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Press Release for North End Matters

This week's guests:

Social Worker, Robert S. Wright and 

Sir Sanford Fleming House Director, Michelle MacRae

Aug 1st, 12:30pm Live-Streamed                          


How to address criminality in Halifax has increasingly become a concern for its 
residents. Statistics on the increase of violent crime and homicide in the city, 
released by Stats Canada this week, have not done much to ease the city's 
fears. HRM could increase the presence of officers on the street and impose 
stiffer penalties for crime, but are there other avenues that need to be 
explored? What about the lives of those who are involved in the criminal justice 
system? What keeps them on the street? How can we intervene before an 
individual becomes involved in the criminal justice system? This week's North 
End Matters will explore these questions and more.

Our guests this week, exploring the topic of Criminal Justice, will be Robert S. 
Wright and Michelle MacRae. 

Robert S. Wright has been a social worker for the past 20 years. He maintains a 
registered private practice in social work and has provided counseling and 
assessment services to a wide range of individuals, groups and families through 
self-referrals, EAPs, community based settings and involuntary institutional 
settings. He has held notable positions such as: Race Relations Coordinator of 
the former Dartmouth District School Board; correctional mental health 
Counselor at the Washington State Penitentiary; and Executive Director of 
Nova Scotia's Child and Youth Strategy. He is currently a member of the Racial 
Equity Committee of the Nova Scotia Barrister’s Society and also a member of 
the Community Liaison Committee for NS Department of Justice's Serious 
Incidence Response Team (SIRT), a civilian led team that investigates matters 
such as death, serious injury, sexual assault and other public-interest concerns 
involving police.

Michelle MacRae achieved the second of her two bachelor's degrees in Social 
Work from Dalhousie in 2010. She graduated “cum laude” from St. Mary's with a 
Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in Criminology and a minor in Psychology. 
Michelle started at Shelter Nova Scotia in 2008 as a student placement and is 
now the director of the Sir Sanford Fleming House, where she assists men over 
18 years of age in their transition from prison living to community living.

North End Matters is a live-streamed, online talk show that brings in policy 
makers and service providers to discuss upcoming changes in the North End. 
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