With an outstanding line up of International Keynote and Invited National speakers already confirmed the Symposium is not to be missed.
Speakers include:
Professor Nancy S. Dickinson
Executive Director, Jordan Institute for Families and Clinical Professor at the School of Social Work, University of North Carolina, USA
Achieving Retention through Evidence-Based Practices: Building Resilience in the Child Welfare Workforce - KEYNOTE
This presentation will provide an overview of child welfare workforce issues including demographics and turnover problems. Research on the impact of turnover on outcomes for children and youth will also be presented and illustrated by videotaped interviews with former foster youth. The session will also include research-based information on effective approaches to workforce development and document the need for a comprehensive approach to this systemic problem.
This workshop will present retention intervention strategies related to supervision, training and development, and organizational development.
Dr Marie Connolly
Chief Social Worker, Ministry of Social Development, Wellington, New Zealand
Integrated
Service Systems: A pathway toward a resilient organisation –
KEYNOTE
In order for an organisation to withstand the pressures inherent in any child welfare system, it needs to be clear about the ways in which components of an organisational practice system come together to build system resilience overall. This presentation discusses the development of an integrated service system aimed at strengthening organisation resilience across the following set of related components: The knowledge framework; the service model; the practice package; and the staffing design. Each of these components will be briefly described along with their contribution to organisational resilience.
Building integrated service systems and making them work- WORKSHOP
This workshop talks about the development of an integrated service system aimed at strengthening organisational resilience across the following set of related components: the Knowledge Framework; the Service Model; the Practice Package; and the Staffing Design. Each of these components will be described and their integrated relationships explored.
Professor Neil Guterman
Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor at the School of Social Service Administration
“Hope
for Change”: Taking Stock of the Emerging Home Visitation
Field - KEYNOTE
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.
Expanding Prevention’s Reach: Extending the Impact of Home Visitation Services - WORKSHOP
