TAS: Mapping the Journey to a Better Future 17 May 24

This Forum is an opportunity for Tasmanian social workers to network, share ideas, and seek creative and innovative solutions to the professional challenges facing our practice and our communities. Forum themes:

• major challenges for social work in Tasmania over the next decade;

• key constraints on our practice and how to limit their impact;

• the roles that social workers can play in building better futures for all.

Keynote Speaker:

David Adams is a Tasmanian social worker who is the Professor of Management at UTAS and was Tasmania’s inaugural Social Inclusion Commissioner. He has held senior executive positions in the public, private, and community sectors in Tasmania and interstate. His practice focus is on developing innovative community and place-based responses to reduce social inequity and injustice.

Panel:

David will also moderate a Panel including Dr Sonya Stanford - Pro-Vice Chancellor, UTAS; Thirza White - General Secretary, CPSU; and, Julianne Whyte – Director, AASW National Board to discuss:

• the future of social work as a cross-sectoral profession;
• educating and supporting social workers to be competent practitioners and strategic change leaders in a complex and fast changing environment; and,
• advocating for industrial democracy, work/life balance, and the creation of healthier and safer workplaces.

Presentations & Workshops:

The Workshop/Presentation program includes:

• Voluntary Assisted Dying – Nick Hobbs will describe the Navigation Service model within health care and how we respond to the needs of people who are dying;
• Private Practice – Ally Smith and David Magor-Hampel will explore what this growing area of practice means for social work’s practice framework and our professional values and ethics;
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health – Saria Phillips will provide an overview of Solutions Focused Family Therapy by engaging interfamilial strengths in treatment for young people;
• Social Action and Advocacy – Ann Hughes and Peta Fitzgibbon will use their involvement in the Friends of Palestine to apply a social action framework to reduce social injustice;
• Inverse Care Law – Megan Smith will explore how current health policy leads to opportunity cost and inequity rather than aligning the provision of healthcare costs to health needs;
• The Role of Social Workers in the Lives of People and their Pets - Jayla Sainty will present a national and international perspective on this emerging field of practice in relation to family violence, elder care, homelessness and environmental social work.

When: Friday 17 May 2024

When: 9.00am-4.30pm (AEST)

Venue: The Grange Estate, 4 Commonwealth Lane, Campbell Town, Tas

Registration closes 5.00 pm (AEST), Friday, 10 May 2024

Earlybird pricing applies until 31 March 2024.

Earlybird:

$20 Student Members

$40 Retired Members

$70 Members

$100 Non-Members

Standard Price:

$30 Student Members

$50 Retired Members

$100 Members

$130 Non-Members