Stories and news from across the sector including the monthly OPEN Exchange.
Event Reflection: Legal support for young people and families
The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare held the first AVITH in Context webinar on the 12th of October 2021. AVITH in Context is a webinar series designed for child and family service practitioners to learn more about adolescent violence in the home (AVITH). Throughout this series practitioners share their experiences, practice expertise,…
Collective impact – Getting started
The Bayside, Glen Eira and Kingston (BGK) LLENS were interested in exploring what the Collective impact model could contribute to their work of brokering strategic partnerships with schools and community to support disengaging or disengaged young people to thrive. Thank you BGKLLEN for the opportunity for OPEN to deliver an introduction session to your staff and Board of Management…
DFFH Home-based Carer Census report – quick review
The Victorian Government has recently released the findings of the first Victorian Home-based Carer Census (the census). It is the Carer Strategy (2017) plan’s major action for the year 2020-2021. The overarching objective of the census was to gain a deeper understanding of Victoria’s carers to ensure policy and support services are targeted towards the…
Navigating access to services through a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) youth perspective
Organised by: Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare Speakers: Mohamed Semra – The Co-Founder at Endeavour Youth Australia and the 2020 AMAA Youth of the Year; Mohamed is a social entrepreneur and award-winning advocate working to shatter the stigma and misconceptions of CALD communities. Julia Coscolluela – Youth Worker at Brimbank City Council;…
Safety in the Family Court – Panel Discussion (ANROWS)
The Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety Limited (ANROWS) is an independent, not-for-profit research organisation established to produce evidence to support the reduction of violence against women and their children. ANROWS invited six experts from the domestic violence sector to the discussion panel to share their diverse experiences and views about improving safety of…
Program update – Adolescents using violence in the home (AVITH)
Centre’s work on Adolescents using violence in the home The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare (the Centre) has received funding from Family Safety Victoria (FSV) to undertake a program of work that will contribute to the evidence base in relation to adolescents using violence in the home (AVITH) and strengthen workforce capability.…
Event Reflection: Working with Adolescents Who Use Violence in the Home – Victorian Law Week
May 18, 2021 Panel Discussion The panel was hosted by Elena Campbell (Associate Director of Research, Advocacy & Policy at the Centre for Innovative Justice), and featured Dagmar Andersen (Victoria Police), Dani Gold (Royal Children’s Hospital), Jemma Mead (Drummond Street), and Stephanie Pashias (Youthlaw). The event reemphasised crucial findings from the PIPA Project: Positive Interventions…
OPEN Forum – Strategies to embed evidence into organisational practice: Getting started on the journey (even on a shoestring)
Date: 29 April 2021 Format: Zoom In April, the OPEN Forum – Strategies to embed evidence into an organisation’s practice – Getting started on the journey built on the conversation started in our March Forum, at which we explored in depth the evidence journey of Mission Australia and Family Life. At our April OPEN Forum,…
Event Reflection: How facilitating the voice of children and young people in disaster recovery improves post trauma growth and healthy development
VCOSS Disaster Recovery Conversation series: Facilitating the voice of children and young people in disaster recovery. On the 25th of February 2021, the Victorian Council of Social Service (VCOSS) hosted a webinar as part of their monthly series – Disaster Recovery Conversation. February’s event, Facilitating the voice of children and young people in disaster recovery,…
OPEN Forum: Embedding Evidence into everyday practice – lessons from two organisations
Date: 25 March 2021 Format: Zoom On 25 March, OPEN ran its 2nd forum of the year where Victoria Baird from Mission Australia and Darelle Cassidy from Family Life provided an overview of their organisations outcomes journey, insights, successes and challenges of embedding an evidence culture within their organisations. The speakers talked about the ways…
