• Karen Malone 'Consulting Kids' Workshop

The Foundation, in partnership with The Smith Family, are proud to have supported the visit of Dr Karen Malone who is currently Professor of Social Sciences in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong. She is also Asia-Pacific Director of the global UNESCO-MOST Growing up in Cities (GUIC) project that focuses on children and youth evaluating their quality of life. Dr Malone is also an external consultant to UNICEF's Child- Friendly Cities (CFC) initiative and is currently chairing the committee developing a CFC network in the Asia-Pacific region.

The purpose of Dr Malone’s visit was to conduct sessions to provide participants with an understanding of why children’s participation is important. However the key objective was to provide participants with a toolkit of knowledge and skills to enable them to confidently consult with young children in a variety of contexts.

Building a Child Friendly Community

Ethical Approaches to Information Gathering

Listening to Children 

Seeing Beyond Violence

PowerPoint Presentation No 1

PowerPoint Presentation No 2