Online gambling is a significant risk for young people, particularly those in out-of-home care. The Australian Government is currently considering its response to the 31...
Janise Mitchell
Director of CETC, CEO of Australian Childhood Foundation
Janise is our Director, and the CEO of Australian Childhood Foundation. She leads the CETC across all knowledge mobilisation, research, practice, government relations, and stakeholder engagement activities. Janise is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Southern Cross University.
Janise is a social worker and child rights advocate with extensive experience in child protection and therapeutic care. Janise has written and practised widely in therapeutic out-of-home care, from policy analysis to organisational change management.
Janise is a thought leader in therapeutic out-of-home care, with her 2008 Master of Social Work exploring the best practice elements of therapeutic foster care. She has led the evolution of the CETC from a state-based intermediary to a nationally recognised provider of training and knowledge mobilisation in the field of out-of-home care in tandem with her role as CEO of the Australian Childhood Foundation.
She is a Board member of The National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse and member of a range of National and State/Territory based Expert Panels and Advisory Groups.
Janise has published widely in academic journals and edited collections, including the Handbook of Therapeutic Care for Children: Evidenced informed approaches to working with traumatised children and adolescents in foster, kinship and adoptive care.
Janise lives on Wurundjeri Country.
Articles written by
Janise Mitchell
Alternative Care Arrangements are the symptom of a care system in crisis ACAs have no place in a modern trauma-informed and child-centred out-of-home care system....
Foster carers are a crucial human resource in responding to children and young people who have experienced abuse, neglect, and trauma. The design and implementation...
We did not and am still not receiving support requested or needed. Case managers or staff change without us being informed. Phone messages left at...
The significance of sibling relationships for children and young people in out-of-home care is well documented by national and international scholars (Luu, Conley Wright, &...
Kinship care placements in Australia are now more prevalent than foster care. They are the fastest growing form of out-of-home care in this country (AIHW,...
Much has been written about understanding and managing the challenging pain-based behaviours of children and young people who have experienced trauma and live in therapeutic...
This guide has been developed to describe and support the enactment of the role of the Therapeutic Specialist. The guide provides an overview of the...
This guide has been developed to support Therapeutic Care carers and staff to navigate the critical balance between empowering children and young people and setting...
This practice guide aims to support carers and professionals working in and around the out of home care system to know how to best understand...
The ITC Pulse Check Survey and Outcome Report provides a point-in-time reflection on the experiences of the reform process by ITC agency staff. To this...
Client mix and the process of client matching is one of the 10 Essential Elements underpinning the Intensive Therapeutic Care (ITC) system in New South...
Relationship-based practice is at the core of effective therapeutic care. Key to understanding how to build effective relationships with young people who have experienced trauma...
This submission addresses the question of whether the age of criminal responsibility (MACR) should be increased and submits that the age should be raised...
The Safe Connections resource kit has been designed for use with young people at risk of or experiencing child sexual exploitation in care. Child sexual...
Trained staff and consistent rostering are essential elements of therapeutic residential care. The purpose of this guide is to consider more broadly what makes an...
Young people living in residential care are highly vulnerable and have commonly experienced a significant level of trauma and abuse. They often present with complex...
As far back as 2002 in the creation of the Catalyst Program, Mitchell developed what was Australia’s first therapeutic foster care program and one of...
This guide has been developed to describe the 10 Essential Elements that form the basis for Intensive Therapeutic Care (ITC) service provision in NSW. The...
A care team approach is an essential element of therapeutic care. This guide has been developed to support the practice of collaboration and participation through...
What creates high quality therapeutic residential care? This is the question often asked of agencies, of staff, of policy makers and of the young people...
How do we keep to the therapeutic care principles of safety, consistency, predictability, and routine in a world that feels like it has turned upside...
Reflective Practice is one of the 10 Essential Elements of Intensive Therapeutic Care. This guide has been developed to support Therapeutic Specialists to engage staff...
This guide has been developed to support the implementation of Essential Element: Physical Environments from the Ten Essential Elements of Therapeutic Care. It explores how...
Over the past two decades, the term therapeutic care has emerged as a new paradigm used to integrate constructs that had traditionally been considered separate...
Concepts of ‘complexity’ and ‘evidence’ are often heard in discussions that seek to find ways to better meet the needs of traumatised young people requiring...