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

Conference Programme

 

MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY
4.00pm Registration opens at Wellington Convention Centre
5.00pm Powhiri - Te Papa Marae
7.00pm Welcome drinks at Signs of the Nation area in Te Papa
 
TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY
9.00am Opening Address - Governor General
9.15am Creative Performance by Taumata Whitireia Dance Company
9.30am Joan Durrant - What Does it Take for Our Children to Blossom?
10.30am Morning Tea
11.00am Care to Independence Youth Council, Dingwall Trust, Youth Horizons, Launch and Ka Awatea - Blossoming of our Children
11.30am Shannon Pakura (Child, Youth and Family), Charles Waldegrave (The Family Centre) - Panel session drawing on themes from the first two keynotes
12.00pm Lunch
1.00pm Cultural Conceptualisation of Child Abuse and Responses to it.
Rose Pere - The Total Well Being of the Child
Gerardine Clifford - The Role of Cultural Concepts in Providing Effective Social Services
Sue Gordon - Cultural conceptualization of Child Abuse and Responses to it: an Aboriginal Perspective
2.30pm Concurrent Sessions
  1. Workshop - Prevention and Early Intervention
  2. Research and Practice Connection - Uptake of Evidence, Interagency Collaboration
  3. Children's Rights & Voices - Actions, Experiences
  4. Blossoming - Decision Making Processes
  5. Discipline and Guidance of Children - International Perspectives
  6. Child Abuse in the Context of Family Violence - Connections between Women's and Children's Experiences
  7. Resilience - Indigenous Communities
  8. Morning Side for Life - Young People Talking About Their Aspirations for Themselves and Their Children
4.00pm Afternoon Tea
4.30pm Anna Pinto - Seeds of Tyranny
5.30pm Welcome Drinks & Entertainment
 
WEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY
9.00am Address by Associate Minister for Social Development and Employment (CYF)
9.15am Dorothy Scott - Sowing the Seeds of Innovation in Child Protection
10.00am Megan Hessell, Lea Alderslade and Lisa Fitzgerald - Young People as Researchers: Finding out what we need to Know
10.30am Morning Tea
11.00am Concurrent Sessions
  1. Workshop - Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Aggression and Conduct Problems and those with Development Delay who have Sexually Abusive Behavior
  2. Research & Practice Connection - Interventions, Disability
  3. Children' Rights and Voices - Family
  4. Discipline and Guidance of Children - Research, Programmes, Public Health
  5. Child Abuse in the Context of Family Violence - Filicide, Supervised Contact
  6. Blossoming - Processes, Sustainability
  7. Resilience - Maori and Pacific Programmes
  8. What The...? Young People Speaking Out About Life
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Anne Smith and Joan Durrant - Physical Punishment: The State of Research and the State of Law
2.30pm Concurrent sessions
  1. Residential Sex Offender Programme and Evaluation
  2. Research & Practice Connection - Pacific Families
  3. Children's Rights and Voices - School
  4. Blossoming - Kinship Care, Differential Responses
  5. Discipline & Guidance of Children - Legislation, Rights
  6. Child Abuse in the Context of Family Violence - Neglect
  7. Resilience - Young Peoples Views, Parents, Spirituality
  8. Look at Moi, Look at Moi, Look at Moi - Young Peoples Views on Parents' and Responsibilities
4.00pm Afternoon Tea
4.30pm Jaap Doek (Chair)
Cindy Kiro and Gillian Calvert - Using Children's Rights to Advocate for Strategic Change for Children and Young People
5.30pm Second day closing
7.30pm Conference Dinner
 
THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY
9.00am Address by Minister for Social Development and Employment
9.15am Challenge 2000, New Zealand AIDS foundation and Manukau Youth Centre - What works?...Making a difference by and for Young People
10.30am Morning Tea
11.00am Concurrent sessions
  1. Workshop - Key Issues in Child Sexual Abuse National and International in both its 'Domestic' and 'Commercial' forms
  2. Research & Practice Connection - Workforce, Supervision
  3. Blossoming - Refugee Children
  4. Child Abuse in the Context of Family Violence - Health Sector Responses
  5. Discipline and Guidance of Children - Children's Voices, Attitudes of Adults
  6. Children's Rights and Voices - National and International
  7. Resilience - Attachment, Aboriginal Family Decision Making
  8. Obviously, Fear is Not a Factor for You - Young People Talking About Culture and Children's Rights
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Robbie Gilligan - Creating a Warm Place Where Children Can Blossom
2.15pm Concurrent sessions
  1. Research & Practice Connection - Sexual Abuse, Trauma
  2. Children's Rights and Voices - In Care
  3. Discipline & Guidance of Children - Children's Voices,Communities
  4. Blossoming - Out of Home Care
  5. Child Abuse in the Context of Family Violence - Sibling Sexual Abuse, Infant Head Injuries, the Link with Animal Abuse
  6. Resilience - Programmes, Social Workers in Small Communities
  7. Child Abuse in the Context of Family Violence - Investigation
  8. The Tribe Has Spoken - Youth Participation in Service Planning and Delivery
3.45pm Afternoon Tea
4.00pm Young People's Presentation: Opening the Box
4.20pm Address by Minister of Youth Affairs, Hon. Nanaia Mahuta
4.35pm Poroporoaki
4.45pm Conference Closes