Putting the Public First – Part 1
This post continues our series on what it means to be “public-centred”. Nicole Aylwin, Assistant Director of the Winkler Institute, invited me to participate in the Institute’s 2016 Justice Design Project in August 2016 by providing a short introduction to “Putting the Public First in the Justice System”. I was excited to participate and wondering […]
Read postReframing Changes Everything
In our last post we began a series about why it is important to be “family-centred”. We quoted from a CBC Tapestry interview with Lisa Genova who turned to fiction as a way of exploring and understanding a person’s journey with dementia. During that interview, Ms. Genova talked about the importance of “reframing”. She quoted […]
Read postWhat Does “Family-Centred” Really Mean?
One of the foundational principles of the BC Family Justice Innovation Lab is that it is “family-centred”. Most people would agree that the BC family justice system should focus on the needs of the people it is intended to serve – families. And yet, just want this means and how it can be accomplished is […]
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