Wellington City Libraries Palm Tree Blossoming of Our Children - Kia Puawai Ngā Tamariki - 10th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect

Papers, Presentations & Abstracts

Please Note: not all speakers have made text and presentations available for download.

Keynote Speakers

Abstract Speaker
Seeds of Tyranny: Child Abuse and Neglect: Strategic Social engineering, Collateral Damage Anna Pinto, Secretary and Programme Director of CORE (Centre for Organisation, Research and Education)
Physical Punishment: The State of Research and the State of Law Anne Smith, Director of the Children's Issues Centre (CIC), an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
  Gerardine Clifford, Chief Executive Taeaomanino Trust, a social service and mental health provider working predominantly with Pacific people, families and children in the Wellington region.
Using Children's Rights to Advocate for Strategic Change for Children and Young People Jaap Doek, Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Cindy Kiro, Children's Commissioner
Gillian Calvert, NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People
Sowing the Seeds of Innovation in Child Protection Dorothy Scott, Foundation Chair of Child Protection and the Director of Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia
What Does it Take for Our Children to Blossom? Joan Durrant, Child-Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor of Family Social Sciences at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.
Creating a warm place where children can blossom Robbie Gilligan, Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin
  Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere, Consultant and director of the Four Winds Foundation - an international body that works with indigenous and non-indigenous people
Cultural conceptualization of Child Abuse and Responses to it: an Aboriginal Perspective Sue Gordon

 

Keynote Presentations

Abstract Speaker
Blossoming of our Children Care to Independence Youth Council, Dingwall Trust, Youth Horizons, Launch and Ka Awatea
Young People as Researchers: Finding out what we need to Know Megan Hessell, Lea Alderslade and Lisa Fitzgerald
What works?...Making a difference by and for Young People Challenge 2000, New Zealand AIDS foundation and Manukau Youth Centre
Opening The Box Young People's Presentation

 

Concurrent and Poster Sessions