AASW Recording | Postcards from Practice: Learnings from practice with violence, abuse and trauma

Youth-perpetrated violence is a complex, serious and growing issue requiring contextualised response.

The ‘Name. Narrate. Navigate (NNN)’ program, a preventive intervention providing psychoeducation and skill development for young people with increased risk of, or already using violence in interpersonal, family and domestic relationships and the practitioners who support them.

Developed and continuously improved by community-based-participatory-research involving Aboriginal elders, community members, practitioners and young people – NNN emphasises trauma-informed, culturally-responsive and parallel process in practice.

This webinar will highlight findings from the program that contribute new knowledge for prevention intervention including drivers of youth violence, insights into intergenerational violence, abuse and trauma and experiences of the cross-over cohort of victims and perpetrators. It will also highlight tensions in the work and learnings for practitioners in managing positionality and assumptions we bring to our work about what is possible and probable for young people who perpetrate violence.

This webinar was presented by the AASW NSW Branch.

AASW Credential: Family Violence

Presenter

Tamara Blakemore is a fourth-generation Novocastrian and first in family University graduate. She is a social work practitioner, researcher, and educator. Her practice-based research is focused on trauma, justice, mental health, and intersecting practice perspectives. Tamara is the chief investigator of the Name.Narrate.Navigate program for young people who use violence in their relationships with family, carers, peers and partners. Tamara remains active in frontline practice with HNELHD bringing authenticity and responsiveness to her research work.

Tamara maintains strong connections to the Australian Centre for Child Protection (UNISA), with whom she has produced work for the Royal Commission into Institutional Abuse. Tamara is a sought-after speaker, trainer and consultant and has provided expert evidence to Senate inquiries. She holds board and reviewer positions for funding, publication and practice committees.

Tamara has a PhD in Social Work, investigating the occurrence and outcomes of child sexual abuse in a prospective longitudinal cohort study, a first-class Honours Degree in Social Work and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.