Mary Jo McVeigh

Cindy Blackstock

First Nations Child & Family

Caring Society, Canada

Judy Atkinson

We Al-li, NSW

Michael McAfee

Promise

Dr Tim Moore

Centre for Community Child

Health, Royal Melbourne

Leading Practice Conference Venue: Novotel, Rooty Hill, NSW

“Growing Capacity, Creating Opportunities, Strengthening Outcomes”

This conference offers something for practitioners, team leaders, managers and policy makers

from all sectors. If your work brings you into contact with families and communities you will

benefit from attending. But Expect Something Different! This is NOT your usual conference

experience! As well as the opportunity to learn new information and skills to expand and extend

your current practice through the lens of ‘Place Based Practice’ and ‘Trauma Informed Care’

you will be actively invited to be part of the conversations and actions that

will help to create the change needed to best support families into the coming decades.

Leading National and International Presenters

Online Registrations Open www.fwtdp.org.au

What do we need to understand

about the complex and rapid

social changes in society

to best support families and

communities into the future?

How can “Placed Based Practice”

and “Trauma Informed Care”

inform new ways of working to

create and expand effective

practice and service systems?

How can we best work together

to meet these challenges?

Conference Sponsors

This conference seeks to draw on and

extend current practice in creating family

centred service systems that move us into

the next decade and beyond. It is vital we

can extend our knowledge base and ways

of working on a sound understanding of

the growing and changing complexities

facing our local families and communities.

We need to face the challenge of providing

flexible and responsive services. We need

to avoid contributing to the barriers

that compound complexity rather than

supporting families’ lives. To do this we

must change and grow our policy and

practice frameworks to support the best

outcomes for our most vulnerable and

least engaged families and communities.

At this conference, leading National and

International presenters will invite us to

actively explore ‘Place Based Practice’ as

a way of rising to these challenges.

The creation of ‘Trauma Informed ‘ practice

and service systems will also be explored

within the overall context of creating

effective communities of practice.

Conference conversations and actions will

focus on the need to work in informed

and collaborative ways that empower

people, supporting ongoing healing and

capacity building as the method for gaining

the best outcomes for communities,

families, children and young people.

‘Place-Based Initiatives Transforming Communities’

People need support in the process of change.

Place-based initiatives have the capacity to facilitate

change by giving people the tools they need to plan,

collaborate and execute change. Data from Australia and

internationally, points to significant differences between

and within communities in terms of the demographic

characteristics of families, their level of need, and the

configuration and accessibility of services. It therefore

makes sense that policy frameworks and services in one

community may not be the most appropriate for all of

the others. A number of tensions emerge from this

thinking. For example, the challenge of maintaining

consistency and a level of fidelity while providing

flexibility and responsiveness; and enabling communities

to be involved in planning and ‘owning’ local services

within the guidance of a strong evidence based

framework. If we get this right then it is more likely that

there will be sustainable differences to outcomes for

children and families. Source: Place Based Practice Round Table Report,

Centre for Community Child Health, Melbourne Children’s Hospital

Trauma Informed Services Systems recognise the

need to work in informed and collaborative ways with

individuals, families, communities and other services in

a manner that empowers people and supports ongoing

healing as the method for gaining the best outcomes.

Trauma informed interventions recognise and respond

to the ongoing physical and emotional consequences

of trauma in the lives of the individuals, families and

communities we work with. Adopting approaches that

facilitate healing rather than unwittingly causing further

harm. The conference will give particular attention to

the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal families and

communities. and the need to actively understand and

contribute to healing from inter-generational trauma.

FWT+DP 02 9620 6172 or www.leadingpractice.org.au

Venue: Novotel, Rooty Hill, NSW

Leading Practice Conference July 2014

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Pre-Conference Workshops 1.00pm - 4.00pm Registrations & Dinner

Understanding Generational Trauma

Professor Judy Atkinson

Engaging ‘Resistant’ Parents in Casework

Mary Jo McVeigh

Working with Men Who Use Violence

Eric Hudson

Understanding and Working with ‘Chronic Sorrow’

Colleen Hirst

4.30pm Conference

Registrations Desk Opens

6.00pm Pre-Dinner

Gathering and Drinks

6.30pm Conference Dinner

Key Presenters Meet & Greet

Keynote Sessions Afternoon Electives Registrations & Breaks

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8.40am - Conference

Opening Ceremony

9.15am - Keynote Address

Dr. Tim Moore

Place Based Practice

the Australian Context

10.00am - Keynote Address

Michael McAfee

Place Based Practice USA

‘Promise Neighbourhoods’

11.15am - Place Based

Practice Panel Discussion

2.00pm - 4.30pm Round 1 Sessions

(Manager / Policy Maker Stream)

‘Drilling Down - Place Based Practice

Implications and Opportunities’

Facilitated discussion with

Dr. Tim Moore & Michael McAfee

OR choose one event from each of

the following Practice Streams:

2.00pm - 3.15pm Round 2 Sessions

(Direct Service Practitioner Stream)

Men Who Use Violence:

Eric Hudson

Generational Trauma Session 1:

(Open Audience) Judy Atkinson

Sexualisation of Young Children:

Collette Smart

Winangay Aboriginal Community Led

Trauma Informed Practice: Aunty Sue

Blacklock

3.30 - 4.30pm Round 3 Sessions

Media Violence and Children: Wayne

Warburton

Chronic Sorrow: Colleen Hirst

Generational Trauma Session 2:

(This session is for Aboriginal Workers

Only) Judy Atkinson

Interagency Approach to

Domestic Violence: Sarah Stewart

8.00am - 8.30am

Registrations

10.45am - 11.15am

Morning Tea

12.30pm - 1.50pm

Lunch

6.00pm Pre-Dinner

Gathering and Drinks

6.30pm Conference Dinner

and Entertainment

Conference Sponsors Program changes may occur

Keynote Sessions Afternoon Electives Registrations & Breaks

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8.15am - Welcome and

Announcements

8.30am - 10.50am

Keynote Presentations

Mary Jo McVeigh

Why is Trauma Informed

Practice Needed?

Judy Atkinson

Generational Trauma for

Aboriginal Families

Cindy Blackstock

Giving Children a Voice

on First Nations Canada

11.15am - 12.30pm

Panel Discussion: What does a

trauma informed service

system look like?

3.45 - 5.00pm

Key Highlights Panel Discussion

1.30pm - 2.35pm Round 1 Sessions:

Place Based Reflections: Michael McAfee

Little Black Duck Program: Darryl Farrell and Nerida Oberg

Management and Supervision: Judi Apte

Joint Approaches to Complex Child Protection: Bronwyn Elliott

Accidental Counsellor: responding to trauma related behaviours: Mohamed Dukuly STARTTS

Victor’s Story (Six Generations of Trauma): Jackie Stewart

2.45pm - 3.45pm Round 2 Sessions:

Story Telling and Healing for Mothers with Mental Health Issues: Liz Morillas and Natasha Grbic

Little Black Duck Program: Darryl Farrell and Nerida Oberg

Managing Change and Innovation: Judi Apte

Survival skills for Small/Medium NGO’s: David Boutkan

Trauma Informed work with 0-6 year old refugee children, their families and communities: Rosemary Signorelli STARTTS

Child Protection for Children with Disabilities’: Bronwen Elliott

8.00am - 8.15am

Registrations and Seating

Please be seated by 8.15am

10.50am - 11.15am

Morning Tea

12.30pm - 1.30pm

Lunch

3.45pm

Afternoon Tea

5.00pm

Conference Closing

PLEASE NOTE: Accommodation is NOT included in the conference package Accommodation can be booked separately at by contacting the Novotel Rooty Hill directly. Other accommodation options within 10km’s of the conference include: Atura Hotel Blacktown, Travelodge Hotel Blacktown, Chifley Hotel Eastern Creek.

FWT+DP 02 9620 6172 or www.leadingpractice.org.au

Conference Sponsors

Online Registrations Now Open at: www.fwtdp.org.au

Program changes may occur

FULL Conference Package: Code: CF01CFP - Pre Conference Workshop - 2 day Conference Package - Monday Conference Dinner - Tuesday Conference Dinner

2 Day Conference Package: Code: CF02CDP - 2 day Conference Package - Tuesday Conference Dinner (Does NOT include Monday

workshops or dinner)

1 Day Only Conference Package: Code: CF03CDT Tuesday Code: CF04CDW Wednesday

FamS / FWT+DP Members $550.00 $495.00 $275 per day

Non Members $605.00 $550.00 $300 per day

Government $660.00 $605.00 $330 per day