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Online Training: Making Family Time Meaningful

September 27, 2024

Making family time meaningful

This training provides PSP casework staff and leaders with information, tools, and resources to support them in helping families and children get the most out of their family time. It will also resource practitioners to support carers in gaining skills and confidence in managing family time where it is safe for them to do so. The training explores:

• The differences between supervising, supporting, or monitoring family time
• Engaging children, families, and carers in decision-making around family time using the Sonya Parker Safe Contact Tool
• Tools, resources, and tricks of the trade to create opportunities for successful family time
• Linking the FAP-C to family time:  Family time is an opportunity for parents to demonstrate their parenting and new skills

Online Training: Working with Parents

September 27, 2024

Working with Parents

Get ready for an exciting session co-facilitated by a PSP LH facilitator and a parent with lived experience who will share her story and key learnings for practitioners! This session will delve into the pivotal role that parents, extended family, and significant people play in a child’s life, even when the child is in care. We will explore why engaging with these key individuals is often both challenging and critical. Discover the importance of enduring engagement, the processes of rupture and repair, and practical techniques for effective communication. Learn conversation styles that emphasis honesty and transparency, even when difficult, and the essential roles of kindness and empathy. This session also covers creative ways to keep parents and extended family safely connected with their children, fostering lifelong bonds and positive relationships.

Webinar: Talking with Children and Young People about Permanency

September 27, 2024

Please note we’ve updated our enrolment process. To complete your enrolment and receive the calendar invite, please fill out the Teams Webinar registration form that appears after you click Submit on this page. This step is required to receive your session link.

Talking with Children and Young People about Permanency:

This training provides PSP casework staff and leaders with skills, resources, and practice approaches to strengthen their confidence in talking with CYP about permanency. The training explores:

• Child development, language, the impact of trauma, and the role of play
• The importance of capturing and respecting a child’s voice and navigating the pursuit of a permanency goal that a CYP has concerns about
• The impact and management of torn loyalties
• Tools, resources, and toys: how to get the best out of your toolkit

Coaching: S149-BK and S163

September 27, 2024

This Coaching session aims to improve the lives and outcomes of children and families by creating a space for practitioners to come together and explore difficult practice issues within the Permanency Support Program.

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Participants will discuss how to apply s149-bk of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998, how to gather relevant evidence when assessing risk, and how to approach difficult conversations when information levels change.

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Participants will discuss how to make the information shared under section 163 of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 meaningful for the important people in a child’s life.

F2F Training: Family Finding

September 27, 2024

This F2F session is for all PSP casework staff and leaders. Family Finding is a core part of permanency casework and critical to supporting children and young people to have safe, lifelong connections with family, kin and community. This training builds knowledge and practical skills to embed family finding into everyday practice, from first contact through to long-term planning. The session explores the purpose and principles of family finding within PSP and links to permanency, using case information, networks and tools to map family, kin and significant people, engaging family and kin in culturally responsive and trauma aware ways, working through common challenges and dilemmas in family finding practice, and integrating family finding into assessment, case planning and review. Participants will have opportunities to work with case examples and reflect on how to apply learning in their own practice.

Online Training: Affidavit Writing in PSP

September 27, 2024

Training Overview

PSP Service Providers play a very important role in helping ensure that the Children’s Court has the best evidence to make the decisions about children and young people subject of care proceedings. The training, run by an Accredited Specialist in Children’s Law aims to:

• provide knowledge and skills to prepare affidavits in Children’s Court care proceedings
• explores the purpose and content of affidavits, and their role in care proceedings
• provides participants with the opportunity to draft an affidavit based on a case study and receive feedback.

Online Training: Permanency in PSP – Guardianship and Open Adoption

September 3, 2024

Are you considering guardianship or open adoption as a permanent pathway for a child or young person? Don’t miss our upcoming online training, where we will thoroughly explore the six steps in the guardianship and open adoption process. Co-facilitated by the PSP Learning Hub and DCJ, this session offers a valuable opportunity to get expert answers to your questions. Gain the essential insights and practical knowledge needed to navigate these processes with confidence.

The training will cover:

• Considering permanency and addressing barriers
• Detailed explanation of the six-step process
• Effective communication with children, families, and carers about Guardianship and Open Adoption
• Ensuring children remain connected to their family and culture

Webinar: Part 3 – Working with Aboriginal Families and Communities

August 14, 2024

“Working with Aboriginal Families and Communities provides information and strategies for PSP casework staff to better understand and support Aboriginal children, families, and communities. This webinar focuses on understanding diversity in Aboriginal culture, privilege and its impacts and how to support a strong sense of identity in Aboriginal children.

Though not mandatory, we recommend enrolling in Part 1 Aboriginal Cultures and Histories and Part 2 Aboriginal Child Protection History to enhance your understanding and effectiveness in supporting Aboriginal children and families.”

Webinar: Part 2 – Aboriginal Child Protection History

August 14, 2024

“Aboriginal Child Protection History provides information and strategies for PSP casework staff to better understand and support Aboriginal children, families, and communities. This webinar focuses on understanding Australia’s history of Aboriginal child protection, intergenerational trauma, and discusses the realities for Aboriginal children today.

Though not mandatory, we recommend enrolling in Part 1 Aboriginal Cultures and Histories and Part 3 Working with Aboriginal Families and Communities to enhance your understanding and effectiveness in supporting Aboriginal children and families.”

Webinar: PCMP Business Rules & Practice Guidance Training

July 12, 2024

Please note we’ve updated our enrolment process. To complete your enrolment and receive the calendar invite, please fill out the Teams Webinar registration form that appears after you click Submit on this page. This step is required to receive your session link.

Join us for an insightful session on the Permanency Case Management Policy (PCMP). This training will cover the essential rules and practice guidance, ensuring you understand the minimum expectations for collaborative work between the Department of Communities and Justice and Permanency Support Program providers. Learn how to effectively navigate case management responsibilities, statutory powers, and the intricacies of permanency case planning to achieve the best outcomes for children and families. Equip yourself with the knowledge to support stable, secure, and loving homes for children in care.