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August 2018
National Protective Behaviours Conference 2018
Hosted by Act for Kids and Protective Behaviours Australia please join us for the National Protective Behaviours Conference 2018. Our two-day event features keynote speakers from all across Australia sharing their research, insights and knowledge of protective behaviours. Combined with informative and interactive workshops, attendees will walk away empowered with the knowledge to collectively reduce the incidence and impact of abuse and violence in the community and keep our kids safe.
Find out more »Tough Conversations in Child Protection | Canberra
Tough Conversations in Child Protection is a one-day course for child protection professionals and family workers to help them to hold the often-challenging conversations with parents in child protection. The course teaches a method to: Identify and clearly articulate the strengths and deficits in parents’ caring capacity so that parents have a clear future work plan. Comprehensively gather information for holding a factual tough conversation so that as many facts (as can be reasonably gathered) can be brought to bear…
Find out more »September 2018
Australian Association of Developmental Disability Medicine
This conference is designed for professionals from different sectors within the field of disability. It is a must attend for general practitioners, paediatricians, adult and child psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapists and educators who work with people who have intellectual/ developmental disability.
Find out more »Family and Domestic Violence Conference
The first Men’s Behaviour Change Program Provider Network Conference in WA will be held from Monday 10 September to Tuesday 11 September 2018 at Technology Park Conference & Function Centre in Bentley, WA. The objective of the conference is to provide a platform for a unified voice to share, network and collaborate on the challenges and successes of Men’s Behaviour Change Work. Day 1 The Network will come together, providing the opportunity for conversations around what we do, how far we have come and to share knowledge, insight and research on Men’s…
Find out more »Managing Vicarious Trauma
This new one-day workshop is for any staff who may be affected by the client’s accounts of distressing experiences to which they have been exposed or be affected by witnessing the impact on clients of these experiences. This could include staff working with the homeless, women and children escaping domestic violence; individuals with a psychiatric disorder and those who have been subject to torture. The training covers: what is vicarious trauma; how and why it occurs; its possible effects and;…
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