complex and often
volatile conflict situations, and
who are convinced that there is a
better way to resolve differences
than to overpower or outmanoeuvre the other party. Par-

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ticipants have included prison
guards, school teachers and principals, lawyers, childcare
workers, counsellors, managers,
probation officers, mediators,
government officials, and even a
veterinarian. Many are in need
of conflict resolution skills on a
daily basis at work, while others
are preparing for new careers in
the growing field of dispute
resolution.
Major thrusts for the Program
in the coming year will be in the
areas of cross-cultural and native
conflict resolution, and family
and youth issues. To allow for
such specialization participants in
the Program are able to take 63
hours of elective courses in addition to the required core courses.
This is the only Certificate Program in Canada in the field of
conflict resolution; it is serving as
a model for other institutions and
associations in North America. 0

The first is a conference to
develop a counselling framework
to support people who have been
diagnosed as having AIDS.
Funded by the World Health Organization through the Federal
Centre for AIDS and the B.C. Ministry of Health, the purposes of
the conference are to examine attitudes and values that may impact service delivery, determine
existing skills that can be applied
to counselling clients who are
HIV positive, and develop a counselling model that can be used
with both young people and
adults in community and residential settings.
The Honourable Perrin Beatty,
Minister of Health and Welfare,
will open the conference and one
of the key presenters will be Les
Gallo-Silver, Clinical Supervisor
for the AIDS Unit of the Sloan
Kettering Memorial Hospital in
New York.
Shelley Rivkin, Extension Programs, is playing a major role in
planning and organizing the conference, which will be held October 2-4 at the Four Seasons Hotel
in Vancouver.

Adolescent Sex Offender
Conference
The Adolescent Sex Offender:
Prevention, Treatment and
Management is the theme of a
conference that will be held
November 6-8 at the Four
Seasons Hotel in Vancouver.
Resource people include such
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Conferences •.•
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internationally respected
presenters as Judith Becker,
Ph.D., David Finklehor, Ph.D.,
Jonathan Ross, M.A, John Bradford, M.D. and Lucy Berliner,
M.S.W. They will discuss their
current research and innovative
approaches to treatment and
management issues related to
working with adolescent offenders
in community and residential settings.
Staff from the JI's Extension
Programs and Corrections
Academy are working with
representatives from organizations in British Columbia and
Washington state who are cooperating in the planning and
delivery of the conference. Sponsors include: Juvenile Services to
the Court; Corrections Branch,
B.C. Ministry of Solicitor General;
Nisha Children's Society (B.C.);
B.C. Association of Social
Workers, Canadian Child Welfare
Association, Justice Institute of
B.C., and the Washington State
Adolescent Offender Network.
Contact the Justice Institute
registration office (local 311) for
more information. 0

PEP invites JI staff to
volunteer
aid, administrative expertise and
leadership skills. The municipal
co-ordinator will arrange for
registration with the Provincial
Emergency Program and find a
suitable place in the community
emergency plan for you.
Phone the PEP Academy at
228-9771, local 275, for the name
of the co-ordinator in your community. 0

Recent emergencies in the
province such as oil spills, search
and rescue oflost persons, and
dangerous goods incidents, have
been mitigated in part by the use
of some of the 7300 registered
PEP volunteers throughout the
province.
To be part of the solution, contact your municipal co-ordinator
and describe your talents in first

Provincial emergency
program - statistics
In planning its training programs for emergency personnel, the Provincial Emergency Programs Academy needs to know what types of incidents the Emergency Operation Centre in Victoria responds to.
Statistics recently released by PEP Headquarters in Victoria show that
the Centre co-ordinated the response to the following incidents
throughout the province from April 1, 1988 to March 31, 1989:

Incident Type
Dangerous Goods
Search and Rescue
Motor Vehicle Accident
Other

Number
1460
364
199

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2081

Percent
70
17
10

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100

Weekly average 40

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In addition, 6613 general enquiries were answered at the 24 hour/
7 day per week operations centre whose toll free number is 1-800-6633456. 0

Did you know?
Did you know that the JI
switchboard gets 600 incoming calls a day? (And Admin
staff say they're all urgent!)
Did you know that the JI
has sent out 162,121 pieces of
mail in the past 12 months
(June 1988 ·May 1989)? That
breaks down to 119,991
letters, 37,454 "flats" (large

envelopes), and 4,676 parcels.
The most letters sent in
any month was 16,847 in
April 1989; the fewest was
2,456 in June 1988. These
were the highest and lowest
months for sending flats as
well: a high of 5,361 in April
1989; a low of 1,223 in June
1988. 0

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• • • N 0 TES & NOTICES • • •
Swim, eat, play games, or just sit
back and enjoy a relaxing day
with family and friends at the JI
summer barbeque. The date is
July 21; the time 3:30 - 7:30 p.m.;
the place, the JI courtyard; and
the cost $2/person or $5/family.
RSVP to your Social Committee
representative by July 17.
The next Social Committee
function will be a car rally. Look
for your invitation closer to the
September 23 date.
The Sheriffs' graduation
ceremony will be held on Friday,
July 14, at 12 noon. Among
others attending to honour the
graduating class will be Assistant
Deputy Minister Tony Sheridan
and Manager of Human Resources and Development Earl Smith,
both representing Court Services
Branch, Ministry of Attorney
General.
On August 4, 29 constables representing Vancouver, Delta, New
Westminster, Victoria and Ports
Canada Police will graduate after
completing 32 weeks of training.
Ceremonies to mark the occasion
will take place in the JI gymnasium at 2:00 p.m. This is a
colourful and impresssive event
complete with the music of the
Vancouver Police Pipe Band and
a drill demonstration by the
graduates. The Deputy Solicitor
General, Dennis Murray, will be
the guest of honour and will address the graduates.

The JI was well represented at
this year's Larry Young Memorial
Run held on June 4. The run attracted approximately 300 runners and walkers, among them
every member of the current
Police recruit classes (Nos. 41 and
42), along with faculty and staff
from Police, Corrections and
Educational Services.
June 30 and July 7 were

Fire Academy will conduct a
series of major simulations in September. Part of the Command Officer program, the simulations
will involve three academies:
Fire, Police and EHSA CJ

June 30 graduation for
probation officers

Graduating probation officers Wendy Taylor (left) and Kevin Ault
(middle). Corrections Academy Adult Probation Instructor Micheila
Cameron is on the right.
On June 30, two combined
courses of newly-trained probation officers graduated after completing over 16 weeks of training,
including field practicums in
various locations around the
province. All 40 graduates have
been posted to field offices in such
places as MacKenzie, Castlegar,
Ashcroft, Lillooet, Terrace, Prince
George, Fort St. John and Surrey.
Field instructors from all loca-

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graduation days for two separate
classes of security officers. Just
under 20 officers received their
Certificate of Achievement at
each of the ceremonies.

tions were among those attending
the graduation ceremony. Final
farewells were given to instructors Karen Beyer and Deborah
White who left Corrections Academy at the end of June to pursue
new job opportunities. Deborah is
now Regional Manager of the
Family Maintenance Enforcement
Program, and Karen is Management/Communications Analyst at
Corrections Headquarters. CJ

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