Category: Event

Event, Parenting, Prevention & Strengthening
Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures

Every child deserves a healthy beginning, and this year’s World Health Day focuses on just that. Under the theme “Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures,” the campaign highlights the importance of maternal…

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Event, Prevention & Strengthening
Adolescent Violence in the Home

Yesterday the 2025 Adolescent Violence in the Home (AVITH) Symposium took place. The event brought together practitioners, researchers and real-life advisors to explore intervention strategies, systemic challenges and ways to…

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Event
March Forward: Turning Commitments into Action for Gender Equality 

by Dr Lisa J. Griffiths, OzChild Chief Executive Officer This week marks 30 years since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a landmark commitment to advancing…

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Event
Pushing Limits For A Worthy Cause

Move It! for OzChild inspires people to challenge themselves for many different reasons, but for one particular runner, Sam Foote, who also works for OzChild, participating in Move It! for…

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Event
Ben Dixon: A Journey of Resilience and Gratitude

Ben Dixon’s story is one of heartbreak, resilience and transformative power. Speaking at OzChild’s All Staff Conference in November 2024, Ben shared a deeply personal journey, highlighting the challenges he…

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Event
Abiola Ajetomobi – All Staff Conference 2024

This November we host our OzChild All Staff Conference, two days of informative team building and keynote speakers, designed to bring everyone in the organisation together under one roof to…

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Awards, Event
The Elizabeth Tudor Award

The Elizabeth Tudor Award is dedicated to a carer each year for their outstanding commitment and contribution to foster care. They show selflessness, service to others, warmth, advocacy and dedication…

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Awards, Event
2024 JC Butler Award Winners – Bethany Jinks and Travis Chalk-Hatton

Congratulations to Bethany Jinks and Travis Chalk-Hatton, winners of OzChild’s 2024 JC Butler Award.     Embodying the virtues of this award: commitment, dependability, creativity and compassion, this young couple have demonstrated…

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Event
CREATE’S Voices in Action Conference

Earlier this year, the CREATE Foundation’s ‘Voices in Action’ conference was held in Adelaide, bringing together over 500 participants, including young people with lived experience of out-of-home care, policymakers, service…

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Event, Volunteer
Something for Everyone

Today we celebrate National Volunteer Week, a week-long celebration and appreciation of the diverse contributions volunteers give to make this world a better place.   It’s an opportunity to celebrate and…

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Event, Indigenous
Now More Than Ever

In a world marked by division and discord, National Reconciliation Week (NRW) serves as a beacon of hope, urging us to strive for unity, understanding and justice. As we embark…

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Event, News
National Children’s Week 2023

Children’s Week is a national celebration of children’s rights, talents and citizenship held on the fourth Wednesday of October in Australia to coincide with Universal Children’s Day. Each year the theme of Children’s Week highlights a particular Children’s Right.

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