Conference focus on integrating support for children and families
Staff
from UniSA's Australian Centre for Child Protection will share insights
from the latest research into supporting vulnerable children and
families as part of the Children Communities Connections Conference at
City West campus on 25-26 November.
The conference will feature a keynote address by the Centre's Director, Professor Marianne Berry, and presentations from Centre staff on the Building Bridges Between Services, Building Capacity Within Services project, children and homelessness, and information sharing.
Co-sponsored by the Australian Centre for Child Protection, the conference has a central theme of 'developing effective integrated support for children and their families', reflecting the need for greater collaboration between the numerous services accessed by children, parents and families.
"Reports and reviews into service provision are saying that better collaboration across the entire system will result in better outcomes for children," says the Centre's Workforce Development Leader, Michael White.
"This conference is walking the walk by bringing together key practitioners, researchers and policy makers from across the community service, education and health sector spectrum to talk about what's already being done - and what more can be done - to boost cooperation and prevent vulnerable children from falling through the cracks."
Conference highlights featuring Australian Centre for Child Protection staff include:
- How can we better protect and support families: Keynote address by Centre Director Professor Marianne Berry
- How can we better support families through sharing information without sabotaging relationships?: panel discussion featuring Marianne Berry
- Responding to homeless children and their families: Research Fellow Christine Gibson
- Information sharing – what do we mean by confidentiality?: Workforce Development Coordinator Leisha Olliver with Donna Mayhew from the Office of the Guardian for Children and Young People
- Building bridges between services, building capacity within services: Michael White and Leisha Olliver
- Navigating a way forward: integrated place-based support for children and family services: Michael White with Manager of Salisbury Communities for Children, Karl Brettig
- Q&A facilitated by Michael White
- Closing panel chaired by Centre Deputy Director Associate Professor Leah Bromfiled
For more information and registration
download the program (pdf 2.99MB). Enquiries to
jacquie.dell@aus.salvationarmy.org