For more information and to register, visit the Safeguarding Children's Training Calendar.

Register for the 2-part online workshop series.

In this Safeguarding Children's training, participants will learn:

• How to apply wise child protection practice in one's work; acknowledging there is no “best” way of doing things for all groups. Participants will need to reconcile new learning with existing and trusted cultural practices.
• The ‘grey areas’ in child protection concerns and reporting thresholds.
• Participants own personal barriers and what professional dangerousness could look link in their work; how this affects decision-making, and how to manage this.
• How to safely handle disclosures of harm.
• How to have conversations with family and whānau when there are child protection concerns.
• How to use Information Sharing legislation and engage in collaborative working.
• How to make an effective Report of Concern.

For all queries, please contact Safeguarding Children directly.

For more information and to register, visit the Safeguarding Children's Training Calendar.

Register for the 2-part online workshop series.

In this Safeguarding Children's training, participants will learn:

• How to apply wise child protection practice in one's work; acknowledging there is no “best” way of doing things for all groups. Participants will need to reconcile new learning with existing and trusted cultural practices.
• The ‘grey areas’ in child protection concerns and reporting thresholds.
• Participants own personal barriers and what professional dangerousness could look link in their work; how this affects decision-making, and how to manage this.
• How to safely handle disclosures of harm.
• How to have conversations with family and whānau when there are child protection concerns.
• How to use Information Sharing legislation and engage in collaborative working.
• How to make an effective Report of Concern.

For all queries, please contact Safeguarding Children directly.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

From the event page:

"Coercive control is a complex behavioural phenomenon where severity, frequency, and patterns need to be examined for an individual collectively. However, approaches to measuring coercive control to date have demonstrated limited understanding of these patterns of behaviours by a partner or ex-partner that reflect an individual woman’s experience. Through standard instrument development, with academic and lived experience feedback and psychometric testing, we developed the Coercive-Composite Abuse Scale (C-CAS).  The C-CAS, a self-report measure of coercive control experiences among women has demonstrated initial reliability and validity and is suitable for use in population or clinical studies."

Please direct all queries to the organiser: maeve-admin@unimelb.edu.au.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

From the event page:

"Coercive control is a complex behavioural phenomenon where severity, frequency, and patterns need to be examined for an individual collectively. However, approaches to measuring coercive control to date have demonstrated limited understanding of these patterns of behaviours by a partner or ex-partner that reflect an individual woman’s experience. Through standard instrument development, with academic and lived experience feedback and psychometric testing, we developed the Coercive-Composite Abuse Scale (C-CAS).  The C-CAS, a self-report measure of coercive control experiences among women has demonstrated initial reliability and validity and is suitable for use in population or clinical studies."

Please direct all queries to the organiser: maeve-admin@unimelb.edu.au.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

This interactive, online training module will assist professionals to effectively identify, understand and resist invitations to collude with men who use family violence.

Participants who attend this training will be able to:

• Explain the causes, mechanisms, and purpose of family violence
• Explore perpetrator accountability
• Identify core beliefs held by men who use violence
• Identify 'smoke screens' used to conceal violence
• Use invitational approaches to build rapport and enhance reflection
• Understand the nature of collusion and how to resist invitations to collude
• Examine shame and values
• Motivate change and referral readiness
• Understand safety planning and referral pathways

Anchor Collective offer all of their specialist Family Violence training packages to organisations on a fee-for-service basis, both online and in-person, across Australia and Aotearoa.

For questions related to this training or their fee-for-service training options, please contact the organisers directly: resisting.collusion@gmail.com.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

This interactive, online training module will assist professionals to effectively identify, understand and resist invitations to collude with men who use family violence.

Participants who attend this training will be able to:

• Explain the causes, mechanisms, and purpose of family violence
• Explore perpetrator accountability
• Identify core beliefs held by men who use violence
• Identify 'smoke screens' used to conceal violence
• Use invitational approaches to build rapport and enhance reflection
• Understand the nature of collusion and how to resist invitations to collude
• Examine shame and values
• Motivate change and referral readiness
• Understand safety planning and referral pathways

Anchor Collective offer all of their specialist Family Violence training packages to organisations on a fee-for-service basis, both online and in-person, across Australia and Aotearoa.

For questions related to this training or their fee-for-service training options, please contact the organisers directly: resisting.collusion@gmail.com.

For more information and to register, visit the ECPAT Training page.

Embark on a learning journey to understand and combat in-person sexual exploitation with ECPAT's specialised course designed for front-line workers. Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to safeguard taiohi and create a positive impact in the community.

The self-taught online pre-learning module will be accessible for 90 days after you register, and covers five chapters that explain:

• key definitions and concepts
• risk and vulnerability
• disclosures, barriers, and how to respond
• long-term impacts on victim-survivors
• what your role can look like when supporting taiohi

Following up from this, Engagement Facilitator will do a deeper dive into the topic over a 1-hour Teams webinar at the end of the month.

Direct all queries to the organiser: info@ecpat.org.nz.

For more information and to register, visit the ECPAT Training page.

Embark on a learning journey to understand and combat in-person sexual exploitation with ECPAT's specialised course designed for front-line workers. Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to safeguard taiohi and create a positive impact in the community.

The self-taught online pre-learning module will be accessible for 90 days after you register, and covers five chapters that explain:

• key definitions and concepts
• risk and vulnerability
• disclosures, barriers, and how to respond
• long-term impacts on victim-survivors
• what your role can look like when supporting taiohi

Following up from this, Engagement Facilitator will do a deeper dive into the topic over a 1-hour Teams webinar at the end of the month.

Direct all queries to the organiser: info@ecpat.org.nz.

For more information and to register, visit the ECPAT Training page.

This course is designed to equip front-line workers in Aotearoa with the essential knowledge and skills to tackle the online sex exploitation of young people. By delving into global research, local context and best practice, this course offers a comprehensive understanding and practical strategies to safeguard vulnerable taiohi.

The self-taught online pre-training learning module will be accessible for 90 days after you register, and covers five chapters that explain:

• key definitions and concepts
• barriers to disclosure
• impacts on victim-survivors
• the changing landscape of sexual exploitation
• systems, safeguards and practical steps to building a safer online world.

Following up from this, ECPAT Child Alert Engagement Facilitator will do a deeper dive into the topic over a 1-hour Teams webinar at the end of the month.

Direct all queries to the organiser: info@ecpat.org.nz.

For more information and to register, visit the ECPAT Training page.

This course is designed to equip front-line workers in Aotearoa with the essential knowledge and skills to tackle the online sex exploitation of young people. By delving into global research, local context and best practice, this course offers a comprehensive understanding and practical strategies to safeguard vulnerable taiohi.

The self-taught online pre-training learning module will be accessible for 90 days after you register, and covers five chapters that explain:

• key definitions and concepts
• barriers to disclosure
• impacts on victim-survivors
• the changing landscape of sexual exploitation
• systems, safeguards and practical steps to building a safer online world.

Following up from this, ECPAT Child Alert Engagement Facilitator will do a deeper dive into the topic over a 1-hour Teams webinar at the end of the month.

Direct all queries to the organiser: info@ecpat.org.nz.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This three-hour virtual interactive training will prepare participants to recognise indicators of family violence and aid them with skills to provide a safe, simple and sensitive response to a disclosure from an adult experiencing family violence.

This training is intended for prevention practitioners working across a range of settings, including, but not limited to delivering programs across educational settings, youth and community programs, local councils and sporting clubs.

Please direct all questions to the organiser: admin@safeandequal.org.au.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This three-hour virtual interactive training will prepare participants to recognise indicators of family violence and aid them with skills to provide a safe, simple and sensitive response to a disclosure from an adult experiencing family violence.

This training is intended for prevention practitioners working across a range of settings, including, but not limited to delivering programs across educational settings, youth and community programs, local councils and sporting clubs.

Please direct all questions to the organiser: admin@safeandequal.org.au.

For more information and to register, visit the event sign-up page.

This webinar will explore how practitioners can better support the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ young people with a disability.

This webinar will provide:

• an introduction to intersectionality theory and how this framework can be applied in practice to help understand the experiences of LGBTQ+ young people with disability
• a better understanding of the factors that influence a young person’s exploration of their identity as an LGBTQ+ person with disability and the impact this can have on their mental health and wellbeing
• practical tips on how you can better support LGBTQ+ young people with disability.

A recording of the webinar will be made available on the AIFS website: https://aifs.gov.au/webinars

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

For more information and to register, visit the event sign-up page.

This webinar will explore how practitioners can better support the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ young people with a disability.

This webinar will provide:

• an introduction to intersectionality theory and how this framework can be applied in practice to help understand the experiences of LGBTQ+ young people with disability
• a better understanding of the factors that influence a young person’s exploration of their identity as an LGBTQ+ person with disability and the impact this can have on their mental health and wellbeing
• practical tips on how you can better support LGBTQ+ young people with disability.

A recording of the webinar will be made available on the AIFS website: https://aifs.gov.au/webinars

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

This session explores the risks linked to generative AI. Understanding these risks, how to minimise them, and how to respond when something goes wrong is essential for everyone, especially those working with children and young people.

This webinar for educators and youth-serving professionals will cover:

• Current and emerging risks including AI companion chatbots, sexual and non-sexual deepfakes, AI influencers, and AI-facilitated cyberbullying and harassment
• How these technologies affect young people’s safety, privacy, development, and mental and social health
• Practical strategies and resources to help children and young people navigate these risks, and guidance on how and where to seek help.

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

This session explores the risks linked to generative AI. Understanding these risks, how to minimise them, and how to respond when something goes wrong is essential for everyone, especially those working with children and young people.

This webinar for educators and youth-serving professionals will cover:

• Current and emerging risks including AI companion chatbots, sexual and non-sexual deepfakes, AI influencers, and AI-facilitated cyberbullying and harassment
• How these technologies affect young people’s safety, privacy, development, and mental and social health
• Practical strategies and resources to help children and young people navigate these risks, and guidance on how and where to seek help.

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

To register for the special session for schools and special education providers, see Empowering Educators.

This training is for any professional working with young people in any capacity, including group and 1-1 work.  This training focuses on topics relating specifically to sexual wellbeing, such as contraception, STIs, and pregnancy options.  It is suitable for a wide range of professionals, including youth workers, sports coaches, social workers, public health nurses, teachers, and educators.

This full-day training focuses on increasing the knowledge, skills, and confidence of professionals to support the young people they work with to navigate their sexual wellbeing.  

This training includes:

• Key information for young people on sexual wellbeing topics
• Guidance to navigate personal values when supporting young people with their sexual wellbeing
• Practical tools to integrate into daily practice and conversations
• Support and signposting information

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

To register for the special session for schools and special education providers, see Empowering Educators.

This training is for any professional working with young people in any capacity, including group and 1-1 work.  This training focuses on topics relating specifically to sexual wellbeing, such as contraception, STIs, and pregnancy options.  It is suitable for a wide range of professionals, including youth workers, sports coaches, social workers, public health nurses, teachers, and educators.

This full-day training focuses on increasing the knowledge, skills, and confidence of professionals to support the young people they work with to navigate their sexual wellbeing.  

This training includes:

• Key information for young people on sexual wellbeing topics
• Guidance to navigate personal values when supporting young people with their sexual wellbeing
• Practical tools to integrate into daily practice and conversations
• Support and signposting information

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

Join Te Whāriki Manawāhine o Hauraki and Wāhine Toa as they share their findings on how wāhine Māori connected to gang whānau are made homeless through the cumulative impacts of state violence, institutional exclusion, intergenerational trauma, and the ongoing criminalisation of Indigenous survival.

For all queries, contact the organiser: admin@cewh.org.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

Join Te Whāriki Manawāhine o Hauraki and Wāhine Toa as they share their findings on how wāhine Māori connected to gang whānau are made homeless through the cumulative impacts of state violence, institutional exclusion, intergenerational trauma, and the ongoing criminalisation of Indigenous survival.

For all queries, contact the organiser: admin@cewh.org.

For more information and to access the event link, see the event listing.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Trauma Research (CITR) is hosting their 4th Colloquium in 2026. " The Sense of Safety Framework: a trauma informed and healing oriented approach for whole person care” will be presented by CITR Guest speaker Dr Johanna Lynch.

Across the disciplines, there is a growing awareness of the impact of trauma on health. This is enabling a paradigm shift in medicine - towards understanding the far-reaching impacts of life stories, relationships, place, and meaning-making on biology. This welcome shift is changing our understanding of disease formation and our understanding of ways people cope with distress. First wave trauma-informed care shifted attention from what is wrong with you to what happened to you. This attention to the past at times caused pain - as retelling stories without safety can cause harm - to both the clinician and those they care for. This session introduces part of a new strength-based and healing-oriented approach to trauma, developed by an Australian general practitioner psychotherapist. The Sense of Safety Theoretical Framework asks a new question: 'what can build your sense of safety?’ This approach defines whole person domains, sense of safety dynamics, and practitioner skills and attitudes that enable practitioners to attend to shifts in sense of safety in the consultation, across the healing journey, and in their own wellbeing. This internationally acclaimed approach is grounded in robust research, has been endorsed by First Nations academics, and been applied across the disciplines. Attendees are invited to consider the implications for their own practice or research and to dream of a healthcare system that recognises and responds to the imprint of trauma on people’s lives by building their sense of safety in the world.

Associate Professor Johanna Lynch MBBS PhD FRACGP FASPM Grad Cert(Grief and Loss) is Whole Person Care Lead and Deputy GP Lead at New Med Education, working in partnership with Federation University. She is a mentor and retired general practitioner of 25 years. She consults nationally and internationally across the health and domestic violence sectors on strength-based, trauma-informed and whole person approaches to health.

For all queries, contact the organisers: citr@aut.ac.nz.

For more information and to access the event link, see the event listing.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Trauma Research (CITR) is hosting their 4th Colloquium in 2026. " The Sense of Safety Framework: a trauma informed and healing oriented approach for whole person care” will be presented by CITR Guest speaker Dr Johanna Lynch.

Across the disciplines, there is a growing awareness of the impact of trauma on health. This is enabling a paradigm shift in medicine - towards understanding the far-reaching impacts of life stories, relationships, place, and meaning-making on biology. This welcome shift is changing our understanding of disease formation and our understanding of ways people cope with distress. First wave trauma-informed care shifted attention from what is wrong with you to what happened to you. This attention to the past at times caused pain - as retelling stories without safety can cause harm - to both the clinician and those they care for. This session introduces part of a new strength-based and healing-oriented approach to trauma, developed by an Australian general practitioner psychotherapist. The Sense of Safety Theoretical Framework asks a new question: 'what can build your sense of safety?’ This approach defines whole person domains, sense of safety dynamics, and practitioner skills and attitudes that enable practitioners to attend to shifts in sense of safety in the consultation, across the healing journey, and in their own wellbeing. This internationally acclaimed approach is grounded in robust research, has been endorsed by First Nations academics, and been applied across the disciplines. Attendees are invited to consider the implications for their own practice or research and to dream of a healthcare system that recognises and responds to the imprint of trauma on people’s lives by building their sense of safety in the world.

Associate Professor Johanna Lynch MBBS PhD FRACGP FASPM Grad Cert(Grief and Loss) is Whole Person Care Lead and Deputy GP Lead at New Med Education, working in partnership with Federation University. She is a mentor and retired general practitioner of 25 years. She consults nationally and internationally across the health and domestic violence sectors on strength-based, trauma-informed and whole person approaches to health.

For all queries, contact the organisers: citr@aut.ac.nz.

For more information and to register, see the conference page.

This conference is focused on anti-racism in education. It is designed to give educators, school boards, policy makers and community leaders an opportunity to learn from anti-racist scholars and each other.

The key themes of this conference are:

• Supporting the profession with an understanding of anti-racism and building confidence
• Honouring Te Tiriti and anti-racist praxis
• Responding to student voice
• Impacts of racialised trauma and responses on wellbeing
• Tackling whiteness in decision making
• Multiple perspectives (including Indigenous, Oceanic, Global Majority)
• An introduction to Takarangi, a framework created through WERO (working to end racial oppression) project
• Practical skills to effectively address racism in schools
• Co-development of a framework for implementing school-wide anti-racism policies

For all enquiries, please contact the organiser.

For more information and to register, see the conference page.

This conference is focused on anti-racism in education. It is designed to give educators, school boards, policy makers and community leaders an opportunity to learn from anti-racist scholars and each other.

The key themes of this conference are:

• Supporting the profession with an understanding of anti-racism and building confidence
• Honouring Te Tiriti and anti-racist praxis
• Responding to student voice
• Impacts of racialised trauma and responses on wellbeing
• Tackling whiteness in decision making
• Multiple perspectives (including Indigenous, Oceanic, Global Majority)
• An introduction to Takarangi, a framework created through WERO (working to end racial oppression) project
• Practical skills to effectively address racism in schools
• Co-development of a framework for implementing school-wide anti-racism policies

For all enquiries, please contact the organiser.