Presentations from OPEN Symposium 2020

Morning Session – Dr. Penny Hagen (Director, Auckland Co-design Lab, the Southern Initiative, New Zealand)

 Participatory Practices in Co-Design

This session was sponsored by Clear Horizon.

Lunchtime Session – Berry Street Y-Change

The only lasting truth is Change – radically shifting from doing for to partnering with young people with a lived experience

Afternoon Session – VACCA, Save the Children Australia and Family Life

• Adapting to service delivery for Aboriginal programs and services during COVID-19, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA)
• Bushfires and COVID-19 – local adaptation in a complex environment in regional Victoria, Save the Children Australia
• Pivots, Plies and Pirouettes – adapting to support the achievement, evaluation and reporting of outcomes for children and families in a remote service delivery context, Family Life

This session was sponsored by CSnet.

Morning Session – RCH, DHHS & Monash Uni HEALing Matters

• Addressing health needs in out-of-home care – a co-designed co-location collaboration, Royal Children’s Hospital
• Changing practice – leveraging better outcomes for siblings entering out-of-home care, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
• Increasing healthy eating and active living in the child welfare sector, Monash Uni HEALing Matters

Lunchtime Session – Youth Disability Advocacy Service (YDAS)

Accessibility and adaptability – how emerging young leaders made inclusive virtual workshops for disabled young people

Afternoon Session – VACYP, Wathourong Aboriginal Cooperative, VACRO

• Framework for the child and family services workforce in Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, Victorian Aboriginal Children and Young People’s Alliance (VACYP)
• Keeping our mob connected in a digital world, Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative
• Children’s video visits for maternal incarceration, Victorian Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (VACRO)

This session was sponsored by MEERQAT

Morning Session – Kids First Australia, Bethany and University of Melbourne, Jesuit Social Services and University of Melbourne

• What makes a good dad?  Family violence intervention programs for fathers and innovation for service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kids First Australia
• Working at the intersection of family violence, alcohol and other drugs and mental health: new guidelines for practice, Bethany and the University of Melbourne
• Intervening early to prevent child sexual abuse: an innovative collaboration, Jesuit Social Services and the University of Melbourne

This session was sponsored by Relationship Matters

Lunchtime Session – Colac Area Health

Embedding learning circles through Dadirri

Afternoon Session – Uniting Epping, Melbourne City Mission, Kids First Australia

• I think you’ve frozen again: adapting the Family Dog Project to a digital environment during COVID-19, Uniting Epping
• Zooming in the circle, Melbourne City Mission
• Sensory Methods in Family Work, Kids First Australia

Morning Session – Tom McBride (Early Intervention Foundation), Anglicare Victoria

• Keynote: Early intervention, Tom McBride from the Early Intervention Foundation (UK). Tom McBride’s presentation was sponsored by Berry Street.
• FFT-CW Evidence Informed Practice – What works for whom?, Anglicare Victoria

Lunchtime Session – No To Violence

Interrupting men’s family violence – the Remote Working Toolkit

This session was sponsored by No To Violence

Afternoon Session – Family Care, VACCA, CREATE Foundation and Brotherhood of St Laurence

• Bringing client feedback to life in real time, Family Care
• Exploring virtual ways to collaboratively develop program logics within an Aboriginal organisation, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA)
• Evidence-informed practice: reflections on research participation, co-design and co-implementation in out-of-home care and transitions from care policy reform, the CREATE Foundation and Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL)

Morning Session – Thomas Engell ( Regional Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Norway) and Anglicare Victoria

• Keynote: Evidence-informed practice and implementation, Thomas Engell, Regional Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Norway. Thomas Engell’s presentation was sponsored by OzChild
• TEACHaR – Re-engaging children and young people in education through remote learning, Anglicare Victoria

Lunchtime Session – Clear Horizon

Evaluator’s toolkit for rapidly changing and complex settings

Afternoon Session – Mackillop Family Services, Department of Health and Human Services and Anchor

• Outcomes 100: a deep dive analysis of children and young people place in residential care, Mackillop Family Services
• Collective effort; collective understanding; collective response, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
• Brighter Futures Transformation Pilot: a story of collective impact across a service system – designed to test an approach to building connection and social capital for young people with a care experience, Anchor