Free Training programs

This course aims to equip and support members of the legal community by providing knowledge related to the identification, understanding, manifestations, and documentation of domestic and post-separation violence dynamics. This course highlights tailored practices and legal strategies focused on the safety and freedom of individuals who are victims of violence.

Juripop shares the foundations of a secure and sensitive approach, developed over the past few years within the framework of its innovative practices lab, for individuals affected by domestic and post-separation violence. This approach values the expertise and agency of victims, placing them at the center of the judicial process.

Duration : 6 hours

As professionals working in family law, it is possible to take action against domestic violence and post-separation violence through innovative practices focused on the best interests of children.

Juripop offers acourse that explores the experiences of children who are victims of violence, providing tools to recognize the impact of violence on these children, identify strategies for their protection, and understand how these strategies affect their positioning. The course also emphasizes practices and behaviors that are aligned with their needs, particularly their need for safety.

This course encourages members of the legal community to listen attentively, in order to understand how the exercise of violence serves as an indicator of concerning parental capabilities, advocating for safe and secure ways of sharing parenting time.

Duration : 5 hours

This course addresses the roles of various socio-judicial actors who may be involved during civil proceedings, in addition to taking a critical look at the notions of the best interests of the child, co-parenting, parental capacity and parental alienation. With this course, professionals will develop a nuanced reasoning that considers the reality of the victims.

Duration : 6 hours

This course, given by two experienced lawyers, will better equipped lawyers in order to practice family law and civil law in context of domestic violence, from drafting procedures to closing arguments. It aims to encourage legal professionals to improve their plead in domestic violence cases. The course also highlights the strategies, skills, and attitudes that promote the bond of trust and collaboration between the lawyer and the victim, while respecting and considering their reality.

Duration : 6 hours

In this podcast, Me Justine Fortin welcomes Sophie Gagnon, lawyer and Executive Director of Juripop. They discuss the presence of lawyers in issues of sexual and domestic violence and, more importantly, how legal information is one of the central needs of victims and survivors. Together, they recall a small part of Juripop’s organizational history, the genesis of the expertise that the organization has been developing for several years now.

In this podcast, Me Justine Fortin, director of the conjugal and sexual violence programs at Juripop, welcomes her colleagues Me Éliane Malo and Constance Laurin. Together, they deconstruct the preconceived idea of the role of the lawyer to adapt it to a specific practice for victims. Throughout their conversation, they offer concrete avenues that will allow professionals to adapt their interactions with the people they represent. The goal is not to drastically change the way they work, but to encourage lawyers to make small changes that will have a considerable impact and facilitate the lives of the people they help.

In this podcast, Me Justine Fortin and her guests propose a deconstruction of the meaning of words: those to be preferred, but especially those to be avoided. When the right words are used, they validate the experiences of victims and survivors while helping to recognize the violence and its consequences. Changing one’s vocabulary allows one to put the reality of victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence at the heart of one’s practice and at the heart of the system. To talk about this, Constance Laurin, clinical specialist in conjugal violence at Juripop and Sandrine Ricci, doctoral researcher in sociology and feminist studies, affiliated with the Research Chair on gender-based and sexual violence in higher education (UQAM).

In this podcast, Me Justine Fortin welcomes her colleague Me Roxane Charpentier who shares with us a testimony full of honesty and resilience about her experience in practicing law with victims of domestic violence and post-separation violence. Together, they talk about practicing law with victims, about the fact that it is sometimes a choice, a passion, a vocation, but that often a lawyer can find himself or herself with cases of this type by force of circumstance. In all cases, it will be necessary to unlearn and relearn to work differently. What we want to share through this testimony is that, if you recognize yourself in this conversation, you are not alone.