Blacktown Community Services Conference: Learning for Sustainable Community
23 April 2009
Laurie Ferguson addressing the conference.
Laurie Ferguson with Carol Ashworth, of Blacktown City Council, Kevin Moloney, from the University of Western Sydney and Councillor Vashee Rajadurai of Holroyd City Council.
How communities manage during times of unyielding change was the central theme for this year's Blacktown Community Services Conference 2009 ‘Learning for Sustainable Communities’.
The Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs and Settlement Services, Laurie Ferguson, delivered a key note speech at the conference at the Blacktown TAFE, on April 23 April.
Designed for local human service professionals, the one day conference aimed to challenge assumptions and provoke new considerations around community and sustainability. Conference workshops included:
- the transition to community sustainability
- cultural diversity in communities
- the use of creativity as an agent for sustainable change in communities
- a strategic questioning workshop
- using leadership to promote sustainability in communities
- looking at processes for the enactment of community development.
See: Index of Photo album
URL: http://www.minister.immi.gov.au
/parlsec/media/photos/2009/lf09027.htm
Last update: 27 May 2009 at 14:11 AEST