Providing services to survivors of domestic violence often involves advocating for legal, financial and physical safety. A trauma informed approach requires that workers also attend to advocating for and supporting emotional and psychological safety. In addition, this requires that individual workers and organisations strive for building the resources and capabilities of domestic violence survivors so that they may navigate their own safety and the systems that will support them to...
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$370Limited
GST free
Applying a Trauma Informed Approach when Supporting Adults who have Experienced Domestic Violence
<p>Providing services to survivors of domestic violence often involves advocating for legal, financial and physical safety. A trauma informed approach requires that workers also attend to advocating
Applying a Trauma Informed Approach when Supporting Adults who have Experienced Domestic Violence
<p>Providing services to survivors of domestic violence often involves advocating for legal, financial and physical safety. A trauma informed approach requires that workers also attend to advocating
Providing effective services for people who have experienced trauma has been difficult for both practitioners and service users. This has required organisations to consider whether existing systems of care and models of service delivery are indeed effective in supporting trauma survivors or re traumatising. The current political climate, with cuts to funding and increased pressure on resources, coupled with traumatised clients, has resulted in many traumatised service systems and...
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$370Limited
GST free
Applying a Trauma Informed Approach
<p>Providing effective services for people who have experienced trauma has been difficult for both practitioners and service users. This has required organisations to consider whether existing systems
<p>Providing effective services for people who have experienced trauma has been difficult for both practitioners and service users. This has required organisations to consider whether existing systems
Working with loss, grief and change is an essential part of client work when supporting clients through challenging times. Grief support can be provided by most people who have had some basic loss and grief support training. This two-day training course will provide you with these essential skills and help you understand the importance of doing active grief work. You will be able to differentiate between the range of general loss experiences humans have to face in their lifetime to...
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$690Limited
GST free
Loss and Grief Work: Practice Essentials
<p>Working with loss, grief and change is an essential part of client work when supporting clients through challenging times. Grief support can be provided by most people who have had some basic loss
<p>Working with loss, grief and change is an essential part of client work when supporting clients through challenging times. Grief support can be provided by most people who have had some basic loss
It’s fair to say that most of us do not enjoy having difficult conversations. We either avoid them entirely – resulting in us feeling unacknowledged and frustrated, or we go charging in like a bull in a china shop – resulting in increased tension and conflict. Whilst both of these approaches are common, neither response is likely to result in successful outcomes. This course will build your knowledge and skills in having uncomfortable conversations that are honest, respectful and...
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Much has changed over the last years in managing online and telephone communication with everchanging technology and the challenges of COVID 19. Face to face communication is often not an expected option and we are challenged to mange difficult conversations online and on the phone. This course will help you identify the key communication challenges in your work and how to address these. The pros and cons of different communication options will be explored with focusing on the...
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The term case management does not align well with current, sector best practice or language. People are not ‘cases’ and the aim of working with clients is no longer to ‘manage them’. Case management practice has evolved considerably in recent years as we have learned about the importance of working in ways that are; strengths-based, client-centred and led and informed by an awareness of trauma. This interactive workshop explores and extends the skills, knowledge, attitudes and...
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This course will equip you with the skills to respond constructively to a client’s cry for help when they are contemplating suicide and how to support people affected by the loss of suicide. It is an interactive workshop offering theoretical and practical information on suicide prevention and post-vention. It will answer the questions: “What do I do if someone is suicidal?” and "How do you help someone who is self-harming?''. An internationally renowned suicide intervention model...
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The impact of working in an environment that deals with trauma and relies on empathic engagement is developing, and our understanding it has on the individual and their organisation is limited. This course will offer frontline workers, management and organisation a framework for addressing this issue and enhance workplace wellbeing. This workshop: a. Looks at vicarious trauma, its signs and symptoms, and reviews what research is saying to address its effects. b. Will offer a...
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Whether you are working in a service focused on DV or not, DV is so prevalent anyone working in the social welfare, children’s, health and education sectors need to be able to identify DV, understand the dynamics, the potential impacts, the safety, legal and support systems and be able utilise good practice and safe responses to individuals and families. Learning Outcomes: Identify DV, and screening tool Understand the dynamics Understand potential impacts Identify the safety,...
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