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Voices in Action

YOUR STORIES. STRONGER TOGETHER.

21-23 MARCH 2024
Adelaide Showgrounds, South Australia

What we're about

Your Stories. Stronger Together.

CREATE believes meaningful improvements for the 45,400+ young Australians growing up in care can only be made in partnership with children and young people who have experience with the care system. For this reason, Voices in Action brings together young people, carers and professionals to explore key issues identified by children and young people with a care experience, and discuss solutions to improve the care sector.

Our last conference’s theme, ‘Your Stories. Stronger Together’ showcased the importance of each individual young person’s story and journey in the out-of-home care system and how bringing these voices together and working collectively with all those involved in the care sector can effect positive change.

Why Voices in Action?

PRESENTATIONS from young leaders and industry acclaimed motivational speakers
FUN WORKSHOPS & ACTIVITIES for young people
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS focused on apply the wisdom of lived experience to key issues
CONNECTION AND COLLABORATION with young people with care experience, carers, and key decision-makers to tackle new and emerging issues

Who is this conference for?

Young people with a care experience between 14 and 24 years of age who want to meet others with similar life experience in a fun environment and share their wisdom about being in care
Carers who want to hear inspiring stories and be a part of positive change out-of-home care sector professionals seeking the views from the care sector’s young leaders about what works and what doesn’t
Sector leaders looking for a grassroots approach to tackling old problems with fresh perspectives

Take a look at our last conference

The sixth international conference, was held at the Adelaide Showgrounds from Thursday 21 to Saturday 23 March 2024.

The theme of this year’s conference, Your Stories. Stronger Together. showcased the importance of each individual young person’s story and journey in the out-of-home care system and how bringing these voices together and working collectively with all those involved in the sector, we can effect positive change.

The Voices in Action conference is a unique opportunity to connect and collaborate with the aim to elevate the voices of children and young people and gain their insight to make changes to the out-of-home care system in Australia.

Here’s what people liked most about CREATE’s 2024 Voices in Action conference:

“Being able to connect with people who share similar experiences and deep diving into problems and solutions with the care system” – Young Delegate
“The way that it showed clear themes and specific problems to focus advocacy on” – Young Delegate
”Hearing from so many brave, resilient, amazing care experienced young people and the fire in the belly that this has given as a professional to do better!!” – Professional Delegate
“Hearing about different programs and advocacy to rethink the child protection and OOHC systems reignites my passion and value for this work” – Professional Delegate

Read more about the fantastic outcomes from the 2024 Voices in Action conference.

Thank you to our major partners in 2024

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