Annual Update: October 2017 to December 2018 | Mise à jour annuelle : De octobre 2017 à decembre 2018

We are pleased to provide you with the Building Connections Annual Update: October 2017 to December 2018. It has been another exciting year of engagement, relationship-building, training, and intervention research.

To date, we have developed and disseminated 1,338 copies of the resource manual Building Connections: Supporting Community-Based Programs to Address Interpersonal Violence and Child Maltreatment to community-based CAPC/CPNP/AHSUNC projects across Canada. In addition, the national training webinar, Building Connections: Using Trauma-Informed and Relational Approaches to Help Women and Children Experiencing Interpersonal Violence, has been watched by 918 unique users to date.

During this reporting period, we delivered Certified Training on the Connections group intervention to 29 CAPC/CPNP/AHSUNC project staff who join the 25 previously trained facilitators, for a total of 54 Certified Connections facilitators across Canada. These Connections facilitators are now replicating the intervention in projects across Canada and partnering with us on intervention research. The weekly Community of Practice (CoP) for Connections facilitators has allowed us to provide regular clinical and evaluation consultation to the certified facilitators, and serves to promote and strengthen the relationships among certified facilitators in communities across Canada.

Nous avons le plaisir de vous faire parvenir la Mise à jour annuelle sur Créer des liens, pour la période d'octobre 2017 à décembre 2018. Ce fut une année passionnante d'engagement, d'établissement de relations, de formation et de recherche interventionnelle.

À ce jour, nous avons préparé et envoyé 1338 exemplaires du manuel pratique Créer des liens : Soutenir les programmes communautaires pour lutter contre la violence interpersonnelle et la maltraitance des enfants à des projets communautaires PACE/CPNP/PAPACUN de partout au Canada. De plus, le webinaire national de formation Créer des liens : Utiliser des approches axées sur les traumatismes et sur les relations pour aider les femmes et les enfants qui vivent de la violence interpersonnelle a été visionné par 918 utilisateurs uniques à ce jour.

Durant la période visée par ce rapport, nous avons donné de la formation agréée sur le groupe d'intervention Connections à 29 employés de projets PACE/CPNP/PAPACUN qui se sont joints au groupe des 25 autres animateurs déjà formés. Il y a donc un total de 54 animateurs agréés pour cette intervention au Canada. Ces animateurs de Connections reproduisent maintenant l'intervention dans des projets situés partout au Canada et sont nos partenaires de recherche sur l'intervention. De fréquence hebdomadaire, la communauté de pratique (CP) à l'intention de Connections nous a permis de donner des consultations régulières sur le plan clinique et sur l'évaluation aux animateurs agréés. La CP favorise et resserre les relations entre ceux-ci dans des collectivités de partout au Canada.

Download the 2017-18 report | Téléchargez le rapport de 2017-2018 :

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Download the 2016-17 report | Téléchargez le rapport de 2016-2017 :

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PODCAST on Building Connections for the MERTIL project in Australia

At the 2018 WAIMH Congress in Rome, Italy, Dr. Mary Motz was interviewed for a podcast to be used as part of the MERTIL (My Early Relational Trauma informed Learning) project in Australia.

Maternal and child health nurses in the province of Victoria, Australia are being trained to help protect young children from enduring effects of early relational trauma through a project called MERTIL (My Early Relational Trauma Informed Learning). MERTIL will operate as an online portal to support frontline workers who regularly monitor infants in their first years to recognize and respond to parents and young children affected by trauma of all kinds. This includes but extends beyond family violence, to caregiving trauma related to mental illness, grief, and substance abuse, and a special focus on at-risk populations. The portal includes 8 on-line learning modules, factsheets, articles, links to training programs, podcasts with MERTIL’s expert advisors, educational resources for parents, and self-care resources. For more information regarding MERTIL, please click here.

The podcast interview conducted with Dr. Motz is approximately 11 minutes long and covers the following topics:

• What is Building Connections and what resources are available for unrestricted access through the Mothercraft website?
• How is Building Connections supporting community-based projects across Canada to incorporate trauma-informed practice?
• What theoretical frameworks are used to inform the practice at Breaking the Cycle and in Building Connections?

To listen to the podcast, click the play button:

 

 

NOW AVAILABLE – Building Connections National Training Webinar

Building Connections: Using Trauma-Informed and Relational Approaches to Help Women and Children Experiencing Interpersonal Violence/Créer des liens: Soutenir les programmes communautaires pour lutter contre la violence interpersonnelle et la maltraitance des enfants

Margaret Leslie, Dip.C.S. C.Psych.Assoc.
Director, Early Intervention Programs, Mothercraft/Breaking the Cycle

The National Training Webinar, delivered live on October 13, 2016 has now been archived and is available in English and French.

Click to watch the webinar in English or French

The Government of Canada Invests in Community Projects across Canada to Support Victims of Violence

Supporting the Health of Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse through Community Programs

 

 

Building Connections: Supporting Community-Based Programs to Address Interpersonal Violence and Child Maltreatment

Project Goal:

To enhance the capacity of support staff in Community Action Program for Children (CAPC), Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP), and Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities (AHSUNC) to identify and respond to mothers and young children experiencing interpersonal violence and child maltreatment

Project Objectives:

• To build awareness, capacity and confidence among CAPC/CPNP/AHSUNC project staff regarding interpersonal violence and/or child abuse using trauma-informed and relational approaches
• To develop a community of practice of certified trainers to deliver the Connections intervention across Canada through CAPC/CPNP/AHSUNC sites
• To deliver the Connections intervention in 30 community-based sites across Canada
• To evaluate and disseminate the knowledge developed from this initiative broadly and to a wide range of audiences

Project Activities:

• Building awareness, capacity and confidence
  • Develop and deliver resources and training to community-based projects across Canada on ways to respond to interpersonal violence and child maltreatment using trauma-informed and relational approaches
• Training and supporting facilitators
  • Train facilitators to deliver the Connections intervention in project sites and develop a community of practice to support facilitators in the delivery of the intervention
• Delivering the Connections intervention
  • Deliver the Connections intervention to 400 participants in 30 CAPC/CPNP/AHSUNC sites
• Evaluating and sharing learnings
  • Evaluation and intervention research components will assess the implementation, fidelity, engagement and progress over time

Project Team:

Click here to meet the project team.

Research Partner: PREVNet - Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network

PREVNet is an umbrella network of 122 leading Canadian research scientists and 62 national youth-serving organizations. Launched in 2006 with the Networks of Centres of Excellence, PREVNet’s mission is to stop bullying in Canada and to promote safe and healthy relationships for all Canadian children and youth. Created and led by Scientific Co-Directors, Dr. Debra Pepler of York University and Dr. Wendy Craig of Queen’s University, this national network is the first of its kind in Canada, providing an unprecedented opportunity to change the way we understand and deal with bullying problems in this country. http://www.prevnet.ca/

Building Connections Resources:

Download the resource manual Building Connections: Supporting Community-Based Programs to Address Interpersonal Violence and Child Maltreatment

• English
• Français

 

 

Connections: A Group Intervention for Mothers and Children Experiencing Violence

Connections is a group intervention for mothers and children experiencing family violence. The Connections intervention manual has two main objectives.

• To present a thorough background to the issue of family violence, parenting and substance use.
• To present a six week group model for working with mothers experiencing violence in relationships.

The Connections group helps mothers think about family violence and its impacts on their use of alcohol and other substances, parenting, and children's development. We provide key messages, step-by-step implementation, worksheets, facilitator information sheets, and other information sheets for each of the six weeks of the group.

The Connections intervention manual is available in English, French, and in a version for use in Aboriginal communities.

Download the intervention manual Connections: A Group Intervention for Mothers and Children Experiencing Violence

• English
• Français
• For Aboriginal Communities

Click to watch the introductory webinars on the Connections intervention manual: English or Adapted for Aboriginal communities.

The Connections group intervention was developed with the support of Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General, and is delivered with funding support from the Ministry of Children and Youth Services (MCYS). An evaluation of the Connections intervention submitted to MCYS on March 31, 2009 is available at this link here. The Connections intervention manual and webinars were produced with the funding support of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

 

 

Building Connections Final Reports

Download the Building Connections final reports

• Building Connections For Healthy Relationships: What We Learned
• Building Connections To Support Mothers And Young Children Affected By Interpersonal Violence: The Evaluation Report

 

Published Papers

• Zuberi, S., Motz, M., Leslie, M., & Pepler, D.J. (2018, November). Building Connections: Supporting the readiness and capacity of community-based projects to deliver a trauma-informed intervention. Zero to Three, 39(2), 21-25.
• Andrews, N. C. Z., Pepler, D. J., & Motz, M. (2019). Research and evaluation with community-based projects: Approaches, considerations, and strategies. American Journal of Evaluation, Vol 40(4), 548-561. https://doi.org/10.1177/1098214019835821
• Andrews, N. C., Motz, M., & Pepler, D. J. (2020). Developing and testing a readiness tool for interpersonal violence prevention partnerships with community‐based projects. Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22361
• Andrews, N. C. Z., Motz, M., & Pepler, D. J. (2020). A national implementation of a community-based intervention for mothers experiencing violence in relationships. Journal of Family Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000810
• Singh, C. D., Andrews, N. C. Z., Motz, M., Pepler, D. J., Leslie, M., & Zuberi, S. (2020). Trauma-informed and relational approaches to service provision: Building community-based project capacity to respond to interpersonal violence through a national initiative. BMC Public Health, 20 (1833), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09960-3

 

 

Contact

For more information please email btcycle@mothercraft.org