TasCOSS is hosting a exclusive networking event on Wednesday 27 October 2021 at Bayviews Restaurant & Lounge Bar. The event offers you the opportunity to meet the TasCOSS Board, hear about TasCOSS’s priorities for the next 12-months and network with industry colleagues.
Does your organisation provide support for carers or people who are in caring roles? Do you want to know how to promote your programs in a way that is clear, concise and easy-to-read? Join us for a free webinar on health literacy.
Homelessness Week is a national event held each year during the first week of August (2-8 August 2021) which aims to raise awareness of people experiencing homelessness, the issues they face and the actions needed to achieve enduring solutions.
Join us for this practical workshop which will cover what feedback is and why it is important to the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) sector, explore feedback as an opportunity to engage, link feedback into the Aged Care Quality Standards, unpack the feedback toolkit with a focus on consumer-centred framework; and provide you with resources, practice examples and information that you can take back to your team.
Earlier this month, the State Government released its draft legislation that will end Federal Group’s monopoly over gaming in Tasmania and give licences for poker machines to individual pubs and clubs. Join us for our next Policy Conversation where we will hear from public policy expert John Lawrence on the detail of the draft legislation and have a discussion about where it needs to be improved.
Join us for our next Policy Conversation where we will attempt to tease apart both the problems and the hope in using the term ‘vulnerable’ in the community services industry. The conversation between Dr Catherine Robinson (Anglicare Tasmania Social Action and Research Centre) and Dr Lucy Mercer-Mapstone (TasCOSS) will invite participants to consider the impact of the language we use to describe the individuals and communities we work with, both in policy and throughout our work practices.
The theme of this year’s NAIDOC Week is Heal Country! The NAIDOC 2021 theme calls for all of us to continue to seek greater protections for our lands, our waters, our sacred sites and our cultural heritage from exploitation, desecration and destruction.
TasCOSS Conference 2021 is an opportunity for us to come together, acknowledge where we’ve been and look to where we’re going. Inspired by diverse voices of change from across our state and beyond, we will explore how we as an industry can best support our communities to thrive into the future.
Aboriginal cultural awareness training, run by Dewayne Everettsmith (Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre) and held at piyura kitina (Risdon Cove), will assist you to work and engage more effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
There are some big challenges ahead, particularly AASB1060 and the shift to General Purpose Financials. Join BDO Australia partner and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) advisory national leader Aletta Boshoff to discuss the updates to reporting requirements for not-for-profit organisations.
