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Online Training: Working with Parents

July 5, 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: Cultural Planning in PSP CALD Families

July 5, 2024

Cultural Planning in PSP CALD families

This training provides PSP casework staff and leaders with the essence of cultural planning for children, young people and their families from diverse backgrounds. Delve into the nuanced perceptions of culture, understanding its impact on family dynamics and community interconnection. Learn effective strategies for developing inclusive cultural plans that resonate with diverse identities and values. Engage with children, young people and their families as well as carers through an interactive sessions designed to foster understanding and collaboration. The session ensures that children’s unique cultural needs are not only recognised but celebrated.

Coaching: Impact and Importance of Play

July 5, 2024

The impact and importance of play

Discover how play is a fundamental tool in building relationships, facilitating healing, and supporting development and connection for children in out-of-home care. Learn how play, as the primary way children communicate, can be the most critical yet often overlooked casework skill. Explore the transformative impact of play on brain development, emotional well-being and healing. This session will equip you with practical strategies to harness the power of play to create meaningful connections.

Online Training: Purposeful Home Visiting

July 5, 2024

Purposeful Home Visiting

This session will explore the vital role of home visits in ensuring children thrive even when they can’t live at home with their parents. Learn how to meet the OOHC standards meaningfully and creatively and discover how planning, heartfelt interactions, and innovative tools can turn each visit into a powerful opportunity for growth and connection. Learn to craft visits that are not just organised but deeply impactful, tailored to each family’s unique needs. From building trust through active listening to igniting joy with creative activities, this session equips you to make a profound difference in every child’s life.

Coaching: S149-BK and S163

May 21, 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.

Communities of Practice: Making Section 163 Information Meaningful

April 19, 2024

Communities of Practice 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.

In this Communities of Practice, 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.

Communities of Practice: What is Section 149b-k?

April 19, 2024

Communities of Practice 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.

In this Communities of Practice, participants will discuss how to apply s149b-k 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.

Communities of Practice: Engaging Fathers

January 15, 2024

Communities of Practice 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.

In this Communities of Practice, participants will discuss the role of fathers in children’s lives, the barriers that prevent fathers from participating in programs and services and how we can support fathers to engage.

Coaching: Leaving Care

December 15, 2023

Leaving Care

In this interactive session, we explore the casework practice in the leaving care space.  A great session that covers the basics and provides more advanced content all in one.  The session includes;

• Why leaving care planning and support is so important
• Insights from experienced practitioners
• The importance of relationships
• Tips, tricks and resources
• Financials, victims of crime, driving, pets and much more

Communities of Practice: Working with Men

December 7, 2023

Communities of Practice 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.

In this Communities of Practice (CoP), participants will explore how fathers can positively influence their children’s upbringing and become the nurturing caregivers and role models they always intended to be. The focus will be on practical strategies for engaging men in meaningful change, helping them foster healthy, supportive relationships with their children. Additionally, the CoP will address the critical issue of working with fathers who use violence, offering practice approaches that practitioners can learn from. Key elements include:

– Supporting fathers in becoming the positive influence they aspire to be
– Identifying and managing family violence
– Ensuring safety for both professionals and families
– Using effective communication to facilitate meaningful interactions.