CCWS Working Group Members
Working Group members provide input to the CCWS Program on issues related to their fields of professional expertise and identify local and provincial strategies to help enhance coordination and implementation of violence against women policies.
- Shabna Ali, Executive Director, BC Society of Transition Houses
- Linda Angus, Manager, Supportive Housing, BC Housing
- Shashi Assanand, Founder and Executive Director, Vancouver and Lower Mainland Multicultural Family Support Services
- Morgen Baldwin, Interim Regional Coordinator, Community Coordination for Women's Safety
- Chief Constable Mike Chadwick, Saanich Police Department
- Jill Cory, Coordinator, Women Abuse Response Program, BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre
- Jocelyn Coupal, Domestic Violence Prevention Advocate and Consultant
- Rosalind Currie, Director, Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons, Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General
- Gail Edinger, Regional Coordinator, Community Coordination for Women's Safety
- Mavis Erickson, Lawyer, Wagstaff, Gosh & Company, Former Highway of Tears Coordinator, Carrier Sekani Family Services
- Shauna Filgate, Youth Consultant, Child Welfare Policy Team, Ministry of Children and Family Development
- Dominic Flanagan, Director Housing Programs, BC Housing
- Jan Gottfred, Director, First Nations & Metis, Social and Cultural Policy, Ministry of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation
- Heather Hildred, Victim Services Program Director, RCMP "E" Division
- Dr. Margaret Jackson, Co-Director, SFU's FREDA Centre for Research on Violence Against Women
- Ninu Kang, Director of Family Programs, MOSAIC
- Pat Kelln, Director, Pacific DAWN
- Michelle Kinney, Senior Policy Analyst and Legal Counsel, Civil/Family Law Policy Office, Ministry of Attorney General
- Inspector Richard Konarski, Operations Support Office, Langley RCMP Detachment
- Kamaljit Lehal, Lawyer, Lehal & Co, Barristers and Solicitors
- Deputy Chief Constable Doug LePard, Investigation Division, Vancouver Police Department
- Sherri Mohoruk, Superintendent/Liaison, Liaison Division, Ministry of Education
- Michelle Novakowski, Regional Coordinator, Community Coordination for Women's Safety
- Kirsten Peters, Program Analyst, Community Corrections Division, Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General
- Catherine Poole, Director, Settlement Policy, Immigration and Multiculturalism Division, Ministry of Regional Economic and Skills Development
- Tracy Porteous, Executive Director, Ending Violence Association of British Columbia
- Brian Rendell, Director, Legal Operations, Criminal Justice Branch
- Superintendent Wayne Rideout, Deputy Criminal Operations Officer (Contract), RCMP "E" Division
- Superintendent Rob Rothwell, Investigative Services, Operations Division, Vancouver Police Department
- Gisela Ruebsaat, Legal Analyst, Community Coordination for Women's Safety
- Thomas Taller, Senior Policy and Legislation Analyst, Victim Services and Crime Prevention Branch, Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General
- Linda Thiessen, Civil Law Coordinator, Legal Services Society
- Diane Turner, Lawyer, Kelliher and Turner
- Caroline White, Program Director, Centre for Counselling and Community Safety, Community & Social Justice Division, Justice Institute of BC