Stories and news from across the sector including the monthly OPEN Exchange.
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.
IDEAS Project: Family Care Client Satisfaction Survey
FamilyCare’s Evaluation and Research Coordinator, Janet Congues, got in touch with the OPEN team to discuss working together to present Family Care’s client satisfaction data in a more useful way.
OPEN Exchange: Practice Expertise
In this OPEN Exchange, we delve into practice expertise, thinking about how this can be combined with the best available research and client experience and values to support better outcomes. Each edition of OPEN Exchange focuses on a new topic to support evidence-informed practice across our child and family service system. Evidence-informed practice is a holistic…
OPEN Exchange: Practice Elements
In this OPEN Exchange we explore the concept of Evidence-Informed Practice Elements and how these are employed to promote better outcomes.
OPEN Exchange: Evidence Based Programs
In this OPEN Exchange we explore Evidence Based Programs (EBPs), the first in a four part series on Evidence Informed Practice. Over the series we will share research and practice and take a look at the different forms of evidence that underpin the services we deliver.
