Training, seminars, events

• Birth to Three Matters: Foundations for Research, Policy and Practice
  Start Date: 05 Jul 2008    End Date: 06 Jul 2008
  Australia's First Multidisciplinary Birth to Three National Conference

• 10th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference. Families Through Life
  Start Date: 09 Jul 2008    End Date: 11 Jul 2008
  The Conference will focus on five major themes: Family Relationships, Children, Youth and Patterns of Care, Families and Work, Families and Community Life and Violence and Protection Issues.

• The City2Surf - Think Kids Challenge
  Start Date: 11 Jul 2008    End Date: 11 Jul 2008
  The Children’s Hospital at Westmead is running a fund raiser in conjunction with the City2Surf fun run on 10 August 2008.

• Delving into the inside of complex trauma - professional development seminar
  Start Date: 16 Jul 2008    End Date: 16 Jul 2008
  "Delving into the inside of complex trauma - Developing an advanced knowledge of the brain and body responses of children and young people to experiences of violence". This advanced seminar will focus on integrating current understandings about the effects of trauma on memory, attention, affect regulation, perception and other brain functions into approaches that are effective in assisting children and young people in a variety of settings recover from the impact of abuse related trauma.

• Transforming problem sexual behaviour - professional development seminar
  Start Date: 31 Jul 2008    End Date: 01 Aug 2008
  "Transforming problem sexual behaviour - Implementing a practice based approach to assessment and intervention with children who engage in problem sexual behaviour". This two-day seminar examines a model of assessment and intervention to reduce the incidence of problem sexual behaviours in children.

• OzGREEN Youth LEAD
  Start Date: 01 Aug 2008    End Date: 03 Aug 2008
  An award winning 3-day residential workshop for young people 15-25 that combines leadership and personal development to enable environmental and social action.

• National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day (NAICD) 2008
  Start Date: 04 Aug 2008   
  

  'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families- Nurturing Our Children to Flourish'. The Secretariat of National Aboriginals and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) promotes NAICD each year on 4 August, to celebrate the importance and Value of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people within family and community.

• Helping conversations - professional development workshop
  Start Date: 12 Aug 2008    End Date: 13 Aug 2008
  "Helping conversations - Developing protective and therapeutic strategies with abused children and their parents". This two-day workshop draws together a range of theoretical and research traditions to examine how to best integrate approaches to trauma recovery which engage both children and their parents.

• Parenting workshops: CPR and First Aid, safety in the home
  Start Date: 13 Aug 2008    End Date: 20 Aug 2008
  Botany City Library Services present Parenting Workshops to teach parents the correct CPR (Infant Resuscitation), held on Wednesday 13 August 2008, First Aid and Safety within the Home, held on Wednesday 20 August 2008, 12:30 pm - 2:00pm.

• ACWA08. Association of Childrens Welfare Agencies Conference
  Start Date: 18 Aug 2008    End Date: 20 Aug 2008
  

  Strong safe and sustainable - responding to children, young people and families in a civil society.