Upcoming Workshops
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| First-Up! – client response training for administration staff | TBA |
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| Digging Deeper – risk assessment and family support work | TBA |
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| Digging Deeper – risk assessment and family support work (Online Workshop) | Online Workshop |
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| Eyes Wide Open - assessing risk in foster and kinship care (Online Workshop) | Online Workshop |
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| First-Up! Client response training for administration staff | TBA |
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| Family Ties – enabling and supporting care by kin | TBA |
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| Holding the space – effective supervision practice | TBA |
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Workshops not currently scheduled but available for delivery on request
Repairing Broken Threads – reunification practice and process
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?
Practitioners from government and community child protection and family support services working with vulnerable children, young people and families around reunification; residential care workers, foster and kin support workers.
Making the Invisible...Visible! Child sexual abuse in family-based care
As evidenced by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse amongst other research, children living away from home in family based care can face some very real risks. To strengthen children’s safety, practitioners must feel knowledgeable, aware and confident about preventing, recognising and responding to sexual abuse in family based care.
This workshop increases participant awareness of the dynamics of sexual offending within family based care and supports practitioner’s ability to assess risk and address this with prevention and safety strategies. Participants also explore how to recognise indicators of abuse in family based care, understand the ways disclosure may occur in this setting and remove barriers to this.
Practitioners will leave the workshop feeling informed and empowered about strengthening the safety of children in family-based care.
Who should attend?
Foster and Kinship Care Support Workers, Residential Youth Workers and any practitioner assessing and supporting children and carers in family-based care.
For The Record – effective recording for child and youth work
Recording – from case notes to formal reports – is essential to effectively work with children, young people and families. This highly interactive workshop examines the art of recording in various contexts. Learn how to write wellstructured notes and reports which achieve their purpose as tools to help protect and support children and young people. Participants will learn to apply the ‘rules’ for succinct but effective recording, and increase their confidence in producing effective records to support practice.
Who should attend? Government and community agency workers, family support workers, youth workers, foster and kinship care support workers, intervention service workers.
Building Bridges – child protection practice for educators
This workshop is specifically designed for educators and student protection officers. The concept of ‘building bridges’ acknowledges the roles of educators as conduits between home and school in promoting student wellbeing. This workshop covers legislative requirements for identifying and responding to harm to students, along with core concepts of effective child protection practice. Case scenarios guide participants to consider child protection risk and protective factors, to determine risk of harm and to decide the most appropriate response.
Who should attend? Teachers, principals, school counsellors, school nurses and designated student protection officers.
Bridging Troubled Waters – resolving workplace issues and difficult team dynamics (3hr workshop)
Positive team dynamics underpin effective workgroups and when all is well, we may take this harmony for granted. But when conflict or personality clashes persist, everyone is affected and productivity can plummet. This workshop considers the tricky issues in managing workplace conflict and tension and restoring harmony. How do you engage workers who do not respond to the usual supervisory efforts to address unacceptable behaviour? How do you use your own personality and negotiation skills to ensure fair dealing while getting to the source of trouble? What strategies and techniques might help? This workshop is for competent supervisors who need a few more ‘tricks up their sleeve’ for resolving workgroup issues and for those who want to avoid such issues arising.esolving workgroup issues and for those who want to avoid such issues arising.
Who should attend? Team leaders, supervisors and managers responsible for workgroups in both government and community agencies.
A Cook’s Tour of Change
Interested in knowing more about how to support the people you work with in achieving and sustaining change over time? This is the workshop for you! You will participate in a “Cook’s Tour” of contemporary change theory – a rapid review of current research and thinking on change, informed by change theorists and the neuroscience of change. Participate in activities that explore how to utilise this knowledge with the people you support in your practice and in your workplace. Together we will focus on these core questions:
- What can change theory tell me about how to understand change?
- What is my job as a ‘change agent’ and how can I actively apply change theory in my practice?
- What is effective in achieving and sustaining the change that people want in their lives?
Who should attend? Any practitioner or leader working, supporting and/or coaching children or young people, individuals or families in achieving change.
Building the Picture for Educators – identifying and responding to harm and sexual behaviour
This workshop equips educators with knowledge and skills to meet mandatory training requirements for identifying and responding to harm. It considers concepts of abuse/neglect and likely harm to children, within the context of legal requirements and duty of care. It explores children’s sexual development and distinguishes between more
usual developmental behaviours and those considered problematic, providing a framework that guides educators in responding to all types of sexual behaviour. There is opportunity for participants to discuss behaviour and concerns encountered in work settings so that they leave the workshop with more confidence and potential solutions.
Who should attend? care educators, child care directors, family day care educators, outside school hours (OSHC) educators and directors.
DNA – development ‘N’ attachment for child protection work
Together, child development and attachment theory form a critical cornerstone underpinning practice across child protection, family support and youthwork. Yet many workers say they have only a hazy understanding of critical theoretical concepts and little real idea of how to use these in their practice. This one day workshop draws on
contemporary developments in research and theory to provide a practical working knowledge of child development and attachment for frontline child protection workers. Participants explore the implications of theoretical concepts for assessment and intervention and consider how to integrate theory with daily practice in their specific role.
Who should attend? Front-line workers, their team leaders and senior practitioners across the child protection, family support and youth sectors.
Leading Self and Others – being an effective leader in the human services sector
This workshop is tailored to the needs of your leadership team by drawing upon contemporary research and thinking about how to maximise individual leadership skills to meet the multi faceted challenges within the human services context. Being a ‘realistic’ leader is key and starts with understanding what you bring to your leadership role and how self awareness and knowledge is the springboard for developing your skills further.
Fine tuning your individual leadership skills is only part of the story – how you use these skills across all aspects of your work with clients, your team and other organisational leaders is also a key focus of this workshop.