Social Service Providers Aotearoa
SSPA is a voice and support for non-profit organisations that turn lives around in their work with vulnerable children, young people and families/whanau.
Child fatality reviews continue to show us that while families engage in dangerous dynamics that lead to harm so unfortunately can the professionals and agencies working with them. Inadvertently contributing to a poor outcome for a child, young person or family member can have a devasting effect on workers and often leads to resignation from the profession. This one-day workshop with facilitator Dr Nicki Weld provides an in-depth look at the concept of professional dangerousness in relation to child and family work and explores individual and organisation dangerous dynamics that can occur.
5 March 2020, 9am-3.45pm in Westport.
| Event Date | 05-03-2020 9:00 am |
| Event End Date | 05-03-2020 3:45 pm |
| Capacity | 30 |
| Cut off date | 03-03-2020 5:00 pm |
| Individual Price | $140/$160 |
This workshop for supervisors facilitated by Dr Nicki Weld provides an overview of relational trauma, and then explores indirect trauma impacts on workers and ways to mitigate these in supervision. The concepts of parallel process and counter-transference are also examined along with reflective practice based questions and tools.
20 March 2020, 9am-4pm in Auckland.
| Event Date | 20-03-2020 9:00 am |
| Event End Date | 20-03-2020 4:00 pm |
| Registration Start Date | 12-12-2019 |
| Capacity | 30 |
| Cut off date | 18-03-2020 5:00 pm |
| Individual Price | $140/$160 |
Child fatality reviews continue to show us that while families engage in dangerous dynamics that lead to harm so unfortunately can the professionals and agencies working with them. Inadvertently contributing to a poor outcome for a child, young person or family member can have a devasting effect on workers and often leads to resignation from the profession. This one-day workshop with facilitator Dr Nicki Weld provides an in-depth look at the concept of professional dangerousness in relation to child and family work and explores individual and organisation dangerous dynamics that can occur.
26 March 2020, 9am-4pm in Christchurch.
| Event Date | 26-03-2020 9:00 am |
| Event End Date | 26-03-2020 4:00 pm |
| Capacity | 30 |
| Cut off date | 24-03-2020 5:00 pm |
| Individual Price | $140/$160 |
This workshop for supervisors facilitated by Dr Nicki Weld provides an overview of relational trauma, and then explores indirect trauma impacts on workers and ways to mitigate these in supervision. The concepts of parallel process and counter-transference are also examined along with reflective practice based questions and tools.
27 March 2020, 9am-4pm in Christchurch.
| Event Date | 27-03-2020 9:00 am |
| Event End Date | 27-03-2020 4:00 pm |
| Capacity | 30 |
| Cut off date | 24-03-2020 5:00 pm |
| Individual Price | $140/$160 |
Past events
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Engaging with Trauma is a practical, interactive workshop that uses a range of awareness and sensory modulation tools to aid in the development of resilience, emotional processing skills and safe grounding when working with people who have experienced trauma.
Led by Dr Janine Joyce, social worker and lecturer at Otago Polytechnic, this is a skills-development workshop that builds on Nicola Atwool’s popular series of seminars on trauma-informed practice.
| Event Date | 28-09-2018 9:00 am |
| Event End Date | 28-09-2018 3:30 pm |
| Cut off date | 25-09-2018 5:00 pm |
| Capacity: | 50 |
| Individual Price | $100/ $120 |
Engaging with Trauma is a practical, interactive workshop that uses a range of awareness and sensory modulation tools to aid in the development of resilience, emotional processing skills and safe grounding when working with people who have experienced trauma.
Led by Dr Janine Joyce, social worker and lecturer at Otago Polytechnic, this is a skills-development workshop that builds on Nicola Atwool’s popular series of seminars on trauma-informed practice.
14 September, Timaru.
| Event Date | 14-09-2018 9:00 am |
| Event End Date | 14-09-2018 4:00 pm |
| Cut off date | 11-09-2018 12:00 am |
| Capacity: | 50 |
| Individual Price | $100/ $120 |
Dr. Nicola Atwool from Otago University presenting on child-centred and trauma-informed practice as two examples of current practice issues.
30 August in Rotorua.
| Event Date | 30-08-2018 8:45 am |
| Event End Date | 30-08-2018 3:30 pm |
| Cut off date | 28-08-2018 5:00 pm |
| Capacity: | 95 |
| Individual Price | $50/ $70 |
Engaging with Trauma is a practical, interactive workshop that uses a range of awareness and sensory modulation tools to aid in the development of resilience, emotional processing skills and safe grounding when working with people who have experienced trauma.
Led by Dr Janine Joyce, social worker and lecturer at Otago Polytechnic, this is a skills-development workshop that builds on Nicola Atwool’s popular series of seminars on trauma-informed practice.
6 July, Napier
| Event Date | 06-07-2018 9:00 am |
| Event End Date | 06-07-2018 3:30 pm |
| Cut off date | 04-07-2018 5:00 pm |
| Capacity: | 50 |
| Individual Price | $100/ $120 |
Register your interest here to join in SSPA's bulk order of the Community Law Manual 2018-2019 edition. We will place a bulk order once we have more than 20 interests. So spread the word and make sure to register your interest by 20 July 5.00pm.
| Event Date | 13-06-2018 9:00 am |
| Event End Date | 20-07-2018 5:00 pm |
| Cut off date | 20-07-2018 5:00 pm |
| Capacity: | Unlimited |
| Individual Price | TBA |