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Funding the changes necessary for a safer school always seems like the big hurdle. The information you need can be found on this panel discussion. #safeschools

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Do you want to walk in greater power and authority? This conference with the Global Awakening staff team will explore topics relevant to every life that will help us understand how to walk in power and authority. On 16th March - book on https://lnkd.in/gsjhVM5

Great to see this work and leadership from the community in Tasmania to drive compliance in that state with Australias international obligations under the Torture Convention. My hope is that this work on basic compliance will be a springboard for a wider conversation and some Commonwealth collaborative leadership to work with all the States and Territories on best practice in corrections. The primary objective of Governments should be (as Winston Churchill said in 1910) to prevent as many people going to prison in the first place. As things stand Australia has a higher incarceration rate than the countries of Western Europe and Canada while NSW has almost twice the prison population size to Victoria.

8 Lessons learned from serving as neighborhood association president for a year: 1. Try and give everyone time to speak 2. Everyone has an agenda, including yourself (but acknowledge your agenda openly and try to minimize it) 3. If you're not willing to champion an idea, probably not a great idea to bring it up 4. When in doubt, table the discussion and add it to next meeting's agenda to come back to 5. Decisions are usually made in the meeting before the meeting 6. Always try and invite public officials to come speak and get involved, you never know what you'll learn 7. Keep an open mind, honey catches more flies than vinegar 8. Have fun and keep a sense of humor, most politicians are basically just volunteers giving their time for the greater good

#ThrowbackThursday Explore our comprehensive report that features the policy takeaways from subject experts who joined the talk on our first season of the Research to Policy Talk Series. Read: https://lnkd.in/gukMDTrw

I worked in public libraries for a bit where we didn't have security guards. We had our processes in place for when 'things went down' but those processes didn't necessarily result in deescalation of a situation or return the library space back into a safe public/work environment. Some library patrons would purposefully avoid a particular time of day at my branch because they noticed anti-social behaviour would happen more so at that time. Certain characters would enter the library and my staff would instantly have an anxiety spike. It all came to a head one day when an incident occurred and I believed the members of public involved had left. A staff member started hyperventilating. Once this staff member had returned to normal breathing, they planned on returning to the public space to continue work as if nothing happened. I tried to have a debrief with them before they returned to work... that was when another staff member came out to the staff area and said those members of public had returned. As a supervisor, I was literally pulled in all different directions trying to keep everything under control. Library staff can be as assertive as possible but that doesn't mean people will listen to our direction to leave the library when they partake in inappropriate behaviour. Library staff can only do so much. We're not trained as social workers, we're not trained security professionals. Realistically we shouldn't have to be. While the profession has an ethos to empower communities and contribute to sustainable development goals - we can't be everything, no matter how much we want to be. We need a collaborative approach with people who do have the skills to implement measures to minimise the risk such as security experts and social workers. Luckily for me I was able to get security guards in after the particular incident I mentioned earlier. Once the guards were in, the staff slowly stopped 'meerkating' at any sound that they thought might lead to an incident. They were able to do library work (which they're employed to do!) rather than behaviour management all day. You could literally feel the stress coming off people once they noticed the security guard was already dealing with a situation. EAPs are all good but the onus is still on the staff member to reach out. Some of the reasonings (not all!) Jane mentioned as to why staff don't reach out resonated with me either personally or due to discussions I had with staff who didn't feel the need or had already reached out. Many patrons said "It's a sad reflection of society when a library needs to hire security guards". However no one opposed to it being funded. The local councillor even advised me that the community feedback was resoundingly positive about the implementation of security guards. Everyone felt safer. Jane raises some great suggestions to help public libraries implement strategies to reduce trauma in our spaces. I only hope we can all talk more about this.