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Centre for the Reduction of Violence
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July 18, 2007
Among Children and Youth (SCUP 07-31)
At its July
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2007 meeting SCUP reviewed and approved the proposal for the creation
of the Centre for the Reduction of Violence Among Children and Youth. This Centre will
be a Schedule A Centre within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Motion
That Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors the creation of
the Centre for the Reduction of Violence Among Children and Youth as a
Schedule A Centre within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
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OFFICE OF VICE-PRESIDENT, RESEARCH
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B. Mario Pinto
Senate Committee on University
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Vice-President, Research
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RE:
Center for the Reduction of Violence
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June 19, 2007
Among Children and Youth
Attached is a proposal from Dr. John T. Pierce, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences for the establishment of the Center for the Reduction of Violence among Children and
Youth (CRVACY) as a Schedule A Centre.
The Governing Committee for Centres and Institutes recommends that the Centre be
granted approval by SCUP. Once approved by SCUP, the proposal is to be forwarded to
Senate, followed by submission to the Board of Governors.
Governing Committee:
/Dr. John H. Waterhouse
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Dr. B. Mario Pinto
Vice-President, Research
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Subject: Schedule A Centre Proposal
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John, please find attached a proposal for the creation of a Centre for the Reduction
of Violence Among Children and Youth. This Centre will serve the research
interests of the LEEF Chair in the same area. The Ministry of Children and Family
Development has committed $500,000 towards the creation and maintenance of the
Centre. This is a vitally important initiative, which will have the active
participation of numerous experts within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
and at University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, University of
Virginia, Naples Adolescent and BC Youth Forensic Services.
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Center for the Reduction of Violence Among Children and Youth
(CRVACY)
"It is e
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important that we
prevent
criminal behavior before it has a chance to
take root. To this end, the Government will work with the provinces and
territories to help
communities
provide hope
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for our
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end the c
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cle of violence that can lead to broken communities and broken lives."
Government of Canada Throne Speech ?
May 2, 2006
Statement of Purpose
Across Canada, in communities large and small, crime is a growing concern. In 2003,
crime in Canada cost an estimated $70 billion. A majority of this ($47 billion) was borne
by victims. These victim costs include the value of damaged or stolen property, pain and
suffering, loss of income and productivity, and health services. Expenditures on the
criminal justice system, such as police, courts and correctional services were $13 billion.
The remaining $10 billion was spent on defensive measures such as security devices and
protective services.
A New Approach
How will practical, real-life programs be developed to address the root causes of violence
among youth? How will the impact of these initiatives be measured so that Canadians
know they are successful? The approach taken by Simon Fraser University is to develop
a center of research excellence in which a group of social, biological, and mental health
scientists will collectively strive to answer these questions.
Assistance to the federal and provincial governments in the implementation of real-world
policies and strategies can only be effective if we first understand the roots of aggressive
behaviour among children and youth. To this end SFU will create the Center for the
Reduction of Violence Among Children and Youth (CRVACY). The Center will be
established in concert with the awarding of a Leading Edge Foundation Leadership chair,
funded by the provincial government, university, and private sources, known as the
Leadership Chair in the Reduction of Risk for Violence Among Children and Youth. The
Leadership Chair will be at the heart of a Center for the Reduction of Violence Among
Children and Youth (CRVACY).
The approach to the reduction of risk through CRVACY and the Leadership Chair is
unique and particularly appropriate to Canada's multicultural society because it
recognizes the complex factors that contribute to early childhood aggressive behavior,
adolescent conduct disorder and delinquency and adult criminality. Significantly, the
unique focus of the Chair is the development of intervention strategies that
simultaneously reduce risk and increase protective factors for violence among children
and youth.
Conduct disorder and associated delinquency and criminality are among the most
common and most persistent of all childhood and youth disorders and have been highly
resistant to intervention strategies. This Leadership Chair offers a new approach to
finding ways to understand and treat the roots of adjustment and mental disorders that
lead to violence. Building on SFU's strength in collaborative research, this Chair will
bring an interdisciplinary team together in the Center to develop strategies and programs
that will reduce violent behavior.
The goals of the Center for the Reduction of Violence Among Children and Youth.
Building on the strengths of world-renowned researchers who are currently investigating
a variety of approaches to the understanding of violence among children and youth the
CRVACY will focus on a broad range of topics. Its major emphases will be research on
the pathways that lead to violence among children and youth and the parental, community
and policy interventions that serve to divert children and youth away from violence. We
will approach these issues from the perspectives of the social sciences (psychology,
philosophy, education, sociology), the biological sciences (behavioural and cognitive
neuroscience, physiology), and the medical sciences (population health, clinical
psychology, neuropsychology, and psychiatry).
Some of the Center's main objectives are to:
• Inform public policy regarding pathways to violent behavior and provide public
policy recommendations for the effective allocation of limited resources;
• Establish training of professionals in effective and evidence-based interventions
for youth and families in collaboration with key stakeholders including schools,
law enforcement, community groups, provincial and federal government
ministries and other organizations;
• Integrate basic scientific research on risk and protective factors for violence from
across Canada and abroad;
• Attract other researchers and funding to this important issue;
• Develop greater research capacity at SFU and increase its dissemination through
publications of scientific research papers and monographs.
• Demonstrate the social and economic benefits of these strategies.
• Strengthen the knowledge economy by hosting international conferences on youth
violence.
• The proposed center Center for the Reduction of Violence Among Children and
Youth will provide a matrix within which our scientists will work synergistically
toward these and related goals. SFU is one of Canada's premier universities, with
campuses in BC's three largest cities - Vancouver, Surrey and Burnaby. It has a
track record of success in taking an interdisciplinary approach in research in the
social sciences. SFU is the only university in BC with a Criminology Department
and that department recently embarked on a joint $4 million initiative with the
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RCMP to create two chairs at SFU - a chair in computational criminology and a
chair in crime analysis.
The academic home of the Leadership Chair will be SFU's Psychology Department. The
Chair and the CRVACY will be able to draw on the strengths of SFU researchers in
psychology, criminology, law, education, sociology, epidemiology, health and human
genetics, and public policy.
Funding
The purpose of forming the CRVACY is to facilitate expansion of research capacity at
SFU. As such, we expect individual members of the CRVACY to continue to seek
support for their independent research programs. At the outset we anticipate no
significant budget implications for SFU as a result of creation of the CRVACY. Indeed,
the proposed CRVACY has already garnered a substantial funds from external sources.
Governance
1.
The Institute shall be governed in accordance with University policies including
R40.01, CENTRES AND INSTITUTES. If this document and University policy
differ on any issue, University policy shall prevail.
2. The Institute will be a Schedule A institute within the administrative purview of
the Dean of Arts and Social
Sciences.
3. The Governance of the Institute will be in the purview of the Institute:
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Committee
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elected faculty members).
4.
The policies guiding the affairs of the Institute will be made by simple majority
vote of the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee will have power to
include other faculty as members of the Steering Committee by a majority vote.
5. The Steering Committee shall select, by a majority vote, a Director who will be
appointed for a 2 year term.
Other Matters
1. The use of the name of the Institute, the administration of the Institute's funds,
and the employment of staff shall be the responsibility of the Director and the
Steering Committee in keeping with relevant University policies.
2. Contract and grants will be administered in keeping with applicable University
policies and procedures. An annual report shall be prepared by the Director and
approved by the Steering Committee.
3.
The University will be recognized in all publications emanating from the Institute.
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CRVACY Preliminary Researcher List
Friedrich Loesel (Cambridge University)
Doris Bender (SFU)
Ron Roesch (SFU)
Marlene Moretti (SFU)
Margaret Jackson (SFU)
Ray Corrado (SFU)
Charlotte Waddell (SFU)
N. D. Reppucci (U. Virginia)
C. Odgers (UC-Irvine)
H. Gretton (BC Youth Forensic Services)
S. Hymel (UBC)
Arlene Young (SFU)
Jodi Viljoen (SFU)
Stephen Hart (SFU)
Kevin Douglas (SFU)
Deborah Connolly (SFU)
J. Don Read (SFU)
C.
Hertzman (UBC)
D.
Pepler (York U.)
B. Leadbeater (U Victoria)
K. Moore (Maples Adolescent)
W. Cassidy (SFU)
1. Individuals who have expressed an interest in being affiliated with the
Center.
We expect this list
will grow substantially as SFTJ researchers become more aware of the research infrastructure will be
available to CRVACY members.
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SRV Library - Library Course Assessments
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Library Course Assessments
The Library participates in the course approval process for new courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
By Senate motion (S.93-1 1) "no new course should be approved by Senate until funding has been committed for
necessary library materials." A Library review should be conducted after new course proposals have been approved by
the department or school curriculum committee, before being considered by the Faculty curriculum committee. New
courses will not be approved at the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies (SCUS) or Senate Graduate Studies
Committee (SGSC) until a Library review has been completed. Even if the department states that no new library
resources are required, a report from the Library is required to confirm this view.
To submit course proposals for review by the Library, forward the following materials to Gwen Bird, Associate University
Librarian, Collections Services:
• course proposal forms
• complete course outline
• reading list created for the course, if any
• date of Faculty curriculum committee meeting (or other deadline for library report)
An assessment will be done to evaluate whether the Library's holdings and present collection development activities are
ad uate to support the new course. If no new library resources are required, the course will be added to the
nate list below indicating the library is adequately resourced to support the course.
If additional library resources are required, a full report will be created and linked below, and the associated costs will be
identified. The costs may be one-time, to fill gaps in holdings, or ongoing, for example, to start new journal
subscriptions, or sustain book collecting in areas not now included in the Library's collection scope. If costs are
attached, the department or school is asked to transfer the required funds to the Library's materials budget. Questions
about the process can be directed to Gwen Bird.
No Additional Library Resources Required
Unless otherwise indicated, these courses require no additional library resources based on a course location of SFU
Burnaby. In many cases, if the courses were to be offered at SFU Surrey or Vancouver or as off-campus courses,
additional Library costs might be involved. Please contact Gwen Bird for details.
International Centre for Art and Social Change (ICASC)
Centre for the Reduction of Violence Among Children and Youth
Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities
BISC 357, 418, 497
BUS 434
CMPT 464, 467
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