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Webinar event date: 
nov 21, 2023 9:00 am EST
Webinar Presenters: 
Rebecca Poirier Stewart, MSW, RSW

Social Worker, Polarization Clinic, CIUSSS, Montréal

Rebecca Poirier Stewart, MSW, RSW, worked in community organisations for several years before getting involved with Montreal Polarization Clinic were she practices as a social worker. Her interest for marginalized populations brought her to engage with homeless and queer communities while completing her education. Rebecca developed skills and knowledge within the countering radicalization to violence (CRV) field over the past year being surrounded by experts.

Program Coordinator, John Howard Society Ottawa
Description

This webinar features presentations from two secondary and tertiary intervention programs in Québec and Ontario. Operating across most of Québec and housed in the West-Central Montreal Integrated Health and Social Services Centre (CIUSSS), the Polarization Clinic is a team of social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists, including child psychiatrists, providing specialized supports to individuals and families affected by radicalization to violence. The John Howard Society of Ottawa’s Project ReSet offers multi-disciplinary services in Eastern Ontario to support individuals and families affected by hate-motivated violence by providing interventions aimed at disengagement and reintegration for cases of radicalization to violence. Similar to webinar three, this session discusses the programs’ approaches, objectives and outcomes, as well as case management and interventions supporting disengagement from violent extremism.

This webinar is part of a series called, Preventing and Countering Radicalization to Violence in Canada: A Webinar Series with Frontline Practitioners on Evidence-Based Approaches, Multi-Agency Collaboration, and the Role of Social Work. This webinar series is brought to you in partnership with the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence.