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June 17, 2025

In Conversation: Exploring International perspectives of Out-of-Home Care, with Professor Lisa Holmes (UK)

Now hybrid! If you were unable to attend in person, we’ve now made this available to attend online! Register below Victoria has long been a leader in residential care reform...

May 15, 2025

OPEN Event Reflection: Embedding Evidence: Voices from practice – Building outcomes, service data and client focus

Event overview: How do we move beyond good intentions and start embedding evidence into the way we design, deliver, and adapt services? That question was at the heart of our...

February 20, 2025

World Care Day Event

Hosted by the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare’s OPEN, as part of Monash University’s World Care Day Festival of Events, this event celebrated the resilience and achievements…

December 5, 2024

OPEN Event Reflection: You Should Ask That – Continuing the conversation with the children of women killed by men.

This conversation panel offered insights and actionable solutions to inform service provision for those who have experienced the lose of a parent due to domestic homicide.

December 3, 2024

AVITH in Context: Exploring the lived experience of adolescent-to-mother violence

In this webinar, we hear from researcher, David Burck (University of Queensland), who will present findings from his recently published thesis, 'A silent shame: Exploring the lived experience of adolescent-to-mother…

November 27, 2024

AVITH in Context: Childhood Maltreatment and Adult Aggression

In this session, we hear from researchers from Deakin University, who investigate the links between childhood maltreatment and aggression in adults, and the moderating role of neurocognitive ability and substance…

November 11, 2024

AVITH in Context: Supporting Families with School Attendance

Join us as we hear from Associate Professor Lisa McKay-Brown (The University of Melbourne) and Tiffany Westphal (School Stress Investigation) on considerations for working with young people who have low…

October 31, 2024

AVITH in Context: Facilitating Groupwork with Young People

Join us as we hear from Laura Crozier (Affirmative Consent Project Officer, YACVic) who will share how the Yeah, Nah affirmative consent education program has created a group space for…

October 25, 2024

OPEN Symposium 2024: Youth day

The Youth focussed day at the Open Symposium 2024 offered a dynamic range of presentations focused on amplifying youth voices and supporting young people’s development in various settings.

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