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• Continued support of Aboriginal community
controlled organisations to understand the
impact of trauma and providing Yarning up
on Trauma training in South Australia,
Western Australia and in the Northern
Territory, as well as twelve Indigenous
communities in Victoria.
• Playing a leadership role in sector advocacy
around:- a new Family Services price; the
Australian Services Union Pay Equity Case
and the portability of long service leave;
integrated standards; proposed new
National Standards in Out of Home Care;
and the charter of rights for children and
young people in Out of Home Care.
• Bringing out Clark Baim from the UK to
celebrate the work of the late Tony Morrison
and present on attachment, and working with
people with violent and abusive behaviour.
• Our partnership with The Pavilion School
being recognised with a NAB Schools First
Impact Award.
• Providing learning labs for child protection
staff and training in therapeutic residential
care in partnership with Westcare.
• Leading the development of a guide for the
Child Safety Commissioner to help people
understand how to work with traumatised
children and young people.
• Helping to develop and then teach the new
Graduate Certificate and Diploma in Child
and Family Practice Leadership.
• Being the keynote speaker for the annual
gathering of residential workers from
across Victoria.
• Hosting visitors from Macau, the University
of Washington and Washington Institute.
We also wrote public policy submissions
relating to:- National Standards in Out of
Home Care; improving access to education;
the Ombudsman’s review of Out of Home
Care; the Victorian Drugs and Crime Prevention
Committee on Young People Offending; family
violence; and Child Protection Reform.
We carried out a number of internal research
and evaluation projects, including:- our Home
Based Care program in the South East; the
Health and Wellbeing Program in the North &
West; the Darwin Experience and Annual Foster
Care Camp; Police Responses to Breaches of
Intervention Orders in the North & West; our
education program in the South East; and we
participated in another nine external projects.