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VEGA Acknowledgements

The VEGA Project Team expresses their deep appreciation to the collaborating organizations, consultants and reviewers for their many contributions to the development of VEGA’s online educational resources. VEGA owes its success to the time and efforts of many individuals without whom these resources would not have been possible.

The Team would also like to thank the Public Health Agency of Canada for their support of VEGA. In particular, members of the Family and Gender-Based Violence Prevention Unit, Mental Health and Wellbeing Division, Centre for Health Promotion, were extremely helpful throughout the Project.*

 

A. National Guidance and Implementation Committee (NGIC)

Co-chairs

Howard Bergman
Karima Velji

Organizations and Members:

Association of Faculties
of Medicine of Canada

Canadian Paediatrics
Society

Priya Gaba
Geneviève Moineau
Sarita Verma
Michelle Shouldice
Michelle Ward

Canadian Association of
Community Health Centres

Canadian Psychiatric
Association

Mary Ann Carmichael
Nadine Sookermany
Jadranka Bacic
Hélène Côté
Katie Hardy

Canadian Association
of Midwives

Canadian Psychological
Association

Alisha Nicole Apale
Amy McGee
Rebecca Wood
Karen Cohen
Kerry Mothersill
John Pearce

Canadian Association
of Schools of Nursing

Canadian Public
Health Association

Cynthia Baker
Margaret (Margot) McNamee
Leah Watts
Rachel MacLean
Greg Penney

Canadian Association
of Social Workers

Child Welfare
League of Canada

Sally Guy
Margaret Kennedy
Jake Ahern-Davy
Rachel Gouin
Gordon Phaneuf
Fiona Tomic
Steven Tremblay

Canadian Centre on
Substance Abuse

College of Family
Physicians Canada

Rhowena Martin
Rita Notarandrea
Amy Outschoorn
Eva Purkey
Robert Woollard

Canadian Dental
Association

Mental Health
Commission
of Canada

Kevin Desjardins
Chiraz Guessaier

Alexa Bol
Louise Bradley
Christopher Canning
Ed Mantler
Kam Tello

Canadian Dental
Hygienists Association

National Aboriginal
Council of Midwives

Victoria Leck
Donna Wells
Ann Wright
Darlene Birch
Carol Couchie

Canadian Indigenous
Nurses Association

Royal College of
Physicians & Surgeons
of Canada

Kevin Barlow
Lisa Bourque Bearskin
Erin Corston
Marilee Nowgesic
Arlene Wortsman
Glenn Barton
Kirk DesRosier
Danielle Fréchette

Canadian Medical
Association

Society of Obstetricians
& Gynaecologists
of Canada

Gail Beck
Shelley Ross
Jocelynn Cook
Kyla Kaminsky

Canadian Nurses
Association

Women’s Shelters
Canada

Lisa Ashley
Aden Hamza
Megan Manning
Karey Shuhendler
Judy Waldman
Lise Martin
Jan Reimer
Heather Stewart

B. Evidence Review Groups

VEGA Project Lead, Co-lead and VEGA staff participated in all stages of the evidence review process.

Child
Maltreatment

Children’s Exposure
to Intimate
Partner Violence

Intimate
Partner
Violence

Chair
Jane Barlow

Chair
Susan Jack

Chair
Marilyn Ford-Gilboe

Members

Members

Members

Tracie Afifi
John Fluke
Frances Gardner
Andrea Gonzalez
Chris Mikton
Phil Scribano
Heather Taussig
Lil Tonmyr
Charlotte Waddell
Chris Wekerle
Mariette Chartier
Emma Howarth
Kathy Georgiades
Andrea Gonzalez
Alessandra Guedes
Anna Marie Pietrantonio
Paula Barata
Prabha Chandra
Siàn Oram
Claudia Garcia-Moreno
Kelsey Hegarty
Donna Stewart
Colleen Varcoe
Simone Vigod

C. Collaborating Organizations

 

Allset Inc.

McMaster Evidence Review
and Synthesis Team

Diana Sherifali
Donna Fitzpatrick-Lewis
Meghan Kenny
Mary Gauld
Muhammad Usman Ali

Child Advocacy and
Assessment Program

REFRAME Health Films Incorporated

Angela McHolm
Anne Niec
Kathleen Nolan
Janine Owen
Anna Marie Pietrantonio
Debra Riggs
Mike Heinrich
Tania Haas

Computer Services Unit,
McMaster University

Standardized Patient Program,
Centre for Simulation-Based
Learning, McMaster University

Tyler Brent
Luis Arrojo
Mariam Bekhet
John Benedetti
Liz Buchanan
Laura Ellis
Dorothy Kamphius
Ahmed Maklad

Lucid Pulp

University of Bristol

Jennifer Harris
Gene Feder
Natalia Lewis

Gaslight Films

Stitch Media

Sonya Suraci
Katie Barnes
Alex Leitch
Jeffrey Flores
Matt ‘Bird’ Loreto
Amika Cooper

GAMES Institute,
University of Waterloo

Department of Psychiatry at
The Hospital for Sick Children

Steve Wilcox
Neil Randall
Agata Antkiewicz
Mark Hanson

Laurier Translations

University of British Columbia

Claudette Saint-Paquette
Colleen Varcoe

MacGRADE Centre

University Health Network

Nancy Santesso and Team
Donna Stewart

McMaster Education
Research Innovation and
Theory (MERIT) Program

World Health Organization

Jonathan Sherbino
Meredith Vanstone
Claudia Garcia-Moreno
Berit Kieselbach
 

Ottawa Public Health

York Region Public Health, Healthy Growth and Development Program

 
Valerie D’Paiva
Angelina Cheung
Ann Ciniglio
Naomi Higenbottam

D. Consultants and Contributors

 
Olabode Akintan
Carson Braun
Christian Braun
Alice Cavanagh
Delphine Collin-Vézina
James Dietrich
Elvin Drent
Lorraine Ferris
Cole Gillies
Susan Jack
Melissa Kimber
Anita Kothari
John Maher
Mahnoor Mapara
Annphin Mathew
Jen McGregor
Barb McQuarrie
Bertha Monrose
Beth Murray-Davis
Najibullah Naeemzadah
Stephanie Napoleone
Noella Noronha
Sarah O’Byrne
Oyinkansola Oyefeso
Alison Paprica
Jake Reddick
Caleb Sherbino
Joceyln Sherbino
Savanah Smith
Frank Stechey
Masako Tanaka
Diana Tikasz
Darina Vasek
Chris Wekerle
Jennifer Wesley

E. Content Reviewers

The following individuals reviewed one or more sections of the VEGA educational resources.  Their acknowledgement as reviewers does not imply endorsement of these materials.

 
Kathee Andrews
Angela Arra
Denise Babin
Burke Baird
Shawn Bayes
Lauren Beals
Gail Beck
Hazel Berg
Dan Boudreau
Carol Brewis
Jennifer Bryan
Pier Bryden
Stephanie Carlson
Laurel Chauvin-Kimoff
Sarah Cino
Vicki Coy
Stephanie Dallaire
Michael De Bellis
Cathy Duchesne
Sabrina Dzafovic
Sheila Early
Mark Fefergrad
Linda Ferguson
David Freedman
Patricia Gabriel
Stephanie George
Selena Gong
Rachael Green
Sophie Grigoriadis
Alexandra Hammill
Colin Harris
Janice Harvey
Keith Hay
Clover Hemans
Gary Hnatko
Sherry Hole-Stewart
Rachel Hollingshead
Bev Johnson
Flora Jung
Anifa Kalay
Hannah Kearney
Brooks Keeshin
Treena Klassen
Noor Ladhani
Jinessa Lane
Sylvie Lapointe
Marcus Law
Karen Lawford
Karine Levesque
Ellen Lipman
Avery Longmore
Jennifer MacPherson
Kelly G. MacWilliams
Danya Malhotra
Morag McLean
Catherine-Ann Miller
Michelle Moloney
Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay
Christie Newton
Carl Nohr
Samantha Nordlund
Amy Ornstein
Harish Parikh
Charissa Patricelli
Mark Petter
Terry Pezzot-Pearce
Kiran Pure
Maurianne Reade
Alexandra Reda
Jenny Redpath
Margo Rivera
Kari Sampsel
Catherine Savoie
Firrhaana Sayanvala
Katreena Scott
Sang Ik Song
Adam Steacie
Heather Taussig
Lil Tonmyr
Kate Towler
Diane Townsend
Karla Wentzel
Sandra Westcott
Celina White
Rhiannon Wong
Pamela Woodman

*The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of our funder, the Public Health Agency of Canada.