MIODRC - Keynote with Nicole Yade
Channel: HOPEnDialogue project
Date: 2021-08-16

3rd Meeting of the International Open Dialogue Research Collaboration 

Keynote: "Applying Open Dialogue Principles in a Service for Women"

Lou's Place is a daytime refuge for marginalised women in Sydney, Australia. It is a low barrier community service that works with women who have experienced trauma including experiences of violence, experiences of addiction and experiences of mental illness. The Lou's Place team have been exploring dialogical ways of working with women, in particular with mothers who have children in Out Of Home Care. The Always Mum program seeks to assist mothers with children in OOHC to improve their parenting capacity and feel more supported in their involvement with the broken child protection system. Many of the mothers we support have themselves experienced foster care, and dialogical principles are being applied to have important intergenerational conversations. This presentation seeks to share experiences from the frontline while reflecting on our work on the Always Mum program.

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