Date and time: Wednesday 20 November, 12.00pm-1.00pm ACST
Topic: Using Australian Early Development Census data to Close the Gap in early childhood development
Location: online via Zoom, details will be shared just prior to the event
Presenters: Karen Cieri, Assistant Director: Australian Early Development Census (AEDC), NT Department of Education and Anita Graham, Lead CQI Coordinator: Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the NT (AMSANT)
Register online by: 19 November 2024

Event description:

The AEDC is a holistic measure of early child development. This presentation is intended to prepare data users to be ready to make best use of the 2024 AEDC data in the NT when it is published in April 2025. This presentation explores the value this population-level data can bring to evaluation, continuous quality improvement, community engagement and local decision-making for the benefit of all young children in the NT. We will demonstrate the various data platforms where this AEDC is available. Throughout the presentation we will explore how we can work within the Australian Framework for Indigenous Data Governance towards increasing Indigenous data sovereignty.

Presenter details:

Karen Cieri grew up in Darwin and has worked in strategic policy and reform roles within the NT Department of Education for 20 years. Karen completed a Batchelor of Arts (psychology) at University of Queensland in 1998 and has a background in systems change leadership in education. Karen is completing doctorate research into collaborative and community-led ways of working, particularly within education and integrated service settings.

Anita Graham is a Narungga woman from the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, with ties to Darwin's Larrakia people. She has a background in frontline health care, clinical governance, and data analysis. She completed a Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology) with Flinders University in 2017, while interning with the Office of Crime Statistics and Research (SA). For SA Ambulance she worked in her local community as an Ambulance Officer, where she was accepted into a Master of Public Health with Flinders University. She then moved into the role of Quality Coordinator for the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network's newly formed Aboriginal Health Division where she worked with the area's Aboriginal Family Clinics, Flinders Medical Centre's Aboriginal Liaison Team, and the region's hospitals and other health services by leading accreditation preparation and improving the quality and safety of care provided to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients through establishing the division's cultural and clinical governance. Anita now leads AMSANT's CQI Team in driving the NT's Continuous Quality Improvement Strategy across both the NT Government and the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector and continues to be a passionate advocate for improving the quality of care delivered to Aboriginal people.

This seminar will be recorded, it will be available on the Youtube channel approximately four weeks after the date. We suggest you subscribe to the AES YouTube channel to be notified when new recordings are added.

This free event has been organised by the AES Northern Territory Regional Network. Our seminar series provides an opportunity for you to meet with AES members and others in the evaluation community and to share and learn from the experiences of fellow evaluators.

Session start times:

NT: 12.00pm

VIC, NSW, ACT, TAS: 1.30pm

SA: 1.00pm

WA: 10.30am

New Zealand: 3.30pm

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