Training for Practitioners

We know grooming and the sexual abuse of children is a very uncomfortable topic to discuss but it’s a critical one to have! Whatever your role and whatever your industry, if you work with or around children, this training is a MUST! Its no longer about teaching children about ‘stranger danger’; we know our role as parents, care-givers, educators and human service workers is to teach children about “tricky people”. The idea is that it isn’t how well a child knows a person, it’s what they say or do that makes them “tricky”. A tricky person might tell a kid to keep a secret, or ask for help, or do something else that makes them feel uncomfortable. This training will work through what to look for and how to help children do the same!

Developed and delivered by our partner agency, Mullah Mara, by respected Elder Aunty Tammy Solomon. Aunty Tammy and SCS each have a demonstrated history of facilitating high quality Family Group Meetings that result in tailored, individualised and proactive Case Plans for children in or on the edge of the care system. This training will guide participants in how to engage families appropriately, how to truly and deeply listen to their needs and perspectives, and how to work in genuine partnership to gain collective responsibility and outcome for children’s best interests.

Developed and delivered by our partner agency, Mullah Mara, by respected Elder Aunty Tammy Solomon. Building on SCS’s successful Assessment Writing Workshop as a foundational training, Aunty Tammy’s Culturally Safe Assessments training adds the cultural lens to learning how to engage with First Nations applicants and carers, how to assess risk and capacity safely and respectfully, and how to write these assessments in a culturally appropriate manner.

Understand the concepts of Cognitive - Conscious and Unconscious - Bias and how they apply to child protection settings. This training will assist to articulate the impact of bias and the risks associated with bias and decision making through case discussions and real life scenarios. Develop an awareness of bias and how it can be reduced when making assessments and decisions, and importantly, understand the importance of acknowledging and calling out bias and how to do this effectively.

In a corporate setting, child protection professionals typically engage in supervision with their direct line manager, often concentrating on task-orientated
activities and professional development within the organisation. Outside of Line Management Supervision, on the other hand, supports all professionals in reflecting on and exploring their own practice and ethos, including how their experiences, biases, and assumptions may influence their work.

Supervision isn’t just for social workers! Being able to sit in a safe space to talk through your practice, your support needs, any worries, challenges or even successes you’ve experienced, with someone who is not in your line management can be a really powerful and empowering experience! Learn how to do this, as a team, through our Early Educators Supervision training.

Our premier child protection early education package! Do you currently complete online mandatory training in a 'tick n flick' way? Is it the same training year after year? Prioritise the wellbeing of your team AND the children in your centres by completing live, engaging child protection training that gives your staff more than just the 'tick' of completing CP mandatory training - but actually empowers them to be trauma-informed in HOW they support and educate children in their care.

PEP (Practice Enhancement Training) is a process by which our team work with you/your program or organisation as a whole to identify skills gaps and co-design training that will meet that need. Sometimes 'off the shelf' products just do not meet the needs of organisations. Whether its about how to write case notes, how to understand the intersection between programs/legislation, trauma and how it affects your specific client/staff group, self care etc. So, work with the SCS team to build a suite of PEP sessions, bespoke and unique to you!

Understanding what cyber safety is, and how vulnerable children and young people are when they are already disadvantaged by having experienced childhood trauma or abuse, is critical. Whether you are a carer, practitioner or parent, this is the masterclass for you!

Self-care is about more than manicures and massages. Talk through what self-care actually looks like as carers, parents, guardians and practitioners.

Help to understand the role of family contact and how to navigate what can be a complex, emotive but essential part of children’s lives.

While we recognise high ACEs can have life-long negative impacts upon people’s physical, social and emotional wellbeing, equally its important we can identify, grow and build upon
children’s Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs). This masterclass is resource-filled and aimed to help parents, carers and practitioners to more deeply understand the power of PCEs.

Better understand sexuality and gender diversity and discover ways to support both identifying children and youth in out of home care as well as their carers. Learn how to confidently assess carers in their ability to support a child or young person’s identity,

Develop skills and confidence to use the ACES study as a tool to inform your fostering and kinship carer assessments.

Filled with resources, tools and stories, this session helps practitioners to better engage with young people, using their methods, their language, their way.

Help to understand the role of family contact and how to navigate what can be a complex, emotive but essential part of children’s lives.

Easy to use tools and resources to deepen your knowledge of the power and importance of identity for children in care.

Developed and delivered by our partner agency, Mullah Mara, by respected Elder Aunty Tammy Solomon. Aunty Tammy’s passion for high-quality, meaningful Cultural Plans is evident in her one-day hands-on training day. Aunty will walk participants through the ‘why’ and importantly the ‘how’, so everyone leaves with their own, fully-developed Cultural Plan template for future use; a Cultural Plan that is more than a dot-point, more than a paragraph, more than a ‘section’ of a document – a stand-alone, powerful, child friendly Cultural Plan that can guide practice and decision making for all involved.

Developed and delivered by our partner agency, Mullah Mara, by respected Elder Aunty Tammy Solomon. Aunty Tammy will guide this one-day training to ensure assessors, practitioners, carers and/or applicants understand the true meaning of the Standards of Care with a cultural lens. It is recognised that the Standards of Care are a critical element of the child protection system in Qld. Aunty Tammy’s vibrant, informative and engaging approach to helping teach the Standards of Care from an Aboriginal perspective will ensure learning is genuine, embedded and applicable across all roles of those in attendance.

Developed and delivered by our partner agency, Mullah Mara, by respected Elder Aunty Tammy Solomon.

Another one of the SCS 'Practitioner built, Practitioner Led' training. This 'Risk' training (which can be delivered in different formats - 1 day, 2 days or 4 half day sessions, online or in person) will help you and your team understand child protection and child safeguarding risk within your organisation. It will help your staff to understand the benefits of strengths-based practice, articulate what risk is within the context of your role and client base, and recognise the assessment of risk as an ongoing & critical element of practice. Skilled facilitators will guide participants to understand the role and limitations of risk mitigation, develop an awareness of the tools that can be used to assess risk and know the barriers which can impact upon accurate risk assessment. By far one of our most popular training packages!

Support your leaders, managers and teams to understand themselves and each other through the DiSC profiling tool. DiSC empowers staff to understand how they work and how to adapt to optimise collaboration, identifying strengths and struggles before they arise!

Early Educators are critical service providers, caring for children and young people with a varying range of behaviours, needs and challenges. Elevate yourself or your team members by investing in leadership training for them. Our Leadership half-day workshop for EEs covers how to manage conflict and change in the workplace, how to celebrate diversity and encourage belonging in the workplace, and how to have difficult conversations - with staff, colleagues and parents.

This training helps your teams to examine issues of race, oppression, bias and privilege in a safe, supported way. You will focus on ways to ensure your practice and your programs empower both clients and team members.

Our premier training package. Learn from the best in the business how to cultivate high quality assessments - this is about so much more than 'filling in a template'. The workshop will focus on the skills, tools and resources to use to interview, information gather and write up exceptional assessments, whether you're completing foster and kinship care assessments, or parenting, guardianship or permanency assessments.

How to connect and build attachments with children who are wired not to.

Understanding how our child and adulthood experiences, our parenting models and exposure influence our values, our choices and our approach to caring.

Develop a deeper understanding of how adverse childhood experiences impact and influence us in our every day lives and our parenting.

Hone your skills in positive behavioural management to help guide children to change less than desirable behaviours.

Improve your skills in identifying what information is relevant to be recorded in case notes and their effective use in supporting the families and young people with whom you work.

Learn the art of professional and respectful confrontation and challenging, with a range of resources and tools provided.

Improve your skills in how to complete Carer Reviews/Renewals, with a range of tools and resources.

Develop the skills and knowledge to assess markers for grooming behaviours in applicants, carers or those in a carer’s network with access to vulnerable children and young people in care.

Understand trauma and the impact natural disasters can have on vulnerable children, foster carers and the families they support. Four modules
1. Understanding Trauma and Stress
2. The Care Team
3. Caring in Action
4. How it Affects Me?