TasCOSS Events and Training

Please join the TasCOSS Board, our staff and other TasCOSS Members for this year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Wednesday 25 October 2023.

TasCOSS are pleased to host a interactive workshop on the Voice referendum, facilitated by Reconciliation Tasmania, which members are encouraged to attend. This workshop will help explain the Uluru Statement from the Heart, what the Voice is and what it would do, as well as looking at Tasmania’s special place in this once-in-a-generation referendum.

Change Your Impact is up and going again for 2023! This is your chance to make your mark as a leader in our industry!

Keep up-to-date with the aged care reform agenda and what it means for your organisation.

Libraries Tasmania is seeking to work with community organisations active in improving digital inclusion outcomes by providing funding to deliver targeted digital skills support for parents and carers experiencing digital disadvantage and facing barriers to engaging with and supporting their children’s online learning.

Would you like to learn how to best use FindHelpTAS to help your clients or care recipients? Join us for a free, interactive online workshop.

Want to learn more about the Voice proposal, what it means, and how TasCOSS arrived at their position? Join us at the upcoming Policy Conversation to hear from TasCOSS around our position on the Voice and how you and your organisation can stay informed and lend support to the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

There’s a new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in the news again and we’re hearing all about safeguard mechanisms, gas-led transitions and ever-increasing climate-related disasters devastating communities around the globe. But where do we, as community services, come in?

In this post-budget Policy Conversation, Dr Maria Yanotti (University of Tasmania) will join us to unpack the 2023/24 State Budget with a focus on housing and cost of living announcements. Dr Yanotti’s analysis will reveal how well the Budget addresses some of the most pressing issues facing Tasmanians today.

The Community Voices Program is a lived experience advocacy program for people living on low or inadequate incomes.

Come and join us to celebrate the power of people and place through leadership, workforce sustainability and community-led change at the TasCOSS Conference 2023 to be held on 29-30 August at Blundstone Arena Function Centre, Bellerive.

The Workforce Coalition convenes a broad Workforce Coalition Network meeting twice a year. These meetings are open to to all stakeholders who are responsible for attracting, recruiting, training and retaining staff in the community services industry.