by admin | Jan 10, 2025
Developed and delivered by Chris-Maree Sultmann who has trained in this area for over 25 years, this researchinformed workshop on risk assessment, developed specifically for Queensland practitioners, positions you to maintain currency in your practice with vulnerable children and families. Assessing risk and safety is central to supporting families in protecting and caring for their children, yet many practitioners remain unclear about the fundamentals of risk assessment work. The complexities of this work are many, as is the responsibility to ‘get it right’. Tensions exist where some practitioners find it tricky to integrate risk assessment with strengths-oriented practice, or to work together with families in identifying risk and building safety for children. This workshop ‘digs deeper’ into these questions, identifying the concepts, processes and skills fundamental to risk assessment and exploring how to put these into practice in family support.
Who should attend?
Staff from Intensive Family Support services, Family and Child Connect services, Family Wellbeing Services, Family Participation Programs, Delegated Authority and any practitioners from across the health, domestic and family violence, education and community sectors who have a direct role in working with vulnerable children and families or who supervise and guide others in this.
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Digging Deeper
October 15, 2025
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
by admin | Jan 10, 2025
Work to reunify children and young people in care with their families is complex, sensitive, challenging and rewarding. Research tells us that most children and young people living away from their families will reconnect with family – at some point, in some way. Even for those who cannot ‘go home’, research suggests there are benefits in some level of family connection. The craft of this work lies in how to optimise the level of reconnection for individual children and young people. If you are interested in exploring this area of practice with a view to clarifying and consolidating your understanding, skills and approach in reunification practice and process, this is the workshop for you. Contemporary thinking and evidence are used to inform activities designed to develop your knowledge and skills in assessing safety, planning effective supports and interventions and ability to engage in collaborative work with children, young people, their families and carers in this emotive and critical area of practice.
Who should attend?
Government and non-government practitioners supporting vulnerable children, young people and families, youth workers, residential and SILS workers, foster and kin care support workers, family support workers and staff from Family Wellbeing Services and Delegated Authority
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Repairing Broken Threads Session 1
October 28, 2025
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
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Repairing Broken Threads Session 2
October 29, 2025
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
by admin | Jan 10, 2025
So many professionals with supervisory responsibilities in child, youth and family services talk about learning ‘how’ to supervise solely from their ‘on-the-job’ experience. Often the main source of knowledge is their own experience of being supervised by others, with many telling us they need more. One of our most popular workshops, this interactive training provides you with what you need to be more effective as a supervisor. You will explore contemporary supervision frameworks, models, principles and core processes to help build your own approach to supervision with individual staff and teams or groups. This workshop is delivered by professionals who have delivered supervision and trained others in this for over 25 years and is suitable for beginning supervisors or those more experienced who are wanting to revitalise their practice.
Who should attend?
Government and non-government agency workers, across the child, youth and family sectors. New supervisors, those who currently supervise staff and workers interested in taking on a supervisory role workers interested in taking on a supervisory role.
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Holding the space
November 13, 2025
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
