OPEN Symposium 2025 – Collaborative Practice: Working in Partnership with Children and Families
October 21 @ 9:30 am - October 22 @ 5:00 pm
The OPEN Symposium 2025, an initiative of the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare, will bring together practitioners, researchers, policy makers, funders, and people with lived experience to explore how the child and family services (CFS) sector is leading collaborative responses to complex needs.
This year’s theme Collaborative practice: Working in partnership with children and families celebrates the sector’s role as connector, coordinator, and catalyst for partnerships that put children and families first.
Across two days, you’ll hear about:
- Place-based initiatives that bring services and communities together
- Cross-sector, co-located, and cross-disciplinary teams
- Collaborative approaches to challenges like housing, family violence, youth justice, and school disengagement
- Innovative service design, governance, and practice
- Partnerships between sector, government, and philanthropy
- Stories of leadership, innovation, and lived experience
Why Attend?
- Learn from leaders in the child and family services sector
- Explore practical models and tools for collaboration
- Gain insights from research and lived experience
- Connect with peers locally, nationally, and internationally
- Be inspired by stories of change that are making a difference
Head over to 2025.OPENSymposium.com.au for more details!