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Propagates, and supports strengths based Human Resource Development Through Strengths-based strategies, Appreciative Enquiry, Asset based Community Development and Counselling Within Australia and the Asia Pacific Region

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Wayne McCashen

 Wayne McCashenWayne McCashen is author of the books The Strengths Approach: A strengths-based resource
for sharing power and creating change and Communities of hope: A strengths-based resource for building community; and co-author of the card-based resource Name the Frame: Reminders for building respectful socially just decisions. Presently he is Education and Training Coordinator for Family and Community Services in the Northern Territory, Australia, and was until recently the principal trainer and consultant for St Lukes Anglicare (Bendigo, Australia) in strengths-based practice to a diverse range of organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand. He is a leader in the articulation and development of the strengths approach to working in the human services. He has written material on strengths-based ways of working with individuals, families, groups, communities and organisations that is used nationally and internationally. Wayne has 30 years experience in the human services

The Strengths Approach Wayne McCashen

The Strengths Approach (Paperback)
by Wayne McCashen (Author), Karen Masman (Editor)

 

Editorial Reviews - amazon.com

Relief and gratitude have replaced the anticipation and barracking over the many years that 'Wayne's book' has been in the making.
And yet there are no surprises in Wayne McCashen's book, The Strengths Approach. It's not the latest text heralding the latest research to support the latest in therapeutic effectiveness.
In his foreword David Epston has described The Strengths Approach as 'modest but remarkable'. This could not be higher praise. Most of our clients ....

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Communities of Hope Wayne McCashen 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.

including youth work, family work, community development, training and professional development, staff supervision, and management. His qualifications are in the fields of social work and community development. He was part of the original team at St Lukes, Bendigo, which initiated work to develop the strengths approach. He has carried this work forward with others at St Lukes and elsewhere in Australia and New Zealand through a range of innovations such as 'client-owned recording' and the development of a range of practices.

John Armstrong

John Armstrong has worked in government, non-government and in consultancy roles since early 70’s as a teacher, principal, adviser and team leader. He helped establish one of the early John Armstrongregional disability teams in Victoria providing family and service supports including arrangements for housing and educational supports for people leaving the St Nicholas Hospital. He has also held statewide training roles – specifically associated with matters of fundamental service practice. He was for eight years a member of the Victorian Intellectual Disability Review Panel.

 

Having been introduced to Social Role Valorisation in the early 80’s, he went on to train and receive recognition as a Senior SRV Trainer with Dr Wolfensberger and the Training Institute in Syracuse NY. Since 1991 he has worked as a self-employed consultant across Australia and New Zealand conducting training, consultancy and evaluation. He has evaluated many human services and provided detailed verbal and written reports that agencies have continued to reference even years later. He also writes material for various newsletters and journals, and conducts workshops and provides keynote presentations at national and some international conferences. John has a particular interest and provides training and articles related to the factors that promote the welfare of people and reduce the potential for neglect and harm.

 

Apart from a long involvement in Citizen Advocacy, he is the inaugural chair of Citizen Advocacy Australia – a national fund raising body for Citizen Advocacy programs in Australia.

In addition to standard SRV and PASSING training, John conducts training and consultancy for agencies on request, that can be tailored to their requirements. He also regularly conducts service reviews or will organise and lead official evaluations of a program or service.

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Michael D. Clark

Michael D. Clark (MSW, LMSW) is a Consultant, Trainer and an Addictions Therapist. Currently
Michael D. Clarkthe Director of the Center for Strength-Based Strategies, United States, Michael is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). He has provided training and/or onsite technical assistance to mental health, criminal justice and child welfare organisations throughout the United States, as well as Europe, Canada, the Caribbean and Micronesia. With over 20 publications on Strengths work to his credit, Michael has important information to share about motivating challenging clients.

More about Michael HERE

 

 

Peta Fitzgibbon

Peta Fitzgibbon

Peta Fitzgibbon  MSocAdministration. She has more than thirty years of experience as a social worker practitioner, lecturer and a senior manager working for many years as a social worker in the Department of Social Security, a senior manager in both Centrelink and the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Peta’s areas of experience included National Management positions within Social Work, Youth programs and services, Workforce Participation and social and community recovery.

Since leaving the Australian Public Service, Peta has worked in India with a human rights Non-Government sector and back in Australia as a strategic adviser within a regional community services organisation in the ACT. Most recently she is working in Centrelink managing an innovative Place Based Services Program aimed at providing more integrated service delivery within disadvantaged communities.

Peta has maintained an active role in the Australian Association of Social Workers for many years, served on the Board and Committees in Tasmania and the ACT. She was the National Conference Convenor for several years. Her social work areas of interest and experience have included child welfare, youth homelessness and family support, social policy development particularly income support and poverty alleviating, welfare reform and service delivery innovation.

Lesley Chenoweth

Lesley ChenowethLesley Chenoweth BSocWk, MSocWk, PhD is the foundation Professor of Social Work at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. She has more than thirty years experience as a social work practitioner and academic, twenty of these in the disability area. Her current research interests span disability issues, human services and rural communities and welfare reform. Lesley has conducted research on disability policy analysis, deinstitutionalisation, families, violence and abuse and delivering human services to people in rural communities.  She is a regular consultant to government and community organisations and has served on numerous boards and committees for disability, legal and family welfare agencies. Lesley is a regular invited speaker at conferences both in Australia and overseas. Currently Lesley is facilitating development of the programme and sponsorships for the Coping and Resilience Conference, Dubrovnik 2009

www.griffith.edu.au/health/research-centre-clinical-community-practice-innovation/staff/professor-lesley-chenoweth

Duncan Williams

Duncan Williams identifies himself as an aboriginal person. 'Mura Ama Wakaana' literally means 'people working together’. Duncan has put together a wonderful training package that sensitises public servants in Queensland to the history of the aboriginal communities in Australia. Duncan's mother was instrumental in seeing that Duncan kept his contact with his nativity, culture and his people from his father's side. Duncan's maternal heritage is part Irish.  Duncan Williams is employed as a Senior Programme Officer in the Indigenous Employment and Training Directorate, which is part of the Department of Employment and Training. Duncan is one of the founding members of the Brisbane Institute of Strengths Based Practice.

   

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