Day 1 — 30 November 2026
Family Justice Centres and Multi-Agency Working
09.00-09.30
Registration
09.30–09.45
Welcome and Start-Up
Bert Groen, Marna Carroll, Pascale Franck and Ellen O’Malley-Dunlop
09.45–09.55
European policy perspective
EU Policy Officer — name TBC
9.55–10.10
Address by the Minister of Justice, Ireland
Speaker: Name TBC
10.10–10.25
Address by CUAN
Speaker: Stephanie O'Keeffe
10.25-10.30
Local authority
Speaker: Name TBC
10.30–11.00
Voices from Ireland and the EFJCA Voices network
Carine Van Hee, Voice EFJCA and Mary Louise Lynch, SiSi, collective of women survivors of intimate partner violence
11.00–11.15
Coffee break
Panel — Family Justice Centres and multi-agency practice
Moderator: Bert Groen
- 11.15–11.30 | Family Justice Centre practice — Marie Brown, FJC Foyle
- 11.30–11.45 | Same goal, different paths: multi-agency practice across Europe — Dries Wyckmans
- 11.45–12.00 | Voices reflections on multi-agency working — Carine Van Hee and Mary Louise Lynch
- 12.00–12.30 | Moderated discussion and audience Q&A
12.30–13.45
Lunch break
Working with Perpetrators, Engaging Men and Boys, and Bystander Action
13.45–14.25
Engaging men and boys and working with perpetrators
Sean Cooke, Chief Executive Officer, Men’s Development Network
14.25–15.05
Empowering Bystanders: An all of community response to Ending Domestic Sexual and Gender Based Violence
Louise Crowley, Professor in the School of Law and Director of the LLM (Children's Rights and Family Law) at UCC.
15.05–15.25
Coffee break
Panel — Practice and perspectives
Moderator: Ellen O’Malley-Dunlop
- 15.25–15.40 | Optimizing the potential for sustainable behaviour change in work with Perpetrators - John Doyle, Independent Consultant and Psychotherapist
- 15.40–15.55 | Who Can a Man Call Before the Violence Escalates? - Alessandra Paunzc, director European Network Work with Perpetrators
- 15.55–16.10 | TBC
- 16.10–16.30 | Moderated discussion and audience Q&A
16.30-16.45
Closing reflections
Bert Groen, Marna Carroll and Pascale Franck
