Australasian Corrections Education Association (ACEA) provides a forum for educators working in adult and youth corrections facilities to exchange ideas and insights into effective education and training programs and services for those in custody.
ACEA is delighted to work with the University of Southern Queensland to share the wealth of knowledge and experience from practitioners, policymakers and corrections education management across the world with you.
I look forward to receiving reflections on your learning from each of these webinars.
Dr Helen Farley
President.
Australasian Corrections Education Association
February 2024
Innovative Solutions in Correctional Education and Employment The Western Australian Mode by Dr Fiona McGregor
Western Australia is, geographically, the single largest corrective services jurisdiction in the world. As such, it presents multiple challenges for the delivery of education, employment, and transitional services to a prisoner population spread throughout 17 prisons (and 1 privately run prison) and additional 7 work camps across 2.5 million square kilometers. Despite this, in the last 30 years, there has been considerable innovation in multiple areas of delivery. This webinar describes the Western Australian model of delivery, through its Education, Employment and Transitional Services (EETS) division, outlining the pathways for prisoner learners from assessment through to its national award-winning traineeships program and other new initiatives such as the Entry to General Education curriculum now owned by the Department of Justice WAโs own RTO, ASETS and the Prisoner Employment Program (PEP). This webinar also describes our partnerships with employers and tertiary providers to enable wider access to education, training, and employment pathways for people in custody.
July 2023
Effective Responses To Youth Gangs In Youth Detention Centres
Kate Bjur has travelled around the world visiting youth detention centres, prisons and other secure settings for young people, as part of a Churchill Fellowship project. She has investigated effective responses to youth gangs and models of secure care that have been shown to reduce recidivism. Kate has worked with young people for over 25 years in youth detention, restorative justice, family work, policy and advocacy roles in government and the non-government sector. Kate is Assistant Director at the West Moreton Youth Detention Centre in Wacol, leading a multi-disciplinary team that includes casework, psychology, programs, restorative practice, cultural support, court, visits and intelligence teams. Kateโs presentation focusses on youth gangs – preventing gang involvement, managing young people in gangs while in youth detention, and supporting young people to exit from gangs. Kate also speaks about models of youth detention that have been proven to reduce reoffending.
May 2023
Songbirds – Ballads Behind Bars: My 28-year sentence
Murray Cook
May 2022
Pedagogies of Desistance 2022
Dr Fiona McGregor
April 2021
Wider Benefits of Education
Dr Helen Farley
October 2021
September 2021
Career Education – It Can Be One of the Keys
Sarah Mitchell
Inside Out Prison Exchange Program and Think Tanks: Transformation, change and empowerment.
Dr Marietta Martinovic
August 2021
Signalling Desistance Dr Suzanne Reich
July 2021
ACEA Webinar Green on Green Peer Tutor Training presented by the Education Officers from Wolston Correctional Centre @ the University of Southern Queensland. Contact details are on the slides.
June 2021
Supporting Neuro Diverse Learners ACEA Webinar Dr. Farley
Download Webinar
Powerpoint Presentation available here