Events - Community Housing Seminar Series
October 2004 to April 2005
The Community Housing Federation of Victoria and the Swinburne Institute
for Social Research in partnership with the Office of Housing are holding
a community housing seminar series. There will be no charge to participants.
The series will:
- explore key issues and the implications for community
housing organisations
- promote an understanding of the future for organisations
- examine strategies and build relationships to meet
that future.
The series will aim to:
- promote housing enterprise
- encourage reflection
- be participatory
- provide information and insight for practice
- be applicable to organisations.
Those for whom the series will be useful include:
- co-ordinators, team leaders of frontline staff,
and frontline staff of community housing
- voluntary members of boards of management
- CEOS and managers of agencies
- OoH staff with responsibility for community housing
funding, contracts, and service delivery
- promoters of industry development including OoH
and representative organisations.
Numbers will be limited to a maximum of 50 participants
per seminar, including facilitators and presenters.
Seminar themes and details
Seminar 1: Building sustainable housing organisations
Key issues and questions:
- Why be in it?
- For whom?
- Best outcomes for clients?
- What key features are essential?
- How do we get there?
Date: 7 October 2004
Venue: Savoy Plaza, Lt Collins and Spencer Streets, Melbourne
 Seminar 1 details.
Seminar 1 registration
form.
Seminar 2: Governing for sustainable growth
Key issues and questions:
- Why?
- How?
- Is size the only measure and/or capacity for doing
the business?
- What strategies are necessary: financial viability
and investment?; stock transfers and asset management?;
creating-maintaining organisational oomph - values,
vision, workforce development, amid change?; planning
and managing for change?; Working with communities?
Date: 2 December 2004
Venue: Duxton Hotel, Flinders Street, Melbourne
Details to come.
Seminar 3: Growing partnerships
Key issues and challenges:
- Why?
- What partnerships?
- Nature of relationships ?
- Role of government: enabler or intervener?
- Enabling funding models?
- Dynamics: what motivates-extends effectiveness
innovation - risk?
- Skills and knowledge needed?
Date: (to be confirmed) February 2005
Details to come.
Contact
For more information contact Fran at the Community Housing Federation
of Victoria on 03 9687 2933.
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