The annual STOP Domestic Violence Conference will be held at QT, Gold Coast on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 December 2018 with optional workshops on Wednesday 5 December. The objective of the conference is to provide a platform for a unified voice to share, network and collaborate on the challenges and successes of behaviour change. Our human basic needs of comfort and security are violated when violence is common, impacting home life, the work place and the community.
Domestic and family violence does not discriminate, women, men and children of all races, orientation and social standing can be affected by domestic violence and it happens in many forms whether it is physical, social, economical, verbal, psychological, spiritual, sexual or emotional.
The conference will be exploring vulnerable groups and the various challenges and gaps in services, perpetrator behaviour and program, law enforcement, first responders, creating a resilient workforce, impacts of technology, mitigating domestic and family violence, research findings, protection of the vulnerable that will contribute to the educational program of over 70 expert presenters and workshops and 9 Keynote Presenters.
The conference has provided the opportunity for conversation over the past 5 years. This year we will highlight WHAT has changed? WHAT have we learnt? & HOW far have we come? to provide a reminder of the work that the Domestic Violence survivors, researchers, law enforcement, first responders, health and community workers, professional services and political contributors have made that has set the tone and voice for change.
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Proposed Program 2018
| 8.30 – 9.00am | Conference Opening Session |
| 9.00 – 10.30am | Keynote Session |
| 10.30 – 11.00am | Morning Tea |
| 11.00 – 12.30pm | Concurrent Sessions |
| 12.30 – 1.30pm | Concurrent Sessions |
| 3.00 – 3.30pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 3.30 – 5.00pm | Concurrent Sessions |
| 5.00 – 6.30pm | Networking Function |
| 9.00 – 10.30am | Concurrent Sessions |
| 10.30 – 11.00am | Morning Tea |
| 11.00 – 12.30pm | Concurrent Sessions |
| 12.30 – 1.30pm | Lunch |
| 1.30 – 3.00pm | Concurrent Sessions |
| 3.00 – 3.30pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 3.30 – 5.00pm | Keynote Session & Conference Closing |
| 9.00-10.30am | Workshop Session 1 |
| 10.30 – 11.00am | Morning Tea |
| 11.00 – 12.30pm | Workshop Session 2 |
Listen to our 2017 Keynote Speakers
Dr Michael Salter, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Western Sydney University (sponsored by RACGP)
Assistant Commissioner Dean McWhirter, Family Violence Command, Victoria Police
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts open: March 2018
Abstracts close: Friday 24th August
Notification to authors: Monday 10th September
Author acceptances: Monday 17th September
Draft program available: Monday 24th September
Presentation amendments: Friday 5th October
Presenter registration and payment: Friday 12th October
Full papers for peer review: Friday 19th October
Full paper for non-peer review: Friday 23rd November
Early bird registrations close: Friday 19th October
OUR DELEGATES
25% program or support service delivery professionals, 23% delegates from pivotal leadership and management levels of organisations (CEO, Director, GM, etc), 12% from medical industry (psychiatrists, psychologists, GPs, clinical nurses), 17% from allied health (counsellors, social workers, case workers, music therapists, occupational therapist, support workers), 10% from education or academic (Professors, lecturers, researchers, students), 5% investigators or police, 5% from policy or advocacy and 3% from legal expertise and family law.
Highlights from 2017
Over 300 delegates collaborated and shared strategies, projects and research related to the conference theme of ‘Domestic Violence Does Not Discriminate’
Highly acclaimed Keynotes
- Ms Julie Inman Grant, Commissioner, Office of the eSafety Commissioner
- Dr Rachel Carson, Senior Research Fellow, Manager – Family Law and Family Violence,Australian Institute of Family Studies
- Dr Michael Salter, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Western Sydney University (sponsored by RACGP)
- Assistant Commissioner Dean McWhirter, Family Violence Command, Victoria Police
- Ms Fiona McCormack, CEO, Domestic Violence Victoria
- Ms Kati Kraszlan, Acting Commissioner for Victims of Crime, Department of Justice, Western Australia
- Mr Edward Mosby, Pyschologist & Council Member, Wakai Waian Healing & The Domestic and Family Violence Implementation Council
Plenary Panel experts including
- Ms Patty Kinnersley, Director Practice Leadership, Our Watch
- Dr Lara Fergus, Director Policy and Evaluation, Our Watch
- Mr Scott Holmes, Manager Practice Leadership, Our Watch
- Mr Cameron McLeod, General Manager Community Engagement, North Melbourne Football Club
And over 100 expert stream and workshop presenters, the program represented the breadth of topic areas and key insights of those who are involved and work within domestic and family violence.
222 unique organisations joined the Conference, 219 different positions titles ranging from program or support service delivery professionals, pivotal leadership and management levels of organisations, medical industry, allied health, education and academic, investigators or police, policy or advocacy and legal expertise and family law.
Partners 2017
