Justice committee  I absolutely agree. This kind of debriefing or check-in can certainly be done as a group, where if members want to talk.... You want to be careful that people don't go too much into trauma detail, because that can be very upsetting for other people in the group. It's just to gi

Justice committee  I can go first. In terms of there being enough clinicians if this were to roll out across Canada tomorrow, there probably wouldn't be, but certainly this is something in which there is a lot of interest. More and more people have been getting trained in appropriate types of trau

Justice committee  Yes, I just wanted to make a corollary to that. What I've heard a lot from first responders is that almost every service has access to their employee assistance program, EAP. I hear so many stories of people trying to reach out to their EAP counsellors, and they find it very frus

Justice committee  Services vary widely across Canada in terms of what they offer their staff. I've been a trainer with York Region Paramedic Services. I'm going to use them as an example, because I think they're doing a great job. With all their paramedics, I'm actually one of their clinician trai

Justice committee  Just to agree with everyone else who has been speaking, I'd be very cautious about pre-emptively picking which types of crimes are likely to be traumatizing or not. To borrow from a different context, I see a lot of people who have been injured in the workplace. Many times it may

Justice committee  I think so, especially if it's proportional to the number of people in each province who would be serving on a jury. This is as long as it's not a fixed amount. When things are starting out, it can be more of a pilot. If you're finding that it might help to put more money into, f

Justice committee  In terms of counselling during the trial, you're right: we don't want to have someone potentially biasing jurors. What we can do first of all is the education, and we can normalize some of their reactions. People experience things and think they shouldn't because no one else se

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights for the opportunity to discuss mental health supports for jurors. I'm a clinical psychologist who has worked with many individuals who have experienced trauma in their line of work, including f

Justice committee  Hello.