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Practice Paper Tickets – Impact and Management of Trauma on Children in Out of Home Care (LIVESTREAM TICKET)
$20.00CHILD PROTECTION PRACTITIONERS ASSOCIATION PRACTICE PAPER
2024 Practice Paper: *** LIVESTREAM TICKET OPTION **** DATE: THURSDAY 18th JULY 2024 VIA LIVESTREAM FROM 6.00pm till 7.00pm NOTE: LIVESTREAM LINK WILL BE ISSUED VIA EMAIL THE DAY PRIOR TO THE EVENT Members Free - discount applied at checkout Non- Members - $20 per person Topic : Impact and Management of Trauma on Children in Out of Home Care About this paper: Any event where a young person is exposed to actual or threatened harm, serious injury, death or sexual violence has the potential to be traumatic. Young people may have directly experienced these things themselves or they may have witnessed it happening to others, it may be something that happened once or on multiple occasions over a long period of time. These repeated traumas such as physical and/or sexual abuse or family violence are more common for young people in out-of-home care. These may have even been the experiences that led them to living in care. Every young person will experience and respond to trauma differently. This will depend on many things such as their developmental age, the type of trauma and the support they get. For many young people in out-of-home care, their experiences of trauma are often complex, ongoing and have begun when they have been very young. Therefore, the impact can usually be seen in many areas of their functioning such as physical health, emotional regulation, relationships and education. Our speaker will share their lived experiences to help build awareness empathy and understanding of the unique experiences of trauma for children in OOHC and how we might address it effectively. Ms Gaskell will share her experiences as a child ‘not protected by the system’, a child ‘in care’, a Kinship Carer, and now a lengthy career working with families within many differing ‘streams’ of the and child protection system gives me a unique perspective into the various facets of the system. Dr Collier will share her own expensive experience as both a practitioner and a foster carer supporting children wit trauma histories in the OOHC system. Both Ms Gaskell and Dr Collier are passionate about building hope, motivation and insight for the community, and children and practitioners in the child protection system/sector. Speakers: Malarni Gaskell, is an Expert Child and Family Consultant/Assessor for Unique Minds Consultancy. Mrs. Gaskell is an experienced assessor, and has worked in the Child Protection Sector for over fourteen years, predominately in the Non-Government Sector. Ms Gaskell is also mother of 2, a former child in care, a kinship carer for my siblings, a general foster carer, and she am currently a professional working in the child protection and human services sector. Ms Gaskell has 12 full and half siblings across 6 different parenting configurations, with all of her siblings’ receiving services from the child protection services in different States across Australia. Ms Gaskell hold a Bachelors Degree in Human Services and am currently studying a Masters of Social Work. Dr Simone Collier Co-Director of Unique Minds Consultancy, a qualified Play Therapist, and trauma-intervention specialist. Simone is a Special Education teacher who has taught in behaviour support and special Education and mainstream settings for a number of years. Simone worked as a Deputy Principal and as a Guidance Officer before moving into the social work sector, initially in homelessness and domestic and family violence and then into Child Protection. Simone has a varied career working with children and young people in Residential facilities and in complex care settings as well as out-of-home care with foster and kinship carers. Simone has worked in Team Leader, Program Co-ordinator and Program Manager roles in child protection as well as in a State Project Manager role with Act for Kids setting up a program for Individual Support packages. Simone is involved in a pilot research project in partnership with the University of Southern Queensland trialling an evaluative tool to measure cumulative harm in children and young people. Simone is deeply passionate about supporting children with complex trauma and is currently engaged in her doctorate research investigating the barriers and enablers for mainstream classroom teachers to engage in professional development of trauma informed classroom pedagogy. Recently, Simone published her first children’s book, titled Jeremy’s Changing Family which is focused on hearing the voice of a little boy who is the biological child of foster carers. The book explores the challenges and celebrations of a foster family and in particular the children of foster carers. Chair: Dr India Bryce, Senior Lecturer (Counselling) University of Southern Queensland.JOIN NOW -
Practice Paper Tickets – Impact of Coercive Control (LIVESTREAM TICKET)
$20.00CHILD PROTECTION PRACTITIONERS ASSOCIATION PRACTICE PAPER
2024 Practice Paper: *** LIVESTREAM TICKET OPTION **** DATE: Thursday 24 May 2024 VIA LIVESTREAM FROM 6.00pm till 7.00pm NOTE: LIVESTREAM LINK WILL BE ISSUED VIA EMAIL THE DAY PRIOR TO THE EVENT Members Free - discount applied at checkout Non- Members - $20 per person Topic : Impact of Coercive Control About this paper: Coercive control has gained significant attention in recent times. This practice paper will provide context as to experiences of coercive control and will delve into the background to the current law reform in Queensland including the work of the Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce. It will provide an overview of the legislative changes which will commence in Queensland next year and compare with reforms in other States and Territories in Australia and overseas. Finally, we will discuss some anticipated challenges and consequences of the legislation’s implementation in Queensland. Speaker: Nadia Bromley is the CEO of the Women’s Legal Service Queensland (WLSQ). WLSQ provides free legal and social work support to Queensland women, with their priority helping women who are experiencing domestic and family violence. She is also a member of the Domestic and Family Violence Death Review and Advisory Board. Nadia’s experience gives her extensive insight in relation to all issues surrounding coercive control. Nadia and the WLSQ have been instrumental in the development of laws recently passed in Queensland in relation to criminalising coercive control. Nadia is focused on legal and social issues affecting women and working with a diverse network of organisations and supporters who are united by a shared belief in protecting the rights of women. Her work necessarily flows to issues affecting families, children and child protection. Chair: Leanne McDonald from Kennedy Spanner Lawyers has worked as a personal injury lawyer for 20 years. While practising in all types of injury matters, she has a special interest in claims for survivors of childhood abuse, giving them a voice and guiding them through the relevant process. Throughout her career she has been driven by social justice issues, including reform of legislation and processes for survivors of abuse across the country. She represented the family of Annette Mason in their fight to find the truth about her murder as a child 30 years ago and is a passionate advocate for child safety issues.JOIN NOW -
Practice Paper Tickets – Supporting Children with Complex Trauma (LIVESTREAM TICKET)
$20.00CHILD PROTECTION PRACTITIONERS ASSOCIATION PRACTICE PAPER
2024 Practice Paper: *** LIVESTREAM TICKET OPTION **** DATE: Wednesday 13 March 2024 VIA LIVESTREAM FROM 6.00pm till 7.00pm NOTE: LIVESTREAM LINK WILL BE ISSUED VIA EMAIL THE DAY PRIOR TO THE EVENT Members Free - discount applied at checkout Non- Members - $20 per person Topic : Supporting Children with Complex Trauma About this paper: Mr Trent Savill is the Director of Complex Care which is a Brisbane based counselling and consultancy service that specialises in the provision of therapy and placement support to children and families with complex needs engaged with the child protection system. This practice paper has been designed to assist professionals to develop a better understanding of how to support children with a history of complex relational trauma aiming to simplify contemporary research, and through integration with practice wisdom, provide real hands-on strategies for supporting children’s engagement and recovery. This practice paper will provide information regarding:- Basic Brain Anatomy;
- Human Threat Response;
- Neurobiology of Trauma;
- Disorganised Attachment;
- Facilitating Safety and Trust in Maltreated Children; and
- Building Self-Regulation and repairing the brain-stem.
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