Conference Program

The conference themes are:

• Building responsive and resilient organisational culture; understanding and responding to staff and community
• How to recruit and retain staff
• Developing and supporting staff to partner with families who are vulnerable
• Reflective practice/clinical supervision to support and develop staff and organisational culture
• Addressing the safety needs of staff involved in working with families with complex life issues
  

Building reflective and relationship based models of practice: Partnering with families for effective outcomes

• Engaging CALD & Indigenous families
• Delivering services from a mainstream platform
• Creative service models as frameworks to successfully engage families
• Developing culturally competent organisations
• Engaging fathers
• Focussing on fathering in service design and delivery
• Father inclusive best practice examples from the field
• Promoting maternal and infant mental health
• Focus on the developing mother-child relationship in the perinatal period
• Building resilience through strengthening parent/carer-child interactions in the early years
• Helping to keep the baby in mind; promoting reflective awareness to build sensitive and responsive parenting
• Video interactional guidance as a powerful tool in working with parents and their children
• Protecting the safety and wellbeing of young children
• Working with families in the child protection system to promote and sustain change
• Frameworks for parenting assessment and the capacity for change
• Partnerships in service development for children and families most at risk
• Innovative court practices to support better outcomes for children and families

Conference program details coming soon. For any queries in the meantime, please contact:
QEC Conference Managers
International Delegate Enquiries: +61 2 9265 0890
Delegate Enquires: 1300 799 691
Speaker Enquires: +61 3 9417 0888
Email: qec2008@meetingplanners.com.au