ENGAGING FOR CHANGE:
Working with Perpetrators of Family Harm and their Family
This one-day FREE symposium will focus on working with perpetrators of family harm, and their family, to effectively support safety and generate change. Participants will hear from ‘lived experience’ key note speaker Jeremy Eparaima, as well as some of the latest research into perpetrator engagement and change from Dr Michael Roguski.
Along with the chance to network over lunch, there will be elective sessions in the afternoon with a particular focus on practice. Electives will include: Working with Children who experience family harm, working with Youth ‘offenders’, and engaging whole of whanau when the choice is made to stay together.
Guest speakers include:
- Jeremy Eparaima - It’s not OK Champion
- Michael Roguski - Independent Researcher specialising in perpetrator engagament and change
- Catherine Gallagher - Child Psychologist: Family and Sexual Harm
- Dan Eastwood & Reon Nolan - Youth Engagement: Lived experience with youth gangs and harmful behaviour
- He Waka Tapu - Mana enhancing engagement with Whanau
- Speaker details may be subject to change
There will be workshop break out groups as part of the day. We ask that when you register that you please indicate your preferred workshop topic.
- Morning tea and light lunch provided
- Ample off-street parking available
This FREE training/hui is an exciting opportunity to come together as a sector and to share in this mahi. In addition to the Canterbury Family Violence Collaboration, additional participants will include: Children’s Team, Mana Ake (Wellbeing in Schools), Navigators, Police, Oranga Tamariki and ISR frontline staff. Registrations are limited so be sure to get in quick.
REGISTRATIONS CLOSE 9pm Friday 14th September 2018.
Please ensure you and your colleagues have registered through EventBrite by this date to allow us to cater for numbers and ensure you don't miss out on entry to this event.
Check in from 8.30am. Symposium begins 9am. See you there!
This symposium is brought to you free of charge through a training delivery partnership between Integrated Safety Response (ISR), Oranga Tamariki and the Canterbury Family Violence Collaboration. Keep an eye out for upcoming Specialist Training Sessions and Symposiums.
