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Presentations

2010

• Families with multiple and complex problems: Issues for the safety and wellbeing of children (PDF 881 KB), by Alister Lamont & Leah Bromfield, presentation made at the Australian College for Child and Family Protection Practitioners (ACCFPP) National Conference 2010, Canberra, 15-17 October.
• What works with adolescents? Family connections and involvement in interventions (PDF 862 KB), by Elly Robinson. Paper presented at the Finding Solutions Conference, Melbourne, 13 September 2010
• Parental intellectual disability and child protection: Key issues (PDF 972 KB), by Alister Lamont & Leah Bromfield, presentation made at the Association of Children's Welfare Agencies Conference 2010, Sydney 2-4 August, 2010.
• What is the prevalence of child abuse and neglect in Australia? A review of the evidence (PDF 2.2 MB), by Rhys Price-Robertson, Leah Bromfield and Suzanne Vassallo 11th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Melbourne, July 2010.
• Domestic violence and assessing risk to children (PDF 956 KB), by Leah Bromfield. Presentation at the Mothers children and change: Strengthening service support and safety forum, Sydney, June 2010.
• Cumulative harm: the effects of chronic child maltreatment (PDF  280KB), by Leah Bromfield. Presentation to the Tasmanian Magistrates Conference, Hobart, February 2010.

2009

• Watch this space: policy developments in inter-jurisdictional responses to family violence and child abuse (PDF  1.56MB), by Rae Kaspiew, Daryl Higgins and Leah Bromfield. Presentation to the Family Court of Australia Registrars, Melbourne, November 2009.
• Cumulative harm workshop: The effects of chronic child maltreatment (PDF  1.2MB) | (Word  96KB) , by Leah Bromfield. Presentation made at the WA Department for Child Protection, Perth, November 2009.
• Comparing impacts of positive parent-child relationships and maltreatment on psychosocial outcomes: Findings from a representative sample of Victorian young people (PDF  2.98MB), by Rhys Price-Robertson, Diana Smart, Leah Bromfield and Suzanne Vassallo. Presentation made at the APCCAN conference, Perth, 16-18 November 2009.
• Towards a national research agenda; Achievements thus far and where to from here (PDF  380KB), by Leah Bromfield. Presentation made at the research forum, Towards a national research agenda: Protecting Australia's children, Sydney, 27 October 2009. The forum was the first stage in the development of a national research agenda under the Council of Australian Government's (2009) National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children.
• Recognising cumulative harm in Australian child protection policy and practice: Progress to date (PDF 816 KB), by Leah Bromfield. Paper presented Australasian Human Development Association Conference, Adelaide, 7 July 2009 and at Families SA, Adelaide, 8 July 2009.
• Specialist Practice Guides: Getting research into practice in family services, child protection and out-of-home care (PDF 1.2 MB), by Leah Bromfield. Paper presented at the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare, Resilient Families Need Resilient Workers Symposium, Melbourne, 24 June 2009.
• Cumulative harm: Recognising the effects of chronic child maltreatment (PDF 1.08 MB), by Leah Bromfield. Workshop presentation for the Queensland Child Safety Services Senior Practitioner Forum, 23 June 2009. Workshop outline (PDF 163 KB).
• Managing the risk of sexual assault and other forms of child maltreatment in organisations (PDF 374 KB), by Daryl Higgins. Presentation to LegalWise Seminar, Sydney, 2 June 2009.
• Parental intellectual disability and child protection: Key issues (PDF 262 KB), by Alister Lamont. Presentation to the Australian College of Child and Family Protection Practitioners 2009 National Conference, Brisbane, 22 - 24 May 2009.
• Child Protection in Australia: Challenges, Reforms and the National Child Protection Framework (PPT 1.2 MB) | (PDF 1.4 MB), by Leah Bromfield. Australian Foster Care Conference, 29 March 2009.
• Ethical responses for vulnerable children and families (PPT 275 KB) | (PDF 1.5 MB), by Leah Bromfield. Workshop presentation for the Department for Families and Communities, Adelaide, 19 March 2009.
• Keeping the child in focus (PPT 393 KB) | (PDF 3.89 MB), by Leah Bromfield and Briony Horsfall. Seminar for Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services, Disability, Child, Youth and Family Services staff, Hobart, 6 March 2009.

2008

• Preventing and responding to child abuse and family violence: Listening to young people's views on family, community and culture (PPT 5.2 MB) | (PDF 7.7 MB), by Daryl Higgins. Presentation to the Central Coast Connexions Conference - Children, Young People: Voices, Rights and Advocacy, Wyong, NSW, 25 November 2008.
• Interagency collaboration in child protection: workshop (PPT 1.3 MB) | (PDF 2.6 MB), by Daryl Higgins. Workshop at the Central Coast Connexions Conference - Children, Young People: Voices, Rights and Advocacy, Wyong, NSW, 25 November 2008.
• Stability in long-term out-of-home care arrangements (PPT 821 KB) | (PDF 850 KB), by Claire Berlyn and Leah Bromfield. Presentation to the National Foster Care Conference, Sydney, NSW, 1 November 2008.
• Research use in child protection. What does the evidence tell us and to what extent are we drawing upon it? (PDF 2.6 MB) by Prue Holzer. Presentation to Department of Human Services, Ballarat, Vic, 12 September 2008.
• Ethical responses for vulnerable children and families (PPT 286 KB) | (PDF 994 KB), by Leah M Bromfield. A presentation made to the third national conference for the Australian College for Child and Family Protection Practitioners, Adelaide, 23-25 May, 2008.
• "Getting research into practice": lessons learned from the National Child Protection Clearinghouse (PPT 2.4 MB) | (PDF 1.1 MB), by Prue Holzer. A presentation made to the third national conference for the Australian College for Child and Family Protection Practitioners, Adelaide, 23-25 May, 2008.
• Cumulative harm: the effects of of chronic child maltreatment (PPT 217 KB) | (PDF 716 KB), by Leah M Bromfield. A presentation made to the Tasmanian Department of Children nd Family Services, Launceston, 9 May 2008.
• Systemic issues in Australian Child Protection Services (PPT 318 KB) | (PDF 1.1 MB), by Leah M Bromfield. A presentation made to the Tasmanian Department of Children nd Family Services, Launceston, 9 May 2008.
• Cumulative harm: the effects of of chronic child maltreatment (PPT 217 KB) | (PDF 716 KB), by Leah M Bromfield. A presentation made to the Tasmanian Department of Children nd Family Services, Hobart, 8 May 2008.
• Systemic issues in Australian Child Protection Services (PPT 318 KB) | (PDF 1.1 MB), by Leah M Bromfield. A presentation made to the Tasmanian Department of Children nd Family Services, Hobart, 8 May 2008.
• Cumulative harm: the effects of of chronic child maltreatment (PPT 217 KB) | (PDF 716 KB), by Leah M Bromfield. A presentation made to the Queensland Department of Child Safety Research Forum, Brisbane, 28 April 2008.
• Cooperation and coordination: An evaluation of the Family Court of Australia's Magellan case-management model (PDF 2.5 MB), by Daryl Higgins. Presentation made at the Australian Institute of Family Studies Seminar series, 17 April 2008.
• Responding to allegations of child abuse in Family Court proceedings: the Magellan Project (PDF 2.89 MB), by Daryl Higgins. A presentation made at the Shared Parental Responsibility in Australian Family Law and the Impact on Children Seminar, held by the The Centre for Peace, Conflict and Mediation at the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies, 13-15 April 2008.
• Strategies for delivering evidence informed practice: Solutions not problems (PPT 1.4 MB) | (PDF 530 KB), Fiona Arney and Leah Bromfield. A presentation made to the workshop on Evidence-informed practice, Dartington Research in Practice, Dartington, UK, 17-19 March 2008.
• Trends in child protection services: a national snapshot (PPT 233 KB) | (PDF 635 KB), by Leah M Bromfield. A presentation made at the forum for the NSW Special Inquiry into Child Protection hosted by ACWA, Sydney, 23 January 2008

2007

• Promising practices in out-of-home care for Indigenous children (PPT 604 KB) | (PDF 409 KB), by Daryl Higgins. An invited address to Queensland Department of Child Safety's Research Forum, Townsville, 12 September 2007.
• International approaches to child protection: How is Australia positioned? (PPT 741 KB) | (PDF 623 KB), a collaboration between the Australian Institute of Family Studies, National Child Protection Clearinghouse and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Children, Youth and Families Unit, Canberra, 6 September 2007.
• Cumulative harm: specialist practice guide (PPT 1.1 MB) | (PDF 1.7 MB), by Leah Bromfield and Robyn Miller. Launch of the Guide at the Victorian Government Department of Human Services Celebrating good practice forum, Melbourne. 4 September 2007.
• Recruiting, assessing, training and supporting carers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children (PPT 296 KB) | (PDF 268 KB), by Jenny Higgins. Presentation given at the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare's Foster Care Recruitment Best Practice Engagement Project Forum, 25 July 2007.
• Parental substance use and child protection: developing national guidelines and strategies national forum, chaired by Leah Bromfield and co-hosted by Odyssey House Victoria and the Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, 25 June 2007.
• Child protection in Australia: current challenges and future directions (PPT 454 KB) | (PDF 258 KB), by Leah Bromfield. Paper presented at the Australian College of Child and Family Protection Practitioners conference, Melbourne, 20-21 May 2007.
• Research findings from Promising Practices in Out-of-Home Care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Carers and Children project: Carers of Indigenous children (PDF 227 KB) | (PDF 241 KB), by Jenny Higgins. Presentation for kinship care consultation with Aboriginal groups, Placement Support Unit, Office for Children, Department of Human Services, Melbourne, 18 May 2007.
  
• Child protection in Australia: current challenges and future directions (PPT 454 KB) | (PDF 257 KB), by Leah Bromfield. Paper presented for the Department of Families Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Children's Issues Branch, Canberra, 3 May 2007.
• Family violence and sexual assault in Indigenous communities, by Daryl Higgins. Invited address to the 18th World Congress of WAS / 1st World Congress of Sexual Health. Sydney, 19 April 2007
• Information dissemination: lessons learned from the National Child Protection Clearinghouse (PPT 211 KB) | (PDF 159 KB), by Leah Bromfield and Susan Fooks. Discussion paper presented to the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare, Melbourne, 4 April 2007.
• National Child Protection Clearinghouse research, by Leah Bromfield. One-day workshop co-hosted by the Queensland Department of Child Safety and PeakCare Queensland, Brisbane, 28 March 2007.
  The National Child Protection Clearinghouse
  Child abuse prevention programs
  Carers of Indigenous children
  Child protection in Australia
• Child protection Australian: key challenges and future directions, by Leah Bromfield. Keynote presentation to the West Australian Ministerial Community Roundtable on Child Protection, Perth, 12-13 March 2007.
  Child protection in Australia
• An overview of research regarding refugee child and family welfare, by Prue Holzer. Presentation to the Refugee Minor Program Reference Group, Melbourne, 6 February 2007.

2006

• Child abuse prevention: what works? by Leah Bromfield and Prue Holzer. Presentation to the Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia, seminar series, Adelaide, SA, 12 December 2006.
  Preventing child abuse
• Research design in Australia: what did we learn from the national audits? by Leah Bromfield. Paper presented as part of a panel on reunification research design at the Australian Reunification Research National Workshop, co-hosted by Families SA and the Australian Centre for Child Protection, Adelaide, 29-30 November 2006.
  Ten years of out-of-home care research
• Finding and using research in child protection practice, by Daryl Higgins. Workshop co-facilitated with Leanne Black, Senior Practitioner, Rockhampton North CSSC, Department of Child Safety and presented at Child Safety Research Conference: Child protection - integrating research policy and practice. Brisbane, 14-15 November 2006.
• Ten years of out-of-home care research: evaluating the Australian evidence-base, by Leah Bromfield. Paper presented at the Australian Foster Care Conference, Adelaide, 30 September - 1 October 2006.
  Ten years of out-of-home care research
• Promising practice in Indigenous foster care: a collaborative project between AIFS and SNAICC, by Leah Bromfield and S Williams. Paper presented at the Australian Foster Care Conference, Adelaide, 30 September - 1 October 2006.
  Carers of Indigenous children
• Child abuse prevention, child protection and out-of-home care: a snapshot of recent research by the National Child Protection Clearinghouse, by Leah Bromfield. Paper presented at Families SA, Adelaide, 29 September 2006
  The National Child Protection Clearinghouse
  A national approach to child protection
  Child abuse prevention programs
  Ten years of out-of-home care research
  Carers of Indigenous children
• Child protection in Australia, by Leah Bromfield and Prue Holzer. Presentation to the Australian Council for Children and Youth Organisations, Accreditation Network Meeting, Melbourne, Vic, 12 September 2006.
• Preventing child abuse and neglect: everyone's responsibility, by Leah Bromfield. Paper presented to the Wendouree Rotary Club, Ballarat, Vic, 11 September 2006.
  Preventing child abuse and neglect
• Preventing child abuse and neglect: everyone's responsibility, by Leah Bromfield. Paper presented to the Lara Lion's Club, Lara, Vic, 11 September 2006.
  Preventing child abuse and neglect
• Child protection and out-of-home care: an update from the National Child Protection Clearinghouse , by Leah Bromfield. Presentation to the Community Skills Training Centre, Department for Community Development, Perth, 30 August 2006.
  The National Child Protection Clearinghouse
  A national approach to child protection
  Child abuse prevention programs
  Ten years of Australian out-of-home care research
  Carers of Indigenous children
• National comparison of entry-level training for statutory child protection workers, by Leah Bromfield. Paper presented at the Australasian Statutory Child Protection Learning Group Meeting, Perth, 28-29 August 2006.
  National comparison of child protection training
• The 2006-2008 research plan and the current work of the Institute, by Daryl Higgins. Address to the Queensland Department of Child Safety Strategic Policy and Research Branch, Brisbane, 21 August 2006.
• The National Child Protection Clearinghouse and the role of the Institute in translating and disseminating research, by Daryl Higgins. Address to the Queensland Department of Child Safety Strategic Policy and Research Branch, Brisbane, 21 August 2006.
• Carers of Indigenous children: findings from a national study, by Leah Bromfield and Jenny Higgins. Presentation to the Association of Children's Welfare Agencies Conference, Sydney, NSW, 14-16 August 2006.
  Carers of Indigenous children
• A national approach to child protection: how close are we? by Leah Bromfield and Daryl Higgins. Presentation to the National Child Protection forum, hosted by the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Melbourne, 27-28 June 2006.
  A national approach to child protection
• National comparison of entry-level training for statutory child protection workers, Leah Bromfield and Robert Ryan. Paper presented at the First national conference for the Australian College for Child and Family Protection Practitioners, Sydney, 21-23 May 2006.
  National comparison of child protection training
• Ten years of out-of-home care research: evaluating the Australian evidence-base, by Leah Bromfield and Daryl Higgins. Paper presented at the Out of Home Care research forum, Brisbane, 19 May 2006.
  Ten years of out-of-home care research
• Australian Indigenous communities and out-of-home care: models of best practice, by Daryl Higgins, Nick Richardson and Leah Bromfield. Presentation to the 10th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Wellington, NZ, 14-16 February 2006.
• Facilitating child abuse prevention research and models of best practice: the role of a National Clearinghouse for child protection research, PowerPoint in PDF 1.1MB | MS Word by Daryl Higgins, Nick Richardson and Leah Bromfield. Poster presentation to the 10th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Wellington, NZ, 14-16 February 2006.
• Kinship care: a culturally appropriate practice framework for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders, by Leah Bromfield, Nick Richardson and Daryl Higgins. Presentation to the 10th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Wellington, NZ, 14-16 February 2006.
• What's all the fuss about child abuse? Schools and child protection, by Daryl Higgins. Keynote address at the Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia Child Protection Conference, Freemantle, WA, 24-25 January.
• Child maltreatment: myths and realities; signs and interventions, by Daryl Higgins and Leah Bromfield. Workshop presentation at the Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia Child Protection Conference, 24-25 January, Freemantle, WA, 24-25 January.
  Preventing child abuse
  Signs of maltreatment
• Child protection: a national overview, by Daryl Higgins. Invited address, followed by a roundtable forum on current issues and possibilities for a national framework, convened by the Centre for Vulnerable Children (University of Western Australia) and WA Families and the Ministerial Advisory Council for Child Protection, Perth, 23 January 2006.

2005

• Child maltreatment prevention programs: a review of the evidence, by Leah Bromfield, paper presented at the NSW Health, Sax Institute Research Exchange, Sydney, 3 November.
  Child abuse prevention programs
• Child maltreatment and policing in the 21st century, by Daryl Higgins and Leah Bromfield, workshop presentation to the Australian Police Summit, Melbourne, 5-6 October.
  Preventing child abuse
  Child safety and the internet
  
• Facilitating child abuse prevention research and models of best practice: the role of a national clearinghouse for child protection research, by Daryl Higgins, Nick Richardson, and Leah Bromfield, presentation to the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children 13th Annual Colloquium, New Orleans, USA, 15-18 June.
• Making the 'right' choices about child protection programs and services, by Nick Richardson, Daryl Higgins and Leah Bromfield, paper presented at the 10th National Conference of the Association for the Welfare of Child Health, Sydney, 28-29 April RTF
• Connections between antisocial behaviour and involvement in victimisation incidents by Nick Richardson, paper presented at the 9th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Melbourne, 9-11 February.
• Differentiating between child maltreatment experiences, by Daryl Higgins, paper presented at the 9th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Melbourne, 9-11 February.
• The course and characteristics of chronic and isolated child maltreatment, by Leah Bromfield and Daryl Higgins, paper presented at the 9th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Melbourne, 9-11 February.
• Understanding what child protection data mean: A national comparison, by Daryl Higgins and Leah Bromfied. Paper presented to Australian Institute of Criminology Conference 'Safety, Crime and Justice: From Data to Policy', RTF

2003

• Child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities, by Janet Stanley, presentation to the Conference, Child Sexual Abuse: Justice Response or Alternative Resolution, 1-2 May 2003, Adelaide. | Word
• Factors affecting families' access to child abuse prevention programs: an exploratory study, , by Janet Stanley and Katie Kovacs, presentation to the 8th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, 12-14 February, Melbourne.
• Hearing only half of the story by leaving out half of the violence, by Janet Stanley and Chris Goddard, paper presented at the Ninth Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, 24-27 November, Sydney.| Word

2002

• Are we meeting family needs in Australia, by Adam M Tomison, keynote address presented to the Family Services Australia Annual Conference, Connecting Families and Communities, 8-11 October, Darwin.
• Evidence-based practice in child protection: what do we know and how do we better inform practice, by Adam M Tomison, keynote presentation at What works? Evidence-based Practice in Child and Family Services, Association of Children's Welfare Agencies Biennial Conference, 2-4 September, Bondi Beach, NSW.

2001

• Child maltreatment and the Internet, by Janet Stanley and Adam M Tomison. Paper presented at the 8th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, One Child's Reality - Everyone's Responsibility, Melbourne Convention Centre, 19-22 November.
• Community professionals and reporting to child protection services, by Janet Stanley, Chris Goddard, Bernadette Saunders and Joe Tucci. Paper presented at the 8th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, One Child's Reality - Everyone's Responsibility, Melbourne Convention Centre, 19-22 November.
• Getting the lowdown on child abuse and neglect: a community seminar, by Adam M Tomison. Presented at the Collie Family Care Centre, Collie and at the Bunbury Yacht Club, Bunbury, Western Australia, 11-12 September, PowerPoint| Abstract
• Preventing child abuse and other family violence: issues for professionals, by Adam M Tomison. Presented at the Collie Family Care Centre, Collie, and the Bunbury Yacht Club, Bunbury, Western Australia, 11-12 September. PowerPoint PDF 115K | Abstract
• The future direction of Australian research on the prevention of child maltreatment, by Janet Stanley and Adam M Tomison. Paper presented at the 8th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, One Child's Reality - Everyone's Responsibility, Melbourne Convention Centre, 19-22 November.

2000

• Child protection: getting the most out of research, by A. M. Tomison. Invited presentation to the Queensland Child Protection Symposium on Evidence-Based Practice, hosted by the Department of Family, Youth and Community Care and the University of Queensland, Brisbane, 28 November, PDF
• Preventing child abuse in Australia: some preliminary findings from a national audit of prevention programs PDF, by L. Poole and A. Tomison. Paper presented at the 7th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference - Family Futures: Issues in Research and Policy, Sydney, July, Melbourne, Vic: Australian Institute of Family Studies, 12p.

1999

• Blending qualitative and quantitative approaches: case tracking studies in child protection systems, by Adam M Tomison. Paper presented with Chris Goddard at the Association for Qualitative Research 'Issues of Rigour in Qualitative Research' International Conference, 6-10 July, Melbourne.
• Creating the vision: communities and connectedness, by Adam M Tomison. Invited address to the OzChild 'Child Expo', 22 April, Melbourne.
• Ensuring the protection of children: the role of child protection services in the identification, assessment and treatment of maltreated children, by Adam M Tomison. Invited keynote address, to the NSW Department of Community Services, Entry Parameters for Child Protection Conference, March 20-21, Sydney.
• Evaluating child abuse prevention programs: a Clearinghouse workshop, by Adam M Tomison. Pre-conference workshop presented at the 7th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, October, Perth.
• Interagency collaboration and communication in child protection cases: some findings from an Australian case tracking study, by Adam M Tomison. Paper presented at the 5th ISPCAN Asian Conference on Child Protection, 26-28 November, Hong Kong.
• Prevention is better than cure: exploring strategies for the prevention of child abuse and neglect, by Adam M Tomison. Invited keynote address presented at the 1999 Xi'an International Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect (First ISPCAN Chinese Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect), 29 November - 2 December, Xi'an, China.