Forums, Launches and Presentations

Forums

Best Start Forum: The role of the Best Start facilitator - 22 April 2008

• Program for the Forum (Word - 273Kb)
• Workshop: Role of the Best Start facilitator (PDF - 120Kb)
• Policy update: transition to School, Early Childhood Strategic Policy and Projects Division (PDF - 18Kb)
• Program update: Community Profiles, Statewide Outcomes for Children Division (PDF - 297Kb)

Best Start Forum: Positive leadership, service change and sustainability - 26 November 2007

Facilitating change in local communities is both complex and demanding. It requires drawing on the efforts and expertise of all stakeholders involved in Best Start sites. This forum will explore the importance of leadership and the key success factors for sustainable changes to services to achieve positive outcomes for children and families. Evidence, promising practice and local demographic data play a vital role in driving change. Local examples will provide practical strategies to support participants in their work to effectively engage all relevant stakeholders committed to achieving the vision of Best Start.

• Using data and evidence to drive effective policy and practice for children (PPT - 3.7Mb) - Presentation by Professor Frank Oberklaid OAM, the Foundation Director of the Centre for Community Child Health at the Royal Children's Hospital, and a Professor within the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics.
• "Positive Beginnings" (PPT - 1.5Mb) - Presentation by Michael White, Acting Executive Director, Office for Children, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
• The What, Why and How of Koorie Well-Being: Developing cultural safety and cultural ease to strengthen families (PPT - 8.3Mb) - Presentation by Dennis McDermott, a Koori, psychologist, academic, and poet. Dennis has over 25 years experience as a psychologist and most recently a conjoint senior lecturer in Indigenous Health at the Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit, University of New South Wales.

Best Start Quarterly Meeting, 31st July 2007

• An Overview of the Evidence in Early Years - How to Include Promising Evidence presented by Dr Sharon Goldfeld, Child Health Policy Advisor (PDF - 2.0Mb)

Best Start Conference - Partnership in Practice March 2007

• Best Start Conference - 'Partnership in Practice' 19 & 20 March 2007

Aboriginal Best Start Forum - November 2006

• Aboriginal Best Start Forum - 21 November 2006 (PDF - 20Kb)

Best start Evaluation Forum July 2006

• Evaluation forum (PDF - 12Kb)
• Evaluation presentation from Melbourne University (PDF - 606Kb)
• Broadmeadows Best Start site report (PDF - 148Kb)
• Rosewall Best Start site report (PDF - 179Kb)

Launches

• Geelong Aboriginal Best Start Launch - April 2006
• Echuca Aboriginal Best Start Launch - April 2006
• Delkaia Aboriginal Best Start Demonstration Project Launch - October 2004
• Djillay Lidji Aboriginal Best Start Launch - September 2004

Presentations

• Shepparton Playgroup, Belinda Whitlaws, March 2006 (PDF - 164Kb)
• Best Start 2002-2005 Realising the Vision by Jeanette Nagorcka (PDF - 984Kb)