Healthy Development Adelaide

Join us for the Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) and Department for Child Protection forum on Preventing and responding to Harmful Sexual Behaviours in children and young people: Promising practice.

Anyone working with, or caring for, children and young people today - in schools, community services, or care environments - will have experienced the increasing presence of harmful sexual behaviours amongst children and young people. This forum brings together leading experts in the field of harmful sexual behaviours along with practice leaders to share their guidance about what is working to tackle this complex and confronting issue.

OUR SPEAKERS

Hon Katrine Hildyard MP, Minister for Child Protection
Opening remarks

Professor Leah Bromfield, Director of the Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia, and the 2025 Australian of the Year for South Australia - Harmful sexual behaviours: What are we talking about and why does it matter?

Ms Amanda Paton, Deputy Director Practice, Australian Centre for Child Protection, Clinical Psychologist - It’s not enough to just stop harmful sexual behaviour – we need to move from a risk focus to one that enhances safety and wellbeing.

Ms Belinda Trimboli, Senior Manager Strategic Projects, Department for Child Protection - Micro learnings and resources for foster and kinship carers to support understanding and responses to Harmful Sexual Behaviour.

OUR CHAIR
A/Professor Zohra Lassi (HDA Co-Convenor), Robinson Research Institute and School of Public Health, University of Adelaide

Other event information:

Networking and light refreshments will follow the session from 7.15pm.

This is a public forum and also open to the community, everyone is welcome to attend.