PRESS RELEASE
Thursday September 26, 2013
Working with Abuse within Families
Working with Abuse within Families is a unique one-day symposium for professionals working with children and families who have experienced abuse. Family
Works, Brainwave Trust, Child Matters and Shine have collectively organized this symposium - 16 October, at the Holiday
Inn, Auckland Airport.
With the purpose of linking knowledge to practice, the symposium will include presentations from Family Work’s Jude
Simpson, Maria McKenzie from Brainwave Trust, Julie Peake from Child Matters, Shine’s Dr. Catherine Topham and Family
Work’s Robyn Corrigan as the MC.
The presentations will consist of different learning features such as:
• Understanding the impact on brain development during the early years and through adolescence
• Learning safe, effective and timely interventions
• Understanding the complexities and limitation of different interventions
• Risk and protective factors
• Clarifying professional boundaries and the ethical issues in the New Zealand context.
The spaces are limited to 100 registrations at the Working with Abuse within Families symposium and early bird tickets can be purchased for $105, before 1 October. Standard tickets are priced at $135, for
further information you can contact Yolanda Meima on 09 815 4595 or yolandam@2shine.org.nz.
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