Resilient Families need Resilient Workers National Symposium 2009
Melbourne Cricket Ground
22 – 24 June 2009
 
The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare and The Child and Family Welfare Association of Australia are delighted to bring you the 2009 National Symposium “Resilient Families need Resilient Workers” – Practice, Policy and Research.
This unique Symposium will focus on current international and Australian research and evidence base for working with vulnerable families with complex needs and how community based organisations deliver sound outcomes for families and best support and retain good people in this critical and challenging work.
Highly regarded international speakers and presenters from across Australia will share their expertise, drawing on research and evidence, with the Symposium participants – family services and support workers, managers, CEOs, academics and policy makers.
This Symposium has been designed to give professionals in the family services area an opportunity to share their experience with other experts, to enhance their skills, provide professional development, and a space for reflection away from the pressures and challenges of day to day work.
We are proud to deliver this opportunity to such an important workforce and we thank the sponsors and exhibitors for their support and contribution towards the Symposium.
We look forward to seeing you in June.
Coleen Clare
CEO
Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
Symposium Chair
Neil B. Guterman, Ph.D
Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor at the School of Social Service Administration
 Hope
for Change - Emerging home visitation strategies for preventing child maltreatment
Professor Neil Guterman is the Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor at the School of Social Service and Administration at the University of Chicago. Professor Guterman is conducting several related studies on child abuse prevention, funded by the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the Children's Bureau in the Department of Health & Human Services, and a number of private foundations. His second generation research on home visitation services is testing ways to improve the outcomes found in earlier studies on such services. Guterman is studying how growing parent social networks might help them better manage a series of challenges linked with the risk for child abuse, including social isolation and potential involvement in domestic violence.
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