Resi ROCKS
Resi ROCKS ‘Recognising Our Carers Knowledge and Skills’ is the annual peak forum/celebration for residential care workers. The awards ceremony brings together residential care workers from across Victoria and celebrates practice excellence and cultivates a culture of learning, innovation and the sharing of knowledge and ideas.z
Returning to an in-person event this year, AV employees and our favourite pooch, Lacey, attended the Glasshouse on September 30, to acknowledge the efforts of Victorian workers and teams who care for children and young people living in residential care.
The day was a great celebration of outstanding achievement, innovation, teamwork and leadership across Victoria’s residential care workforce and two our teams received honourable mentions.
- Our team in the Northern Metro Regionfor the Residential Team Award for their implementation of the KEYS program and for the successful support of a young man in his transition into a kinship placement.
- Our team in the Western Metro Region for the Healing Matters Award.
To find out more about a day in the life of an AV Resi worker
Victorian Protecting Children’s Awards – Department of Families, Fairness and Housing
The Victorian Protecting Children Awards recognise and celebrate practitioners, workers, carers and community members from across all areas of Victoria’s child and family services system.
Foster, permanent and kinship carers, academics, policy, program, supervisory and direct service staff from community, government or academic organisations were encouraged to nominate anyone they thought goes ‘above and beyond’ to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
After a rigorous screening and judging process of all the nominations, two Anglicare Victoria employees were recognised for their contributions to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
Congratulations to Amanda Stacey, the Operations Manager at COMPASS and the COMPASS team finalists for the Minister’s Award for Innovation in Protecting Children, and Amanda (Ama) Hargreaves, AV Foster Carer (Bendigo) a finalist for the Carer Award.
Amanda Stacey from COMPASS says “As a team we want to make sure there’s great outcomes and results and we want to ensure young people have the best chance of success and live the life they want to live and so it is a great honour to be recognised for our work”.
