This short animation provides a summary of findings from a research study conducted by the Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University, which explored the safety of young people […]
Archives for May 2017
End the Violence: Call a Royal Commission into violence and abuse against people with disability
Invitation to endorse a Civil Society Statement to the Australian Government, calling for an immediate Royal Commission into violence, abuse and neglect of people with disability. The Civil Society Statement has […]
Family Matters Week of Action, 14-20 May
Family Matters Week highlights that despite numerous legal and policy frameworks protecting the cultural rights of Indigenous children, the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care […]
How resilience can break the link between a ‘bad’ childhood and the youth justice system
Learning Resilience: most young people in the youth justice system have been found to come from “troubled” backgrounds. However, many people with similar backgrounds don’t ever end up in youth […]
UNSW: Australian Social Policy Conference
The Australian Social Policy Conference (ASPC) is the pre-eminent multidisciplinary conference concerned with issues of social policy in Australia and beyond. It attracts over 300 participants from academia, government and […]
Celebrating Naidoc Week 2-9th July
Naidoc Week Poster: Our Languages Matter: languages are the breath of life for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. For tens of thousands of years they have played a unique […]
National NDIS Mental Health Conference
The NDIS Mental Health Conference is an opportunity for the Mental Health sector to work together to make the most of this new scheme. With the conference theme ‘towards a […]
First Peoples Living our Way
Living My Way Conference: A Conference for Aboriginal People Living with disability – learn how you can engage with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Share your story and hear […]