Resilient Families need Resilient Workers National Symposium 2009

Day 1
Day2
Day 3

DAY ONE Monday 22 June 2009
0730	Registration Opens
0900-1000	Opening Ceremony Members Dining Room
	Welcome and Introductions Morning Chair: Coleen Clare, CEO, Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
	Welcome to Country
	Introduction to the Hon. Minister Jenny Macklin Lisa Hillan President, CAFWAA
	Address: National Framework for Protecting Children The Hon. Minister Jenny Macklin
1000-1100	Keynote Address Members Dining Room
	Introduction: Dr Ray Cleary CEO, Anglicare Victoria “Hope for Change”: Taking Stock of the Emerging Home Visitation Field Professor Neil Guterman Mose & Sylvia Firestone Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago Sponsored by
1100-1130	Morning Tea, Networking and Trade Table interaction - Launch Anglicare Victoria's "Pillars of Practice" Sponsored by
1140-1225	Concurrent Session One - Presentations
	Learning from Indigenous Families Hans Ebeling Room	Supporting Resilient Workers Frank Grey Smith Bar	Early Intervention and Placement Prevention Harrison Room B	Improving outcomes for Vulnerable Families and Children. Yarra Park Room	Integrated responses for complex and vulnerable families Members Dining Room	Research into Practice Harrison Room A
	Sepi Weeransinghe Manager - Family Services VACCA Belinda Fry Team Leader - Family Support VACCA	Sue Couper Director of Nursing Queen Elizabeth Centre	Sandie de Wolf President Families Australia Simon Schrapel Board Member Families Australia	Mick Naughton Assistant Director - Child Protection Department of Human Services	David Clements Assistant Director Service Improvement, Mental Health & Drugs Division Department of Human Services	Annette Michaux General Manager - Social Policy and Research Benevolent Society NSW
	Integrated family service model for Indigenous families	Creating an Environment for Success: Supporting change at QEC	Where to from here? - The National Framework for protecting children and implications for family services	Developing a Child Protection, Placement and Family Services Outcomes Framework	Integrated responses to families with mental health and/or substance abuse issues	Evidence Informed Practice in Community Services: Stories of trial, error and breakthrough from the Australian coalface
1225-1310	Lunch, Networking and Trade Table interaction Sponsored by
1320-1450	Concurrent Session Two - Workshops
	Learning from Indigenous Families Hans Ebeling Room	Supporting Resilient Workers Yarra Park Room	Early Intervention and Placement Prevention Harrison Room B	Improving outcomes for Vulnerable Families and Children Harrison Room A	Integrated responses for complex and vulnerable families Members Dining Room	Research into Practice Frank Grey Smith Bar
	Paul Testro Consutant in child and family welfare, QLD John Adams Family and Youth Services Manager, Tangentyere Council, NT	Pauline Dixon Manager Wanslea Family Services WA Dr Melinda Polimeni Parenting Research Centre Melbourne	Professor Neil Guterman Mose & Sylvia Firestone Professor - School of Social Service Administration University of Chicago	Janet Williams-Smith Program Development Manager Early Childhood Services - Children's Protection Society	Angela Forbes CEO Connections Gaye Mitchell Practice Research Consultant, and Researcher Wesley Mission Melbourne	Dr Fiona Arney Deputy Director - Australian Centre for Child Protection University of South Australia
	Foundations for effective Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child and family support services	Strategies that work in engaging families who are vulnerable – lessons from practice, a problem solving workshop	Expanding preventions reach:extending the impact of home visitation	Priority of access to early years education & care	Working with vulnerable families with multiple and complex needs: challenges at practice, program, service system and policy levels.	Building evidence-informed practice in child protection
1450-1520	Afternoon Tea, Networking and Trade Table interaction
1530-1615	Concurrent Session Three - Presentations
	Learning from Indigenous Families Hans Ebeling Room	Supporting Resilient Workers Members Dining Room	Early Intervention and Placement Prevention Yarra Park Room	Improving outcomes for Vulnerable Families and Children. Harrison Room A	Integrated responses for complex and vulnerable families Frank Grey Smith Bar	Research into Practice Harrison Room B
	Lisa Hillan Programs Manager Save the Children Nancy Sweeney Family Support Worker Save the Children Queensland	Holly Reid CEO Menzies Incorporated	Robyn Miller Principal Child Protection Practitioner Victoria Department of Human Services	Diana Smart Australian Institute of Family Studies	Aileen Ashford Director - Reform Implementation DHHS - Tasmania	Robyn Mildon Director - Knowledge Transfer Parenting Resource Centre
	Working together to strengthen communities, children and young people	Supporting Resilient and Trauma Informed Workforce CSO Case Study	Best interests practice framework challenges of embedding the practice and cultural change	School readiness and vulnerable children	Integrated Service Delivery Across Family Services, Child Protection & Disability Services - The Tasmanian experience	Evidence into practice - Practice into evidence: Supporting services to use the evidence and generate new evidence
1620-1650	Presentation
	Sectors Working Together: 'Family Violence Services, Family Services and Child Protection"
	Professor Cathy Humphreys Alfred Felton Chair of Child and Family Welfare
1650-1700	Day 1 Wrap-up Coleen Clare CEO, Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare

DAY TWO Tuesday 23 June 2009
*Sessions denoted with an asterisk will be facilitated interactive question and answer sessions by Julie McCrossin

0830

Registration Opens

0900-0930

Opening Session
Members Dining Room
Chair: Julie McCrossin

Welcome and Introductions
Julie McCrossin

Address: Supporting Indigenous families and workers in a culturally competent way
Muriel Bamblett CEO, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA)

0930-1030

Keynote Address
Members Dining Room

Introduction: Julie McCrossin

Achieving Retention through Evidence-Based Practices: Building Resilience in the Child Welfare Workforce
Professor Nancy Dickinson, Director, Jordan Institute for Families

Sponsored by:

1030-1100

Morning Tea, Networking and Trade Table interaction

1100-1200

Address: 'Drawing on the Victorian Bushfire experience' - How families heal from the impact of a natural disaster and surviving the stresses that grind down during recovery

Introduction: Kevin Zibell President, Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare

Rob Gordon Consultant Psychologist to the Victorian Bushfire Recovery

Sponsored by

1245-1355

*Conference Carousel "The critical practice & policy issues for those working with vulnerable & complex families" - Putting the Australian picture together
Members Dining Room
Chair: Julie McCrossin

Gail Slocombe Executive Director, PeakCare Qld

Coleen Clare CEO, Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare

Tricia Lee Wanslea Family Services WA

Annette Kelly-Egerton Senior Manager, Barnardos ACT

Aileen Ashford Director of Reform, DHHS Tasmania

Andrew McCallum CEO, Association of Children's Welfare Agencies

Simon Schrapel Director - Strategic Planning & Policy, Anglicare South Australia

Howard Bath NT Children's Commissioner

Jo McMahon CREATE Australia

1355-1440

Concurrent Session Four - Presentations

Supporting Resilient Workers

Harrison Room B

Learning from Indigenous Families

Members Dining Room

Integrated responses for complex and vulnerable families

Yarra Park Room

Improving outcomes for Vulnerable Families and Children

Frank Grey Smith Bar

Supporting Resilient Workers

Harrison Room A

Integrated responses for complex and vulnerable families

Hans Ebeling Room

Diane Lawson
CEO
Community Services & Health Industry Skills Council

Howard Bath
NT Children's Commissioner

Andrew Lowth
Community Child Protection Manager
Department of Human Services

Cyndi Grant
Community Child Protection Manager
Department of Human Services

Tim O'Leary
Senior Training Officer
Take Two, Berry Street

Annette Jackson

Take Two, Berry Street

Judith Gibbs
Adjunct Lecturer,
La Trobe University & independent consultant

Marie Stuart
Programs Manager
Save the Children Queensland

Celia Verrall
Family Support Worker
Save the Children Queensland

Building a resilient workforce

Contemporary trauma and the development of Aboriginal children

An integrated response to vulnerable families, child protection & family services working together - rural & metro perspective

'Calmer Classrooms' Supporting children with trauma in an educational setting

Managing to retain good people - an international perspective

"No Empty Promises" - A Model of Engagement and Holistic Service Delivery in Family Support

1440-1510

Afternoon Tea, Networking and Trade Table interaction

1510-1650

*Workforce Forum - Responding to the Challenges
Members Dining Room
Facilitator: Julie McCrossin

Judith Gibbs Adjunct Lecturer, La Trobe University & Independent Consultant

Professor Nancy Dickinson Director, Jordan Institute for Families

John Merritt Executive Director of Health and Safety, WorkSafe Victoria

Diane Lawson CEO, Community Services & Health Industry Skills Council

Dr Marie Connolly Chief Social Worker - Office of the Chief Social Worker, Ministry of Social Development, New Zealand

Mary McKinnon Director - Child Protection Placement and Family Services, Department of Human Services

1650-1700

Day 2 Wrap-up
Chair: Julie McCrossin

1900-2300

Conference Dinner - Yarra Room, MCG
CREATE presentation

DAY THREE Wednesday 24 June 2009
0830	Registration Opens
0900-0950	Opening Session Members Dining Room
	Welcome and Introductions Morning Chair: Jenny Potten, Victorian Representative, CAFWAA Board
	Address: Hon Minister Lisa Neville Minister for Mental Health, Community Services and Senior Victorians
0950-1050	Keynote Address Members Dining Room Introduction: Gail Slocombe Executive Director, PeakCare QLD
	Integrated Service Systems: A pathway toward a resilient organisation Dr Marie Connolly Chief Social Worker - Office of the Chief Social Worker, Ministry of Social Development, New Zealand
1050-1120	Morning Tea, Networking and Trade Table interaction
1130-1300	Concurrent Session Five - Presentations & Workshops
	Learning from Indigenous Families Hans Ebeling Room	Supporting Resilient Workers Harrison Room B	Early Intervention and Placement Prevention Harrison Room A	Improving outcomes for Vulnerable Families and Children Members Dining Room	Integrated responses for complex and vulnerable families Frank Grey Smith Bar	Research into Practice Yarra Park Room
	Lauren Lee Intensive Case Management Indigenous Family Violence Support Worker WRISC Deb Milera Indigenous Family Violence Support Worker WRISC Lynden Baxter Program Manager WRISC "Engaging with the Indigenous Community to support Women & Children who have Experienced Family Violence".	Professor Nancy Dickinson Director Jordan Institute for Families	Dr Marie Connolly Chief Social Worker - Office of the Chief Social Worker Ministry of Social Development, New Zealand	Julie Boffa Social Worker North East Metro Family Services and Bernadette Burchell Children's Protection Society	Luke Rumbold CEO Upper Murray Family Care Integrated responses for complex and vulnerable families Judy Ryan Coordinator Early Childhood Parenting Centre and Lyn Featherston Transitions Worker Transition to school for vulnerable children Bruce du Vergier CEO Community Connections Literacy Development for Vulnerable Children	Dr Elizabeth Fernandez University of NSW Promoting Family Wellness and Child Wellbeing through Family Support: Tracking Service Interactions and Outcomes Dr Leah Bromfield Australian Institute of Family Studies
	Engaging with the Indigenous Community to Support Women & Children who have Experienced Family Violence	Partners in Retention: the role of supervisors and managers in retaining child welfare staff	Building integrated service systems and making them work	Which components of family service intervention bring about positive change?	What works in the rural context	Specialist Practice Guides: Getting research into practice in family services, child protection and out-of-home care
1300-1345	Lunch, Networking and Trade Table interaction
1345-1445	Research into Practice Panel - "Seeking certainty in an uncertain world" Facilitator: Professor Cathy Humphreys
	Dr Sarah Wise General Manager - Policy, Research and Innovation Unit, Anglicare Victoria
	Dr Leah Bromfield Austrailan Institute of Family Studies
	Dr Robyn Miller Principal Child Protection Practitioner, Department of Human Services
	Dr Robyn Mildon Director - Knowledge Transfer, Parenting Research Centre
	Dr Jenny Higgins Knowledge Broker, Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
1445-1515	Afternoon Tea, Networking and Trade Table interaction
1515-1600	Closing Address Chair: Jenny Potten Victorian representative, CAFWAA Board
	Challenges & Opportunities; taking the key themes forward & take home messages Paul Linossier CEO, MacKilliop Family Services
1600	Conference Concludes