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International Conference Towards Strength
Based Strategies
that Work with Individuals, Groups and
Communities
10 - 12 November
2006 -
Hyderabad - India
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Conference
Highlights
The Brisbane
Institute of Strengths Based Practice Inc
in collaboration with
Sanghamitra Andhra Pradesh - India |
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 CD
was made possible by the generous support of
the Australian Association of Social
Workers
PO Box 4956
Kingston
ACT 2604
www.aasw.asn.au |
 
 The Brisbane Institute of
Strengths based Practices and
Indian-based NGO Sanghamitra
held this inaugural International
Conference. It aimed to create a
global interconnectedness between
people seeking solutions for their
local problems. This major activity
in the year has been the first
Australian organised international
Strengths based strategies 2006
Conference in Hyderabad India in
November of 2006. Principal
collaboration was with Sanghamitra a
rural development organisation in
Medak district of Andhra Pradesh.
Generous funding was made available
to fly two resource persons from the
pacific region, Papua New Guinea and
Australia by AUSAID ISSS scheme.
Equally generous assistance was made
to cover partial costs of three
speakers by Australia India Society.
A
number of small but genuine fund
raising events have boosted our
strengths and bonded our managing
committee members in more than one
event. Credit for such planning goes
to Ms Christine Radke. From Pie
runs, dine for development nites to
wine sales- all of them demonstrated
one thing – that there was deep
sincerity in rasing much needed
bucks for developmental activities.
The International conference in
India was also supported by other
generous donations of Rs 50000.00 by
UAE Foreign Exchange principally
initiated and recommended for us in
Australia by Ram- (Mr Karuppiah
Ramanathan), the State Manager of
the UAE Foreign Exchange, and
handtowels, pens and bags by Family
of Mr Sunil and Rajeshwari Gurram of
Ipswich. The handtowels are hand
loomed in Solapur by entrepreneur
weaver families. The Australian
Association of Social Work gave a
grant towards the preparation do CD
ROMs and the Rural Social Workers
Action Group of Victoria gave three
scholarships for students attending
the conference. The AASW several
government agencies websites,
Australian Institute of Families and
several NGOs hosted the conference
publicity free of cost. We were
also awarded website from Charity
focus for our use and during the
conference year it received some of
their highest ranking on Google
hits.
Mariam HI from Malaysia now a
permanent resident of Australia
assisted in managing the websites
and for 5 months worked with me as a
Conference Associate based in
Malaysia dealing with Public
Relations and advice to me on the
Asian region. The website was also
attended by Amanda Vos.
 Duncan Williams donated his painting
which was later fabulously digitised
by our Informatics and Graphic
design member Dragan Bombek. Dragan
designed the conference volume and
the CD ROM and negotiated with
printers overseas. Mr Palani Thevar
donated T Shirts with Brisbane
Institute’s logo.
We had an American Auction of art
works and culturally significant
items that were brought by delegates
of the conference coordinated by
Christine Radke and the collections
were given away to purchase
Christmas gifts for children in
Sanghmitra villages. The Conference
had a large contingent of Australian
delegates. More on this conference
through its site at
www.strengthsbasedpractice.com
The Conference management was
provided by Chris Montgomery and the
key note speakers from Australia
were Dr Bob Lone President, AASW, Mr
John Armstrong, SRV Guru from
Sydney, Mr Wayne McCashen, Author
and strengths based practitioner, Dr
Irena Yashin Shaw from the cutting
edge party. The Co- convenor of the
Conference in India was father John
Vattamottom of the Sanghmitra rural
development organisation.
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Child Welfare |
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Strength Based Strategies 2006 has caught the attention
of practitioners, researchers,
academics and consumers around the world! Throughout the
conference you will have the opportunity to meet with
and learn from the best minds in HRD, counselling,
community engagement, entrepreneur development,
disability, mental health and HIV/AIDS. Another
prominent topic throughout the conference will be Child
Welfare with presentations including: |
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Young People Strengthening Their Community
Jen Barron, Youth Health Officer, Dorset Council,
Tasmania (Australia) |
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Orphaned by the State: Children of prisoners and the
policy vacuum
Terry Hannon B.Sc. (Psych. Honours) Victorian
Association for the Care and
Resettlement of Offenders (VACRO) (Australia)
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The Early Impact Program: Strengthening Child
Competencies
Dr Stephen Larmar, PhD, School of Human Services,
Griffith University (Australia) |
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Rethinking and Reforming Child Protection Systems
(KEYNOTE)
Dr Bob Lonne, PhD School of Social Work and
Applied Human Sciences,
University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia) and
National President,
Australian Association of Social Workers |
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“Make It More Welcome”: Best Practice Child Welfare
Work With
Substance-Using Mothers - Diminishing Risk by Promoting
Strengths
Sydney Michelle Weaver, MSW, RSW, Social Worker,
Fir Square, British
Columbia Women’s Hospital (Canada) and Fir Square
Combined Care Unit |
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Challenging
Populations:
OVERCOMING RESISTANCE
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Strength Based Practice with
Challenging Populations: Overcoming
Resistance
Facilitators:
Dr Michael
Clark and Dr Venkat Pulla |
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- Provides
practice skills to work directly with
challenging clients
- Focuses on skill-building
- Utilises multimedia presentations,
interactive facilitation with small and
group exercises.
Training pace is lively and engaging.
Emphasis for this training is on
skill-building and "theory-to-practice"
group work for direct application.
Come,
ready to learn "how to" practices and
valuable techniques! |
Community Engagement
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Building Communities
of Hope
Wayne Mc Cashen, Dr Venkat Pulla, Prabhakar
Verma |
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- Provides practice skills to
work directly with communities.-
Focuses on group and community
skill-building
a whole-day workshop with
several handouts for building
resilient communities
Communities of Hope is
about something very precious.
It is about a community's
capacity to learn, to change, to
grow - and to build that most
invaluable
of commodities - respectful
connectedness. This is a
step-by-step blue-print for a
'strengths-based' approach to
community capacity building. co
facilitated by Dr Venkat Pulla
and CCF
Download PDF File
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Creative
Thinking Workshop
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In this
workshop Dr. Yashin-Shaw delivers a new
cognitive tool for thinking creatively. It
incorporates some well known strategies for
creative thinking that people may already be
familiar with such as brainstorming and
perspective shifting but places them in a
broader context. The new model is called
The StrateGEE® model for creative
thinking and was the subject of Dr.
Yashin-Shaw’s doctoral thesis.
This is a
‘hands-on’, ‘minds-on’ interactive session
so participants will actively engage in
creative problem-solving.
"Every day the
challenges we face both in our professional
and personal lives provide us with
opportunities to see fresh solutions to
existing problems. If those challenges are
approached creatively and mindfully by
looking for new perspectives then the
outcomes will be more beneficial and
productive.” Dr. Irena Yashin-Shaw PhD |
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On the Red Carpet!
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How does it feel to be
photographed standing on a red carpet?
To be treated
like a celebrity?
To hold your head high
and feel great about your life…your work?
This is what
Paige Garland, Director of Plan-it Life's
experiential learning strengths-based
practice session is all about.
Experience
how we make our staff and clients feel great
about themselves. How we support them to
achieve their dreams and have fun along the
way. Strengths-based practice is the
foundation. Our unique interdisciplinary
approach is designed to harness people's
potential and foster their motivation to
live a meaningful life. |
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Strength based HRD |
Strength Based Strategies 2006 has caught
the attention of practitioners, researchers,
academics and consumers around the world!
Throughout the conference you will have the
opportunity to meet with and learn from the
best minds in HRD, and Management of Public
and private sector human services managers.
Another prominent topic in HRD is practicing
Human Values every day. The conference
presenters include: |
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Making Performance Appraisals Work
Prof. Uma Sreedhar Bangalore India
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Personal
and Organisational Journeys
Nalinikantha
Rao B.Sudhakar,
OD Consultant
Head Human Resources
New Delhi India Tata
Chemicals |
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Strategies for improving productivity and
knowledge of workers
G.C. Mohanta Director Safety DRDL |
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Future of HRD and Societal Development- Key
Note
Workshop on Strength based audit as HRD and
OD intervention
Prof T V Rao, Chairman, TVRLS Learning
Systems
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Human Values at Work - 3 Hour Workshop
Brisbane Institute of Strengths based
Practice Australia
Dr Venkat Pulla, Rita
Kugler, Coralie
Graham
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To download 'Strength based Strategies 2006
Inaugural International Conference Program,
Papers, Power points presentations,
Biographical sketches of the presenters
please go to
http://www.strengthbasedstrategies.com/ |
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