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
Events Archive
Dr. Nicola Atwool from Otago University presenting on child-centred and trauma-informed practice as two examples of current practice issues.
15 February in Westport.
| Event Date | 15-02-2019 8:45 am |
| Event End Date | 15-02-2019 3:45 pm |
| Cut off date | 14-02-2019 5:00 pm |
| Capacity: | 60 |
| Individual Price | $70/ $80 |
Unfortunately due to the facilitator no longer being available on this date we have regrettably had to cancel this workshop. We sincerely apologise for this.
| Event Date | 08-02-2019 9:00 am |
| Event End Date | 08-02-2019 3:30 pm |
| Cut off date | 16-01-2019 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.
| Event Date | 05-02-2019 9:00 am |
| Event End Date | 05-02-2019 3:30 pm |
| Cut off date | 04-02-2019 5:00 pm |
| Capacity: | 50 |
| Individual Price | $100/ $120 |
RASNZ is a specialist mental health agency that works with former refugee clients based in Auckland.
Keeping with our goal of supporting services working with former refugee clients, we are delivering a one-day training for health and allied professionals who support clients from a former refugee background.
| Event Date | 30-11-2018 9:00 am |
| Event End Date | 30-11-2018 4:30 pm |
| Cut off date | 29-11-2018 5:00 pm |
| Capacity: | 50 |
| Individual Price | $70/ $90 |
The purpose of service design is to design according to the needs of customers or participants, so that the service is user-friendly, and relevant to the customers.
Service design is the activity of reviewing, planning and organising the components of a service in order to improve its quality and the interaction between service provider and customers.
| Event Date | 15-11-2018 9:30 am |
| Event End Date | 15-11-2018 12:30 pm |
| Cut off date | 14-11-2018 5:00 pm |
| Capacity: | 20 |
| Individual Price | $50/ $60 |