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Wayne McCashen
 Wayne
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
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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 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
 regional
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.
More about
John
HERE
Michael D. Clark
Michael D. Clark (MSW, LMSW)
is a Consultant, Trainer and an
Addictions Therapist. Currently
 the
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
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
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.
Indira Novic
Indira Novic is a
registered clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and
Reconnective Healing™
 practitioner,
who have worked for mental health services such as
STARTTS (Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of
Torture and Trauma Survivors) and TMHC (Transcultural
Mental Health Centre) for the last 10 years, Indira has
specialised in working with clients who experienced
various traumatic and stressful events, or suffer from
anxiety and panic attacks, depressed mood, psychological
disorders as well as numerous physical illnesses and
ailments which are often psychosomatic reactions to
stress in our everyday life.
As a transcultural mental
health clinician, she is a specialist consultant to
other service providers and health practitioners,
identifying and clarifying cultural and historical
issues and their impact on the client’s functioning and
mental health state.
Indira Novic is also a
Reconnective Healing practitioner, facilitating healing
the energy imbalances underlying numerous emotional
problems, psychological disorders, but also physical
illnesses and ailments. These amazing frequencies help
people to heal on all levels of mind, body and spirit. |
