Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency . The plan is now publicly available on the Berry Street website .
Aboriginal Census : We undertook our first comprehensive census on service use and access for Aboriginal children , young people and families . Most of Berry Street ‟ s programs participated in the census which covered the period from 1 July 2008 to 31 March 2009 . The purpose of this census was to provide a profile of the Aboriginal children , young people and families using our services and to assess our internal compliance with policy and practice commitments . Two hundred and eighty six individual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children , young people and adults received a service from Berry Street during the census period , including 97 in the North & West , 87 in Take Two , 59 in Hume , 29 in Gippsland and 14 in the South East .
Yarning up on Trauma ( YuoT ): In February we launched the Yarning up on Trauma resource booklet at the Aborigines Advancement League . This was a great opportunity to recognise the success of the YuoT training initiative and to celebrate the innovative work of our Manager , Aboriginal Service Development , Shaun Coade .
Cultural Knowledge and Understanding Training : As noted in the Learning & Development section of this report , the one day introductory Cultural Knowledge and Understanding training has been enthusiastically attended again in 2009 . We have begun work on a further two days of practice related training for Berry Street ‟ s service delivery staff , which will be based on YuoT .
Bouverie Family Therapy training : Take Two has continued to work with the Bouverie Centre , La Trobe University , to deliver the first Australian post graduate family therapy training for Aboriginal Child and Family workers . In May 2009 ten students of the course graduated at La Trobe University , including three staff of Take Two ‟ s Aboriginal team . Two courses have run this year in the Ballarat and East Gippsland Communities .
Therapeutic Residential Care : Take Two has played a key role in the development of Aboriginal therapeutic residential care in Victoria . This includes training for both the Mildura Aboriginal Co-operative and VACCA , as well as providing the senior clinician for the VACCA pilot . This work further strengthens the already dynamic partnership we share with VACCA .
3.4 Education Following the resignation of the Senior Internal Consultant Education & Training earlier in the year , we reviewed the need for the position . We decided the education programs were sufficiently integrated into regional structures that a dedicated , specialist role was no longer required . However by year end we are questioning this decision , particularly in view of the demanding quality assurance requirements for both our registered school and the Registered Training Organisation ( RTO ).
Despite some challenges , there were numerous achievements in 2009 including :
Having identified a lack of clarity amongst education staff about our approach to education at Berry Street , we contracted the Youth Research Centre at the University of Melbourne to articulate our Model of Education . This will be finalised early in 2010 but will include the following elements : integration of clinical ( therapeutic ), welfare & educational approaches ; focus on engaging pedagogy &
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