Training/Events

The Safeguarding Children Training focuses on building knowledge about child abuse and neglect and it explains practical steps that staff and volunteers can take to create conditions that make children and young people safer in an organizational context.

Safeguarding Children Training topics:

1.      Defining child abuse and neglect
2.      Child sexual abuse
3.      Creating safer environments
4.      Recruitment and screening
5.      Dealing with reports and allegations of abuse

The training is interactive and seeks to engage the learner through discussion and participation in a range of learning activities e.g. case studies, role plays, myth/fact exercises. Materials will be provided to all course participants.

Learning outcomes:

• Raises awareness of all forms of child abuse within an organisation.
• Encourages a “whole of organization” approach to protecting children and young people.
• Builds knowledge on how sex offenders operate and target children and young people within organizations.
• Articulates key strategies for building a child-safe organization.
• Provides clear guidance with respect to responding to child abuse.

ACCYO TRAINERS Katherine Sylvan – Chief Executive Officer (BA, BSW, MSW)
Linda Franco – Policy Development Manager (BA Grad Dip Couns. Psych., MA (Couns. Psych.)  

Lunch and refreshments included. 

This seminar series is kindly sponsored by the Sidney Myer Fund.

• The seminar is facilitated by Sandra Walden Pearson.
   
• New and relevant guest speakers are invited every month. The guest speaker for August is to be advised shortly.
   
• The Safeguarding Children seminar series is designed to provide a forum for an exchange of ideas in relation to child protection within organisation. Participants are invited to join us in hearing a diverse range of experts and join a dynamic network of organisation who provide services to children in New South Wales.
   
• Topics are determined on the basis of their relevance to safeguarding children in the organisational context; and on key interests emerging from the Seminars.
  

The Safeguarding Children Training focuses on building knowledge about child abuse and neglect and it explains practical steps that staff and volunteers can take to create conditions that make children and young people safer in an organizational context.

Safeguarding Children Training topics:

1.      Defining child abuse and neglect
2.      Child sexual abuse
3.      Creating safer environments
4.      Recruitment and screening
5.      Dealing with reports and allegations of abuse

The training is interactive and seeks to engage the learner through discussion and participation in a range of learning activities e.g. case studies, role plays, myth/fact exercises. Materials will be provided to all course participants.

Learning outcomes:

• Raises awareness of all forms of child abuse within an organisation.
• Encourages a “whole of organization” approach to protecting children and young people.
• Builds knowledge on how sex offenders operate and target children and young people within organizations.
• Articulates key strategies for building a child-safe organization.
• Provides clear guidance with respect to responding to child abuse.

ACCYO TRAINERS Katherine Sylvan – Chief Executive Officer (BA, BSW, MSW)
Linda Franco – Policy Development Manager (BA Grad Dip Couns. Psych., MA (Couns. Psych.)  

Lunch and refreshments included. 

This seminar series is kindly sponsored by the Sidney Myer Fund.

• The seminar is facilitated by Sandra Walden Pearson.
   
• New and relevant guest speakers are invited every month. The guest speaker for September is to be advised shortly.
   
• The Safeguarding Children seminar series is designed to provide a forum for an exchange of ideas in relation to child protection within organisation. Participants are invited to join us in hearing a diverse range of experts and join a dynamic network of organisation who provide services to children in New South Wales.
   
• Topics are determined on the basis of their relevance to safeguarding children in the organisational context; and on key interests emerging from the Seminars.
  

The Safeguarding Children Training focuses on building knowledge about child abuse and neglect and it explains practical steps that staff and volunteers can take to create conditions that make children and young people safer in an organizational context.

Safeguarding Children Training topics:

1.      Defining child abuse and neglect

2.      Child sexual abuse

3.      Creating safer environments

4.      Recruitment and screening

5.      Dealing with reports and allegations of abuse

 

The training is interactive and seeks to engage the learner through discussion and participation in a range of learning activities e.g. case studies, role plays, myth/fact exercises. Materials will be provided to all course participants.

Learning outcomes:

• Raises awareness of all forms of child abuse within an organisation.
• Encourages a “whole of organization” approach to protecting children and young people.
• Builds knowledge on how sex offenders operate and target children and young people within organizations.
• Articulates key strategies for building a child-safe organization.
• Provides clear guidance with respect to responding to child abuse.

ACCYO TRAINERS

Katherine Sylvan – Chief Executive Officer (BA, BSW, MSW)
Linda Franco – Policy Development Manager (BA Grad Dip Couns. Psych., MA (Couns. Psych.)  

Lunch and refreshments included. 

This seminar series is kindly sponsored by the Sidney Myer Fund.

• The seminar is facilitated by Sandra Walden Pearson.
   
• New and relevant guest speakers are invited every month. The guest speaker for October is to be advised shortly.
   
• The Safeguarding Children seminar series is designed to provide a forum for an exchange of ideas in relation to child protection within organisation. Participants are invited to join us in hearing a diverse range of experts and join a dynamic network of organisation who provide services to children in New South Wales.
   
• Topics are determined on the basis of their relevance to safeguarding children in the organisational context; and on key interests emerging from the Seminars.
  

The Safeguarding Children Training focuses on building knowledge about child abuse and neglect and it explains practical steps that staff and volunteers can take to create conditions that make children and young people safer in an organizational context.

Safeguarding Children Training topics:

1. Defining child abuse and neglect
2. Child sexual abuse
3. Creating safer environments
4. Recruitment and screening
5. Dealing with reports and allegations of abuse

The training is interactive and seeks to engage the learner through discussion and participation in a range of learning activities e.g. case studies, role plays, myth/fact exercises. Materials will be provided to all course participants.

Learning outcomes:

• Raises awareness of all forms of child abuse within an organisation.
• Encourages a “whole of organization” approach to protecting children and young people.
• Builds knowledge on how sex offenders operate and target children and young people within organizations.
• Articulates key strategies for building a child-safe organization.
• Provides clear guidance with respect to responding to child abuse.

ACCYO TRAINERS 

Katherine Sylvan – Chief Executive Officer (BA, BSW, MSW)
Linda Franco – Policy Development Manager (BA Grad Dip Couns. Psych., MA (Couns. Psych.) 

Lunch and refreshments included.

This seminar series is kindly sponsored by the Sidney Myer Fund.

• The seminar is facilitated by Sandra Walden Pearson.
   
• New and relevant guest speakers are invited every month. The guest speaker for November is to be advised shortly.
   
• The Safeguarding Children seminar series is designed to provide a forum for an exchange of ideas in relation to child protection within organisation. Participants are invited to join us in hearing a diverse range of experts and join a dynamic network of organisation who provide services to children in New South Wales.
   
• Topics are determined on the basis of their relevance to safeguarding children in the organisational context; and on key interests emerging from the Seminars.