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We’re thrilled to unveil the inaugural Children and Young People at Risk Summit 2024. Following the theme of Engaging the Disengaged, the agenda will explore proactive, preventative, and productive approaches.
The Summit will deliver dynamic, practical, and solution-driven discussions on effective programs, supports, invaluable insights, and key learnings.
Bringing together a national audience of key stakeholders and decision-makers from government departments and agencies to not-for-profits and NGOs, legal professionals, police, health professionals, schools, and many others.
Topics to be addressed include:
- Using My Voice to Change the System
- Ensuring Young People are Safe and Supported
- Improving Out of Home Care
- The Effects of Trauma on the Brain
- Family Violence & Sexual Assault: Addressing and Identifying Risk
- Helping Young People Stay in School
- Intervention Orders
- Youth Justice, Youth Crime and Early Intervention
- Promoting the Rights, Interests and Wellbeing of Australia’s First Nations Children
- Protecting Children & Youth: Trends, Cases and Legal Changes
- Practitioners Who are Trauma-Informed
- The Best Way to Write Family Reports / Clinic Reports
- Childhood Trauma
- Homeless Youth
- Mental Health of Children and Young People
- Collaboration and Information Sharing: Doing it Safely and Keeping Children Safe
Call for Papers – Deadline Friday 16th August!
We encourage you to register your interest to speak, and/or nominate topic ideas that you would like to see featured.
For speaker submissions, please include the following information:
Name, job title, organisation
Presentation title
3-5 dot points explaining your main discussion points (40 words max.)
Would you like to join a panel discussion? Please list your topic suggestions
Would you like to facilitate a workshop? Please suggest workshop topics
To submit and for any queries, please contact:
Katrina Bowns
Senior Conference Producer
e: katrina.bowns@staging.informa.com.au
t: 02 9080 4322
Speakers
Emma Gierschick OAM
Woman of the Year 2019, Nominee Victorian Woman of Honour 2019 & 2020
Chris Lacey
General Manager – Programs, Les Twentyman Foundation
John Cardamone
Speaker, Educator, Survivor
Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Monash Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
Darren Mort
Barrister, Victorian Bar
Shona Reid
The Guardian, Office of the Guardian for Children and Young People SA
Natalie Lewis
Commissioner, Queensland Family & Child Commission
Dr Cher McGillivray
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychologist, Bond University, Director, Seed of Hope Psychology
Tracey Taylor
Director, Education Policy, Independent Schools Australia
Steve Kinmond OAM
Children’s Guardian, Office of the Children’s Guardian NSW
Liana Buchanan
Principal Commissioner for Children and Young People, Advocate for Children & Young People
Sarah Waters
Clinical Lead, SECASA
Ann Morison
Trainer, ChildSafe Australia, Family Violence Advocate
Neil Milton
General Manager, ChildSafe Australia, Founder, The Table Talk Project
The Hon. Justine Elliot MP
Assistant Minister for Social Services and Assistant Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence
Clementine Brega
Manager, Complaints and Complex Cases, MACS
Superintendent Michelle Stenner APM
Operations Commander, Prepare, Prevent, Protect Group, Security and Counter Terrorism Command, Queensland Police
ConnectMe + Streamly
ConnectMe • Networking enhanced
All of our events utilise a bespoke dynamic smartphone app, ConnectMe – which guarantees attendees a premium event experience. Logins are sent prior to the conference commencement allowing you to check who’s attending, schedule in meetings and catch ups, participate in live Q+A and interactive polls, and much more. ConnectMe ensures you never miss a beat prior, during and post event.
Streamly • On-Demand video vault
Streamly is a new video platform from Informa Connect – hosting hours of session recordings from our events and more. Select the Streamly add-on at the checkout to receive year round access to exclusive On-Demand session recordings from all of our related healthcare events*. Login information will be sent post event.
* Note: In a minority of cases, speakers may request their sessions to be excluded from Streamly access.
Sustainability
Our Commitment to Sustainability
In Australia, we are committed to running our events in an environmentally and socially responsible way. Across Informa Connect we are focusing on the short and long-term sustainability impacts we have on customers and colleagues alongside the communities we work in.
We recognise that it’s not just about the way we produce our events and products but recognising that we have a role to play in providing a space to work in partnership together with our markets to inspire the sustainable development of the industries we serve.
To read more on our latest sustainability reports and Faster Forward initiatives – click here.
Event Code of Conduct
We want everyone who comes to our events to have a great experience. This code explains our expectations and rules, which includes general good practice behaviour, and how to report anything witnessed or experienced that goes against them. Read our Event Code of Conduct here.
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General Information & Registration
Customer Service
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Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities
Danielle Newman
+61 (2) 9080 4318
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Speaking Enquiries
Katrina Bowns
+61 (2) 9080 4322
katrina.bowns@staging.informa.com.au
Marketing & Media Enquiries
Ishani Dutta
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