This professional development opportunity is designed for all practitioners who work at the intersection of domestic and family violence and child protection/child welfare. Participants will build leadership capacity and develop advanced understanding of domestic and family violence to respond to, and improve outcomes for, children and families who experience domestic and family violence in the context of child protection/child welfare.
When it's run
The professional development opportunity is online, and it can be commenced anytime. It will be available from 1st February 2024 until December 2024.
Mode of delivery
The professional development opportunity is delivered all online. There are no assessments however you will be invited to complete quizzes and critical reflection activities where you will be able to integrate your knowledge with practice.
How to enrol
The course has enabled open enrolment. You can self-enrol in the course by clicking the button below.
You will be prompted to enter your information.
Any questions, please contact SWIRLS@flinders.edu.au
Establishing and ensuring the safety of children is the driving purpose of child protection work. In practice, however, this focus can manifest in an overriding focus on maternal responsibility – what mothers do and don’t do to protect their children, their actions, inactions, attributes, risk factors, and so on. Therefore, the choices, actions and behaviours of the perpetrator can be left unexamined and unaddressed, leading, in turn, to an incomplete understanding of the family situation and the continuing risks they face.
By the end of this online professional development opportunity, you will be able to demonstrate:
By participating in this course, you will be challenged to enhance your knowledge, skills, and capacity to drive change in responding to domestic and family violence.
This is a professional development course and participants will be awarded a certificate demonstrating their participation and completion of the course.
During this course you will:
A collaborative project building skills and capacity
The traumatic impact of domestic and family violence on children have been well established in research, both nationally and internationally. A large proportion of the children receiving services from child protection and child welfare agencies have been exposed to domestic and family violence. It is important to build leadership and practitioner capacity to strengthen responses that are grounded in current evidence. Developed as part of a collaborative project between Flinders University’s Social Work Innovation Research Living Space (SWIRLS) and the South Australian Department for Child Protection, this professional development opportunity aims to, both, support the leadership of child protection and child welfare practitioners in this area, and build the skills and capacities of staff more generally, equipping them to respond appropriately to domestic and family violence in the lives of children and their families.
You will learn from experts in the field who have, between them, over 30 years’ experience in social work practice and management (including within the Department for Child Protection) and hold key leadership roles at Flinders University’s Social Work Innovation Research Living Space (SWIRLS) - Australia’s highly esteemed centre for social work research.
This is a custom-designed professional development opportunity to meet the needs of practitioners involved in working with children, young people and their families who experience domestic and family violence in the context of child protection.
If you would like further information about this learning opportunity please do not hesitate to contact SWIRLS@flinders.edu.au.
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