Edition 31 | August 2023
Edition 30 | Global Day of Parents 2023
Edition 29 | Heroes of Hope
Edition 28 | Grappling with 2 systems - Child Protection + Domestic Violence Prevention
Edition 27 | 🎄 December 🎄 2022
Edition 26 | 🎃 October 🎃 2022
Edition 25 | Speaking up ... strengthening up ...
Edition 24 | Charter of Rights for Parents
Edition 23 | Basic human rights baby!!
Edition 22 | Is my child ok?
Edition 21 | You are stronger than you think you are.
Edition 20 | Listen to me when I say “right now is not a good time”.
Edition 19 | You have power, even in powerless situations.
Edition 18 | You will always know more about your child than the experts.
Edition 17 | Pain, yes... but there are gains too!
Edition 16 | I was no longer alone... becoming a parent leader. National Redress Scheme. Parent get togethers.
Edition 15 | You do enough. You have enough. You are enough.
Edition 14 | An open letter to parents. Parents meet with Qld Foster and Kinship Care (QFKC). Top 5 tips in an investigation.
Edition 13 | Parents call for compassion, understanding and communication. No new legislation! Yet...
Edition 12 | Celebrating the UN's Global Day of Parents 2020.
Edition 11 | Parents' experience through COVID-19 survey. Parent Morning Teas and Queensland easing restrictions. Wisdom and tips from other parents, and more.
Edition 10 | Parent Committee members connect virtually. Continued systems advocacy. Director-General's message to parents, and more.
Edition 9 | Farewell to an outgoing Director-General Michael Hogan. Parents at Families Australia Meeting, and more.
Edition 8 | Advice for Christmas, Easter and Birthdays. Parent Advice: Building relationships with Foster Carers, and more.
Edition 7 | Inaugural meeting of the Queensland Parent Advisory Committee (QPAC).
Edition 6 | Parent Advisory Committee (PAC) member lends their voice to Anti-Poverty week – Raise the Rate forum. Parents awarded and acknowledged for their advocacy work at the PeakCare AGM.
Edition 5 | Families Australia invited parents to join group discussions with national and state government, NGO’s and academics on key policy areas to strengthen Australian families.
Edition 4 | Parents join other industry leaders at the Queensland Child Protection Annual Awards Ceremony in the opening of Child Protection Week. Lived experiences were shared in the Child Protection Act review and review of the Foster and Kinship Training and Assessments.
Edition 3 | Parents feature in the Department of Child Safety’s 2019 – 2023 Strategic Plan and a commitment to including parents voices in the Supporting Families Changing Futures strategy. Parents also work with Legal Aid Qld to share their court experiences the upcoming Separate Representative training.
Edition 2 | Nine brave and powerful parents spoke at the National Child Protection Conference. PLTI Alumni shared their experience and were joined by parents with a Child Protection experience.
Edition 1 | On 4 June 2019, over 200 people attended the 2019 Global Day of Parents forum. The keynote speaker, David Tobis shared with us his experiences of how parents and their allies changed New York City's child welfare system. 50,000 children in care, reduced to 9,000 – and still holding.