The following conference presentations are now available for download, viewing and/or printing in Adobe Acrobat PDF format:
Keynote address
- Closing the research-policy and research-practice gaps: Ideas for child and family services - related paper by Kerry Lewig, Fiona Arney and Dorothy Scott.
- Investing in practitioners - Creating conditions for excellence in child protection practice - Associate Professor Karen Healy.
Sub-keynote addresses
- Adoption contextualised - permanency planning - Jenny Ames, Department of Community Services, New South Wales.
- Building the future - healing tracks across the nation - Professor Judy Atkinson, College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University.
- CIRCLE (Collaborative Indigenous Research Centre for Learning and Educare - related presentation.
- Child abuse and child protection: the silencing of children - Professor Chris Goddard, National Research Centre for the Prevention of Child Abuse, Monash University.
- Children's needs in out-of-home-care - Professor Jan Mason, University of Western Sydney.
- Family inclusion in child protection practice - Professor Ros Thorpe, James Cook University; Mark Carey, Mercy Family Services; Karen Walsh, Micah Project; and President of QCOSS.
- The potential and limits of corporate parenting - Associate Professor Judy Cashmore, University of Sydney.
Examples of good practice
- From us and them to just us - an integrated model of care and support for young people in out-of-home care - Toni Cash, Manager, Redlands CSSC and Lisa Hillan, Save the Children.
- Learning from each other and creating new knowledge - Colin Smith, Sunshine Coast South CSSC; Stephen Bell, Queensland Health; and Robyn Bridges, Disability Services Queensland.
- Our story - listening to community - Kelly Murdock, Zonal Director, Logan and Brisbane West Zone and Jan Metcalfe, Zonal Director, Northern Zone.
Working sessions
- Building collaborative interagency strategies - Dr Yvonne Darlington, University of Queensland and Sandra Tucker, Alderley Child Safety Service Centre.
- Finding and using research in child protection practice - Dr Daryl Higgins, Australian Institute of Family Studies and Leanne Black, Senior Practitioner, Rockhampton North CSSC.
- Parents under pressure program - Dr Paul Harnett and Professor Sharon Dawe.
- Permanency planning workshop - Claire Tilbury and Jennifer Osmond, School of Human Services, Griffith University; and Soraya Shah, Manager, Sunshine Coast North CSSC.
- Willing but not able - working with parents who have a disability - Louise Dwyer and Glenys Carlson, Alina Families Program, Spiritus/ Anglicare, Robert Green, Disability Services Queensland.
- Working with children who have been sexually abused - Annette Vasey, Sexual Abuse Counselling Service, Department of Child Safety.
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