The Ovens Murray Child and Family Services (OMCFS) Alliance is a membership of family service providers and key partner services that work together to provide a high quality, integrated, flexible, responsive and culturally safe system of support to children (including unborn), young people and their families across the Local Government Areas of Alpine, Benalla, Indigo, Towong, Mansfield, Wangaratta and Wodonga.
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The Ovens Murray Community Services – Stronger Together Symposium is a chance for Community Service sector practitioners and leaders to come together in celebrating and promoting collaborative pathways, connection and practice.
Date: Tuesday June 25th
Venue: Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre
Time: 930am to 430pm
Cost: $50.00pp (catering included)
Full program details coming soon!
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED!
Matt and Sarah Brown ‘SHE IS NOT YOUR REHAB’
In their powerful keynote messages, Mataio + Sarah Brown share their innovative and revolutionary approaches to addressing family violence, emphasising the pivotal role of community and collective healing in breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma while passionately advocating for healthy masculinity role modelling. They encourage men to overcome shame while taking responsibility for their own healing. Their message inspires a transformative journey towards healthy relationships and cultural shifts that challenge ingrained norms to foster a safer, more empathetic and holistic society.
Professor Daryl Higgins
Is Director of the Institute of Child Protection Studies. For 30 years, Professor Higgins has been researching child abuse prevalence and impacts, public health approaches to prevention, child protection and out-of-home care systems, family law, family violence, family wellbeing, and past adoption practices. He is one of the Chief Investigators on the Australian Child Maltreatment Study.
The full-day program will include keynote speakers, presentations and panellists discussing and exploring pathways and collaborative practice, innovative and effective practice and the impact of sector workforce working together, and connecting for better outcomes for children, young people and families across Ovens Murray.
The Ovens Murray Child & Family Services Alliance acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work and live.
We celebrate the diversity of Aboriginal peoples and their ongoing cultures and connections to the lands and waters of Ovens Murray area.
We pay our respects to Elders past and present and to their children and young people who are our future Elders and caretakers of this land.
We support diversity and inclusivity and welcome all people to our service, regardless of race, religion, gender or sexuality.