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Celebrating Tony Morrison’s Work – Tony Morrison (Independent UK
Social Care Consultant) tragically passed away in early 2010. He was best
known for his work on Social Care Supervision, which continues to inform
our supervision practice.
o Tony was scheduled to come to Melbourne along with Clark Baim (UK
trainer and co-author with Tony)
o As a tribute to his impact on our sector we organised a public one
day event, honouring his work and were fortunate to have sector
leaders such as Emeritus Professor Dorothy Scott and Dr Judith Gibbs
and Clark Baim (UK colleague of Tony’s) contribute as presenters.
We intend to use proceedings from this day for a Scholarship
honouring Tony’s contribution to the field of Social Care.
Clark Baim (UK Psychotherapist and Trainer)– ran workshops on Theory
and Practice of working with people who have violent &sexually abusive
behaviour, Working with denial and resistance at our Richmond office,
and also in our Hume and Gippsland regions. Excellent feedback was
received and a return visit in 2011 has been planned.
Professor Robbie Gilligan, from Trinity University in Dublin, best known
for his work on Resilience, presented on this for 26 Home Based Care
staff, ninety-one Practice based staff, and facilitated a very well
received Policy Day for our internal executive who invited peers from
our sector.
The Learning & Development team also provided substantial support to
other training events, such as the With Care training delivered by a
partnership of Take Two and Westcare.
4.9.7
Training Facilities
1)
External Hires
In 2010, we moved into our third full year of providing our Central Office
training facilities for hire to external parties.
2)
Training Room Usage
On average, the Training Room was used 14 days of the month, of which 10
days were dedicated to internal training or meetings and 4 days to external
room hires. This level of usage will dramatically increase in 2011, and
clearly highlights that our facilities are becoming highly sought after space.
4.10 Internal Communication
4.10.1 The Berryland Banner is the main form of written communication to all
staff and goes out fortnightly as an e-newsletter via email from the CEO.
Twenty-three (23) editions were circulated and provided information on:key events; achievements; celebrations; new programs and program
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