Seminars & events
Upcoming Seminars
The Inbetweeners: Getting Youth Back on Track - 24 April 2013
Date: 24 April 2013
Venue: Foyer, Level 2 New Law Building (F10) Eastern Ave University of Sydney
Cost: Free, however registration essential
Time: 6-8pm (Registration and refreshments from 5.30pm)
Register: online here.
Enhancing outcomes for children and adolescents is an important goal of early intervention programs, where critical aspects of risk and need, rather than simply crime, are addressed. A holistic approach to the lives of young people also has significantly broader effects, including community safety, risk reduction and crime prevention. This important seminar will focus on the role of early intervention for juveniles as young as 10 years of age following the NSW Government's recent announcement of its Youth on Track program. The program aims to respond to the needs of those young people who come into repeated contact with police, and who have previously fallen through the cracks of service provision. The program will provide adequate services to prevent the further entrenchment of young people in the criminal justice system. This second seminar in the 2012 - 2013 Juvenile Justice seminar series explores the role of early intervention for these young people - the inbetweeners - and its effectiveness in getting them back on track.
About the speakers
Brendan Thomas BA was appointed to his current role, Assistant Director General for Crime Prevention and Community Programs in September 2007. Brendan is responsible for Criminal Diversion and Crime Prevention activity for the NSW Department of Attorney General and Justice, including oversight of the Crime Prevention Division, Anti-Discrimination Board, the Aboriginal Programs Division, the Diversity Services and the Victims Services Division. Brendan has worked in crime prevention and criminal justice for more than 18 years and has written widely on crime prevention and Aboriginal justice issues.
Rebecca Magoffin is Principal Policy Officer at the NSW Department of Community Services.
Professor Ilan Katz joined the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW in January 2005, becoming Director in July 2007-December 2011. He started his career as a social worker and manager in several local authorities and NGOs in the UK. He was Head of Practice Development and Research at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After spending some time as a civil servant in the Department for Education and Skills, he returned to research. His research interests include parenting, child protection, disability, youth justice, youth mental health prevention and family support, children and communities, social inclusion, comparative child welfare systems, adoption, migration, race and ethnicity and Indigenous social policy.
Lawyers/barristers: attendance at this seminar is equal to 2 MCLE/CPD units.
This event is sponsored by Juvenile Justice NSW and hosted by the Institute of Criminology, Sydney Law School.