Event Reflection: Community Listening – What happens when we start with children and families? (31 May 2022)

June 30, 2022

This webinar explored a framework for an ‘inside out’ approach, where families and communities sit at the same table as government and practitioners to inform strategies for change. Organisers: Hosted by the Centre for Community Child Health at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) as part of their Thriving Children, Thriving Communities series focussed on equity and innovation…

Event Reflection – Webinar on Community Around the Child: A program to reduce the criminalisation of young people in residential out-of-home-care

April 27, 2022

Community Around the Child: A program to reduce the criminalisation of young people in residential out-of-home-care Date: 29th March 2022 and Mode: Zoom Organisers: Centre for Evaluation and Research (CERE), Department of Health, Victoria Community Around the Child (CAC) is a component of the Building Resilience in Children and Young People in Residential Out-of-Home Care…

Navigating access to services through a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) youth perspective

July 22, 2021

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;…

Event Reflection: Working with Adolescents Who Use Violence in the Home – Victorian Law Week

May 26, 2021

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…