BSPA will host a number of national professional development opportunities (e.g., workshop and webinars) each year, in addition to facilitating state-based events and networking opportunities. You can access the event calendar via the ‘Members Hub’, as well as information about local opportunities in your state.
Members of BSPA will receive free and discounted registration to upcoming events. To become a member, click here.
Registrations closing Monday 21st September!
Family violence can significantly influence safety, wellbeing, participation, and support outcomes for people with disability.
Join BSPA and our expert panel as we explore practical strategies to strengthen client safety through intersectional and collaborative practice.
Date: 22nd September 2026
Time: 11:30AM - 1:00PM (Adelaide time)
Location: On-line
Interested in BSPA member events but not a member?
Join up now at bspaustralia.org.au/memberships/
BSPA 2025 EVENTS
BSPA are pleased to announce the next professional development webinar on 22nd September 2025.
This presentation will explore how culturally responsive behaviour support can be strengthened for children and young people in out-of-home care (OOHC).
Grounded in the Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) framework, the session will highlight how a strengths-based model can guide the delivery of behaviour support that respects culture, identity, and connection to community.
Presenters will share key findings from recent research investigating the challenges and opportunities practitioners face when implementing positive behaviour support in OOHC settings.
Attendees will leave the session with practical strategies for embedding cultural responsiveness within behaviour support planning and delivery.
Interested in the webinar but not a member?
Join up now at bspaustralia.org.au/memberships/
3:30 – 5:00PM (ADL time) 22nd September 2025
45 min + additional 30 min for moderated questions
Location:
Please fill out the form to register for:
Balancing Duty of Care and Dignity of Risk
11th August at 3:30PM (ADL time)
BSPA Webinar series
"Strengthening Supervision. Strengthening practice."
As part of BSPA’s ongoing Webinar Series 2026, BSPA is offering a 1.5‑hour online webinar presented by BSPA Chair, Dr Erin Leif moderating a credentialled panel including specialist supervisors Sharon Paley, Jon Martin and Jo McRae.
Registrations are closing Tuesday 28th July, for the upcoming webinar; exploring the role of clinical supervision in building practitioner capability and supporting quality behaviour support practice.
📅 29th July 2026 3:00-4:30PM (Adelaide time)
🎟 Free for members RSVP here
Preparing images for upload
This short tutorial aims to help you optimise your image so that is has appropriate dimensions and as small a file size as possible.
Know where your image is saved
Your image must be saved onto your computer and sitting somewhere in your computers file system. It doesn't matter where, as long as you know where it is.
If your image is currently attached to an email, you will need to save it into your computers file system.
We recommend having it saved on the Desktop for easy access.
Correct image dimensions
To check your images dimensions and file size, you can right-click on it and choose 'Properties'.
The recommended dimensions and file size for images uploaded to a BSPA calendar event are:
Width: between 600px & 900px
Height: between 350px & 600px
File size: less than 300kb
If your image dimensions are bigger than this, you can modify them in the next steps, but if they are smaller then you'll need to find another image.
Import image into online editor
If you are familiar with editing images in Photoshop or some other program, then simply use that program to modify the image so it is within the specifications listed in Step 2.
If not, then we recommend to use 'Photopea' which is a free full featured online image editor.
Click here to open: photopea.com
After it opens in a new browser tab, drag your image from your Desktop (or wherever you have it saved) onto the Photopea page. You can also click the "Open From Computer" link and browse through your computers file system to find and upload the image.
Modify image dimensions if needed
In the Photopea top menu, click Image > Canvas Size. It should open this box:
My sample is image mich taller than it is wide, so I'll reduce the height to make the image square.
In the height box, I'll enter "4128" so that it matches the width, then click OK. This has now cropped the image from the top and the bottom equally.
If the action of your image is all in the top part or bottom part of the image and you don't want to crop into that, then use the "Anchor" tool to tell the editor where to "anchor" the crop from. If you only want to crop the top part of the image, then click the bottom middle square on the Anchor before clicking OK and it will only crop the top of the image. This also works the same if you want to crop the left or right side of an image.
Reducing size and exporting
In the Photopea top menu, click File > Export as > WEBP. It should open this box:
Here you need to enter new dimensions, as per the recommendation in Step 2. Note that the Width and Height boxes are linked, so that when you change one, it will automatically update the other correspondingly. This is to ensure that the image does not get distorted from it's overall dimension ratio.
In the Width box, I'll enter "600", then I'll change the Quality from 92% down to 80%.
This has now updated the resulting file size which is shown at the bottom of the image. As you can see, it is well under the maximum file size of 300kb.
So now, click the Save button, give your image a meaningful name, preferably something similar to the name of the event, and save it onto your Desktop (or other preferred location on your computer).
You now have an optimised image ready for upload to your BSPA event.