List of Satellite Meetings
Introduction to Mindfulness: Promoting Resilience in a Complicated World
Legal Epidemiology in Law Enforcement and Public Health Conference 2021 – Live Conference
Deflection and Diversion Group Pre-Conference Event
LEPH Special Interest Group on Education
Prosecutors and Elected Officials Group Pre-Conference Event
Police and First Responders Health and Well-being
Intersectionality Special Interest Group – Pre-Conference Session
Introduction to Mindfulness: Promoting Resilience in a Complicated World
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST, Sun Mar 21, 2021
Speakers:
Diane Reibel, PHD, Director The Myrna Brind Centre for Mindfulness at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health at Jefferson Health
Aleezé Sattar Moss, PHD, Assocaiate Director The Myrna Brind Centre for Mindfulness at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health at Jefferson Health
Description
In our increasingly complex and demanding world, resilience is an essential life skill. Research demonstrates that mindfulness training can help enhance resilience and emotional intelligence, as well as decrease stress and burnout. These benefits of mindfulness training have been reported in numerous populations, including people working in the fields of law enforcement, healthcare and public health.
This workshop offers both didactic content and experiential learning. The didactic material emphasizes the current research on the benefits of mindfulness-based interventions for promoting resilience and wellbeing. The main component of the workshop will be the experiential learning of key mindfulness practices, including brief practices that can be incorporated into daily life. Whether you are a law enforcement officer, administrator, clinician or researcher, mindfulness can help you foster your own self-care and respond more consciously to challenges in both personal and professional life.
Learning Objectives
- Define mindfulness
- Describe the attitudinal foundations of mindfulness
- Review the evidence for mindfulness-based interventions
- Directly experience key mindfulness practices to manage day to day challenges with more ease and balance
- Apply techniques of mindful communication in personal and professional life
- Utilize mindfulness practices to increase compassion for self and other
Legal Epidemiology in Law Enforcement and Public Health Conference 2021 – Live Conference – March 17-19, 2021
The Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research will convene a satellite conference in conjunction with the 2021 Global Law Enforcement and Public Health (LEPH) Conference in March 2021. This satellite conference, funded by the National Science Foundation Law and Science Program, is a global gathering of people whose work in public health law research (also known as legal epidemiology) informs practice and policy at the intersection of law enforcement and public health. The satellite will provide participants with an outlet to share their research, advance scholarship and methods, and support early-career and underrepresented scholars who are interested in studying the effects of criminal law and its enforcement on public health.
Legal epidemiology — the scientific study of law as a factor in the cause, distribution and prevention of disease and injury — is an emerging transdisciplinary field with roots in health, socio-legal and behavioral research. The intersection of law enforcement and public health encompasses both the obvious concerns and questions related to the interaction of law enforcement and communities, and broader questions about the effects of law and policy on security, safety, power, and control. It also asks how these issues interact with health, well-being and equity; all questions legal epidemiologists seek to answer. Read more
Registration- waitlist only
Registration is now full for this free workshop, but you can add your name to the waitlist here: https://forms.gle/uvbLv86k1HAxTbfx7
Deflection and Diversion Group Pre-Conference Event
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 17th at 9 AM ET (US) to 12 PM ET (US)
Attendees: Law enforcement, social workers, advocates, policy makers, and researchers
Registration: Current members of the Deflection and Diversion SIG will be pre-registered. If you are not a member of the D&D SIG and would like to join us, please email the convenors and we will reach out to you with more information.
Description:
The Deflection and Diversion Special Interest Group consists of a broad array of current and former law enforcement officials, social workers, advocates, public health and criminal justice policy makers, and researchers who look to advance the use of deflection and diversion on an international level.
For more information regarding this event visit here.
LEPH Special Interest Group on Education
Members meeting
Date/Time: March 16th 2021, 5:30pm (EDT)
Attendees: SIG members
Registration: Current members of the SIG will be notified of this meeting by email. If you are not a member of the SIG and would like to join us, please contact Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron or Dr Yasmeen Krameddine for more information.
Description:
The LEPH Special Interest Group on education brings together academics, practitioners and students from across the globe who are interested in promoting multidisciplinary education, training and scholarship in areas that are relevant to the collaborative fields of law enforcement and public health, either from conceptual or practical perspectives. The SIG Education activities revolve mainly around: 1) the dissemination of academic or practical resources to students, scholars and practitioners, 2) LEPH pre-conference activities (meetings and masterclasses) and 3, the administration of scholarship awards to the LEPH student community.
During our Pre-Conference Meeting, SIG members will discuss:
- milestones and accomplishments since the last meeting (which occurred just before the 2019 LEPH conference in Edinburgh)
- student awards for the next conference
- future projects
- opportunities arising
- group membership and leadership
Contact Information:
Dr. Isabelle Bartkokwiak-Théron: isabelle.bartkowiaktheron@utas.edu.au
Dr. Yasmeen Krameddine: krameddi@ualberta.ca
Prosecutors and Elected Officials Group Pre-Conference Event
Date/Time: Thursday, March 18th at 12:00 PM EDT (US) to 3:00 PM EDT (US)
Attendees: Prosecutors, elected officials & policy makers, and researchers
Registration: Current members of the PEO Group will be pre-registered. If you are not a member of the PEO Group and would like to join us, please complete this form and we will reach out to you with more information.
Description:
The Prosecutors and Elected Officials (PEO) Group brings together prosecutors, elected officials, and other criminal justice policy experts from across the globe who are interested in advancing connections and collaborations to forge and promote public health responses to issues often criminalized or addressed in a punitive way through the justice system. The PEO Group helps forge cross-national connections and a global network of interested and like-minded prosecutors, elected officials and policy leaders who can share information and ideas, support each other’s efforts, and act as a collaborative and collective voice to help imbed public health approaches in criminal justice systems.
During our Pre-Conference Event, the PEO Group will, over the course of three sessions, discuss pressing issues integral to criminal justice and public health. Each session will feature short presentations on programs, innovations, or relevant research and will be followed by an opportunity for open discussion among the group. The sessions will focus on the following topics:
- Reimagining the Criminal Justice System in the Context of the Pandemic — Leaning in to Public Health Rather than Carceral Approaches
- Reducing the Footprint of Policing and Promoting Police Accountability — Lessons Learned and Best Practices Internationally around the Role and Function of Policing
- Racial Equity and Racial Justice
Police and First Responders Health and Well-being
Event Timing: Monday March 15th 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM (EDT)
The following leaders from policing will be giving short presentations on the issues facing police and first responders, and how police leadership is working to address these pressures:
- Thomas Carrique, Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner – Canada
- Andy Rhodes, Chief Constable Lancashire Constabulary, National Lead for Wellbeing and Engagement, and Chair of the CPOSA Prof. Community, and Chair for Organizational Development – UK
- Lieutenant William Walsh, Voorhees Township Police Dept. – US
Registration for this session is required. Please register through this link:
https://forms.gle/jLaKBSYPX8hqHUzo6
The link to the session will be provided to registrants at a later date and through the LEPH2021 website and Whova event app for the LEPH2021 conference.
Intersectionality Special Interest Group – Pre-Conference Session
What is human?
Within this workshop, participants are encouraged to reflect critically on a simple yet, complicated question. What is human? Participants will be challenged on their preconceptions of what qualities make up an individual’s humanness and how these can be used against individuals in sinister and often hidden ways. These qualities will be unpacked critically to see how some groups experience prejudices, racism, homophobia, ableism and many other insidious attitudes. Further, we will explore how historically these attitudes may create points in time where people are treated as less than human and how this may be conducive to dehumanization. Lastly, understanding how we should move forward with purpose and equity to uphold a person’s dignity and respect for agency and the right to self-determination and autonomy.
The Urgency of Intersectionality in Law Enforcement and Public Health
Within this portion of the workshop, participants will be asked to engage with the challenges people with multiple and often compounding identities face with formal institutions. Firstly, participants will be asked to identify the ‘intersections’ of what makes a person unique. These unique qualities will be unpacked in the context of understanding how power, privilege, control, violence and oppression occur concurrently to create disproportionate outcomes, especially for those who are considered the most vulnerable in any given society. Understanding the different lays of violence is critical in moving forward and is the first essential step of this workshop by challenging how societal attitudes are considered cultural absolutes. We will apply these identities to social movements and how they create meaningful change and challenge why these social movements occur. Lastly, we should move forward to create culturally safe environments for all peoples who engage with law enforcement and public health institutions.
Contact information:
Alexander Workman: a.workman@westernsydney.edu.au
Sessional Tutor Western Sydney University
BCrim | MRes 1st Class | PhD Candidate in the School of Health Science & Social Sciences, Western Sydney University | Co-Chair, Intersectionality in Law Enforcement and Public Health SIG, GLEPHA
