Connecting children to nature and participating in nature play

This blog by Angela Weller and Sharon Duthie explores trauma-transformative practice, showing how it integrates neuroscience, culture, and relational healing to support children and families. It also highlights experiential workshops that help practitioners apply this approach with compassion and therapeutic intent.

A simple toasted sandwich became a moment of connection for a child living with uncertainty. This story highlights how everyday acts of kindness can foster safety, trust and healing for children who need it most.

Explore how trauma moves through therapeutic teams and learn practical strategies to reduce emotional load, support staff wellbeing, and create safer, more reflective workplaces.

This blog features an interview with Isaac Nicholls, a proud Ngemba Wailwan man, and our second First Nations Intern. Over the next eight months, Isaac will work full-time with Therapeutic Services and the Knowledge Mobilisation and Practice teams learning and sharing his lived experience. 

This blog explores how organisations can learn from Wicked to strengthen child safeguarding by challenging systemic issues and fostering courageous, accountable leadership.

An interview with CREATE Foundation CEO Imogen Edeson exploring what young people in care are telling us through the This Matters to Us report, and why listening and acting on their voices must be central to our practice.

Overwhelmingly, children and young people engaged with youth justice have histories or current experiences of child abuse, family violence, and exploitation. Many have been, are currently, or should have been known to child protection authorities.

The Victorian Government’s new reforms would allow children as young as 14 to be tried and even sentenced like adults for violent crimes - a tough-on-crime move aimed at public perception but one that ignores evidence about trauma and child development.

In Australia, around 800 young people are held in detention on any given night. Most are boys. Nearly two-thirds are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The majority are aged between 14 and 17, and many come from regional or remote areas where access to education, healthcare, and social supports is limited. Within these centres, a typical staff team might include youth justice officers, teachers, caseworkers, psychologists, and health staff, all navigating complex environments shaped by routine, security, and relational intensity.

Children are often the unseen witnesses of domestic and family violence. This blog reflects on a recent tragedy to explore what happens when we overlook their experiences, and why centring children in media, policy, and community responses matters for their safety and recovery.

A heartfelt reflection on The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — exploring how its gentle lessons of love, courage, and belonging can inspire healing and hope for children in care.