The Canadian Observatory on the Justice System Response to Intimate Partner Violence, in partnership with the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre (MMFC), the New Brunswick Department of Public Safety and the Crime Prevention Association of New Brunswick are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2014 National Conference Integrated Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence: Learning and Innovating Together.

You can register here and visit the conference site for the latest information, as well as the list of hotels with preferred rates for conference attendees.

This conference, taking place from October 20-22 at the Wu Conference Centre in Fredericton, will engage stakeholders and communities and provide learning opportunities to a broad audience. It is expected that participants will come from community agencies, police, academia, First Nations groups, justice and corrections, municipal, provincial, and federal governments, social workers, healthcare professionals, etc. The conference will offer a venue to continue important discussions and begin new ones on the importance of having a coordinated criminal justice & community responses to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). It is through such discussion that we develop a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities for all involved.

Participants can look forward to a range of presentations, panels, workshops, and keynote speeches that address the justice system response to IPV, coordinated community responses to IPV, domestic homicide, the interface between family and criminal courts in IPV cases, the rural challenges of IPV, and best practices and information sharing, among others.