The Victorian Government has just announced new reforms that mean children as young as 14 could be tried in adult courts and even face life...
Dan Howell
Assistant Director, Education, Parenting and Training
Dan is the Assistant Director, Education, Parenting and Training at the Australian Childhood Foundation, within the Knowledge Mobilisation & Practice division. They lead the design and delivery of education and training programs for professionals, carers, and parents, helping build the knowledge and skills needed to support children and young people who have experienced trauma. Their work spans accredited and non-accredited learning, parenting programs, and sector-wide professional development.
Dan is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker who has worked extensively with children and young people who have experienced trauma and those who display harmful sexual behaviour. Dan has worked therapeutically with varying presentations including sibling sexual abuse, harmful sexual behaviour and sexual exploitation and abuse.
Dan has supported a division of the Department of Human Services in Victoria in this area focusing on resourcing residential carers, case managers and clinical services with consultation, training and reflective practice and has delivered multiple workshops on harmful sexual behaviour including with the Centre for Excellence in Therapeutic Care.
Dan lives and works on Wurundjeri country.
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Dan Howell
Not many look forward to pulling an all-nighter to attend conferences in other time zones but here I was for the fourth time, readying the...
Young people in out-of-home care and youth justice who have experienced trauma often display a wide range of behaviours that their care team can find...
Harmful sexual behaviours displayed throughout childhood development is a serious and complex problem. This issue has sustained increased attention from policymakers following the Royal Commission...
In Australia, children and young people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in out-of-home care are at critically greater risk of getting involved with the...
The Centre for Excellence in Therapeutic Care (CETC) is confounded, disappointed and seriously concerned about the Victorian Government’s backflip on raising the Minimum Age of...
The Australian Institute of Family Studies recently released a report titled Improving the Safety and Wellbeing of Vulnerable Children: A Consolidation of Systemic Recommendations and...
Over the past year, the Centre for Excellence in Therapeutic Care has launched its first blended learning program, CHC40521 - Certificate IV in Youth Justice.Dan...
Since the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Royal Commission) there have been efforts by all tiers of government to deliver on...
This practice guide aims to support carers and professionals working in and around the out of home care system to know how to best understand...
Working with young people who engage in harmful sexual behaviour is complex and challenging. Cyra Fernandes and Dan Howell have spent over a 1000 hours in the past...