This free online webinar addresses a challenging area of practice: when Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a contributing factor in a young person’s use of violence in the home. FASD is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting a young person’s development, behaviour and learning, and can have life-long impacts. As many presenting signs overlap with complex […]
Course Overview This two-hour training session has been designed for all mental health and wellbeing clinicians with intermediate MARAM responsibilities in any role with the mental health and wellbeing sector. The aim of MARAM is to increase the safety and wellbeing of Victorians by ensuring relevant services can effectively identify, assess and manage family violence […]
The bi-monthly Kinship Care Network meeting is hosted by The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare in partnership with Kinship Care Victoria. Our statewide members represent twenty-eight funded service providers, bringing together place-based knowledge and practice wisdom to build capacity and alignment across the kinship care sector. The Network offers frontline workforces opportunities […]
LivingWorks safeTALK is half day in-person workshop that teaches carers the skills to identify someone with thoughts of suicide, ask them openly and directly about suicide, and connect them with resources that can help keep them safe. Using a simple yet effective model, LivingWorks safeTALK empowers everyone to make a difference. safeTALK workshops feature: The […]
The Centre for Excellence in Child & Family Welfare invites our members and supporters to join us for a forum on Global Workforce Trends and Behaviours with Sonia Sharp from Ernst & Young. This hybrid forum will be an update on the hugely successful global workforce trends and behaviours webinar given by Sonia in July […]
This training is provided by the Department of Health for Department of Health-funded workforces. Putting MARAM Into Practice Workshops (4 hours) – all are welcome to attend these workshops however, they are well suited for those who have completed MARAM intermediate-level training and who want to expand their learning. Learning outcomes Use your case notes […]
Course Overview This workshop looks at the Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) practically, developing an understanding of what ASD is and the types of ASD, looking at the challenges faced by individuals with ASD and secondary challenges that may present. The workshop also explores how as a worker, you can support a young person with ASD […]
Course Overview This training provides participants with an understanding of the Looking After Children (LAC) processes and frameworks and the role case managers, practitioners, residential workers, carers, various stakeholders, families, children and young people play in its implementation. It provides an understanding of the Best Interests Case Practice model and the importance of embedding Looking […]
Bi-monthly network meeting chaired by Elena Campbell from Centre for Innovative Justice The AVITH Collaborative Practice Network is a space where multidisciplinary professionals from a diverse range of sectors whose practice, policy, or research focuses on supporting adolescents using violence in the home can meet to: Contribute to improved understandings of AVITH across the service […]
June 4th | 12.30PM – 2.00PM | Online | Register here How can you embed children’s mental health and wellbeing into practice and organisational culture? The second in our ‘Trauma informed insights’ series, Emerging Minds will share insights on children’s mental health and how organisations and practitioners can work in a trauma-informed approach that highlights children’s voices and experiences which […]
Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework (MARAM) This training is provided by The Centre for Department of Health-funded workforces. MARAM victim survivor identification training – for Department of Health workforces with MARAM identification level responsibilities (such as but not limited to - the maternal and child health workforce, and staff that work in […]
The UN General Assembly declares June 11 will be the world’s first International Day of Play. International Day of Play is a time to celebrate the power of play and raise awareness about how central it is to every child’s development and wellbeing. Play isn’t just fun, it is a universal language spoken by people […]
