​The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare

This specialist community of practice raises awareness of the many program approaches in all states and territories, contributes to a nationally recognised understanding and practice framework for YPVITH, and shares approaches that show promising outcomes for young people and families. If you’re a practitioner in this space, we’d love for you to join the discussion! […]

In this first session, you are warmly invited to the launch of the new online ‘Spotlight’ on children impacted by fatal family violence.  We will also launch the children’s storybook What Ally Needs Now, which has been co-designed with people with lived experience. The loss of a parent due to fatal family violence has a profound and lifelong impact on the children and young people left behind. All aspects of their life are disrupted, […]

Join the Early Start Bright Future team and Dr Mishel McMahon to explore Aboriginal child-rearing principles and way indigenous knowledge systems shape children's early learning and family life.  Participants will gain insights into how Aboriginal perspectives, kinship structures and caregiving approaches influence a child's learning as they enter early learning environments. Register here

Child Protection practitioners, managers, and sector professionals are warmly invited to attend one of the upcoming Divisional Forums launching the new Practice Resources: Understanding and Responding to Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Criminal Exploitation. Hosted by the DFFH Child Exploitation Response Team and the Statewide Principal Practitioners from the Office of Professional Practice and supported by […]