Collaborative Lead - Vancouver, Canada - Access to Justice BC

Access to Justice BC
Access to Justice BC
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Vancouver, Canada

2 weeks ago

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The Opportunity:
Lead BC's _
Transform the Family Justice System Collaborative_


Access to Justice BC (A2JBC) seeks expressions of interest from creative and strategic leaders and facilitators to be the Lead for the intersectoral _Transform the Family Justice System Collaborative _(the Collaborative).

Preference will be given to applicants with Indigenous identity and lived experience and applicants with experiences working with Indigenous communities and organizations.

The Lead will be a contractor and work from their own premises with their own equipment. The contract is expected to be full-time, but this is negotiable. The Lead, after consulting with the Strategic Coordinator, will set their hours, as necessary to deliver the work.

The Lead will, via the Collaborative, build capacity to transform the family justice system in BC.

The Lead will work within an established strategy framework to create spaces for dialogues and actions directed at the over-arching goal of child, youth and family well-being.


A key capacity development objective for the Collaborative is to increase the integration of Indigenous perspectives and the role of Indigenous communities into family justice transformation.

The Lead will also be involved in the Collaborative's four other capacity development objectives:


  • Expanding participation and increasing collaborative capacity for transformation;
  • Increasing capacity for working at a systems level and creating the conditions for transformation;
  • Increasing and diversifying the resources for transformation; and,
  • Increasing capacity for developmental and transformational evaluation.


To succeed, the Lead must be a systems thinker who can lead the work of the Collaborative from vision to execution - inviting participation of diverse individuals and organizations; perceiving emerging opportunities for impact; making judgment calls about priorities; gathering themes, articulating a shared vision and aligning participants around that vision; and casting a spotlight on innovative, culturally-relevant ideas and approaches that show promise.

The Lead is to provide "service leadership", operating with openness and transparency, engaging with and encouraging participants to aspire to their best potential.


About A2JBC and the Collaborative

  • A2JBC and the cultural shifts it supports_
  • The Collaborative and the journey towards system change in the family justice system_


The Collaborative was launched in June 2022, yet its story goes back to A2JBC's early days, in 2015, when the Leadership Group decided to focus on the family justice system and on reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.

In 2019, the Leadership Group was educated about a major public health issue - the immediate, long-term and inter-generational impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences - and reflected on the unintentional harm the adversarial court model inflicts on children, youth and families experiencing family justice issues A2JBC committed to taking a lead on this public health issue by taking a child and family centred view and transforming the system to focus on achieving family well-being.

In 2021, with the Representative for Children and Youth of BC, A2JBC convened about 50 child and youth champions.

The principles that emerged govern the Collaborative's approach:
Equitable, child-centred, holistic, strengths-based, relationship
- focused, supportive of agency, preventative and trauma-informed


Two priorities also surfaced:

  • Increase child and youth meaningful participation in the family justice system; and,
  • Take a holistic, wrap-around intersectoral approach to providing family services.
These have thus become the focus for two of the Collaborative's Communities of Action.


A Transform the Family Justice (TFJS) Strategy Map is a framework for action, laying out the Collaborative's principles and objectives required to bring about a system transformation.

The strategy objectives, rooted in the brain science of trauma and resilience, seek to:

- reduce toxic stress by shifting away from the adversarial model of dispute resolution;
- strengthen the support for families with holistic, intersectoral services; and
- build the capacity of children and youth to manage stress by enhancing their resilience.


Consistent with theories of system change, the strategy objectives are organized into three interrelated buckets: (1) paradigm shifts, (2) innovations, and (3) policy changes.

Paradigm shifts are a prerequisite of innovations and policy change. Together paradigm shifts and innovations inform and drive policy change.

Today, the Collaborative works through three _Communities of Action _(CoAs) intended to:

  • champion the paradigm shifts related to the relevant TFJS strategies;
- generate and identify action ideas directed at the CoA's strategic objectives;
- incubate innovation through supporting prototypes and community-based actions;
- learn from experiences with a view to scali
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