Ovens Murray Child & Family Services Alliance

VHA Webinar: Opportunities for community health-led responses to drug and alcohol consumption
2024-02-13 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
The VHA is pleased to invite senior managers and executives to attend the Tri-Peaks webinar which will focus on opportunities for community health-led responses to drug and alcohol consumption. The aim of the webinar session is to showcase good practice in the community health sector. During this session, attendees will learn more about the latest evidence and opportunities for responding to drug and alcohol consumption.
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No To Violence Training: The Five Essential Discussion Tools
2024-02-16 10:00 - 13:00
This interactive online training session provides national training to practitioners and counsellors working directly with men using family violence.
Perfect for experienced practitioners who work directly with men using family violence (one on one, group work or case management) in specialist family violence, AOD, mental health and child protection sectors, this training is designed to refresh and upskill practitioners in de-escalation techniques to reduce harm.
The Five Essential Tools are drawn from the experience of specialist work in MBC programs and have been packaged in a way that assists in engaging men in meaningful conversations.
The tools include specialist engagement and holding strategies specific to working with men using family violence, and uniquely applies these tools to face to face, telephone and online responses.
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The Orange Door Ovens Murray Area Online workshops - Referrals to The Orange Door
2024-02-20 16:00 - 16:30
The Orange Door Ovens Murray Area is hosting 30-minute online workshops each month in February to April 2024 to foster understanding of the role and functions of The Orange Door and referral pathways.
The workshops are designed for staff or volunteers in the Ovens Murray Area (LGAs of Alpine, Benalla, Indigo, Mansfield, Towong, Wangaratta, Wodonga) who will potentially refer clients to The Orange Door.The Orange Door provides free support for:
• People experiencing family violence or who are at risk of family violence
• People seeking assistance with child wellbeing and development
• People seeking support to change their behaviour and stop using violenceThe Orange Door provides the following key functions:
• Risk and needs assessment
• Safety planning
• Crisis intervention
• Brokerage
• Connection to support services
Content is the same for each workshop – participants only need to attend one workshop. Participants do not need to register to attend – simply join the workshop using the links below
Tuesday 20th February – 9.30am to 10.00am – Click here to join the meeting

Please direct any queries to Anna Mackinlay – Service System Navigator, The Orange Door Ovens Murray Area
E: anna.mackinlay@familysafety.vic.gov.au P: 1800 271 157

Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare OPEN - AVITH Cross-Sector Forums February 2024
2024-02-21 10:30 - 12:00
Ovens Murray / Goulburn
21 February 2024, 10:30am-12:00pm Register here
Join multidisciplinary professionals in your region to workshop ways of strengthening collaborative practice when working with adolescent violence in the home.

Understand more about common presentations of AVITH and service system responses
Hear from local AVITH service providers
Workshop ways we can strengthen cross-sector practice in identifying and responding to young person violence in the home (Based on CIJ’s Collaborative Practice Framework)
Learn where to find more information

More detailed information and agendas will be provided closer to the date. For now, please save the date by using the links below to register, or contact us if you have any questions.

SAFE + EQUAL - MARAM Working with adults who use family violence - Identification
2024-02-23 09:15 - 16:30
NEW TRAINING:
Upcoming sessions: FREE for all participants

Friday 23 February, 9.15 am – 4.30 pm
Thursday 29 February, 9.15 am – 4.30 pm

Do you work with adults using family violence in your role? This new MARAM offering from Safe and Equal is suitable for all professionals who may identify family violence is occurring and who engage with people in a one-off, episodic or ongoing service. This one-day training focuses on working with adults using family violence.
During this training, you will learn to identify indicators for a person likely to be using family violence by observation of common narratives and behaviours. You will also learn how to respond according to your roles and responsibilities and will be supported to use the Identification Tool.
Who can attend?

All professionals who may identify family violence is occurring and who engage with people in a one-off, episodic or ongoing service

Areas covered:
On successful completion, participants will be able to practice concepts related to working with adults using family violence, including:

Applying MARAM foundational knowledge and practice guidance to identification MARAM practice responsibilities
Identifying indicators for an adult likely to be using family violence by observation of common narratives and behaviours, including denial, minimisation, justification, and externalisation of responsibility for violence
Developing understanding and confidence in safe engagement and appropriate questioning to support identifying family violence risk
Understanding how and when to use the Identification Tool in practice

Register here

OMCFS Alliance AVITH online workshop
2024-02-26 09:30 - 12:30
OMCFS Alliance and Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
Young person using violence online training
Registrations CLOSED

Australian Childhood Foundation Professional Community - Understanding the Neurobiology of Complex Trauma
2024-02-26 10:00 - 14:00, 2024-02-27 10:00 - 14:00
Building a framework for effective practice with children, young people and their network of relationships
26 & 27 February 10:00am to 2:00pm VIrtual Classroom $330.00
What is this training about?
This workshop provides a foundational understanding of complex developmental trauma and the application of this knowledge framework to work across multiple contexts supporting infants, children, young people, and families. It is grounded in the most recent evidence from neuroscience.
Abuse related trauma has a significant impact on the developing brain. It can result in children experiencing significant difficulties regulating their emotions, adapting their behaviour and being attuned to social exchanges. This can lead to a fundamental challenge for children to experience safety and engage in relational exchanges that support them. Integrating systems of protection, care, and therapeutic intervention provide traumatised children with safety, predictability and the platform for changing their developmental trajectory.
The workshop explores the implications for framing trauma informed practice and provides specific and practical strategies for promoting recovery for children and young people who have experienced relationally based trauma.

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AIFS and Emerging Minds- Supporting family and child mental health in the face of severe weather events and disasters
2024-02-28 13:00 - 14:00
Presenters: Bron Sparkes, Dr Andrea Baldwin, Sarah Eagland and Ben Rogers
Partner: Emerging Minds
Date & time: Wednesday 28 February 2024, 1:00 – 2:00PM (AEDT). Find your time zone.

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The number of severe weather events and disasters has increased significantly in recent decades. These events are lasting longer and having a greater impact with many families experiencing multiple disasters one after the other or even at the same time.
With a growing number of Australians faced with disasters, there is also growing awareness that these events significantly impact the emotional wellbeing of infants and children. However, there has been little exploration of how family structures and dynamics affect children’s recovery from these events.
In the face of extreme weather events and disasters, parents and caregivers can play a major role in keeping infants and children physically safe and emotionally well. But these events affect every member of the family, and the family unit as a whole. Caring for infant and child mental health requires effective support for families.
Some parents and caregivers say going through these events has brought the family closer together and strengthened their relationships. At the same time, this journey can be extremely challenging. Recovery can bring grief, anger and worry for parents and children. Often families must relocate or rebuild, change social circles, navigate multiple services and manage financial stressors, all of which can put further strain on family relationships. Research shows that families who’ve gone through a disaster are more likely to experience parental separation, family violence and substance misuse, which can further impact child wellbeing.
This webinar will explore the complex interplay of factors that can support or disrupt the wellbeing of whole families following a severe weather event or disaster, and how these factors in turn affect infant and child mental health. From practice and lived-experience perspectives, the panellists will discuss evidence-informed approaches of how best to support children and families in the weeks, months and years following these events.
This webinar will help you:

recognise the factors that affect the mental health and emotional wellbeing of infants, children and families following a disaster

understand the role of the family unit in supporting the recovery of infants and children after a disaster

develop awareness of family-focused approaches – including practices within the education context – that can support infants, children, parents, caregivers and the whole family unit after a disaster.

This webinar will interest practitioners working in health, social and community services who have contact with children and families who have experienced a severe weather event or disaster or may experience one in the future.
While you will begiven a chance to ask questions during the webinar, we encourage you to send through questions in advance in the registration form.
This webinar is co-produced by CFCA and Emerging Minds in a series focusing on children’s mental health. They are working together as part of the Emerging Minds: National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health, which is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care under the National Support for Child and Youth Mental Health Program.

SAFE + EQUAL - MARAM Working with adults who use family violence - Identification
2024-02-29 09:15 - 16:30
Do you work with adults using family violence in your role? This new MARAM offering from Safe and Equal is suitable for all professionals who may identify family violence is occurring and who engage with people in a one-off, episodic or ongoing service. This one-day training focuses on working with adults using family violence.
During this training, you will learn to identify indicators for a person likely to be using family violence by observation of common narratives and behaviours. You will also learn how to respond according to your roles and responsibilities and will be supported to use the Identification Tool.

Who can attend?

All professionals who may identify family violence is occurring and who engage with people in a one-off, episodic or ongoing service

Areas covered:
On successful completion, participants will be able to practice concepts related to working with adults using family violence, including:

Applying MARAM foundational knowledge and practice guidance to identification MARAM practice responsibilities
Identifying indicators for an adult likely to be using family violence by observation of common narratives and behaviours, including denial, minimisation, justification, and externalisation of responsibility for violence
Developing understanding and confidence in safe engagement and appropriate questioning to support identifying family violence risk
Understanding how and when to use the Identification Tool in practice

Upcoming sessions:

Friday 23 February, 9.15 am – 4.30 pm
Thursday 29 February, 9.15 am – 4.30 pm
More training dates in March available through our website

Cost: Free for all participants

Register here

Blue Knot Foundation - Trauma Informed Diversity Awareness Masterclass
2024-03-01 09:00 - 16:30
Upcoming Dates (Virtual Classroom delivered via Zoom)
1 March 2024, 9am to 4.30pm AEDT
7 June 2024, 9am to 4.30pm AEST

Professional Member Discount $330.00 incl. GST
$370.00 incl. GST

This experiential one-day professional development training goes beyond ‘standard’ LGBTIQ diversity training. This masterclass fosters the knowledge and skills to work competently and confidently with transgender people accessing therapeutic and other services. It explores the intersectionality of complex trauma, discrimination, and minority stress to build understanding on how these factors impact the health of transgender people.
Participants gain a practical and inclusive framework for implementing trauma-informed principles within best practice guidelines when working with transgender and gender diverse populations, aligning policies and procedures with existing legislation.

Click here to register for this training

No To Violence: Enhanced – The Five Essential Discussion Tools
2024-03-01 10:00 - 13:00
3 hour interactive online training session
It is recommended participants complete ‘The Five
Essential Discussion Tools’ prior to undertaking
this training course.
This interactive online training session builds upon the
‘pre-tool knowledge’ that is explored in the original
Five Essential Discussion Tools package.
Content includes further exploration of the discussion
tools and the use of a case study to enhance
participant understanding of how to use the tools in
practice. This will be followed by information about
neuroplasticity and the concept of ‘name it to tame it’.
Self-reflective practice is covered, inviting participants
to explore invitations to collude and applying the
discussion tools to themselves in practice.
Finally, the training explores the application of the tools with
clients who are neurodiverse, come from a CALD
background or clients with an ABI.
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Ovens Murray Child and Family Services Alliance and Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare - Young person using violence workshop
2024-03-05 09:30 - 12:30 | Quality Hotel Wangaratta Gateway
Ovens Murray Child and Family Services Alliance and Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare – Young person using violence workshop
March 5th, 915am registration
Registrations CLOSED

2024 Safe & Together™ Model Asia Pacific Conference
2024-03-13 08:00 - 2024-03-15 17:00
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NEW: Now In Person and Fully Streaming ALL 3 DAYS!
You can attend both the Masterclasses & Conference online
Empower Your Practice: Join the Global Community at the Safe & Together Model 2024 Asia Pacific Conference on March 13-15, 2024!
Turn Commitment into Action
A Global Gathering for Change Makers
Professionals from around the world are coming together for an intensive 3-day journey into the heart of the Safe & Together Model. Connect with international experts, frontline practitioners, and policy-makers dedicated to ending family violence.

Why Attend?

Hands-On Learning: Engage in practical, scenario-based workshops that will sharpen your skills and deepen your understanding of how to support families affected by domestic violence.
Expert Insights: Hear from leaders in the field as they share cutting-edge research, policy developments, and inspiring success stories from across the globe.
Networking Opportunities: Build lasting connections with professionals across disciplines in a collaborative environment dedicated to systemic change.
Resource-Rich Environment: Access a wealth of materials and tools that can transform your practice and enhance collaborative responses to domestic violence.

**Recordings will be available to all registrants for on-demand viewing for six months following the live conference**

AIFS - How developmental evaluation can be used to develop and adapt social services programs
2024-03-13 13:00 - 13:30
Presenters: Sandra Opoku (Relationships Australia Victoria) and Jessica Smart (AIFS)
Date & time: Wednesday 13 March 2024, 1:00 – 1:30PM (AEDT). Find your time zone
Register here
Evaluation is quickly becoming a necessary part of service delivery and decision making in child and family services. Traditional forms of evaluation can take a long time to produce the results needed to enhance service delivery. In contrast, developmental evaluation involves learning as you go, meaning evaluators can test new approaches, track program implementation and design initiatives that are responsive to context and need. This makes developmental evaluation useful for providers working in dynamic environments that require responsive interventions.
This webinar will explore how Relationships Australia Victoria used developmental evaluation to adapt their Men’s Behaviour Change Program (MBCP) to online delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Relationships Australia Victoria’s Lead Evaluator, Sandra Opoku, will discuss how and why she used developmental evaluation with the MBCP, the results of the evaluation and what she learned along the way.
This webinar will give you:

an understanding of how to design and implement a developmental evaluation
insight into what evidence a developmental evaluation can generate
an understanding of what developmental evaluation can and can’t be used for.

This webinar will be of interest to practitioners, managers and evaluators working in child and family services.
Please note: This pre-recorded interview runs for 30-minutes. There will be no live facilitation or audience questions.

The Fathering Project | The Fathering Summit 2024
2024-03-14 08:00 - 17:00
March 14 | Online & In-Person | Register here, early bird tickets now available
Join this Fathering Summit, which aims to unite diverse participants committed to reshaping modern fatherhood. This full-day, in-person event covers crucial topics such as mental health, gender equity, caregiving, work-life balance, parenting roles, and family safety. Experience keynote speeches, expert panels, and interactive sessions, fostering dialogue, sharing experiences, and implementing innovative strategies.
Secure your seat today and join a movement that redefines fatherhood and positively shape the lives of our children.
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PreventX Online Conference
2024-03-19 08:00 - 2024-03-20 17:00
Tuesday 19 March & Wednesday 20 March 2024
Program to be announced.
Early bird tickets are on sale now! Buy your ticket here >

PreventX: Messaging for a Movement is the national conference for those who want to create change and prevent family and gender-based violence.

PreventX forms one of the largest single gatherings of professionals working to prevent family and gender-based violence.
First held in 2019, PreventX is our national conference for those who want to create change and prevent violence. In 2024, the conference will look at one of the fundamentals of primary prevention – how we craft and deliver messages that shift hearts and minds to deliver long-term and sustainable social change to prevent family and gender-based violence.

Blue Knot Foundation - Managing Wellbeing and Recognising Vicarious Trauma
2024-03-20 09:00 - 16:30
Online – 1 day, 09:00 AM ACDT – 04:30 PM ACDT
This training program explores the nature, dynamics and risks of vicarious trauma and supports you to stay healthy and safe in your work. This training, informed by current research, will provide you with the knowledge, skills and tools to better recognise the early signs of various stress outcomes.

Professional Member Discount $310.00 GST
Group Booking (3 or more people) Per Person Rate $330.00 GST
$350.00 GST

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Australian Childhood Foundation - Supporting Children and Young People to Heal from the Trauma of Family Violence
2024-03-20 10:00 - 14:00
Supporting Children and Young People to Heal from the Trauma of Family Violence
20 March 2024 10:00 am – 02:00 pm Virtual Classroom $165.00
What is this training about?
Children and young people do not escape family violence unaffected. It destabilises the foundations of their development and undermines the strengths of their relationships which can overwhelm them. Children experience family violence deep in their mind and body – they see it, often hear it and their bodies react to it as a threat to their survival.
This workshop explores all of these elements and supports practitioners to work in a child focused and relationally reparative context with parents and children following experiences of family violence.
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OPEN Forum: Evidence everywhere, everyday, everyone - Take the next steps on your Outcomes Journey with OPEN
2024-03-21 12:30 - 14:00
OPEN and Children Australia
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March 21, 2024 – 12.30PM to 2.00PM – Online
You’re invited to attend our first OPEN event of 2024. Come along on Thursday 21st March at 12:30pm to hear from the OPEN team on how we can support you to build your everyday evidence.
OPEN will provide an overview of the Outcomes Journey and launch a new suite of tools. We’ll go through our service offering including upcoming training, and a guided walk through of our OPEN Portal.
Children Australia Journal Senior Editor Melissa Storey will join us to share tips on using existing evidence, using your own evidence, and sharing it through the journal.
We will invite our friends to share learnings from their own evidence journey and ask the audience to share their own learnings or ask questions to gain insights into the next steps for your own journey.
This forum will be a celebration of the progress of how far we’ve come as a sector, with OPEN’s new offerings responding to the sector’s enthusiasm to embed evidence further and launch us into the next phase of our collective evidence journey.
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The Orange Door Ovens Murray Area Online Workshops - Referrals to The Orange Door
2024-03-21 16:00 - 16:30
The Orange Door Ovens Murray Area is hosting 30-minute online workshops each month in February to April 2024 to foster understanding of the role and functions of The Orange Door and referral pathways.
The workshops are designed for staff or volunteers in the Ovens Murray Area (LGAs of Alpine, Benalla, Indigo, Mansfield, Towong, Wangaratta, Wodonga) who will potentially refer clients to The Orange Door.The Orange Door provides free support for:
• People experiencing family violence or who are at risk of family violence
• People seeking assistance with child wellbeing and development
• People seeking support to change their behaviour and stop using violenceThe Orange Door provides the following key functions:
• Risk and needs assessment
• Safety planning
• Crisis intervention
• Brokerage
• Connection to support services
Content is the same for each workshop – participants only need to attend one workshop. Participants do not need to register to attend – simply join the workshop using the links below

Thursday 21st March – 4.00pm to 4.30pm – Click here to join the meeting
Please direct any queries to Anna Mackinlay – Service System Navigator, The Orange Door Ovens Murray Area
E: anna.mackinlay@familysafety.vic.gov.au P: 1800 271 157

PreventX In-Person Event
2024-03-21 16:00 - 20:00
We understand the importance of connecting with like-minded practitioners and advocates working in the prevention of family and gender-based violence. That’s why we’re thrilled to invite you and the broader Partners in Prevention Network to a face-to-face event on Thursday 21 March 2024.
4pm to 8pm
The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000
$50 + GST (pitchers attend free!)
An integral part of the PreventX 2024 conference, this event aims to amplify the ideas of practitioners in Victoria and beyond, to influence the future of primary prevention. There are two ways to get involved – we invite you to take on the challenge of pitching or you can join our supportive audience.
Ready to be a voice for change? We are on the lookout for the most compelling pitches that bring forward new and emerging ideas. Your contribution will help shape current and future prevention messaging, influencing a national audience.
If you’re a practitioner with an idea about how we can prevent family and gender-based violence in Australia right now, we want to hear from you! Inspired by the 3-minute thesis competition, we’re inviting you to share a 3-minute pitch to a friendly and inclusive audience at the Wheeler Centre. This is an opportunity to craft and amplify messages that truly matter. If you’re not from Melbourne, we would still love to hear from you and we can stream you to our live audience in via Zoom. Learn more about submitting your pitch below.
Don’t have a pitch to submit? As a member of our audience, we invite you to support our pitching practitioners and to cast your vote at the end of the night.
Join us in Melbourne to network, collaborate, and help shape the future of prevention at the PreventX in-person event. Book your spot today!
BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE

Blue Knot - Trauma Awareness in Practice
2024-03-22 09:00 - 16:30
Trauma Awareness in Practice
Online – March 22nd, 2024
1 day, 09:00 AM ACDT – 04:30 PM ACDT
This practical training focuses on the implementation of all five trauma-informed principles and builds on the Foundations in Trauma Awareness. This program looks at practical skills to create a safe base to work from and to understand signs of potential trauma and apply the foundational knowledge of complex trauma to your work.

Who should attend?
This training program is not clinically focused and will suit those who provide services to people who have experienced trauma. It is applicable to diverse sectors including, but not limited to, health, mental health, alcohol and other drugs services, community, legal, justice, domestic and family violence, child protection, emergency, disability, housing, settlement, and employment services.

Professional Member Discount $310.00 incl. GST
Group Booking (3 or more people) Per Person Rate $330.00 incl. GST
$350.00 incl. GST

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No To Violence: Engaging dads who use family violence and abuse (formerly Working with fathers)
2024-03-26 10:00 - 13:00
No To Violence: Engaging dads who use family violence and abuse (formerly Working with fathers)

March 26 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
2 x 3 hour interactive online training sessions
This training explores the impact on children witnessing/experiencing abuse and how to shift the focus of interventions to the father’s responsibility
and accountability for safe parenting. It unpacks broader narratives that will often attribute responsibility for safety, security and emotional wellbeing of children to the victim-survivor; and is
underpinned by the current evidence base that has established an understanding of the gender drivers of men’s violence against women.
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No To Violence: Engaging dads who use family violence and abuse (formerly Working with fathers)
2024-03-27 10:00 - 13:00
No To Violence: Engaging dads who use family violence and abuse (formerly Working with fathers)

March 27 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
$369.40

2 x 3 hour interactive online training sessions
This training explores the impact on children witnessing/experiencing abuse and how to shift the focus of interventions to the father’s responsibility
and accountability for safe parenting. It unpacks broader narratives that will often attribute responsibility for safety, security and emotional wellbeing of children to the victim-survivor; and is
underpinned by the current evidence base that has established an understanding of the gender drivers of men’s violence against women.
Click to register

Blue Knot Foundation - Building Trauma Awareness (Webinar)
2024-03-28 12:00 - 13:00
Online- 1 hour, 12:00 PM AEDT – 01:00 PM AEDT
This one hour webinar provides foundational knowledge in the area of Complex Trauma. This webinar is aimed at a diverse range of roles and focused on understanding trauma.

$60.00 GST
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AIFS and Emerging Minds - How a 'village' approach can support infant and toddler mental health
2024-04-03 13:00 - 14:00
Presenters: Lyndsay Healy, Viv Kissane, Amy Parker and Vicki Mansfield
Partner: Emerging Minds
Date & time: Wednesday 3 April 2024, 1:00 – 2:00PM (AEDT). Find your time zone
REGISTER HERE

Supporting infant and child mental health can be both extremely rewarding and challenging for practitioners working with families.
Many different factors influence infant and toddler mental health, including their relationships, their community and the broader social context in which they live. While having limited social supports can contribute to poor mental health in children and their parents or carers, having a rich social support system, or a ‘village’, can promote mental health and wellbeing.
This ‘village’ can include family members, friends and other trusted community members such as educators, community leaders and healthcare providers. Practitioners can offer families more effective support by understanding their ‘village’ and what might be stopping families from reaching out for emotional or practical support.
This webinar will discuss how to work collaboratively with families to engage with their ‘village’ and how this approach can influence infant and toddler mental health. Panellists will explore practice strategies that promote infant and toddler mental health and explore how asking questions about the family’s ‘village’ can help you better understand a family’s needs and strengths.
This webinar will help you:

understand the influence of infant and toddlers’ ‘village’ on their mental health
consider what factors might help or hinder a family’s connection to their infant and toddlers’ ‘village’
support parents to make sense of their infant and toddlers’ behaviours and what might be happening in their child’s inner world
consider how collaboration can support the parent-child relationship, day-to-day caregiving and resilience after adversity.

This webinar will interest practitioners who work with infants, toddlers and their families, such as allied health workers, child and family health nurses, perinatal and infant mental health providers, mental health services, child and family services and parenting support, lived experience workforce, GP’s, and paediatricians.
While you will begiven a chance to ask questions during the webinar, we encourage you to send through questions in advance in the registration form.
This webinar is co-produced by CFCA and Emerging Minds in a series focusing on children’s mental health. They are working together as part of the Emerging Minds: National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health, which is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care under the National Support for Child and Youth Mental Health Program.

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Ovens Murray region MARAM Collaborative practice training - Wodonga - Face to Face
2024-04-09 09:30 - 15:30
MARAM Collaborative Practice Training- WODONGA – Face to Face
This training is open to any professional in the Ovens Murray region who responds to family violence.
Explore how to contribute to risk assessment and collaborate for ongoing risk management through respectful and sensitive engagement with victim survivors, information sharing, referral and secondary consultation. This is not risk assessment training but forms an integral component of the MARAM suite of training for professionals responding to family violence.
Hosted by Ovens Murray Family Violence Partnership
https://events.humanitix.com/maram-collaborative-practice-training-wodonga-face-to-face

SAFE + EQUAL - Case Notes Family Violence & the Law
2024-04-10 09:15 - 16:30
Build your confidence in writing case notes for your clients experiencing family violence, with this training delivered in partnership with Women’s Legal Service Victoria.
In this full-day virtual training, family violence specialist practitioners and leaders will learn best practices for the structure, style and language of case notes. You will also develop your knowledge about how to respond to subpoenas, appear as a witness in court, and identify privacy and legal issues.
Upcoming dates for this training include April & May 20024:
Wednesday 10 April 2024
Wednesday 8 May 2024
Cost: $380
If you’re a Safe and Equal full member, you are eligible for a 25% discount. Please contact our Client Services team before enrolling.
Time: 9.15 am – 4.30 pm
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Centre for Mental Health Learning - Mental Health and the Child Information Scheme
2024-04-11 09:00 - 16:30
Date: Thursday 11 April 2024
Time: 9:00am-4:30pm
Venue: Ibis Melbourne
The Child Information Sharing Scheme (CISS) enables information sharing between prescribed organisations to promote a child’s wellbeing and safety. This 1-day interactive workshop brings together organisational leaders and practitioners from prescribed sectors within to explore the mental health aspect of child wellbeing, and the implementation of child information sharing in the community. For speakers, objectives, and further details, please visit registration page
Speakers include:

Nerida Mason (Manager – Information Sharing Implementation, Victorian Child Information Sharing Division, Department of Education)
Professor Daryl Higgins (Director of the Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University)
Adrienne Lipscomb (Aboriginal Senior Therapeutic Practitioner, Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families, University of Melbourne)
Julie Ngwabi (Senior Child Mental Health Advisor – Health, Emerging Minds Australia)

Questions? Email shaina.serelson@cmhl.org.au

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