Mary Randall on the Factors Influencing Engagement with Voluntary Family Services

Episode 6: SPECIAL on Leadership across the Inner Gippsland children & youth sector

In this special episode, we chat to a range of leaders from across Gippsland and the Children and Youth Services sector about the future of leadership. We cover a variety of topics including the importance of having young people in leadership roles, what effective leadership looks like, the unique characteristics of leading in a regional setting, and what strategies are needed to help foster our next generation of leaders. Guests include: Tim Pedlow (Regional Director, Anglicare Gippsland) Kirra (Creator, Unbroken & Y-Change Representative, Berry Street) Beth Edmondson (Senior Lecturer, Federation University Australia) Morgan Cataldo (Project Officer Youth Engagement, Berry Street) Jay (Coach, Latrobe StreetGames) Janelle (Y-Change Representative, Berry Street) Catherine (Social Marketing Coordinator, Latrobe StreetGames & Mentor, Ladder/Gippsland FM & Youth Governance committee member, Latrobe Youthspace) Jenny Horner (Team Leader, Centre for Multicultural Youth).

Alison Fonseca: Helping professionals' perspectives on the impacts of work-related traumatic stress

The Inner Gippsland Children and Youth Learning Exchange is a podcast dedicated to showcasing some of the innovative research and practice taking place across our region to improve the wellbeing of children and youth. Over the coming months, we will be bringing you conversations with a series of practitioners, researchers and members of our community who are working to improve the wellbeing of Gippsland families. Through these conversations, we hope to shine a light on some of the challenges, but also the many innovations, opportunities and exciting projects that are going on in our communities. By sharing these stories, we aim to spark dialogue, to foster connections and networks, and, ultimately, to contribute to improved outcomes across the Inner Gippsland children and youth sector. In this episode, we chat to Alison Fonseca - one of the Inner Gippsland Children and Youth Area Partnership PhD candidates. Alison’s PhD research examines helping professionals’ perspectives on work-related traumatic stress and the ways this may impact their relationships with their children. As we discuss in our chat, one of the interesting aspects of Alison’s work is the way it expands our very understanding of ‘helping professionals’ and ‘work-related traumatic stress’. Alison can be contacted via email: alisonf@wncs.com.au a.fonseca@federation.edu.au

Reducing Young Peoples' Contact with the Criminal Justice System

The Inner Gippsland Children and Youth Learning Exchange is a podcast dedicated to showcasing some of the innovative research and practice taking place across our region to improve the wellbeing of children and youth. Over the coming months, we will be bringing you conversations with a series of practitioners, researchers and members of our community who are working to improve the wellbeing of Gippsland families. Through these conversations, we hope to shine a light on some of the challenges, but also the many innovations, opportunities and exciting projects that are going on in our communities. By sharing these stories, we aim to spark dialogue, to foster connections and networks, and, ultimately, to contribute to improved outcomes across the Inner Gippsland children and youth sector. In this episode, we chat to Kay - one of the Inner Gippsland Children and Youth Area Partnership PhD candidates - about her research on young people’s contact with the criminal justice system. Kay’s research examines how young peoples’ contact with the criminal justice system can be reduced via early intervention and preventative strategies. This is significant, as identifying youth vulnerable to possible future offending early provides one of the most effective ways of preventing an offending trajectory. To find out more about Kay’s work: k.lancefield@federation.edu.au

Mary Randall on the Factors Influencing Engagement with Voluntary Family Services

The Inner Gippsland Children and Youth Learning Exchange is a podcast dedicated to showcasing some of the innovative research and practice taking place across our region to improve the wellbeing of children and youth. Over the coming months, we will be bringing you conversations with a series of practitioners, researchers and members of our community who are working to improve the wellbeing of Gippsland families.Through these conversations, we hope to shine a light on some of the challenges, but also the many innovations, opportunities and exciting projects that are going on in our communities. By sharing these stories, we aim to spark dialogue, to foster connections and networks, and, ultimately, to contribute to improved outcomes across the Inner Gippsland children and youth sector. In this episode, we chat to Mary Randall - one of the Inner Gippsland Children and Youth Area Partnership PhD candidates - about her research into the factors that influence engagement with voluntary family services. Mary’s PhD research examines barriers to engagement with voluntary family services and how these can be overcome, enabling better access and service experience for families. Mary’s work is significant because increased engagement levels with these services can lead to improved long-term outcomes.