The Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee (HSJCC) Network is a dynamic, voluntary collaboration between professionals from across the human services and justice sectors in Ontario. At the Local, Regional and Provincial levels, HSJCCs coordinate resources and plan more effectively for people with unique needs who are in conflict with the law.

The Provincial HSJCC Conference is the network’s premiere educational event – bringing together more than 600 professionals from across the human services and justice sectors to share promising practices, build cross-sector networks and engage in solutions for the people they serve. Attendees benefit from a richly engrossing program that leaves them better equipped and inspired to meet the needs of Ontarians.

The Conference Planning Committee is seeking abstracts from individuals or agencies who can contribute solution-focused knowledge, expertise, innovation and best practices that can enhance, complement or expand services and systems currently in place.

The conference program will reflect a broad range of themes while showcasing work being done within the human service and justice sectors.

The need to create inclusive spaces for all vulnerable populations is an important factor to consider in creating equitable human services and justice sectors in Ontario. To address this issue, service providers are consistently working to incorporate inclusion, anti-racism, diversity and equity in their day-to-day work. Striving for Inclusive Justice: Reflecting on the past and acting for the future seeks to go beyond policy discussions to concrete and innovative actions to improve the experiences of vulnerable populations involved in the human services and justice sectors.

Streams

Complex Needs: Substance use and behavioural dependencies, mental health, brain injuries, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, developmental disabilities, dual diagnosis, and concurrent disorders.

Forensic

Specialized Populations: Physical disability populations, older adults (Dementia), youth, Black, Indigenous, and Racialized Commujniites, 2SLGBTQ+, and people of marginalized genders.

Models and Frameworks for Better Collaboration: HSJCC Committees, Crisis Tables, Situation Tables, Discharge Planning Tables, Mobile Crisis Response Teams and Communities of Practice.

Innovation and Creative Community Response: New projects, outside the box thinking, community partner/collaborations, relevant HSJCC work, social navigator projects, restorative justice, COVID 19 response, Lived Experience and Peer Support work.

Resiliency for Service Providers: Self-care, loss, Medical Assistance with Dying, Compassion Fatigue/Vicarious Trauma, professional grieving and restorative justice.