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Event Reflection: Gray Poehnell – Canadian Careers Expert

February 7, 2020

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…

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Event Reflection: Using Data to Inform Child Protection with Prof John Lynch

December 16, 2019

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

December 16, 2019

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’

November 27, 2019

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?’ Reflections from the day:   ‘So, what was your key message or aha moment?’

Reflections from the day: ‘So, what was your key message or aha moment?’

November 8, 2019

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 OPEN Symposium 2019: Photo Gallery

OPEN Symposium 2019: Photo Gallery

November 1, 2019

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 OPEN Symposium 2019: Reflections from an out-of-state guest

OPEN Symposium 2019: Reflections from an out-of-state guest

November 1, 2019

  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

September 9, 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

February 17, 2019

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

February 5, 2019

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.

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