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We leverage modern digital solutions to expand how carers and professionals access and engage with training and peer-learning about trauma-informed care. We do this through accredited and non-accredited training, facilitation of peer networks, leading research initiatives, and translating knowledge to guide practice. Community of Practices workshops for therapeutic specialists, house managers and more.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

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Out-of-home care organisations are living systems, alive with thoughts, feelings, and values. As a living organism, organisations too are vulnerable to the toxic stress of caring for young people who have experienced trauma. Just as young people disengage with caring adults when they don't feel safe, staff become disconnected from "The Management" when they don't feel supported through the stress that comes with caring. Organisational leadership must attune to staff needs to contextualise staff experiences and plan for change that sustains the self-renewing capacities of their organisational system.
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November 30 is the International Day of Consent, a great day to plan a consent related conversations with a young person, to explore a consent-myth or realign a perspective about relationships - no matter how big or small. We are celebrating a fantastic year working collaboratively across ACF and CETC with OzChild on the When Yes Means YES project. Our online course has this year been piloted with OzChild foster carers, covering trauma-informed discussions, grooming, online safety, healthy relationships, boundaries and consent.
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2024 at CETC was a year of highs and lows, celebrating launches for innovative training, thought-leading panels, and empowering over 2,500 carers and professionals. Yet, it was also a year of profound loss, as we farewelled our visionary CEO, Dr Joe Tucci. His unwavering passion for children’s rights and a safer, kinder world continues to inspire us. Through every challenge, CETC’s commitment to creating meaningful change remains stronger than ever.
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    how we can help

    Research

    We partner with leading researchers to identify and fill the gaps in knowledge about what works in out-of-home care.

    Learn

    We facilitate monthly communities of practice for therapeutic specialists, and those with a clinical role, in therapeutic residential care.

    Innovate

    We innovate and curate collections of knowledge on critical practice issues in out-of-home care.

    VIDEOS

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    Panel discussion – Trauma-Informed Care in Youth Detention

    What is a residential care worker?

    What do you think is the role of “reflective practice”?

    What do you enjoy about working with young people?

    What does cultural safety mean to you?

    Supporting Aboriginal children and young people in custodial and residential care settings – Rhett’s story

    How do you support young people in connecting to culture?

    How do you plan for a young person’s transition into and leaving your service?

    How do you help young people feel safe in the residential home?

    Can you share an example of changes you have witnessed in young people after time being supported in residential care?

    A “day in your life” as a residential care worker

    The Criminalisation of Children in Care in England/Wales, New South Wales, and Victoria

    About us

    Why is reflection important for trauma-informed work?

    Why did you become a therapeutic specialist?

    What would you tell others thinking about becoming a therapeutic specialist?

    What changes have you seen in the young people you work with?

    What are the best parts of being a therapeutic specialist?

    What are the challenges of being a therapeutic specialist?

    How does the exposure to trauma impact on staff?

    What is the role of relationship in therapeutic care?

    What is an average day for a therapeutic specialist?

    What is a therapeutic specialist?

    Welcome to responding to child sexual exploitation

    Safe Connections: How to use the resource kit