Wayne McCashen

Wayne McCashen is Education and Training Coordinator for Family and Children's Services, Top End Region, in the Northern Territory. Wayne was for many years principal trainer and consultant for St Lukes Anglicare (Bendigo, Australia) providing training and consultancies in strengths-based practice to a diverse range of organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand. He is a leader in the articulation and development of the strengths approach to working in the human services and has written material on strengths-based practice that is used nationally and internationally. 

Wayne is author of the books The Strengths Approach: a strengths-based resource for sharing power and creating change and Communities of hope: a strengths-based resource for building community and co-author of the card-based resource Name the frame: reminders for building respectful socially just decisions. He has presented at a number of conferences on strengths-based practice.

Wayne has many years experience in the human services including youth work, family work, community development, staff supervision, and management. His qualifications are in the fields of social work and community development. He was part of the original team at St Lukes Anglicare which initiated work to develop the strengths approach. He has carried this work forward with others at St Lukes and elsewhere in Australia and New Zealand through a range of innovations such as ‘client-owned recording’ and the development of a range of practice frameworks now widely adopted by human service organisations. 

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