FREE Public Presentation Series: September 8, 2017

September 4 – 10, 2017 has been declared Respectful Workplace Week by the City of Fredericton. To highlight this, the Workplace Violence and Abuse Team of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research is hosting a series of FREE public talks at the Fredericton Public Library in Chickadee Hall on Friday, September 8. All are welcome. Light snacks will be available for morning break. A one hour lunch break is scheduled; lunch not provided. We hope that these talks will help to raise awareness of how to recognize and respond to abuse at work.

10:30 – 11:30 am

It’s your Business to Care: A Workplace Toolkit for Recognizing & Responding to Family Violence

• Lindsay Manuel, Program Advisor, Executive Council Office GNB

• Rina Arsenault, Associate Director, Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre

11:30 – 12:30 pm

Recognizing & Responding to the Consequences of Workplace Bullying

• Sue O’Donnell, MN, PhD, Assistant Prof., UNB Faculty of Nursing

1:30 – 3:30 pm

Panel Discussion: Recognizing & Responding to Workplace Abuse

Panelists will take the audience through a series of case scenarios related to workplace abuse while responding to facilitated and audience questions.

Panelists:

• Marvin Claybourn, PhD, Associate Prof., STU Faculty of Psychology

• Natacha I. Connelly Bosse, BTr, MBA, JD Articled Student-at-Law, NB Power

• Shelley Delano Parker, PhD, Industrial Psychologist, NB Power

• Sally Wells, BSW, LL.B, Mediation & Respectful Workplace Consultant

For more information and to register visit: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/abuse-at-work-perspectives-on-recognizing-and-responding-tickets-36943234208