Bright Futures QLD Forum 2024

Bright Futures Forums bring strategic leaders and high-level stakeholders together to engage in best-practice conversations.

Join our one-day state and territory-specific forums that fosters cross-jurisdictional, cross-sector, and cross-agency collaboration by exploring policy and orgnisational level approaches.

All Bright Futures forums can be attended in person or online and are open to senior managers, clinical leads, department heads, and frontline workers interested in wider research.

The theme for the Queensland Forum 2024 is Technology Facilitated Child Sexual Abuse: what’s the problem and how are we responding?

QLD Forum Agenda

09:00 – 09.30      Arrival and Registration

09:30 – 09.40       Welcome to Country                                   

Aunty Christine, Bula Yabun

09:40 – 09.55              Introduction to Bright Futures

Beth McNamara, National Education Manager, Daniel Morcombe Foundation

09:55 – 11.05              Exploring the role of technology and online domains in facilitating child sexual abuse
Dr Timothy Cubitt, Acting Research Manager, Australian Institute of Criminology’s Online Sexual Exploitation of Children Research Program                                    

Dr Heather Wolbers, Senior Research Analyst, Australian Institute of Criminology

Michael Cahill, Research Analyst, Australian Institute of Criminology

11:05 – 11:30              Morning tea

11:30 – 11:45             A global response to online child sexual exploitation and abuse

Ashley Katz, Director, Child Protection International Partnerships, National Office for Child Safety (NOCS)

11:45 – 12:15                  Stymie: an early intervention initiative challenging social norms of staying silent on sexual violence
Rachel Downie, Founder and Director, Stymie

12:15 – 12:45                  Child Sexual Abuse and Media Literacy as Primary Prevention
Associate Professor Lesley-Anne Ey, University of Adelaide

12:45 – 13:30                 Lunch

13:30 – 14:15              Panel Discussion

Dr Timothy Cubitt, Acting Research Manager, Australian Institute of Criminology Rachel Downie, Founder and Director, Stymie

Associate Professor Lesley-Anne Ey, University of Adelaide

Sheryl Batchelor, CEO, Yiliyapinya Indigenous Corporation

14:15 - 14:30               Communities of Practice / Forum Close