Registration Guidelines
ISPCAN’s Pre-congress Working Groups offer a unique opportunity to connect with professionals who share a focused interest in specific topics within child protection. These groups will convene on Sunday August 23rd, a day prior to the start of the ISPCAN Melbourne Congress, providing a collaborative space for meaningful dialogue, networking, and knowledge exchange among participants from diverse regions and disciplines. Attendance to these powerful groups include a lunch for $30 in addition to your registration. We encourage you to join us early for the congress and enjoy the benefit of these impactful free bonus sessions.
ISPCAN Working Groups bring together global experts to collaborate on defined aspects of child abuse and neglect, working toward shared goals established by each group. Open to both ISPCAN members and nonmembers, these interdisciplinary groups convene to exchange resources, data, and reports, and to develop innovative tools and strategies that address critical gaps in child protection research, policy, and practice. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn from and share with our international content experts on these critical child protection topics.
There are limited spots available for the Pre-Congress Working Groups. Spots will be filled on a first come first serve basis.
Working Group Schedule
Melbourne Working Groups
Child Maltreatment Data Collection
The goal for this group is to identify and share the key methodological approaches and findings and to explore areas of difference and comparability. The group seeks to include participants from a range of countries in order to represent a broad diversity of cultures, approaches to service delivery, languages, methodologies, and comparative data.
N.E.X.T Network of Emerging eXpertise in child proTection
ISPCAN NEXT is a supportive, global network of emerging child protection professionals. Equipping the next generation of global leaders in child protection with knowledge, connections, and tools to create a safer and more supportive world for children, now and in the future.
Parenting and Scale-Up Working Group
Our goal for this Working Group is to have a collective group of people collaborating, learning from one another and engaging to provide personal growth in your daily work. The Parenting Working Group will be moderated by Genevieve Haupt Ronnie and Saara Thakur from the Global Parenting Initiative
Trauma Informed Care/Mental Health
We are bringing together trauma-informed care and practices that would be beneficial to any community. The goal is to develop practical tools and resources that make providing mental health care attainable for children and families.
Multi-disciplinary Collaborative Practice
The Mission of this working group is to share ideas around collaborative practices, and best ways to expand collaboration across sectors, regions, and the world. Our goal is to have global responses to child abuse to benefit all children, regardless of geographic location and resources.
Child Death Review Working Group
Child Death Review (CDR) is a systematic process aimed at examining child fatalities to identify causes and implement preventive measures to enhance child safety and health. This working group is a community of practice shared learning for members to connect and build lines of communication with one another, share ideas, skills, research, resources, multiple perspectives, and new information regarding this topic.
The Intersection of Schools and Child Protection
The aspiration is that the group will enable sharing of research and professional knowledge from different countries, provide a global picture of how education systems deal with the phenomenon of child maltreatment in order to advance practice and policy in this field
Child Safeguarding Working Group
The Child Safeguarding Working Group is specifically focused on implementing preventative actions that ensure that all children and young people are protected from deliberate or unintentional acts that could lead to the risk of or actual harm. Thia group plays an important role in protecting children from harm, abuse, neglect, or exploitation