PREVNet is most pleased that Mr. Lloyd Cadsby, The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, Dr. Donald Michenbaum, The Honourable Landon Pearson, Dr. Richard Tremblay, and Dr. Douglas Wilms have agreed to serve as Advisory Board Members of PREVNet.
Mr. Lloyd CadsbyMr. Cadsby's practice focuses on the resolution of commercial disputes. He is certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a specialist in civil litigation and construction law. Mr. Cadsby has, throughout his practice, acted as counsel in a broad range of commercial matters including construction, real estate, contract, surety, and professional negligence issues. As well as being a seasoned litigator, Lloyd has considerable experience in both mediation and arbitration. Mr. Cadsby is committed to achieving his clients' business objectives in an economic and expeditious manner. Mr. Cadsby is also a frequent lecturer on legal topics.
The Honourable Margaret McCainThe Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain was born October 1, 1934, in northern Quebec. Her father was a prominent mining engineer in the early days of the Quebec gold mining industry and her mother was Senator Margaret Norrie of Truro, N.S.
Mrs. McCain received her early education in public and private schools in Quebec, Nova Scotia and Ontario. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in History from Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B., and a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Toronto. She was presented with Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from the University of New Brunswick (1993), Mount Allison University (1995), St. Thomas University, University of Moncton (1995) and University of Toronto (1996). In October, 1994 she was invested as Dame of Grace in the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.
Throughout her career, Mrs. McCain has been active in organizations that promote education, music and the arts at the provincial and national levels. She was a member of the Mount Allison University Board of Regents from 1974-1994 and served as Chancellor of the University from 1986-1994.
She is a founding member of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Foundation in New Brunswick. Their mission is the elimination of family violence through public education and research. She chaired their capital campaign to endow a Family Violence Research Centre in partnership with the University of New Brunswick.
In 1955 she married entrepreneur G. Wallace F. McCain of Florenceville, N.B. They have four children and nine grandchildren.
On April 28, 1994, Margaret Norrie McCain was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Brunswick - the first female to hold this position. She served in that role until April, 1997. At that time she moved to Toronto to re-join her family.
She is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Ballet School and is currently spearheading Project Grand Jete, a major fundraising campaign for the School. She is also Honourary Colonel of the Governor General’s Horseguards and serves on the Boards of the Canadian Policy Research Network, The Canadian Women’s Foundation, TVO Foundation, The Learning Partnership and the Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development.
In April 1998 Mrs. McCain was appointed by the Secretariat for Children, Province of Ontario, co-chair of the “Early Years Study.” In 2002 she co-chaired a Commission on Early Learning and Child Development for the City of Toronto. She has participated in numerous early child development policy and programme initiatives in Canada and is frequently asked to speak at conferences, seminars and meetings across the country.
Dr. Donald MeichenbaumDr. Meichenbaum is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, and one of the founders of cognitive behavior modification. He has lectured worldwide on the impact of violence and has published the Clinical Handbook on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In a survey reported in the American Psychologist, he was voted "one of the 10 most influential psychotherapists of the century." He is also a founding member of The Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment.
The Honourable Landon Pearson Landon (Mackenzie) Pearson was born in Toronto in 1930. .She graduated from the University of Toronto in 1951 with a B.A. in Philosophy and English. In 1978, she earned her M.Ed. in Psychopedagogy from the University of Ottawa. Wilfrid Laurier University awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1995.
Landon Pearson has been actively involved with children and issues associated with young people for more than 40 years. As the spouse of a Canadian diplomat, she worked with children's groups in France, Mexico, India and the Soviet Union. In addition to numerous articles on child development and policy questions, she has written Children of Glasnost: Growing up Soviet (1990).
In 1979, Senator Pearson was Vice-Chairperson of the Canadian Commission for the International Year of the Child and Editor of the Commission's report, For Canada's Children: National Agenda for Action. During the period 1984 to 1990, she was President, then Chairperson, of the Canadian Council on Children and Youth. She was a founding member and Chairperson of the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children. She is co-founder and chair of "Children Learning for Living," a prevention program in children's mental health operating in the Ottawa Board of Education. Landon Pearson is Vice-Chair of the Centre for the Study of Children at Risk at McMaster University and a member of the Board of the Canadian Paediatric Foundation. She was a Canadian delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in September 1995 and to the First World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Stockholm in August 1996. Landon Pearson was summoned to the Senate in September 1994. In May 1996, she was appointed as Adviser on Children's Rights to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Dr. Richard TremblayRichard Tremblay is professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Montréal, and Canada Research Chair in Child Development. For the past 25 years he has conducted a program of longitudinal studies on the physical, cognitive, emotional and social development of children from conception to adulthood. As director of an interdisciplinary research centre funded by three universities (Laval, McGill and Montréal), his main goal is to integrate genetic, environment, brain and behaviour research to understand the socialisation process. He is also director of the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development and the Early Childhood Learning Knowkedge Center which seek to disseminate the best available knowledge to policy makers and service providers. Professor Tremblay is a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology and of the Royal Society of Canada.
He is a former member of the OJJDP Study Group on Very Young Offenders, and of the National Research Council Panel on Juvenile Crime Prevention, Treatment, and Control; and was Chair of the 2002 World Conference of the International Society for Research on Aggression.
Dr. J. Douglas WillmsJ. Douglas Willms is a Professor and Director of the Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy at the University of New Brunswick (UNB). He holds the Canada Research Chair in Human Development at UNB and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Research Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Dr. Willms is the editor of Vulnerable Children: Findings from Canada's National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, (University of Alberta Press, 2002) which received the Canadian Policy Research Award in 2002, the author of Monitoring School Performance: A Guide for Educators (Falmer Press, 1992), and the co-editor of Schools, Classrooms, and Pupils: International Studies of Schooling from a Multilevel Perspective (Academic Press, 1991). He has also published nearly two hundred research articles and monographs pertaining to youth literacy, children's health, the accountability of schooling systems, and the assessment of national reforms. He has served on the technical advisory boards for Canada's National Longitudinal Study of Children and Youth and the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), and is known for the training of new scholars in the analysis of large and complex data sets. Current interests include the examination of family, school and community factors that contribute to the health and well-being of Canadian children and adolescents, and the use of continuous monitoring in the assessment of school reforms.
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