The Walk Alongside Me training focuses on identifying and defining coercive controlling behaviours, and how to work to increase survivor agency and self efficacy, using response-based practice, and trauma- and violence-informed practice frameworks. While Family Violence Risk Assessment frameworks (including MARAM) are critical to family violence practice, there is more to family violence response than […]
The Walk Alongside Me training focuses on identifying and defining coercive controlling behaviours, and how to work to increase survivor agency and self efficacy, using response-based practice, and trauma- and violence-informed practice frameworks. While Family Violence Risk Assessment frameworks (including MARAM) are critical to family violence practice, there is more to family violence response than […]
This webinar is the first in a three-part series on collecting and using evidence in the context of Australian child and family services. In our first episode, Sharnee Moore, Senior Research Fellow and manager of the Evidence and Evaluation Support team, sat down with Michelle Harrison, Senior Research Specialist, at the Parenting Research Centre, […]
It has been reported that almost a third of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents have experienced high levels of psychological distress. This webinar, presented by Mental Health Professionals’ Network and Emerging Minds, will explore the clinical application of the social and emotional wellbeing framework, guiding practitioners to balance clinical and cultural knowledge and embed […]
A Supervision of Solidarity is informed by an ethics of justice-doing and solidarity, encompassing: resisting settler colonialism, centering ethics, doing solidarity, addressing power, fostering collective sustainability, critically engaging with language, and structuring safety. In this workshop you will: consider how to promote dignifying and generative supervision groups for therapy and community work deconstruct “case consultation” […]
A Supervision of Solidarity is informed by an ethics of justice-doing and solidarity, encompassing: resisting settler colonialism, centering ethics, doing solidarity, addressing power, fostering collective sustainability, critically engaging with language, and structuring safety. In this workshop you will: consider how to promote dignifying and generative supervision groups for therapy and community work deconstruct “case consultation” […]
What does effective LGBTQ+ suicide prevention look like? Learn from innovative strengths-based approaches shaping the future of LGBTQ+ suicide prevention. Join us for a seminar bringing together researchers, practitioners and community organisations to explore strengths-based approaches to prevention. Featuring: • A keynote from international expert Associate Professor Olivier Ferlatte (Canada) • New national LGBTQ+ mental […]
For parents involved in their children's school council in Stonnington, Port Phillip, Glen Eira, Bayside, Kingston, Frankston or Mornington Peninsula. All parents and caregivers want their children to thrive at school. Children thrive in safe, respectful and equal environments. Schools are a key place where children not only reach their academic potential but develop essential social, emotional and psychological skills […]
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
The national Sector Support and Development, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group is hosting a free online symposium in May 2026 as part of the national CHSP symposium series. Save the Date: Wednesday 13 May 2026. More details coming soon. The symposium will be a great opportunity to refocus on diversity and inclusion initiatives particularly in […]