Join us on Wednesday, October 7th, as the AVA Webinar Series presents Breaking the Silence: Building Awareness and Taking Action to Protect Children in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence, featuring Dr. Lise Milne from the University of Regina.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
12 – 1:30pm MST
This presentation describes the profound and often invisible impacts of intimate partner violence (IPV) on children. Multi-media components will be used to explore child and adult survivor narratives and emerging neurobiological and developmental research to explore how exposure to IPV is associated with a host of short- and long-term outcomes. We will examine how trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and prevention-focused approaches can interrupt cycles of harm. Situating IPV as both a child welfare issue and a pressing public health crisis in Canada, we aim to move beyond awareness toward action by emphasizing the urgent need to educate professionals, policymakers, and especially communities/members of the public about the scope and intergenerational consequences of violence. Through examples, strategies to translate and mobilize knowledge across sectors will be presented to strengthen early identification, prevention, and coordinated intervention efforts. Interactive elements will deepen our collective understanding of IPV and the importance of translating evidence into practice and policy.
About the Speaker
Dr. Lise Milne is an Associate Professor at the University of Regina in the Faculty of Social Work, and the Child Trauma Research Centre Chair in Intervention and Prevention Approaches Supporting Child and Youth Health and Well-being. She is a Faculty Associate at the Social Policy Research Centre and the McGill Centre for Research on Children and Families, has been a Steering Committee and Provincial Academic representative for Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse (RESOLVE) in Saskatchewan, and Board of Directors co-chair and member of the Saskatoon Sexual Assault and Information Centre. Dr. Milne is involved with several national partnerships (Canadian Consortium on Child and Youth Trauma, Childhood Adversity and Resilience (CARe), Alliance Against Violence and Adversity [AVA]) and leads the Child and Youth Trauma Research Incubator (ThRIve) lab at the University of Regina, one of seven across Canada. Dr. Milne’s current research relates to resilience-, trauma-, and violence-informed practices in child-serving organizations, the neurobiological impacts of trauma, practice and policy responses to intimate partner violence, perinatal prevention approaches, and knowledge mobilization (childtraumaresearch.ca). Her research is informed by 15 years of child welfare practice experience in two provinces and a decade at the McGill Centre for Research on Children and Families.