Ovens Murray Child & Family Services Alliance

Ovens Murray region MARAM Collaborative Practice Training- Online event
2024-06-11 09:30 - 15:30 UTC
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.
Registrations required and spaces are limited.
Hosted by Ovens Murray Family Violence Partnership

blueknot - Trauma Informed Diversity Awareness Masterclass
2024-06-07 09:00 - 16:30
Upcoming Dates (Virtual Classroom delivered via Zoom)
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.

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OPEN Forum: Trauma-informed insights - Effective leadership to improve children's mental health.
2024-06-04 12:30 - 14:00
OPEN Forum: Trauma-informed insights – Effective leadership to improve children’s mental health.
June 4th | 12.30PM – 2.00PM | Online
Join OPEN and presenters from Emerging Minds for a session that will highlight ways in which organisations can better embed children’s social and emotional wellbeing in their child and family programs.
Children’s mental health is not well understood, this session aims to enhance understanding and capability in this area.
This session will discuss:

The intergenerational aspects of trauma
The impact of increasing complexity in clients which can impact the overall wellbeing of children and families
The ways in which leaders can support children’s mental health in their organisations
Working in ways that promote children’s wellbeing and family resilience

This OPEN Forum will be particularly valuable to those designing and leading child and family programs and for passionate change-makers wanting to better embed children’s social and emotional wellbeing in their organisational advocacy and strategy.

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Trauma Sensitive Practice - Working with Complex Trauma
2024-06-04 09:00 - 16:30
Virtual classroom delivered via Zoom
This training is a blend of foundational information on complex trauma with the introduction of the practice of safety and stabilisation. This training program utilises current research to provide an understanding of trauma, the impacts of trauma and the neurobiological responses that occur. Building an understanding of the key features of complex trauma that can present in our working relationships and the resourcing and regulation that can support in practice.

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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Blue Knot Foundation - Building Trauma Awareness (Webinar)
2024-05-30 11:00 - 12:00
Online – 1 hour, 11:00 AM AEST – 12:00 PM AEST
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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Relationships Matter: Walking alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Parents
2024-05-29 13:00 - 14:00
Presenters: Dr Michelle Sweet, Judith Lovegrove, Kym Schellen and Dana Shen
Partner: Emerging Minds
Date & time: Wednesday 29 May 2024, 1:00 – 2:00PM (AEST)
This webinar will explore ways that practitioners can build a deeper connection with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families.
This webinar will help you:
• develop a whole of community approach in your work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
• develop a curious and non-stigmatising approach that allows families to identify their stressors and worries, including any experiences of trauma, loss and racism
• support families to identify motivators, including strengths, skills, connections, hopes and dreams
• understand how to take a child-centred approach by placing the child’s voice front and centre in conversations with family and community members.
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Australian Childhood Foundation - Supporting Children and Young People to Heal from the Trauma of Family Violence
2024-05-28 10:00 - 14:00
Supporting Children and Young People to Heal from the Trauma of Family Violence
28 May 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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Australian Childhood Foundation Professional Community - Understanding the Neurobiology of Complex Trauma
2024-05-23 10:00 - 14:00, 2024-05-22 10:00 - 14:00
Building a framework for effective practice with children, young people and their network of relationships
22 & 23 May, 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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National Symposium: How contextual prevention strategies can prevent child sexual abuse.
2024-05-21 12:00 - 14:00
Symposium: How contextual prevention strategies can prevent child sexual abuse.
Contextual prevention aims to make diverse social contexts and a child’s immediate settings safer for children. Hear presentations from leading researchers on how to advance organisational child-safe practices using contextual safeguarding strategies.

Tuesday 21 May
12:00-2:00 pm (AEST)
Note: Symposium will be recorded and sent to anyone who has registered.

Hosted by Institute of Child Protection Studies (ACU) and Sexual Violence Research & Prevention Unit (UniSC).

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Ovens Murray region MARAM Collaborative Practice Training- WANGARATTA- Face to Face
2024-05-09 09:30 - 15:30
MARAM Collaborative Practice Training- WANGARATTA- 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-wangaratta-face-to-face

SAFE+EQUAL- Case Notes Family Violence & the Law
2024-05-08 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:
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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OPEN Forum - Trauma-Informed insights, Strategies for wellbeing
2024-05-02 12:30 - 14:00
OPEN Forum
OPEN’s Forum provides trauma-informed insights and practical tools to help navigate the challenges of working in trauma-impactful environments while prioritising self-care and professional growth. Explore the importance of trauma-informed strategies in fostering wellbeing and effectiveness in complex settings. Session highlights include:
• Preventing compassion fatigue and burnout
• The role of supervision in trauma-informed practice
• Understanding neurobiology and resilience.
Speakers Megan Corcoran, Director of Wagtail Institute, and Donna Richards, Senior Consultant at the Australian Childhood Foundation, will offers invaluable insights into enhancing trauma-informed practice for practitioners and leaders. Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding of trauma-informed care and enhance your professional practice.
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Blue Knot Foundation - Managing Wellbeing and Recognising Vicarious Trauma
2024-04-30 09:00 - 16:30
Online – 1 day, 09:00 AM ACST – 04:30 PM ACST
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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Blue Knot Foundation - Creating Safety and Connection (Webinar)
2024-04-24 12:00 - 13:00
Online – 1 hour, 12:00 PM AEST – 01:00 PM AEST
This one hour webinar provides information on the importance of relationship and creating safety when working with people who have experienced Complex Trauma.

$60.00 GST

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The Orange Door Ovens Murray Area Online Workshops - Referrals to The Orange Door
2024-04-23 09:30 - 10:00
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 violence
The 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 23rd April – 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

Blue Knot Foundation - Wellbeing and Emotional Awareness when working with Complex Trauma (webinar)
2024-04-18 14:00 - 15:30
Online
1 hour, 30 minutes, 02:00 PM AEST – 03:30 PM AEST
This one and a half hour webinar provides information about wellbeing and self-care when working with clients who have Complex Trauma.

$75.00 GST

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Early Years Forum - Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
2024-04-18 09:00 - 11:00
This forum, presented by the Centre’s Early Start, Bright Future project team as part of its program of early years work funded by the Department of Education, will focus on children’s right to education and how this right is impacted by family violence.
Presenters and panellists will explore strategies to better support children who have experienced family violence to remain connected to early childhood education and discuss why this connection is so crucial.

When: Thursday 18 April @ 9:00am – 11:00am
Where: Online

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Relationships Australia Victoria - Support for Fathers
2024-04-17 15:00 - 16:30
Webinar: Supporting Separated Dads
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Presented by Dom Alford (Support for Fathers project, Relationships Australia Victoria) and Pete Nicholls (CEO, Parents Beyond Breakup)
Join our interactive panel discussion and hear from family services experts on what works best when supporting separating dads.
It can be hard to know how best to support and engage dads going through the separation process.
When professionals understand the trauma response that separation can cause, and the life cycle of the separation process, they can more effectively support dads during this vulnerable life stage.
Gain knowledge, insights, and practical strategies to support separating dads.
Learning outcomes
During this panel discussion, you’ll:

gain an understanding of the trauma response dads often experience when going through separation and how to support them
learn about the life cycle of the separation process from dads’ perspectives
explore some of the challenges that often arise when working with people who are separating
hear stories and learnings from the panel about engaging with dads.

This webinar is ideal for
A range of workers in community organisations, social services, schools or businesses who support or work with separating dads.
REGISTRATIONS CLOSE APRIL 15

AIFS - Customer journey mapping and what it can tell us about our service systems
2024-04-17 13:00 - 13:30
Evaluation can provide insights into how clients experience and use services, but it’s not the only way to access knowledge that can transform service systems. Customer journey mapping is one alternative method that is focused on collecting information about customers/clients to build a detailed picture of client needs, interactions and experiences from service entry to exit. This approach, which prioritises qualitative data, can produce powerful insights into where service improvements are needed and how to produce better experiences for staff, management and clients.
Kat Goldsworthy from the Evidence and Evaluation Support team at AIFS will sit down with strategic designer Monique Rappell to discuss customer journey mapping, a technique that evaluators and program managers can use to get a holistic understanding of their clients’ experience and enhance their service design.
This webinar will give a brief introduction to the approach and explore when and where to use it, the steps involved in the process and what you can do with the findings.
This webinar will give you:

an understanding of what customer journey mapping is and what it involves
an understanding of what insights and knowledge you can gain from customer journey mapping
insight into the role of customer journey mapping in understanding and enhancing complex service systems.

This webinar will interest program 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.
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TRI-PEAKS - Strengthening Workforce Capacity and Capability Emerging Strategies and Opportunities
2024-04-16 14:00 - 15:00
On behalf of the Tri-Peaks partnership we invite you to attend the Tri-Peaks webinar focusing on strengthening workforce capacity and capability. The webinar will feature a thought-provoking discussion on ways to mitigate national workforce shortages across the health, care and social services sectors.
Attendees will hear about top level strategies from HumanAbility and learnings from their ongoing stakeholder consultations. The Victorian Healthcare Association will outline their planned strategic approach to building sector capability including the development of a Leadership Capability Framework.
Our panellists will include:

Emma King, CEO from HumanAbility
Jennie Courtney, Executive Director Stakeholder Engagement, from HumanAbility
Helen Rizzoli, General Manager for Sector Capability at the Victorian Healthcare Association

HumanAbility is a not-for-profit, industry-led organisation, founded to drive the advancement of education and workforce development in aged and disability services, children’s education and care, health and human services, and sport and recreation industries. They are committed to engaging with industry leaders to identify skills and workforce needs, map career pathways, and develop tailored training solutions. .
Event details
When: Tuesday, 16 April 2024, 2-3pm
Where: Online (Zoom)
Format: An interactive and collaborative session with key speakers with opportunities to ask questions.

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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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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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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

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
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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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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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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.
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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.
Click to register

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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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!
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