Wednesday, June 16, 2021
6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Via ZOOM
Guest Coach: Robyn Hurley, B.A., LL.B., Acc.FM., CP.Med
Robyn has created an excellent role play that addresses access (now referred to as parenting time), between a child (3 year-old) and his mother, as well as whether the child’s current caregivers (kin), will obtain custody of him. The mother has addiction and some mental health issues, and the child has been placed with relatives for the last year, under a CAS supervision order. Her kin (mother’s cousin and wife), now want to obtain custody of the child, as they feel the child needs the security of permanency, and the mother hasn’t adequately addressed her addiction and mental health issues. Mediation has been recommended by the CAS lawyer.
Robyn will be the mediator for this role play, however, the remaining roles are open to our JADE members, and we hope you will sign up for the following: 1) Mother, 2) Mother’s Lawyer, 3) CAS Worker, 4) CAS Lawyer, 5) Mother’s Cousin 6) Cousin’s Wife, 7) Observer.
Robyn Hurley is an accredited family and child protection mediator with the Ontario Association of Family Mediation, and a member of the child protection mediation roster, ADR-Link, in London, Ontario. Robyn has worked as a family lawyer, representing parents, spouses, Children’s Aid Societies as well as children. Today, she continues to provide legal representation to children as a panel member of the Office of the Children’s Lawyer.
As a part-time professor at Western University, King’s University College in the Social Justice and Peace Studies, Robyn has taught Alternative Dispute Resolution, Children’s Participation in Family Law, Marginalized Childhoods and Access to Justice.
Robyn has provided mediation training and coaching services through Riverdale Mediation’s accredited courses on Mediation and Negotiation, and Domestic Violence Screening, as well as law students training in negotiation at the Faculty of Law, UWO.
Robyn’s public policy experience includes working as a policy analyst for the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services, where she led a project to design provincial standards for social housing programs. Additionally, she has experience in government, land-use planning and municipal law through her work as an articling student at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.