INVITATION TO YOUTH JUSTICE PRESENTATION (for young people) 4.30pm – 5.30pm AEST (4pm – 5pm NT) Tuesday 6 June Join via this Zoom Link (no need to register) https://napcan-org-au.zoom.us/s/83789207487 Password: napcan As you may be aware, the National Children’s Commissioner is currently calling for submissions on Youth Justice and Child Wellbeing Reform (closing on…
NAPCAN’s Youth Speak Out (NYSO) Valuing the voices of children and young people is an essential ingredient in building a fairer and healthier future for all Australians. Which is why the National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN) has set up its own youth council to represent the voices and opinions of…
NAPCAN is thrilled to be involved with the upcoming 6th National Child Protection Forum including presenting on our new Safer Communities for Children program. Please join us – along with 200+ attendees and 40+ speakers – in Brisbane in June. National Child Protection Forum Amplifying the voices of children and young people to shape…
Want to prevent child maltreatment? Rethinking our language is part of the solution… Initial research into how we can better ‘frame’ prevention to create social change in Australia As the National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, NAPCAN is interested in ‘issues framing’ as a tool for shifting attitudes towards prevention and increasing…
Run Against Violence (RAV) are amazing supporters and partners for NAPCAN’s Love Bites program. Their work is dedicated to raising awareness of domestic violence and money for the primary prevention of violence (including funding a grants program for NAPCAN’s Love Bites Program). As with Love Bites, it’s all about having those critical conversations every chance…
As part of Child Protection Week (3 – 9 September), we’re looking for artworks to show what children and young people think about their relationships with family, friends and community. These will then be used in our campaign (leading up to September) to help show that protecting children is about all of us working together….
Do you know someone who works tirelessly to help keep children and young people safe, and families strong? If so, consider nominating them for an award today! A number of states around Australia run Child Protection Week Awards as an important way to: recognise the hard work of individuals and organisations who are playing their…
National Principles for Child Safe Organisations: Are your board members onboard? Children thrive in organisations where the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations are embedded at every level from the boardroom to the front line. That’s why NAPCAN has developed a free condensed online Child Safe Organisations Briefing (just 1.5 hours) specifically for board members…
Are there things that you wish you were taught in school but weren’t? Or things that young people are telling you they want to know more about but don’t know who to ask? NAPCAN’s Youth Speak Out – also known as NYSO and made up of 19 representatives from all across Australia – have identified that there are…
Juvenile justice is of key interest to our work at NAPCAN because we know that young offenders are much more likely to have suffered serious trauma in childhood, that locking up children increases rates of rearrest, and that adult contact with the jail system, in turn, increases the risk of harm for the next generation….