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Key Learning Areas
Co-occurring Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drug Disorders (formerly Double Whammy)
November 22 & 23
Do you feel daunted by the complexity of challenges that clients experiencing these disorders face? Through presentation of information, discussion and experiential activities you will gain knowledge and skills and increase your confidence to provide effective services for this client group.
Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change
November 27 & 28
This workshop focuses on a framework for engaging with people in the context of change. It will assist participants to develop skills and knowledge in motivational interviewing and apply the principles and skills to their workplace.
Foster Care Assessment Skills (Step by Step) PRE-REQUISITE
Self Paced
This distance education course is the prerequisite to enrol in the 4-day Step by Step course for carer assessors, which runs every 8 weeks.
The next available course is November 16, 17, 23 & 24.
Shared Lives Training Skills
December 6, 7 & 8
Develop your skills and confidence in conducting effective Shared Lives carer training.
Child Protection — Identify and Respond to Children and Young People at Risk
November 7 & 8
Spend time with a child and adolescent psychiatrist and a psychologist to develop skills in identifying, assessing and managing common mental health disorders in children and adolescents, including anxiety, depression, post- traumatic stress disorder, attachment disorders, autism, ADHD and conduct disorder.
Children's Brain Development: Trauma and Resilience
November 29 & 30
Explore how early childhood experiences of trauma and abuse effect the developing brain, the nervous system, human behaviour and memory. A must for anyone who works with children and families, this course will explore how the brain develops in the early years of life and the way that the environment interacts with our biology to influence brain development.
Accidental Counsellor
November 7 & 8
Build skills, confidence and frameworks to respond effectively to people experiencing difficulties and emotional distress, whilst remaining attentive to self care in this participative and practical workshop.
Engaging and Supporting Young People
November 13 & 14
Build skills, confidence and frameworks to respond effectively to people experiencing difficulties and emotional distress, whilst remaining attentive to self care in this participative and practical workshop.
Clinical Supervision: Models and Methods
November 15
Clinical Supervision: Models and Methods harnesses the existing knowledge, experience and skills of workers, and provides them with practice frameworks and skills for offering support and direction to others.
Trauma, Identity and Hope: A Narrative Therapy Approach
November 16
Trauma and abuse frequently attack a person’s sense of identity. Explore a Narrative Therapy approach to working with trauma and abuse, with a particular focus on the strength and resilience of clients, and on developing alternative and more hopeful stories of identity.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Introduction
November 27
CBT can be an effective therapy for many mental health issues including depression and anxiety. In this introductory course, you will discuss CBT theory, understand when CBT approaches are most appropriate, and be assisted in applying basic practical CBT strategies personally and professionally.
Introduction to Narrative Therapy
November 28
Learn about Narrative Therapy, the hopeful approach to counselling and community work that is responsive to the politics of therapy in an accessible, fun and thoughtful way.
Loss and Grief Work: Practice Essentials
November 30 & December 1
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.
Team Leadership
November 16 & 23
We will discuss strategies and use resources to bring together different capabilities in the team, facilitate communication with all stakeholders, lead planning, and promote problem solving.
Professional Supervision: How and Why?
November 21 & 28
Supervision can be more than a ‘quick fix’. We will explore the framework of four functions of supervision (accountability, support, development and mediation) and how to establish and lead effective supervision.
Family Group Conferencing Facilitator Training
November 9 & 10
This course will equip you with the skills and knowledge needed to be a Family Group Conferencing Facilitator. It includes mediation and negotiation skills, and a range of practical strategies to assists families to make child-centred decisions. It meets the requirement for a mediation qualification to be part of the FACS tender of accredited FGC Facilitators.
Vicarious Trauma
November 23
Vicarious Trauma training provides you with the knowledge, skills and tools to maintain healthy boundaries that protect your own mental health and wellbeing—the cost of caring can be significant. We will teach you the concept of VT and techniques for long term resilience.
CCWT is here to help you with your professional learning and development needs. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact our team on 02 9281 8822 or email us: ccwt@ccwt.edu.au
If you are booking to attend ACWA training, and/or visiting our premises, the following COVID-19 protocols must be adhered and agreed to. We have put these in place in order to make the face to face training environment as safe as possible for our students and facilitators.
If you have flu-like symptoms OR symptoms of acute respiratory infections (e.g. shortness of breath, cough or sore throat) on the day that your training is scheduled, you must not attend. A full refund or credit will be given.
You are also asked not to attend face to face training if any of the following apply:
- You have returned a positive COVID-19 test with the last 7 days.
- You have been asked to self-isolate in the last 7 days.
- You are waiting for results of a COVID-19 test.
- You have been in close contact, within the last 7 days, with a confirmed case of COVID-19 (community/work/household) or in a household with someone awaiting the results of COVID-19 testing.
Note:
- Masks are not compulsory for workshops.
- Hand sanitiser will be available at all workshops.