Past Events

Many children experience separation, divorce and family trauma, and find it difficult adjusting to the change in their lives. Centacare CFRS offers a program called CHILDREN FIRST for children aged 5-15 years who have experienced separation or divorce in their families. It is a psycho-educational support group program that is designed to help children come to a better understanding of the divorce or separation of their parents, and also to help them adjust and adapt to the significant changes in their family life.  

Undertake continual professional development to meet your NMAS and FDRP accreditation requirements. These specialist courses and events are delivered by practicing mediators, and allow you to add input on key subjects.

Family Law has undergone many changes in the last few years.

A limited but growing amount of Australian research into fly-in fly-out (FIFO) work practices tentatively suggests that a FIFO lifestyle can have positive, negative or few effects on children and on family relationships, depending on the circumstances. This webinar will present findings from a CFCA research summary on the effects of FIFO workforce practices on families in Australia, which will be released on 12 February. Implications for research, policy and practice, FIFO families and mining organisations will be discussed by an expert panel, including:

A workshop for parents of teens that will cover: Being assertive with teenagers Setting limits and boundaries Parent's fears: Sex, drugs, alcohol and driving Handing over responsibility Dealing with anger: yours and your teenagers Communication Building your relationship

Men, women and young people are invited to attend this forum, which features four amazing women who are making a difference to the lives of others.  They will share their insights into the forces that have shaped and driving them, and in doing so inspire and challenge others to the the same. Funds raised from the forum will be used to support local and international charitable projects. 

Sensory Attachment Intervention (SAI) is a model that looks at attachment disorder and sensory processing from an integrative, neuro-behavioural perspective for the treatment of children and adults who have suffered abuse or neglect. Children and parents with impaired attachment often have difficulty with self-regulatory systems. 

This webinar will cover defining mediation and how it fits along the ADR spectrum. The different models of mediation will be identified and how they can assist in resolving different disputes. The focus of this webinar will be on the facilitative mediation model, what it looks like and the participants will be walked through the stages of the process and strategies and tips for working with the model will be highlighted.

This workshop is targeted at child protection workers in Child Safety and NGOs and goes beyond the basics to consider how skills and knowledge are applied in practice, particularly in complex situations where there is no clear ‘right’ decision.

This webinar will focus on the skills associated with mediation, it will highlight the skills and how best to use them to assist parties in moving through the mediation process. It will also highlight some of the areas that give both new and experienced mediators difficulty, how to work with the impasses and obstacles that come in mediation and how best to handle highly conflictual parties and situations.