International Childhood Trauma Conference 2025
17 – 22 August, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
We are a force for childhood
Learn more about our work on behalf of children
We help children heal
On their own, children do not recover from the devastating impact of abuse, neglect and family violence. They need specialised support to heal. We provide therapeutic services to children.
We keep children safe
We build the ability and confidence of individuals and organisations to protect children. We provide parents with education and support to help them raise happy, safe and loved children.
We stand
up for
children
We advocate for changes to laws and policies that help to make all children safer. We work to strengthen community attitudes that prioritise the rights of children to love and safe relationships.
We create understanding for children
We educate and support adults who look after and work with traumatised children to be better able to understand and respond to their complex needs.
We help children heal
On their own, children do not recover from the devastating impact of abuse, neglect and family violence. They need specialised support to heal. We provide therapeutic services to children.
We keep children safe
We build the ability and confidence of individuals and organisations to protect children. We provide parents with education and support to help them raise happy, safe and loved children.
We stand
up for
children
We advocate for changes to laws and policies that help to make all children safer. We work to strengthen community attitudes that prioritise the rights of children to love and safe relationships.
We create understanding for children
We educate and support adults who look after and work with traumatised children to be better able to understand and respond to their complex needs.
Become a force for childhood
Learn how you can take action against child abuse
A message from our patron, Chris Hemsworth
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Where we work
Our trauma teams help children, families and carers, and support professionals throughout Australia, including remote and regional areas. Their collaboration with a network of adults and organisations focuses on creating an environment dedicated to the recovery and healing of children traumatised by abuse, neglect and family violence.
Explore our work by clicking on the locations below!
For referrals or general enquiries please call 1300 381 581 or email intakeourspace@childhood.org.au. All of NSW https://www.childhood.org.au/map/ourspace/
Our team of Senior Advisors also undertake training, reflective practice and supervision for professionals and carers supporting children and families impacted by trauma around Adelaide and throughout South Australia. Adelaide https://www.childhood.org.au/map/providing-therapeutic-care-in-partnership-with-our-partners-junction-australia-in-adelaide/
Supporting Intensive Youth Support Service in Katherine
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Horsham
ARISE WSW program for adolescents
ARISE WSW is a program for adolescents who use violence in the home. This therapeutic program supports the young person (aged between 12-17 years) and their family make meaning of the behaviour, repair relationships and build stronger connections inside and outside of the home.Learn More -
Mitcham
Child Trauma Service in Mitcham
The Child Trauma Service (Victoria) - Mitcham supports children, young people, their parents, carers, and families to recover from the traumatic impact of sexual abuse, family violence and neglect, through individual, dyadic and family counselling, along with therapeutic group programs. The program also provides counselling and support to children and young people who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviour. This program is funded by the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing for families residing in the inner and outer eastern metro region, and operates from our Mitcham location.Learn More -
All of NSW
OurSPACE
OurSPACE provides specialist outreach therapeutic trauma support covering all of NSW for children and young people under the age of 15 years who live in Foster Care or Kinship Care and have experienced at least two placement changes in the previous six months.Learn More
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Ringwood
Popping Bubbles program for mums and bubs in Ringwood
Trial of the Popping Bubbles program for women and their infants who have been affected by family violence, in partnership with the Eastern Domestic Violence Outreach Service in Ringwood.Learn More -
Warrnambool
HEART program
The HEART program supports the healing and recovery from the experience of family violence, and works to build connection, attunement and re-establish relationships that have been ruptured by the violence. The program is funded by Family Safety Victoria.Learn More -
Bairnsdale
Trauma-informed care at a preschool in Bairnsdale, VIC
Our Early Childhood Team is working with Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Cooperative (GEGAC) in their preschool centre to foster a trauma-informed and culturally strong approach to educating and supporting 3-4-year-old children.Learn More -
Canberra
Canberra
A team of 8 therapeutic specialists is providing training and supervision to more than 200 professionals and 400 carers in and around Canberra and its suburbs.Learn More -
Shepparton
Providing therapy to children and young people who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviour in Shepparton
A specialist team running a therapeutic program for 15-18 children who have engaged in sexual behaviour that hurts other children has extended The Child Trauma Service (Victoria) - Shepparton supports children, young people, their parents, carers, and families to recover from the traumatic impact of sexual abuse and when children and young people engage in harmful sexual behaviour, through individual, dyadic and family counselling, along with therapeutic group programs. This program is funded by the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing for families residing in the Goulburn region, and operates from our Shepparton location.Learn More -
Bundaberg
Accrediting Bundaberg YMCA (QLD) as a Safeguarding Children Organisation
All YMCA organisations nationally, including Bundaberg most recently in October 2017 have gone through our rigorous Safeguarding Children Accreditation system to reduce the likelihood of children being abused or exploited while in their care.Learn More -
Katherine
Supporting Intensive Youth Support Service in Katherine
One of our therapeutic specialists from Darwin travels to Katherine (a 3-hour drive) every fortnight to spend three days supporting Anglicare NT’s Intensive Youth Support Service Workers.Learn More -
Adelaide
Providing therapeutic care in partnership with our partners Junction Australia in Adelaide.
Our Adelaide Child Trauma Counselling Service provides specialist therapy and trauma-responsive group programs to children and their families who have experienced multiple trauma in their lives.Learn More
Our team of Senior Advisors also undertake training, reflective practice and supervision for professionals and carers supporting children and families impacted by trauma around Adelaide and throughout South Australia. -
Albury
Working in partnership with foster carers and residential care workers in Albury/Wodonga
A trauma team of four staff in Albury/Wodonga supports foster carers and residential care workers who are looking after children and young people who cannot live at home for fear that they will be abused again.Learn More -
Darwin
Our Strong Ways Program in Darwin, Katherine, Tennant Creek and Nhulunbuy
We support children and young people at risk of or engaged in the youth justice system to change their life trajectories.Learn More -
Alice Springs
Working with NPY Women’s Council in Alice Springs, NT
Working in partnership with the Domestic Violence Team to develop a new approach to preventing family and community violence in remote communities across the NT, WA and SA borders.Learn More -
Hobart, Launceston, Burnie
Family violence counselling for children in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie
12 counsellors providing specialist family violence counselling to children and young people across Tasmania in a program supported by the state government. Each counsellor provides up to 3 hours of counselling per week for 10-14 children and their families.Learn More -
Perth
Our therapeutic, culturally strong care program for grandparents, aunts, uncles and extended families in Perth
Our Perth Child Trauma Counselling Service provides specialist therapy and trauma-responsive group programs to children and their families who have experienced multiple trauma in their lives. We also undertake training, reflective practice and supervision for professionals and carers supporting children and families impacted by trauma throughout Western Australia.Learn More -
East + West Kimberley
Broome, Derby and surrounds
We work in partnership with CenterCare and Derby Aboriginal Health Service to promote placement stability, safety and wellbeing for children and young people.Learn More -
Brisbane
Trauma training to drug and alcohol workers in Brisbane
Trauma training to 150 drug and alcohol workers to enable them to better support young people to find comfort in the relationships around them and stop using harmful substances.Learn More
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