OPEN supports child, youth and family services across Victoria and Tasmania to use and build evidence from research, practice and client experience to deliver better outcomes for children, young people and families.
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OPEN is dedicated to improving the evidence base for policy and practice within Victoria’s child and family services sector. By providing access to the best available evidence, OPEN helps professionals
OPEN is thrilled to announce that we are now accepting expressions of interest for the OPEN Symposium 2024! The online Symposium will be held on 23rd and 24th October 2024.
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Our 2022 theme was ‘Maintaining Momentum: Continuing to innovate and build Victoria’s Child and Family Services sector evidence base.’
We chose this theme to reflect the perseverance and resilience of the sector, which has managed to maintain momentum in spite of some unprecedented challenges.
We had fantastic keynote speakers: Professor Leah Bromfield, Director for the Australian Centre for Child Protection; and Professor Sharon Bessell, Director of the Children’s Policy Centre, and of the Poverty and Inequality Research Centre.
We also had a host of other cross-sector speakers, presenting on a broad range of themes relevant to the sector, from early years, to family violence and out of home care, to name a few.
