Presenters: Leland Pasion – Lead Trainer, Safe Places for Children. Doug Ivins – General Manager, Seed Skills. Abstract: Despite the challenges, we believe that service providers and government agencies can achieve their respective goals of providing high quality care within out-of-home resident care facilities. Safe Places has developed an Integrative Practice Framework which clearly outlines its vision of what best practice means for its organisation. Through embracing a learning centred approach across its organisation, it has been able to consistently meet its organisational strategic goals as outlined in its Integrative Practice Framework. A learning centred organisation is one that embraces the ethos that organisations learn when its members are encouraged to share insights, knowledge and concepts collaboratively. Recognising this, Safe Places for Children partnered with Seed Skills to develop its organisation’s learning capability. This included: - A commitment from all sectors of the organisation to define what Best Practice meant to them and to continually strive to meet this expectation. - Embedding a career pathway based on nationally accredited qualifications. This encouraged all staff to engage in a lifelong learning journey. - A commitment to continually reflect on both current and past practice to learn from our organisation’s past knowledge and experience. - Embedding a continuous improvement model in every aspect of both operational and corporate services sectors within our organisation. Our experience has demonstrated that an organisation can achieve ‘best practice’ through embracing a transformational learning ethos, allowing the organisation as a whole to grow together as it learns together.