Bringing International Best Practice Home: Churchill Fellowships on trauma-informed and child-centred legal services

Join us for a discussion with two recipients of the prestigious Churchill Fellowship who recently completed their research on trauma-informed and child-centered legal services. Our two panelists will be sharing their international findings relevant to Australian services, as well as sharing application tips. 

Jennifer Chen 

Jen runs the With You training program on behalf of NLA. She investigated trauma-informed legal services for people experiencing vulnerability.

Elicia Savvas 

Elicia is the Associate Director of Child Protection at Victoria Legal Aid. She investigated child-centred legal services in child welfare law.

Agenda: 

1:00pm - Introduction by interim NLA ED

1:15pm - Jennifer presents: An investigation of trauma-informed legal services for people experiencing marginalisation

1:40pm - Elicia presents: Child-centred legal services: lessons from the US and UK

2:05pm - Q&A