This workshop provides hands-on, practical training for professionals working in the child and family sector who support NDIS participants or their carers. It runs for four hours in total and is delivered in two separate two-hour sessions. You can choose to attend both sessions on the same day or spread them across two different days […]
This session will delve into the types of systems abuse women on temporary visas may experience and offer practical strategies to help practitioners recognise these signs early on in your interaction. A key focus will be understanding the impact of systems abuse on women’s ability to seek help, the role of immigration status in decision-making […]
The language we use with clients has the power to support, heal and empower. But words can also harm and dehumanise individuals. Although this is rarely intentional, research consistently suggests that recipients of health and social support services often feel disempowered, disrespected and excluded. Therefore, it is critical we all reflect on the language we […]
This session centres practitioner insight and sector knowledge grounded in frontline and community-based experience. Panellists will explore how intersecting factors, such as migration status, cultural expectations, racism, heteronormativity, transphobia and fear of systems, shape disclosure, risk and engagement for LGBTIQ+ people from migrant and refugee backgrounds experiencing family violence. Register here
This training will help participants understand the points of interface between parental conflict and children's experiences. Children who refuse or resist spending time with a parent following separation are a common presentation in family law contexts. Many of these children not only resist contact with a parent but also reject attempts to repair the relationship, […]
In Australia, an estimated 1 in 5 people are neurodivergent – meaning their brains function, learn and process information differently to the current social and cultural norm. Neurodivergent people can have a range of clinical diagnoses but can also self-identify without a clinical diagnosis. Neurodivergence often runs in families, and a growing number of […]
This training explores the damaging effects of children witnessing/experiencing violence and abuse and how to shift the focus of interventions to the father’s responsibility and accountability for safe parenting. This training is underpinned by the current evidence base that has established an understanding of the gender drivers of men’s violence against women. Practitioners attending this […]
This training explores the damaging effects of children witnessing/experiencing violence and abuse and how to shift the focus of interventions to the father’s responsibility and accountability for safe parenting. This training is underpinned by the current evidence base that has established an understanding of the gender drivers of men’s violence against women. Practitioners attending this […]
This full-day, interactive online module aims to upskill practitioners, with theory and practice approaches, to enable them to walk alongside survivors of coercive control safely, respectfully and ethically.
Perpetrators are exploiting everyday products and services to monitor, control and harm people experiencing domestic and family violence. Any account, app, or smart device could be a weapon used to monitor, isolate, and control. Much of this harm is unintentional; enabled by standard features, account settings and service processes not designed with abuse risk in […]