South Australian Social Worker - Australian Association of Social

South Australian Social Worker
Summer 2015
From the Social Justice Committee…
AASW SA Branch
Incorporated in the ACT
ACN 008 576 010
www.aasw.asn.au
Correspondence to:
Branch Office Manager
AASW SA Branch
4 Milner Street
HINDMARSH SA 5007
or
aaswsa@aasw.asn.au
President
Mary Hood
Vice President
Chris Chalubek
CPD
Maria Scicchitano
Ethics
Sophie Diamandi
Students & New
Grads
Mark Wilson
Private Practitioners
Robyn Lingard
Social Justice
Jennie Charlton
Branch Manager
Miriam Hobson
I was honoured to be asked to launch the
Australian Association of Social Work
South Australia (AASW SA) Social Justice
Committee on International Social Work
Day 2015. I was to prepare a speech for
the AASW SA Annual Breakfast at the
Pavilion where John Brayley (Public
Advocate).
As I started to prepare for this it took me
on a reflection not only of the year and a
half of being on the Social Justice Committee but of why I am
an active member of
the AASW. I Thinking back to 2003
when I qualified as a
Social Worker in the
UK the British Association of Social
Work had attended
the University and
provided information
but at this time I had
no sense of why I should join.
In my Child Protection Social Work role I
was given great training and supervision but
the Association was never mentioned nor
the work that they are doing in advocating
for Social work as a profession.
The UK had implemented registration prior to me emigrating. At the time I was
unaware of the work that would have gone
into getting Social Work approved as a
Registered Profession and just took it for
granted. I became aware of the need to
provide evidence of my Continued Professional Development (CPD) and the difficulty of this if you do not keep an accurate log
of this as you complete it.
As part of immigration to Australia I needed to have my qualifications approved by
AASW and at the time I had not really
linked them as being the same as BASW. I
read the information about the AASW and
the CPD log that is required to sustain
membership. I thought that this would be
important for me and so made the decision
to join.
Initially I used the AASW as a way to
attend social work training but in 2009 I
contacted the association in regards to the
CPD committee and they invited me along.
In the last 5 years I have been supported by
colleagues to build a sense of identity as a
social worker and this has supported me in
my many roles to stay true to my value and
ethics.
In October 2013 when Sue King raised the
idea of having a South Australian Social Justice Branch at the Annual
General Meeting it was
something that had been
discussed but never
moved forward until now.
Peter Munn, Renee
Pearce and myself also
put our names forward to
join and so the adventure
began.
We each brought our
own knowledge and experience to the table and identified the reasons that we wanted to be on this committee and what we were able to offer and I
realised that no matter how small our contribution we were starting to be part of the
Solution. Sue agreed that in the absence of
volunteers for the conveynor position that
she would undertake this role for the coming 12 months.
As with any new committee it was a slow
start as we found our feet but an interesting time of Elections and changes was giving
us a lot of food for thought. Over the
coming 12 months we worked with the
members to build
our key areas of
focus which included
Aged, Disability,
Child Protection
and Mental Health.
Peter Munn stepped
down from the
committee due to
“No matter how
small our
contribution we
were starting to be
part of the
Solution”
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Contents
1.
Social Justice Committee
11.
Members Survey Results
2.
For Your Diary
12.
Maria Harries—Child Protection deliverables
3.
Regional Round Up
13.
AASW SA Networks
4.
News and Updates
14.
SA Branch Contact Details
5.
Child protection content in social work courses
6.
AASW in the Media / SARRAH Scholarship
7.
World Social Work Day / Placement Update
8.
University Pages / CP Symposium
9.
Advocacy
10.
Committee Round Up
For Your Diary…
Event Trauma - Responding to Cri- The Future: Social Work, Ethics and
Child Protection Reform in SA
sis and Traumatic Incidents
28 April 2015
5:45 - 8:00pm
EDC, Hindmarsh
Registrations open via Dramatix.
19 May 2015
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Thebarton Community Centre
Torrensville
Registrations open via Dramatix.
The latest SW Research
Treating PTSD with Dr. Leah
Giarratano
9 June 2015
5:45pm for 6:00pm start - 8:00pm
EDC, Hindmarsh
18 –19 June 2015, Adelaide
Integration and Application of
Cultural Elements in Supervision
21 May 2015
9:00 -12:00pm
EDC, Hindmarsh
Registrations open via Dramatix.
Register at: http://www.talominbooks.com
Registrations open soon.
S.W.O.T.
There are growing number of opportunities for Social Work Online Learning. There are far too many to list
here ranging across the breadth of social work specialisations. Check out the AASW website details.
There are several ongoing Online Networking Groups including: Mental Health Private Practice and Research /
NDIS practice / Rural and Remote Practice / School Social Workers and Medicare Locals Practice.
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the demands on his time.
In October 2014 Michelle Adams and Sue Maynard
joined the committee. We started to identify
current Submissions that were being asked for by
Government that fitted our key criteria. We also
felt that we needed links with the AASW National
Social Justice Committee and SACCOSS. Michelle
is our representative within SACCOSS and I am the
representative on the National Social Justice
Committee. Due to the travel of her employment
Renee also stepped down from the committee.
We again looked at the role of the convenor in
November 2014. It seemed a natural progression
that as I was the Social Justice Committee
representative at the Branch Management
Committee that I take on the conveynor role. I felt
that I was able to undertake this role with the
Newsletter Summer 2015
support of the committee.
We have worked closely with the National Branch
and our now recognised as having an Active Social
Justice Committee in South Australia. We welcomed another 2 member from the Social Work
Breakfast, Jennifer Porter and Katrin Liefermann.
To date the key achievements of the of the Social
Justice committee has been the progression towards a Reconciliation Action Plan with Social
Workers, showing attendance at the “Walk of
Awareness on Friday 13 February, The Royal
Commission South Australian Submission and the
Adoption Review Submission in March 2015.
Jennie Charlton
Regional Roundup...
Mt Gambier
In January the expansion of the Mt Gambier campus of UniSA was announced in The Advertiser
with plans now moving ahead to offer increased
services. Vice-Chancellor David Lloyd said the
specialist teaching facilities for nursing, midwifery
and social work would “promote experiential learning.”
With a population of over 32,00, the area has a
comprehensive Health Service Plan, which local
Social workers will tell you has direct links with
their practice.
Riverland
The Berry Barmera Council have continued their
E-Newsletters into 2015 providing local community service information— the January edition includes information on Community Grant
success including:
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Retiring newsletter editors Sally McMichael
and Kathy Inverarity who consistently raised
the quality of the Branch Newsletters over
the past 10 years.
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David de Bruin who is moving to in Geelong
with the National Disability Insurance Scheme
(NDIS) in the National Office, working at the
forefront of the development of human services. We will miss your input David into
CPD but hope you will find an opportunity to
engage with the AASW in Geelong.
We thank you for your considerable support and
wish all three of you all the very best for your
futures.
Whyalla
The Whyalla news ran a story late last year on one
of our Ethics Award winners with some members
of her graduating class: http://tinyurl.com/qfmf5md
Workshops.
A great WSWD event was held in BARMERA
so flip over to our coverage of this for further information.
Adelaide
The SA branch has had some changes to the committee and support roles. We give thanks to
those volunteers who have contributed to our
A quick search for jobs in the Whyalla area show
there are currently several opportunities in the
area for those with social work skills. Take a look
here: https://www.jobseeker.com.au/Social-Workjobs-in-Whyalla-SA#email_alert_modal
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AASW News and Updates
Reports of Medicare Mental Health services being
inequitably distributed is alarming, but not surprising,
according to the National President of the AASW
McClure Report on Australia’s Welfare System Karen Healy. “There is no incentive for practitioners
to set up where there is so much need, in the lower
The AASW was present at a speech given by Minister socio-economic areas or in rural communities,” ProScott Morrison following the release of the McClure
fessor Healy said. “Directing a free enterprise service
report on welfare reform. The Minister emphasised
delivery program like the ‘Better Access’ Medicare
that the report was a report to government, not a re- Initiative to high need areas takes incentive and
port of government. As such the Minister’s comments policy direction.”
were short on specifics. However he foreshadowed a
simpler system going into the future. One of the reView the media release here.
peated themes was that “The best type of welfare was
a job.”
NDIS
In case you missed it the AASW submission on the
interim report can be found here.
Since the release of the final report some widely read
sites have provided feedback including:
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Australian Network on Disability
The Conversation
The New Matilda
The Sydney Morning Herald
Radio National - audio record from 25 Feb 15
Open letter to PM
The AASW has contributed to an open letter to the
Prime Minister calling for certainty of funding for
many front line mental health services. The letter,
which has received a great deal of media attention
National Primary Healthcare
partners
The National Primary Health Care Partnership
(NPHCP) is a partnership of allied health and nursing
peak bodies and related organisations who are
committed to a strong primary health care sector.
The AASW has been a member of the Partnership
since it’s inception and strongly endorses the
attached linked Communiqué. Primary Health is
about health care where people live, prevention and
addressing the social determinants of health. See the
Communiqué here.
Pre-budget Lobbying
The AASW was part of a community sector and
ACOSS lobby group to the Minister for Health to
ABC News coverage of this included a full copy of the strongly lobby for the retention of Medicare and a
letter which prompted many comments and feedback Universal Health System. The core lobby message
to their services and further raised the profile of this was that "Medicare is the pillar of universal health
care in Australia, and any effort to structure payimportant document.
ments or ‘price signals’ undermines that universalism
and is rejected by the community sector". The delegation encourages Government to undertake broad consultation that enables community
interests to be reflected alongside those of the professions and industries in the health system. For more
A recent report in the Medical Journal of Australia
(and the Guardian) was responded to with the follow- news and updates click here.
More incentives needed for
rural practitioners
ing media release:
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Child protection content in social work courses
The AASW utterly rejects Emeritus Professor Freda Briggs’ claim that there is “little if
anything about children in social work courses” as reported in her evidence to the Coronial Inquiry into the death of Chloe Valentine
(ABC 19/2/15).
education providers and employers is the best way to ensure that child welfare professionals are prepared for this
demanding field of work. Learning must not stop at graduation. Employers have a vital role to play in ensuring that social work graduates are supported to continue building the
knowledge and skill needed. Professor Healy comments: “in
professions dealing with safety critical situations such as
Social workers provide services to vulnerable children and medicine and aviation, it is recognised that new graduates
require support and continuing learning opportunities to put
their families. As the professional body representing social
their knowledge into practice. We encourage Families SA to
workers in Australia, The Australian Association of Social
recognise the need to provide high level
Workers (AASW) sets and monitors educasupport and professional development
tional standards for social workers in this
“The
AASW
and
SA
opportunities for frontline workers. The
country. The AASW utterly rejects Emeritus
AASW and SA higher education providers
higher education
Professor Freda Briggs’ claim that there is
are willing to partner with Families SA in
“little if anything about children in social work
providers are willing
promoting best child protection practice.”
courses” as reported in her evidence to the
to partner with
Coronial Inquiry into the death of Chloe ValThe AASW hopes that the Coroner will
Families SA in
recognise the need for improved support
entine (ABC 19/2/15).
promoting best child for frontline child protection workers and
The National Social Work Educational Standwill consider innovative models of profesards require that all social workers receive
protection
practice.”
sional support operating in other states.
core education in working with children and
The Child Protection Operating Model
their families. Professor Karen Healy, Nationinitiated by the Victorian Government
al President of the AASW states that, “social workers learn
promotes
best
practice
through innovative workplace learnabout child development, parent and child attachment, indiing
and
support
opportunities
for frontline workers. Several
cators of child abuse and neglect and communication with
states
have
also
introduced
specialist
child protection pracchildren and their families”. The social work curriculum retice
units
to
provide
frontline
workers
with access to up-toquires that students are also informed about inquiries into
date
knowledge
and
skills.
child welfare including learning about The Stolen Generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and
The AASW recognises that the death of Chloe Valentine is a
the harm caused by forced adoptions and institutional abuse tragedy. The AASW hopes that this tragedy will lead to a
of children. The curriculum provides the foundation for child thorough examination of the role of all stakeholders including educational institutions and Families SA in preparing and
protection practice.
The fact is that child protection work is very difficult. Collab- supporting the frontline child protection workforce to
achieve the safety and well-being of all children.
oration, rather than finger pointing, between social work
Horizon Recruitment Service
What is the Horizon Career Centre?
The Horizon Career Centre is a great tool for both employers of social workers and for social workers seeking employment:
For job seekers:
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We send out a free weekly job alert, which can be signed up to on the website by filling out the
‘SIGN ME UP’ electronic form (http://www.horizonemployment.com.au/)
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Social workers can also promote themselves as Locums available for temporary contracts ($55
for AASW members)
For employers:
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A job can be posted on our website for 30 days, which will also be advertised in our weekly job
alerts, the National Ebulletins and branch newsletters ($220.00)
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Employers can search for Locums and contact them directly through the advertised contact
details
For all advertising or Horizon enquiries, please refer people to Karen Rowland or Anna Gaffney.
Phone 1300 731 314 or email horizon@aasw.asn.au
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World Social Work Day 2015
Adelaide Breakfast
SA President, Dr Mary Hood & 2015 WSWD
presenter Public Advocate, John Brayley.
Branch Management Committee
Members Julie O’Leary & Nevena Simic
SA President, Dr Mary Hood with Newsletter
Editors Kathy Inverarity & Sally McMichael
Branch Management Committee Members Maria
Scicchitano & Sally Watson (with three
Adelaide participants)
Social Justice Committee Convenor,
Jennie Charlton.
Riverland Lunch
Placement Update
This semester the SA branch is fortunate enough to have Xiaosong Liu (Song) as our placement
student from 2nd year Flinders MSW. She is working on a project to investigate:
“How international social work students come to understand the different assumptions
and beliefs that underlie Australian culture and therefore
co-worker’s and client’s behaviour?”
Song is receiving much support from both SA universities in uncovering what is done currently to help
them with this. The Branch hopes to be able to better identify what we as a branch can do to assist
them with their professional integration and their development of their professional identity. So far a
number of face to face meetings have taken place and moves towards an online discussion group have
started.
It will be interesting to see just where this project takes us. Keep following this section of Branch
Newsletters for further information.
Flinders Uni Placement Student
Xiaosong Li (Song)
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AASW SA Branch Members Survey Results
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AASW SA Members Survey results
One question Members were asked:
“In order to help improve Social Work
professional identity,
what actions would you like the AASW
to implement?
Responses included:
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Posters— “a flyer that “sets us apart from other
professions”
Combined CPD events—“we (in country SA) cannot
come in for just 2 hours.”
Specific interventions sessions—responses
detailed below.
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Another key question was:
“What do you believe the AASW can do
to improve the Professional Identity of
Social Work in South Australia?”
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Public role definitions
De-myth Membership value “lots of people see it
only as an extra cost with no tangible benefits”
Stronger liaison with students as they move into
the field
Higher public profile and agency representation
Research support and promotion
Focus on specialisations, therapy / counselling
Media management.
CPD the responding Membership asked for:
Volunteer opportunities:
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Longer / combined CPD sessions
North, south, hills and on-site / regional CPD
Interventions topic areas:
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crisis response
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working with involuntary clients
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working with people with disabilities
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mindfulness
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family therapy
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grief and loss
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Depression / anxiety
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relationships
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PTSD
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violence
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personality disorder
More information on how to become accredited.
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Drafting media exposure / media training
Writing Profession in Practice Profiling
Guiding Agency engagement plan
Delivering SW profiling to allied health professionals
Consultative committee memberships
Community event representation
Sponsorship of social work research
Access to data on the effectiveness of social work
interventions.
If you are able to help with any of these activities– what
ever your time frame, please contact the branch office.
Help us be responsive
We want to connect with you better and be more responsive to the issues you see are important in our
community. We need to know more about your fields of current practice so we can represent the cohort of our
state Members, occasionally invite you to consult us when something arises in your area, and to know how many of
our Members are affected by an event or policy.
However, when you renew your membership on the National database you have only been asked for very vague
information about your general field of practice, so we in SA don’t have good information about what work you are
actually involved in currently.
Please update your Membership Details:
1) where, 2) field / specialist area of work, 3) your employer.
Online or email us at the SA office; aaswsa@aasw.asn.au.
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Private
Practice
Sub Committee
Committee
Round
up
Ethics
Private Practice
The Ethics committee has been out to the Magil
Campus of UniSA to provide over 70 allied health
students a presentation on the AASW Code of
Ethics.
Feedback received was complementary of the clarification of ethical values, models and pathways for
assistance if practice dilemmas arise.
Further public talks are available—requests should
be passed to the Branch Office in the fist instance.
The SWOT program for private practice social
workers is now up and running!
Since their launch of the buddy program for those
applying for AMHSW status they have received
ongoing requests for this service which is being
coordinated by Nevena Seimic.
They continue to circulate their How to find a Social Worker flyer which directs those who seek a
medicare rebated Social Worker to the AASW
search directory. If you have ideas of how these
can be targeted to provide maximum impact please
contact their convenor Robyn Lingard.
Continuing Professional Development
CPD committee are rightly proud of their events
program of the past several months with high numbers and positive feedback received.
With not a moment to spare for these volunteers
the next year’s calendar is being planned. EOIs for
events requested via the Nov 2014 Member’s Survey have been run and negotiations are underway
for the coming period.
Alternate pathways for providing CPD are being
embraced by the committee with a range of delivery options being reviewed.
Expect exciting outcomes from this group soon.
Students and New Graduates
The SNG group is working toward an expanded
program of offerings to SA social work students.
We have been lucky enough to have the support of
both Ann Raith (BMC) and Song (our placement
student) in getting information to new enrolment
students on the role of the AASW.
Further information on Song’s placement can be
found on page 7 of this publication.
PRIVATE PRACITIONERS AFTER DARK
This annual Adelaide event was held on 11November 2014. Thanks go to The Fountain Inn Hotel,
142 Glenn Osmond Rd, Parkside for hosting the
event at the last minute.
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Child Protection
This article exploring the need for more research on
Child Protection outcomes in the daily on-line, The
Conversation, is relevant for the SA Social Work community. Maria Harries began her distinguished career
in the SA public mental health service of the 1970s.
Most people reasonably assume there is evidence of good longterm outcomes for children who come into contact with child
protection systems. Why else would we intervene in the lives
of children and their families, and spend many billions of dollars,
if not to ensure children are better off when we assist them?
Unfortunately, we don’t know.
Not all children who have contact with the child protection
system end up in short- or long-term care. In 2013, there were
135,000 children receiving some form of child protection service in Australia. 50,000 of these were “in care”. Let’s focus on
the latter group.
Not only do we need to understand the longterm outcomes for these children, we need
to know how their families and communities
fare. Indigenous children, for instance, do not
live in isolation – their outcomes are intrinsically related to the outcomes for their families and communities.
There are no better examples of this link
than the evidence seared into our national
consciousness from various Australian Senate
reports:
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the appalling outcomes for children,
parents, families and communities of
the removal of Aboriginal children
(the Stolen Generation);
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the generally abysmal outcomes for the 500,000 children who were placed in care in Australia (Forgotten
Australians);
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the plight of so many child migrants who came alone to
our shores;
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the outcomes of the historic forced adoption of children; and
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the emerging findings of the current Royal Commission
about the traumatic experiences of so many children
placed in care.
A 2007 review of the studies on outcomes for children and
young people in care across Australian jurisdictions show children in care are more likely to have “negative outcomes” compared with children not in care. These reports echo international observations and are represented in the United Kingdom’s Looking after Children Project report.
“Generally children in care continue to have poorer outcomes than
the wider population – particularly in relation to educational achievement, homelessness and mental health.”
Children in care have already experienced disadvantages and
traumas that leave them vulnerable. Removal from parents and
families is often traumatic. Unarguably, some report doing well
in care. Others report a litany of problems that serve only to
increase their original vulnerability.
There’s no doubt we need to develop evidence-based policies
and practices to reduce the number of children brought into care and provide the best
outcomes for children who are in care. So
why do we have such limited evidence of
children’s long-term outcomes in care?
Undoubtedly there are many reasons. It may
be because, as a community, we accept we
have an obligation to rescue children who
have been harmed or are at risk of harm
and we don’t need evidence to justify this
other than the guarantee of immediate safety. In other words, immediate safety is the
primary outcome measure.
Additionally, the call for evidence of outcomes in relation to a lot of community service interventions is
quite recent.
Finally, research in these areas has not been a priority. It is
costly and difficult and longitudinal studies that take a look at
longer-term outcomes are notoriously tough to justify, plan and
conduct.
Internationally there are many examples of research focused on
outcomes for children in care that demonstrate care can increase their original vulnerability.
Australia is at the forefront of research focused on children in
care and the outcomes of that care. A large and exciting longiThe problems identified in these reports testify to terrible outtudinal study on children in care has been underway since 2011
comes of what were, by all accounts, well-intentioned policies
in New South Wales; its first report is imminent. And there is
aimed at protecting children. These reports amplify the calls for
an innovative five-year research project underway in Victoria
reforms by care leavers, families, communities and care providon young people’s outcomes after they leave care.
ers and inform what Griffith University Professor of Social
Work Claire Tilbury calls “the global search for improving out- These represent vitally important and timely projects, and incorporate what are called “multiple data sources”: they include
comes” for children in care.
information from children, young people, their families and
Australia is active in establishing high-quality standards and
other carers. It’s imperative that we listen to the voices of all of
practices for children who are not able to be cared for in their
birth families. Despite the attention to this important issue, and those who have experienced state care.
volumes of work attesting to the importance of measuring per- Additionally, other organisations such as CREATE, which is
dedicated to supporting the highest standards for children in
formance and outcomes of children in care, problems remain
obvious. A recent Uniting Care report states:
care, continue to be active in monitoring quality and outcomes.
While we know a lot in this area, we don’t have sufficient evi“Young people leaving care or who have left care are overdence to show that children who are abused or neglected and
represented in the statistics on homelessness, early school leaving
their families are better off when we intervene to protect
and contact with the criminal justice system. They are also more
them. But watch this space...
likely to have children at an early age and are at greater risk of
We remove kids
from abuse and
neglect, but are
they better off
in the long run?
having their own child taken into care.”
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University Pages
Did you know?
UniSA offers Bachelor of Arts (Indigenous Cultures and
Australian Society), Bachelor of Social Work MBIW.
For more information click here.
AASW SA Student Awards
“Best identification and discussion of an
ethical dilemma in their final
placement”
Pt Augusta
This WSWD we awarded five state awards for this area of
learning across both local Universities.
Postal arrangements were made for:
Shyane lives and works in Pt Augusta. So we are liaising with the
the staff at UniSA within the area to arrange for the certificate
be presented to her in person.
Bengamin Garcia – BSW – Flinders Uni
Adelaide
These students were presented with their award at luncheon:
Aerinn Morgan – MSW - Uni SA
Mt Gambier
A luncheon / graduation service were the occasion where the
award was presented to:
Palma Edwards – WBSW – Uni SA
Whyalla
Are having a morning tea on campus for the students where our
Awards will be issued.
Shyane Mc Innis – WBSW- Uni SA
Margret Megson – MBSW - Uni SA
Congratulations to this years winners! We welcome them as
free Members for the next 12 months.
All social work qualifications in the state will be provided with an
Ethics in Placement award for the 2015 academic year. Students
should contact their program coordinators for information on
participation requirements.
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AASW SA Branch
Branch Management
Committee
President
Ethics and Professional Standards
Mary Hood
Mob: 0427716938
Mary.hood@aasw.asn.au
Sophie Diamandi
0438 810 501
Sophie.Diamandi@unisa.edu.au
Vice President
Continuing Professional
Development Sub-committee
Chris Chalubek
Mob: 0448960098
chalubekc@gmail.com
Maria Scicchitano
0404487825
Maria.scicchitano@health.sa.gov.au
Committee Members
Social Justice Sub-committee
Ann Raith
Mob: Number missing here
annraith@hotmail.com
Jennie Charlton
jenniecharlton1@msn.com /
jennie.charlton@health.sa.gov.au
0416860834
Daniel Maik
Mobile: 0423 979 732
Daniel.j.maik@gmail.com
Jennie Charlton
Mob: 0416 860 834
jennie.charlton@health.sa.gov.au
Julie O’Leary
Mobile: 0407 408 656
Julie.ol’eary@dcsi.sa.gov.au
Mark Wilson
Work: 8277 3366
Mark.Wilson@dcsi.sa.gov.au
Student & New Graduate Group
Mark Wilson
0430 213 596
markawil@senet.com.au
Private Practitioners Subcommittee
Robyn Lingard
0412 844 278
robyn@robynltherapy.com
Peer Skill Share Group
Maxine Longford
Christine Kelley
ckelley873@gmail.com
Mobile: 0412 867 148
Maxine.longford@health.sa.gov.au
Newsletter Editors
Michele Osmond
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