Braille is a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number, and even musical, mathematical and scientific symbols. Braille (named after its inventor in 19th century France, Louis Braille) is used by blind and partially sighted people to read the same books and periodicals as those printed […]
Helping practitioners and service providers to use research and practice evidence to inform decisions about service and program design and delivery is our primary role here at AIFS. For this reason, we thought it would be great to start the year with a replay of ‘Evidence-informed decision making: Using research evidence to inform practice’ This […]
Midsumma is Australia's premier queer arts and cultural organisation, bringing together a diverse mix of LGBTQIA+ artists, performers, communities and audiences. Our primary event, Midsumma Festival, usually runs over 22 days in Melbourne's summer (January/February) each year with an explosion of queer events that centre around hidden and mainstream queer culture, involving local, interstate, and international artists. Midsumma […]
Lunar New Year, Chinese Chunjie, Vietnamese Tet, Korean Solnal, Tibetan Losar, also called Spring Festival, is a festival typically celebrated in China and other Asian countries that begins with the first new moon of the lunar calendar and ends on the first full moon of the lunar calendar, 15 days later. The lunar calendar is based on the cycles of the moon, so […]
The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare is presenting a series of information sessions and workshops aiming to help consolidated and expand practitioner confidence in using the Child Information Sharing Scheme (CISS) to promote the safety and wellbeing of young people. This session will focus on why CISS was introduced and how […]