About Our Staff
Lynn Barry, Director of the Child Witness Court Preparation Program
Lynn Barry (Olivier), MSW, RSW, worked as a child welfare investigator for over 20 years with Alberta Family and Social Services and was the Coordinator for Training and Staff Development with Child Welfare from 1999-2002 before moving on to some exciting new projects. She is a Director with the Canadian Society for the Investigation of Child Abuse and has coordinated and produced “For the Kids”: A Sexual Abuse Training Program for Police and Social Workers; and “You’re Not Alone”: A Child Witness Court Preparation Training Program. Both programs have sold nationally and internationally. She was actively involved in PERC (the Professional Education and Research Centre at the University of Calgary).
Lynn, through the Canadian Society for the Investigation of Child Abuse, has been approved as a provider (#1100) for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. She is now able to provide the “Category A” Training for the Professional Development Credits Criteria which is required by social workers to maintain their active registration.
Lynn is now devoted to teaching senior social work courses as a sessional instructor with the University of Calgary and conducts regular workshops on child abuse response to police officers, child welfare workers, teachers, day care staff and other community professionals. She conceived and developed both the Calgary Child Witness Court Preparation Program and the Child Abuse Response Certificate Program and remains the director of both programs. She has been a member of the Calgary Criminal Justice Committee since 1983. She is a lead researcher partnering with RESOLVE Alberta (University of Calgary) to conduct research into “The Impact of Premenstrual Syndrome on Women’s Parenting” and “A 10 Year Review of the Child Witness Court Preparation Program”. She was recently awarded a 2005 Centennial Medal by the Alberta Government for her contributions in the field of social services.
Lynn and her husband Rob Gammie live in both Windermere and Christina Lake, British Columbia with their youngest child, Kira. Lynn can be reached at (250) 342-2188, cell phone (250) 688-0606 and email address csica@telus.net. She can also be contacted through The Canadian Society for the Investigation of Child Abuse at (403) 289-8385 or via email at csica@shaw.ca. The website for The Canadian Society for the Investigation of Child Abuse is www.csicainfo.com and for The Child Witness Court Preparation Program it is www.childcourtprep.com.
Alice Gifford
Toni Morkin
Jonathan Nicholson, LLB, M.Sc, B. PE
Jonathan is the Team Leader of the Crown Counsel in Family Law. Prior to that he had a private law practice for 10 years and was a public school teacher. He is a past Director for the Canadian Society for the Investigation of Child Abuse
