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:

Morning Workshop Session:

Capability and Competence in Social Work

Julianne Whyte - Chair of the AASW’s Constitution Review Committee; member of the National AASW Ethics Committee; member of the AASW Standards and Assessment Committee

Beginning Private Practice as a Social Worker

David Magor-Hampel - Private Practitioner

Social action and advocacy, are they tools for the current journey?

Ann Hughes and Peta Fitzgibbon - Retired social workers with long and adventurous pasts

The Impacts of the Inverse Care Law in the Australian Health System

Megan Smith - UTAS; Principal Policy Officer; Public Health Researcher and Lecturer in Health Economics

Afternoon Workshop Session

Navigating the health system when the primary aim is to hasten death

Nick Hobbs - Tasmanian Health Service – Voluntary Assisted Dying Navigation Service (VAD)

Social workers in private practice: building better futures

Ally Smith - Ally Smith Consulting

It’s not just about You, It’s about US! – Solutions Focused Family Therapy in child and adolescent mental

Saria Philips - Child and Adolescent Mental Health service (Clare House); Private practice (Nurtured State)

When: Friday 17 May 2024

When: 9.00am-4.30pm (AEST)

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

Registration closes 9.00 am (AEST), Monday, 13 May 2024

Standard Price:

$30 Student Members

$50 Retired Members

$100 Members

$130 Non-Members