Submission writing for beginners: Equipping social workers to respond to the Treaty Principles Bill

Date:

11 December 2024 - 11 December 2024

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Presented by ANZASW’s Policy Team, Bronwyn Larsen and Joanah Ngan-Woo, this webinar will equip and inspire you to respond to the Treaty Principles Bill and other issues which impact our profession and the whānau and communities we serve.

Treaty Principles Bill workshop for Pacific Social Workers

Date:

18 December 2024 - 18 December 2024

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Are you a Pacific social worker who wants to support Tangata Whenua by engaging in the Treaty Principles Bill? Would you like to explore a unique Pacific perspective on this advocacy cause?

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!

The withdrawal of public funding for ‘Section 27 Cultural Reports’: Perspectives of social workers on impacts to offenders, justice and equity.

I am seeking participants who are qualified social workers and who have experience of working with adults who encounter the criminal justice system as defendants (even if this is not their primary field of practice). It is not a requirement for participants to have in-depth knowledge of the legal or criminal justice system; the important element is for participants to have experience of ‘walking alongside’ people going through the system (ideally to the sentencing stage).

Comparing pandemic | post-pandemic institutional closure and move to community support in Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, and Australia.

You are invited to participate in this research if you are involved in the youth sector in New Zealand; Ontario, Canada; or New South Wales, Australia. We are specifically interested in interviewing people who work with youth who have contact with the justice system.

Contemporary perspectives of social workers implementing liberatory praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand

Participants must be qualified social workers with a minimum of 2 years frontline work experience but needn’t be working on the frontline currently. The reason for this is the requirement for participants to be critically reflexive about their praxis and organisational practices.

Advocacy Opportunities around The Treaty Principles Bill

We have several actions and opportunities for members over the next couple of weeks while we are drafting our ANZASW submission.