Welcome

At Berry Street we believe that high-quality professional development and a culture of continuous learning is key to building the capacity of practitioners. Through our professional learning activities, we share our practice knowledge and expertise with the broader sector always striving to enhance outcomes for vulnerable children and families.

Resources

Berry Street produce a range of resources to inform carers, practitioners, service providers, policy makers and the public. Our resource library includes publications, reports, articles and presentations on issues impacting children and families.

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BSEM Public Courses

The Berry Street Education Model Team have a series of 4 day courses taking place in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Perth, Adelaide, Darwin and Hobart. Book now to avoid disappointment!

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Our Purpose

Through our professional learning and development activities, Berry Street strives to enhance outcomes for vulnerable children and families through strengthening the capability of practitioners, services, systems and communities.

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Our Focus Areas

We focus our work on areas where Berry Street has particular subject matter expertise that can be developed and shared with other practitioners and providers across Australia. This includes trauma-informed practice, education, out of home care, family violence, youth engagement and others.

Focus Areas

Berry Street Education Model

The Berry Street Education Model is a progressive training course. It enables teachers to both increase engagement with challenging students and improve all students’ self-regulation, growth and academic achievement.

Students in the BSEM pilot program achieved more than two years academic growth in one year following implementation of the model (based on AusVELs data, evaluated by the University of Melbourne).

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Training and Development

Clark Baim: Attachment and Psychopathology (Sydney)

Berry Street is proud to present internationally renowned trainer, author and psychotherapist, Clark Baim who will present a three day course informed by his ground-breaking knowledge of contemporary attachment theory. Clark’s workshop will take your practice to the next level, transforming your understandings of attachment theory and its practical application. You will be provided with solid theoretical foundations and strengths-based practical interventions that will greatly enhance positive engagement with the children and families you work with.

Richard Rose: Introduction to Therapeutic Life Story Work (Melbourne)

Therapeutic Life Story Work enables children and young people who have experienced the trauma of child abuse and neglect to reflect on their past, develop compassion for themselves and move on. Learn about this defined approach which supports the child to make significant changes, as a result of a far deeper understanding and awareness of how their history has been negatively impacting on their present.

Youth Engagement

Berry Street works in partnership with young people leading change to ensure more children have a good childhood in Australia. Our ground-breaking youth engagement initiatives foster and promote the expertise of young people with lived experience of disadvantage, enabling us to work alongside them as partners who bring key insights, innovative solutions, and new perspectives to our work.

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Read our report on Practice Elements

A discussion paper by Dr Penny Mitchell on ‘Common practice elements for child and family services’. This paper makes a valuable contribution to the current discussion about evidence-based and evidence-informed practice.

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Free financial education training

MoneyMinded is an adult financial education program. We provide free training for practitioners who want to build the skills and confidence of their clients in relation to everyday money matters. We also provide MoneyMinded training to foster and kinship carers.

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