BUSHkids Annual Report 2019-20

ANNUAL REPORT 2019–2020

Training

BUSHkids is committed to developing the capability of our staff through training, providing them opportunities to develop their careers and enabling us to offer a wide range of quality programs for our client kids and families. We provide a range of evidence-based group program training sessions in-house. New staff are given a comprehensive induction and are trained in a variety of programs to provide a good foundational knowledge for family-centred practice. Although COVID-19 restricted F2F (face-to-face) training this year it also presented new opportunities for non-clinical staff to undertake Read and Grow training and to take part in our highly popular Virtual Storytime sessions. More than 140 training courses were successfully completed by BUSHkids staff across seven client-facing group programs:

As well as supporting opportunities for external professional development (PD) , we also have a commitment to a strong internal PD program and our ‘Lunchbox Learning’ (LBL) forms a key part of this approach. Staff gather across the state for an hour once a fortnight over lunch and engage via video-conferencing. Topics identified by the Leads of the various disciplines, via supervision, staff surveys and other modes are a chance to draw on the skills and knowledge of our own staff, as well as that of external speakers.

LBL sessions are also recorded for our shared drive, building an extensive library for our staff to access at any time. Each LBL is also evaluated as part of BUSHkids’ quality improvement process and feedback indicates that the LBL sessions continue to be very well received by staff and regarded as valuable adjuncts to their PD. The events of Summer 2019-20 and life with the pandemic since then called for some additional LBL topics this year and sessions covering disasters, COVID-19 and Virtual Storytime training were included.

DATE LBL TOPIC

PRESENTER/S

TOPIC SECTION 43 LUN HBOX LEARNING TRAIN NG

2019

18 Jul

Family Law 101

Rachel O’Neil, Women’s Legal Service lawyer

15 Aug Telehealth Research Project Findings 18 Sep BUSHkids Disaster Response 19 Sep Sleep and Rest for Children

Jess and teleHealth team

Marianne Taylor Katherine West

Janine Kemp, Kelsa Laughlin (Clinical Nurse Centre for Children’s Health and Wellbeing)

24 Oct Resilience

19 Nov Raising a child with a disability – a presentation of parent wellbeing and growth Stephen Young 28 Nov Common Practice Challenges – The Perspective of Parents Janine Kemp 10 Dec Mental Health and Suicide Marianne Taylor 2020 28 Jan Sensory Profiles – How to use them, when to use them, how to interpret and when do I involve an OT? Megan McDonald

30 Jan The Common Approach

Janine Kemp

Simone Driver Marianne Taylor

25 Feb What is Strengths-based Practice? How do I use it in my practice?

12 Mar Trauma-informed Practice (Emerging Minds)

Janine Kemp

3

Marianne Taylor, Helen Dimond, Megan MacDonald, Kaitlin Hinchliffe, Hannah Phillips, Ken Lewis

7 registered; 3 completed

19 Mar

Telehealth / Telepractice Delivery

Suicide and Self-harmRisk Management: How to respond to disclosure of suicide and self-harm

07 Apr

Marianne Taylor

30

Fun Friends: 25 Friends for Life: 5

16 Apr Supporting families through COVID-19

Kaitlin Hinchliffe

ECIAwebinar • An Invitation to Play: Exploring the meaningful participation of all children in early years settings through play Domestic Family Violence (Emerging Minds)

14 May

Janine Kemp

25

(Friends Resilience program)

11 Jun

Janine Kemp

Marianne Taylor, Helen Dimond, Megan MacDonald

23 Jun Parent Coaching Model (Part 1)

incl. 8 external education/early years staff via ZOOM

31

16 Jul

FASD

Kaitlin Hinchliffe

13 Aug Routines-based Interventions (Parent Coaching Part 2) Marianne Taylor 01 Sep What is the role of a Paediatric Physiotherapist? Leah Fesuk 10 Sep I do, We do, You do: Pedagogy for Coaching (Parent Coaching Part 3) Marianne Taylor 29 Sep Eco Mapping Marianne Taylor 08 Oct Single Session Framework

39

incl. 16 by ZOOM due to COVID / distance

23

Jannie Leach (QH CDC Social Worker), Janine Kemp Marianne Taylor, Nicole Allenden, Kaitlin Hinchliffe

PALS SocialSkillsProgram

Introductory course

20 Oct Trauma-informed Care (Final)