Day 1 - Monday 11 August 2008

9.00 – 10.00           

Master of Ceremonies Glenn Capelli

Welcome to Country

Sally Sinclair
CEO NESA

Welcome Address

10.30.11.00

MORNING TEA

11.00 - 12.00

PLENARY
Dr. Majora Carter

Founder & Executive Director
Sustainable South Bronx USA

Born, raised and continuing to live &work in the South Bronx Majora believes you shouldn’t have to move out of your neighbourhood to live in a better one, and that this notion has environmental and economic implications that span the globe.

Majora’s solutions to local and global environmental problems rest on poverty alleviation through economic development, because the local jobs created empower communities to resist bad environmental decisions.

Establishing Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx) in 2001, she co-founded Green For All in 2007 to advocate for a national green-collar job agenda.

12.00- 12.45

PLENARY
Crystal Kosa

National Director, Corporate Training & Inclusion Strategies Aboriginal Human Resource Council - Canada

Crystal will share an overview and comparison of Canada and Australia in general, and then look at the similarities between the experiences of the different countries in the ethnographic makeup of indigenous populations. She will discuss the distinctive histories and policies of the two governments, and show the parallels in their social and economic consequences. She will conclude by showcasing how the council is working with corporate Canada to improve social and economic realities for Canada's aboriginal peoples.

12:45 - 1:45

LUNCH

1.45 – 3.15

Professor Mark Considine

Dean of the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts.
University of Melbourne

Els Sol

Associate Professor
Hugo Sinzheimer Institute of the Facullty of Law Amsterdam University

Rob Ivry

Senior Vice President of Development and External Affairs MDRC

Professor Jane Millar

Professor of Social Policy
Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy (CASP).
University of Bath UK

Roy Newey

A4e Group Board Director

Working with numerous Governments, NGO's and public agencies in the field of welfare and employment, Roy has led A4e’s expansion from the UK into the EU and Middle East. Roy is now working with policy makers in Poland, India, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Palestine, Israel and Denmark addressing Labour Market challenges and discussing Active Labour Market instruments.

Roy is looking forward to sharing his international experiences of skills, offender support and labour market programmes

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Bruce Harvey

Global Practice Leader
Communities Rio Tinto Ltd.

Crystal Kosa

National Director, Corporate Training & Inclusion Strategies
Aboriginal Human Resource Council - Canada

Mastering Aboriginal Inclusion is the council's flagship five-volume series of books designed to help improve all dimensions of Aboriginal corporate relations.  Learn how the council is currently engaged with the Canadian mining sector in developing a mining-specific, customized version called Mastering Aboriginal Inclusion in Mining.

3.15 – 3.45

Afternoon tea

3.45 – 4.30

PLENARY
Richard Ahmat

Executive Director, Cape York Land Council

Richard is descended from the Yupangathi group from the Pennefather River region that falls within the Napranum and Mapoon Shires. The area is mostly covered by mining leases and Richard was actively involved in high level negotiations that resulted in the Western Cape York Communities Co-existence Agreement.

4.30 - 5.15

PLENARY
Lesley Ann Van Selm

Managing Director
Khulisa Crime Prevention Initiative–South Africa

Lesley Ann Van Selm has developed a new citizen-based process for reintegrating and rehabilitating juvenile offenders that starts while they are still in prison and continues once they rejoin society. Before they are released, the process raises the young people's emotional intelligence. The program is shaped, vetted, and critiqued by the inmates themselves and is run by ex-offenders.

5.15

It’s a Wrap

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DAY 2 - Tuesday 12 August 2008

7.30 – 9.00

BREAKFAST MEETING

Majora Carter

When Vision Vanishes – People Perish

Majora Carter is determined to make her community more livable, greener, and healthier than it is today. Working in partnership with local government, businesses, and neighborhood organizations, learn how she creates new opportunities for transportation, fitness and recreation, nutrition, and economic development, including establishing the Bronx Environment Stewardship Training program (BEST), one of the nation’s first urban green collar job training and placement systems, training and placing participants in everything form landscaping and green-roof installation to brownfield remediation.

9.30

Glenn Capelli – Moving Forward

9.45 – 10.30

PLENARY
Brian Bacon

Founder & President Oxford Leadership Academy

Brian Bacon is a special advisor to Prime Ministers, Presidents and Heads of State and a leading consultant to the CEO’s and top management of numerous multinational corporations including Ford, Ericsson, Coca-Cola, BP, Horwath International, Barclay’s, McDonald's, Sandvik, GE, Fortis, Pharmacia, SAAB British Aerospace and Volvo.

He has been involved in more than 30 successful business turnarounds and is the creator of one of the world’s most successful leadership development programs with over 100,000 alumni from 56 countries.

‘When a leader emerges and holds to a more authentic way of behaving, change happens quickly.  They signal something through their presence and their actions that speaks to the deep honesty inside others.  Something magical occurs when people suddenly begin to trust each other’.

10.30 – 11.15   

INTERVIEW

David Bussau AM

Co- Founder Opportunity International

'Each of us has the capacity to be incredibly productive and those who realise this are the ones who make the difference in the world. By rising to the occasion, through wisdom and strength and hope and humanity, we will emerge stronger and richer and a source of hope to others.'

David believes that in every great problem lies a great opportunity. It is not in peace and comfort that people forge their destiny but in their response to trouble and strife and challenge.

11.15 -11:45

Morning Tea

11:45 -1:15

Influencing on behalf of communities:
Developing Creative Policies

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Dr. John Falzon

CEO St. Vincent de Paul NCA

Social policy is whole cloth. It is naive at best and deceitful at worst to maintain that piecemeal programs, not matter how good in themselves, are any substitute for an over-arching strategy for genuine inclusion and empowerment. Especially through our national and state councils we give voice to those who are voiceless, standing with them and advocating for them.

David Bussau

Co-Founder Opportunity International

"By enabling entrepreneurs, you create more jobs. If you want to transform communities, you have to economically empower them. There's just no other way. You can be there for years giving out free food, housing and education, but if people are not economically empowered, they don't take responsibility for themselves."

Leisa Hart

Executive Leader Employment Services
Mission Australia

Communities can take a key role in driving the development process by identifying and mobilising existing but often unrecognized assets, and respond to and create local economic opportunity. 

We need to acknowledge that Indigenous knowledge is an integral part of the culture and history of a local community and as James Wolfensohn, former President of the World Bank noted ‘we need to learn from local communities to enrich the development process’ (cited in Gorjestani, 2000).

The World Bank’s experience trying to achieve sustainable community development has been that to pursue approaches which fail to integrate and value local community knowledge and assets is fundamentally flawed with the ultimate result being severe limitations on both social and economic development.

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Adrian Panozzo

CEO RecLink Australia

Social Inclusion in Action – why our identity should be more than a job or address

If the foundation of Social Inclusion is economic participation - then is a job the cure all for homelessness, poor mental health, addiction and any other form of socio-economic disadvantage you might want to describe?

As we balance nervously on the see-saw of a period of significant economic growth, labour shortages and a housing affordability crisis – the ability to quickly and permanently move those experiencing disadvantage using a housing first or economic participation focus may be flawed if we don’t acknowledge the critical importance that social participation and a sense of belonging can play in transforming a person’s life.

Why social participation should be considered as primary pillar in delivering any social inclusion policy is worth thorough investigation and debate – particular if any public policy to alleviate disadvantage professes to be ‘joined up’ or ‘whole of government’ in design.

Major David Eldridge

Territorial Social Programme Secretary
Salvation Army

Wilma Gallet

Strategic Advisor
Salvation Army

Building belonging communities and engaging with people who are homeless or marginalised.

Healthy communities are those where the inherent worth of every individual is recognised and valued. To build belonging and healthy communities, we need to recognise that each one of us has some kind of gift or talent and create opportunities where people are encouraged to use their gifts and develop their capacity. To effectively connect with people who are homelessness or marginalised and create socially inclusive societies where everyone has a sense of belonging and self worth, we need to go back to the essentials of human interactions – RESPECT, RELATIONSHIPS & RECIPROCITY

A Policy Perspective:
Shaping and Structuring Developing Programs
Labour Market Institutions Around the World

What are the differences in labor institutions that make them a candidate explanatory factor for the divergent economic performance of countries. What have economists learned about the effects of these institutions on economic outcomes.

In this session, John Allen from New Zealand’s Ministry for Social Development, Dr Els Sol from Amsterdam University and Michael Manthorpe from Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations will discuss the shaping and structuring of social policy programs – in Australia and abroad.

Michael Manthorpe

John Allen

Regional Commissioner for Social Development
Work and Income New Zealand
Workforce Participation

Els Sol

Associate Professor
Hugo Sinzheimer Institute of the Facullty of Law Amsterdam University

1.15 – 2.15

Lunch

2.15 – 3.45

Diverse Education and Employment Strategies
Pushing the Boundaries for Optimum Outcomes

Crystal Kosa

National Director, Corporate Training & Inclusion Strategies
Aboriginal Human Resource Council - Canada

Learn about best practices in Canadian colleges and universities for improving Aboriginal enrollment and retention. These practices include such initiatives such as grassroots participation, use of elders, and innovative ways of recognizing the validity and wisdom in traditional teachings. 

David Bussau AM

Co-founder Opportunity International

David will talk about his philosophy of planting partners and hatching them into independent, professionally run institutions, Opportunity has launched nearly fifty partners in Asia including India, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe and creates a job every 35 seconds in 27 countries around the world. A Manchester University study has shown that for each job created, on average six people are permanently taken out of poverty and 13 people in the community benefit, so over thirteen million people were potentially helped by Opportunity in 2006 alone.

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Reintegrating Juvenile Offenders in Society.
Bringing community into the Prisons and the Prisons into the community

Lesley Ann Van Selm

Managing Director
Khulisa Crime Prevention Initiative–South Africa

At Khulisa, Lesley Ann has developed and implemented new strategies and methods for working both with prisoners, (to reduce recidivism), and with at-risk youths in disadvantaged communities. She has also created effective programs to tackle gangs, drugs and crime.
The organisation is now recognised as a vital player in South Africa's evolving social environment, and has embarked upon an international expansion campaign.

Roy Newey

A4e Group Board Director

Working with numerous Governments and public agencies in the field of welfare and employment, Roy has led A4e’s expansion from the UK into the EU and Middle East. Roy is now working with policy makers in Poland, India, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Palestine, Israel and Denmark addressing Labour Market challenges and discussing Active Labour Market instruments.

Helping to reconnect disconnected youth to education and training programs:

What have we learned.

Rob Ivry

Senior Vice President of Development and External Affairs
MDRC

Major David Eldridge

Territorial Social Programme Secretary
Salvation Army

One of the tragic consequences of family homelessness is that these children and young people will be carrying the burden of transient childhoods throughout their lives, and I think it will impact upon their education, their relationship building skills, community connections.

3.45 – 4.15

Afternoon Tea

4.15 – 5.00

PLENARY
Timothy McCallum

Australian Humanitarian Award 2005

Tim’s resilient character and extraordinary spirit have touched the hearts of the arts community, as they have watched him rehabilitate and successfully return to work. He has received an array of accolades for his performances, including being named as a finalist in the Arts Category of the Young Australian of the Year Awards.

7.00 for 7.30 pm

DINNER

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DAY 3 - Wednesday 13 August

9:00

Good Morning
Glenn Capelli

9.15 – 10.45

Disability and Mental Health Employment Strategies:
A Conversation

Internationally the economic and social participation of individuals with disability and/or mental illness is generally lower than that of other groups. The Australian Government is developing a National Mental Health and Disability Employment Strategy to better address the barriers to participation to individuals who are disabled and/or mentally ill. We have gathered a group of experts in this field to talk about the issues and opportunities to address them.

Timothy McCallum

An individuals perspective

Wilma Gallet

Strategic Advisor
Salvation Army

Professor Jane Millar

Professor of Social Policy
Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy (CASP).
University of Bath UK

John Mendoza

Chair - National Advisory Council on Mental Health
Adjunct Professor Health Science
University of the Sunshine Coast Q’ld.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Medicine University of Sydney

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Glen Capelli – The Final Curtain