Experiences of care in Aotearoa: Agency compliance with National Care Standards regulations

Date:

26 March 2025 - 26 March 2025

Time:

10.00am - 11:00am

Due for release in February 2025, Experiences of Care in Aotearoa 2023/24 reports on agency compliance with the National Care Standards regulations. In this webinar, you’ll hear the key findings directly from those who visited communities around the motu and helped write the report. Join us online!

Ōtautahi/Christchurch Social Worker Networking Event

Date:

27 March 2025 - 27 March 2025

Time:

4:30pm - 6:30pm

Come connect with other social workers and ANZASW over drinks and nibbles.

He whare takata and Oranga Tamariki: Wāhine Māori wisdom as the starting place for protecting our mokopuna

Date:

02 April 2025 - 02 April 2025

Time:

12.30pm - 1.30pm

Join this webinar to hear Kerri speak about her mahi from a mana wāhine positionality.

Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland Social Worker Networking Event, Albany

Date:

09 April 2025 - 09 April 2025

Time:

5.00pm - 7.00pm

Come connect with other social workers and ANZASW over drinks and nibbles.

Disability equity in healthcare

Date:

13 May 2025 - 13 May 2025

Time:

10:00am - 11:00am

Come along to this webinar to learn more about applying human rights approaches to disability in your practice. Whilst this session has a healthcare focus, the key concepts will be useful for all social workers.

Effective Programme Designs to Overcome Substance Use Among Young People

The purpose of this research is to gain insights into the characteristics of programmes effectively supporting young people to overcome substance use. For this purpose, the research aims to investigate the experiences of up to 2 programme coordinators working with young people with current or recent experience of substance use.

World Social Work Day 2025 - Toitū te Kotahitanga, Toitū te Oranga

An exploration of the experiences of social workers working within traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation

To participate in this research, you will need to fulfil the following criteria:

• Hold a current social work registration and be working as a social work practitioner in Aotearoa New Zealand
• With a minimum of two years’ experience in rehabilitation providing support to adults with a TBI
• Willing to participate in a 45-to-60-minute individual interview. This interview may be face-to-face or conducted via Skype.

ANZASW responds to the Experiences of Care in Aotearoa 2023/2024 Report

ANZASW welcomes Aroturuki Tamariki the Independent Children’s Monitor’s Experiences of Care in Aotearoa Report for 2023-2024, however, we are profoundly concerned by the central finding that "social workers are not always able to work effectively" within the current Oranga Tamariki system.

Exploring and preventing impacts from cis- heteronormativity in social work professional supervision.

I am seeking social workers who identify as part of the Aotearoa New Zealand Rainbow community and are willing to take part in a one-hour online interview.