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Thursday 23 Friday 24 November 2023

Report of the conference in Leuven ‘Working together for a safe home: multidisciplinary centers and the approach of gender-based and domestic violence’

The 2-day conference for professionals from the judicial and health care sector, was an initiative of the Flemish government, Department of Justice and Enforcement, the Leuven Institute of Criminology (Linc) and the European Family Justice Center Alliance (EFJCA).

On 23/11 over 220 professionals attended the conference live and over 220 attended the conference online. On 24/11 over 160 professionals attended the conference live and over 210 attended the conference online. In total there were participants from 27 countries!

The event can be viewed by using the following links:

23-11 morning 09.00-12.15

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  • 09.00-09.15: Getting started by Pascale Franck and Dries Wyckmans
  • 09.15-09.30: A warm welcome by Ivo Aertsen
  • 09.30-10.15: What domestic violence survivors want you to know by Eva Verween
  • 10.15-11.00: In Control: Dangerous relationships and how they end in murder by Jane Monckton Smith
  • 11.20-12.15: Non-Fatal Strangulation by Catherine White
  • 13.00-14.00: Risk Assessment of domestic violence in the Flemish Family Justice Center by Anne Groenen, Nienke Scholten and Eveline De Wree

23-11 afternoon 13.00-17.00

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  • 14.00-15.15: Coercive Control, A Belgian Definition by Marie Denis
  • 15.45-17.00: Child to parent violence by Willem Beckers and Yana Demeyere

24-11 morning 09.00-12.30

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  • 9.30-10.45: What if... your intimate partner has a psychopathic personality? A critical look at the impact of psychopathy on partner relationships by Kasia Uzieblo
  • 11.15-12.30: Child focus in cases of domestic violence by Liv Leeman and Kim Van Hoorde

24-11 afternoon 13.15-17.00

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  • 13.15-13.45: Justice, Hope and Healing: the role of the US Department of Justice in supporting Family Justice Centers by Susan Williams
  • 13.45-14.15: The importance of peer group support in the Family Justice Center by Karen Casier and Katrien Monsecour
  • 14.15-14.45: A moving story of a survivor of femicide by Barbara Godwaldt
  • 15.15-15.45: Starting-up a Family Justice Center and making it sustainable by Mary-Claire Landry
  • 15.45-16.00: Premiere of the movie about the Family Justice Centers in Flanders (Belgium)
  • 16.00-16.30: The importance of the roll-out of the Family Justice Centers in Flanders (Belgium) by Zuhal Demir

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Presentations of speakers

Thursday 23/11

Eva Verween, trauma therapist at Elpida(Belgium)
What domestic survivors want you to know.

Jane Monckton-Smith, Expert in Femicide & Coercive Control. Developed the ‘Homicide Timeline’, an 8-step plan in the process of intimate terror & coercive control. Author of ‘In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder’
In Control: Dangerous relationships and how they end in murder.

Catherine White, forensic doctor and medical director of the Institute for Addressing Strangulation & the Sexual Offence Medicine Lead for the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine, UK.
Non-fatal Strangulation

Anne Groenen, researcher UCLL and Linc, Eveline De Wree, strategic coordinator FJCs Antwerp Department of Justice and Enforcement & Nienke Scholten, advisor to the police and prosecutors office at Department of Justice and Enforcement (Belgium).
Risk assessment of domestic violence in the Flemish Family Justice Centers.

Marie Dennis, clinical psychologist, Institute for the Equality of Women and Men (Belgium).
Coercive Control, A Belgian Definition by Marie Denis

Davy Simons, Hope-dealer City of Antwerp
The Science of Hope. A workshop about science and happiness’.

Willem Beckers, systemic psychotherapist at Interactie-Academie & Yana Demeyere, PHD researcher at the VUB, University of Brussels.
Child to parent violence by Willem Beckers and Yana Demeyere

Nienke Scholten and Valerie Swennen, advisors to the police and prosecutors office at Department of Justice and Enforcement & Pieterjan Buyse, criminologist FJC Antwerp.
The role and the approach of the police and the public prosecutor’s office within the Family Justice Centers.

Friday 24/11

Kasia Uzieblo, PHD (Belgium).
What if... your intimate partner has a psychopathic personality? A critical look at the impact of psychopathy on partner relationships.

Sonja Cebulski, operational coordinator FJC Limburg, Department of Justice and Enforcement & Kris Lukasczyk, Police zone Carma (Belgium).
The intersectorial approach to honour-related violence within the Family Justice Center Limburg.

Liv Leeman, VECK (Flemish Expertise Center on Child Abuse) and child therapist at the CAW (Center for General Welfare) Oost-Brabant (Belgium).
Child focus in cases of domestic violence.

Eva van Kelecom, PHD researcher, LINC, KU Leuven (Belgium)
An introduction to the phenomenon of siblings violence

Susan Williams, consultant and former deputy director of the US Derpartment of Justice Office for Victims of Crime.
Justice, Hope and Healing: the role of the US Department of Justice in supporting Family Justice Centers.

Karen Casier, operational coordinator FJC Mechelen & Katrien Monsecour, casemanger FJC Mechelen
The importance of peer group support in the Family Justice Center

Mary-Claire Landry, consultant Alliance for Hope International (US).
Starting-up a Family Justice Center and making it sustainable

Premiere of the movie about the Family Justice Centers in Flanders (Belgium)

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