On 3 November more than 90 people attended the Social Work & Community Development In The 21st Century forum at Flinders’ Tonsley precinct.
Organised by Flinders University, City of Onkaparinga, Red Cross, SACOSS and the University of South Australia, the forum brought together seven outstanding Social Work practitioners to show case contemporary community development (CD) practice in Adelaide.
Keynote speaker Carolyn Curtis (pictured presenting), from TACSI, spoke of the innovative work being undertaken with families, using co-design practices, to build on family and community strengths.
Other speakers included practitioners from Southern Domestic Violence, DECD, City of Onkaparinga, Seeds of Affinity, Together SA, Community Health Onkaparinga and City of Mitcham.
The presentations were a timely reminder that CD is alive and well and that taking time to listen to people and develop relationships, being creative and innovative are at the core of building individual and community resilience.
To view some of the action from the day click here to view our MC’s posts, visit Moira Deslandes’ storify here: https://storify.com/MoiraDeslandes/reconnecting-and-connecting
If you are interested to hear more about this event, or obtaining any of the speakers’ presentations, please contact swplacements@flinders.edu.au
Participants provided the following comments:
“Excellent variety of well informed and experienced speakers on community development. Also enjoyed meeting new people/networking, with likeminded people.”
“Great venue, amazing food, great networking. Inspired!”
“Really enjoyed today. Very valuable speakers. Really useful to learn through their personal stories. Thank you.”
“I found it very useful and will be taking back topics to my organisation about different strategies to community development.”
“Great diversity of speakers, rich content for learning! Moira did a wonderful job!”
“Excellent variety of well informed and experienced speakers on community development. Also enjoyed meeting new people/networking.”