Stride

NAIDOC Week is an opportunity to celebrate the important contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and culture. This year's theme ‘Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud,' invites all Australians to appreciate the incredible beauty and importance of the culture of Australia’s First Peoples. How will you celebrate #NAIDOCWeek? #NAIDOC2024 #NAIDOCWeek #BlakLoudProud #ThisIsNAIDOC Life Without Barriers

Over the next two weeks, we have Elliott G. Smith, a Research Associate from the Residential Child Care Project, Cornell University at Cornell University, visiting CARE agencies in Australia to explore data-informed decision making. We started with a great session with this group from Life Without Barriers, who are dedicated to bringing data to life and measuring what matters. We explored the CARE model Theory of Change and discussed how data can help us measure impact. Looking forward to more productive sessions! #DataAnalysis #ImpactMeasurement #CAREModel Courtney Patterson Anthony Raitman Greg Antcliff Ben Hafner Melinda Clarke Anne Jardine Ben Hudson

New research into Peer Parent and Family Advocacy in Child Protection. Stride has long advocated for a family inclusive child protection and out-of-home care system. We're excited to be an industry partner in new family inclusion research, funded by the Australian Research Council and led by the University of Queensland. The study will map the implementation and effectiveness of peer parent and family advocacy in child protection, and seek to build its capability. Peer parent and family advocacy occurs when parents and families with previous lived experience of child protection systems support parents and families who are currently involved with those systems. Other industry partners include Micah Projects, NSW Absec, Community Living Association, the Family Inclusion Network of Western Australia, Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak (QATSICPP). Other university partners are the University of Western Australia and the University of Newcastle. We could not be more proud of our involvement in this important project. Watch this space for updates as it kicks off later in 2024. Shannon Mackie, Jessica Cocks, Emma Bennison MBA GAICD Nelson Contador AbSec, Queensland Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak Ltd Life Without Barriers University of Newcastle The University of Queensland Micah Projects Community Living Association Inc. #parentadvocacy #childrensrights #childprotection #familyinclusion 

Some of the Stride team are looking forward to joining colleagues this week at the #acwa2024 Conference. We are co-presenting on various topics and would love to have you join us! On Wednesday ✨ Melinda Clarke is presenting on ‘The Sexual Safety Series - respectful relationships and abuse prevention for young people' at 12pm. ✨ Melinda is also presenting with Warren Cann and Rob Ryan of the Parenting Research Centre on the value of Practice Governance Frameworks at 11am. ✨ Suellen Lembke is co-presenting with Denise Heung - 'MST CAN is successfully supporting families to stay together in Regional NSW: The implementation and delivery story' at 12pm. ✨ Jessica Cocks is chairing a panel at ACWA discussing the emerging role of parents with lived experience in policy advice and systems change On Thursday ✨ Belinda Mayfield is discussing 'Are we asking the right questions: enhancing approach to the assessment of foster carers to reduce risk of child sexual abuse' on Thursday at 1pm. On Friday ✨ Chris Skinner is sharing about Connecting Carers, Children and Families in a Unique Community – MOCKINGBIRD FAMILY™ at 11.40am ✨ Jessica Cocks is joined by Wendy Foote to present 'Family inclusion in out of home care: barriers and enablers. Reporting on the views of caseworkers, family practitioners, solicitors, parents, foster parents and adoptive parents' at 12pm.   We are looking forward to 3 days of learning, collaborating and sharing ideas. #acwa2024

Missed our recent webinar on the "MOCKINGBIRD FAMILY™ - A community approach to family-based care"? Don't worry, you can still catch it! Our webinar features carers, support staff, agency leads, and researchers sharing how this community approach is making a difference in family-based care, and the powerful impact it is having with children, carers, and families. Click on the link below to view the webinar and learn more about #MOCKINGBIRDFAMILY, #FamilyBasedCare, #CommunityApproach. Enjoy watching, and please share your thoughts with us! #stride #lwb Chris Skinner https://lnkd.in/gTryeNki

We love to see it! We're so proud of FISH for this ACWA award nomination. FISH shows the impact that community-based advocacy can have - working to support children and families impacted by the child protection system, and advocating for systems reform through partnership and collaboration. FISH is supported by our own Jessica Cocks, who, with enormous heart and energy, tirelessly supports and enables parents with lived experience to do this important work. Let's go FISH! https://lnkd.in/gUSdtR8M #ACWA2024 Mary Mckinnon Rob Ryan Noble Tabe Brad Swan

***You are invited*** Hear presentations from leading researchers on how to advance organisational child-safe practices using contextual safeguarding strategies. Until now, prevention strategies have mainly focused on individuals, such as high-risk adults, and on risk factors associated with children. We need to extend the focus to include social contexts and settings in which abuse occurs. Contextual prevention aims to make these diverse contexts safer for children. Some contexts provide conditions that are conducive to child sexual abuse and pose greater risk than others. When those contextual conditions are altered, children’s safety can be strengthened. This symposium will be of interest to professionals working in child welfare, child protection, residential care, family services. If you are unable to attend, you can still register and receive a link to a recording of the symposium. Register here:  https://lnkd.in/g4Dt_c8Y Tag presenters and organisations Douglas Russell Daryl Higgins Susan Rayment-McHugh Nadine McKillop Life Without Barriers 54 reasons #childsafety #childwellbeing #prevention

One week to go until our webinar! Have you registered yet? Details in the post below.

We are delighted to continue to support the team at Safe Places for Children as they progress their implemention of the CARE model. #CAREmodel #safeplacesforchildren

The Stride Series 'Making Good Trouble' has scheduled it's second webinar in the series, focusing on improving outcomes for children and young people in a structured, yet organic way.   Mockingbird Family, an evidence-informed model that is shaking up the way we support carers that increases placement stability and carer retention. Come and hear from those directly involved in the model and its implementation from The Mockingbird Society Life Without Barriers Anglicare Victoria OzChild and Flinders University, who have conducted recent research on the carer and child experience.   Register your interest https://lnkd.in/gz38Rziw Life Without Barriers