Stories and news from across the sector including the monthly OPEN Exchange.
Event Reflection: Gray Poehnell – Canadian Careers Expert
Hosted by: DET and Raising Expectations (CFECFW) Date: 21 and 23 October 2019 Location: Melbourne and Ballarat Background Raising Expectations and the Department of Education and Training held two workshops in October last year for professionals working with young people in care with visiting Canadian careers expert, Gray Poehnell. The workshops focused on young people…
Event Reflection: Using Data to Inform Child Protection with Prof John Lynch
Professor John Lynch Hosted by: DHHS’s Centre for Evaluation and Research and CFECFW Date: 30 October 2019 Location: DHHS, Melbourne Background Professor John Lynch is an epidemiologist and Professor of Public Health in the School of Population Health at the University of Adelaide.…
Event Reflection: Evidence and Innovation for Wellbeing in Complex Settings with Penny Hagen
Dr. Penny Hagen (Auckland Co-Design Lab) and Angie Tangaere (The Southern Initiative) Hosted by: OPEN – Research to Practice Hub (CFECFW) Date: 20 November 2019 Location: Oaks on Market Background Dr. Penny Hagen is the Co-Design Lead at the Auckland Co-Design Lab.…
Event Reflection: ‘The Case for Quality – Engaging children and youth in mental health services’
MaryAnn Notarianni, Ontario Centre for Excellence in Child and Youth Mental Health Hosted by: OPEN – Research to Practice Hub (CFECFW) Date: 24 October 2019 Location: Multicultural Hub Background MaryAnn Notarianni leads the Ontario Centre for Excellence’s quality improvement and youth and family…
Reflections from the day: ‘So, what was your key message or aha moment?’
Voices from out Keynote speakers Eileen Munro – Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics Listen to Eileen’s reflections – Click here Wendy Bunston – Latrobe University and WB training and consultancy ‘Make space to consider what the experience might be of the infant – they deserve that! ’…
OPEN Symposium 2019: Photo Gallery
Scroll through the Photo Gallery to gain a glimpse of each section of the day Arrival For more photos of arrival Click here Welcome to Country and Opening Address For more photos of the Welcome to Country and Opening Address – Click here Our Keynote Speakers – Eileen Munro and Wendy Bunston For…
OPEN Symposium 2019: Reflections from an out-of-state guest
By Karen Wilcox, University of NSW (Centre for Social Impact/Social Policy Research Centre) Karen is a Scientia doctoral student at UNSW in the Centre for Social Impact/Social Policy Research Centre. Her research is looking at the ‘hows’ and the ‘whys’ of outcomes measurement in Australian Child Welfare non- profits. She will soon be conducting…
Key Note Speakers – OPEN Symposium 2019
OPEN and the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare is excited to announce our keynote speakers for the 2019 OPEN Symposium. Professor Eileen Munro, our international keynote speaker, is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Professor Munro has written extensively on how best to combine intuitive and…
OPEN Conversations: Learning from Lived Experience
This month OPEN caught up with the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare’s youth consultant, Brittany, to learn more about client experience, and how we can meaningfully include children, young people and families in service delivery. Brittany is currently studying a Masters of Social Work and shared her insights based on her lived…
IDEAS Project: Western Melbourne Child and Family Services Alliance-ChildFIRST
Western Melbourne Child and Family Service Alliance Project Manager Kay O’Connell got in touch with the OPEN team to make use of the free OPEN advisory service. Let’s take a look into what happened.
