CCWT New Short Courses 2022

Co-occurring Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drug Disorders
February 10 & 11
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.

Substance Abuse — ICE
February 16
Many clients with complex needs have experienced an intensification of these needs and risk factors due to their abuse of ICE. This interactive, engaging, and highly informative 1-day program will equip community sector workers with the knowledge and skills required to work with clients who are affected by ICE.

Trauma and Addictions
February 23
The link between complex childhood trauma and adult addictions is well known (ACE study). This workshop will explore the theme of addiction as a coping mechanism. Participants will gain the ‘know how to’ provide a balance of trauma and addiction interventions for positive and efficient client growth and recovery.

Unpacking the Complexity of Hoarding and Squalor
March 1 & 2
Hoarding Disorder and Severe Domestic Squalor is on the increase with an estimated 600,000 Australians affected. But how do you work with and support someone living in clutter? Like the proverbial iceberg, it’s not what you can see on top of the water but rather, what’s underneath.

Motivational Interviewing: Consolidating Practice
March 11
The purpose of this one day workshop is to build on the foundations of motivational interviewing introduced in the introductory Motivational Interviewing course offered through CCWT. The workshop will also provide an opportunity for participants to consolidate their skills, with a particular focus on the language of change.

Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change
March 17 & 18
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.

Personality Disorders: A Psychodynamic and Attachment Theory Perspective
March 31
This workshop takes an in-depth look at personality development and the aetiology of personality disorders. Participants are given a schema to understand how complex clients work and how best to approach their therapy.

Window of Tolerance
April 1
Do you work with clients who struggle to regulate their emotions, manage stress or have a lived experience of trauma? The Window of Tolerance is a model founded in Neuroscience that describes what happens to our nervous system when we find ourselves in stressful or challenging times. This can leave us feeling anxious, fearful or unsafe. For people with a lived experience of mental health and trauma, these feelings can drive internal and external body and verbal responses making it incredibly difficult to function and can play havoc with all areas of life domains.

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 course is February 14, 15, 21 & 22.

Shared Lives Training Skills
February 7, 8 & 9
Develop your skills and confidence in conducting effective Shared Lives carer training.

Parent Assessment for Restoration Tool Familiarisation (Step by Step)
February 10
Assessing parents for the return home of their children is challenging. Parent assessors must have relevant knowledge about good restoration practice. This two part course provides the relevant knowledge and access to the Step by Step Parent Assessment tool, to deliver quality restoration assessments. Prior familiarity with Step by Step Carer Assessments is essential.

Assessing Relative Kinship Carers
February 11
Assessing relative kinship carers is usually more complicated than assessing foster carers, and requires both a different approach and additional understanding and skills. This one day course was developed by Toni Bolte, and will support carer assessors who are working for agencies and also independently.

Child Protection — Identify and Respond to Children and Young People at Risk
February 28 & March 1
April 4 & 5
Essential training for mandatory reporters, covering updated child protection legislation and its application when delivering services to children and/or their families.

Domestic and Family Violence: Understanding the Impact on Children
March 16
Learn about the implications of living with domestic violence for children’s development and their physical and mental wellbeing, and explore strategies to support children who have experienced domestic violence.

Assessing Children: Autism, ADHD or Trauma?
April 29
Acquire the knowledge to assess whether a child's presentation relates to trauma, ADHD or to Autism Spectrum Disorders. Hear from a psychologist and child and adolescent psychiatrist about approaches that optimise the outcomes for children.

Accidental Counsellor
February 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
February 8 & 9
How do you catch a young person's attention quickly and meaningfully? Relationship is the essential ingredient to engagement. This workshop explores how you can do this in a variety of ways, including when you have little time and in circumstances that are less than ideal.

Complex Case Management
February 14 & 15
Case management can be complex, exhausting, challenging, inspiring and rewarding. Extend your skills, knowledge and confidence to provide quality case management to clients who are experiencing complex issues and challenges including: mental distress, AOD misuse/dependence, trauma and homelessness.

Groupwork Activities, Activities and More Activities
February 17
Explore over a dozen activities to gain groupwork strategies that are dramatic, impactful and meaningful. Learn to move beyond the idea of icebreakers and focus on selecting activities for a specific purpose and for a particular group, time and place.

Client Aggression
February 21
This is an insightful, learner-focused workshop on aggression management and how to de-escalate aggressive clients. The focus is on triggers, identifying signs of aggression, verbal techniques to manage aggression and strategies to interrupt escalations. If you are in a customer service environment where your staff encounter aggression this training will significantly enhance your responses to challenging clients.

Writing Case-notes and Documentation
February 24
April 6
Learn structured ways to ensure that your case-notes and documentation are clear, useful and consistent, and will hold up to scrutiny.

Applying a Trauma Informed Approach
March 3
Learn about the impacts of trauma, particularly complex trauma, and discuss strategies to work more effectively with trauma survivors, including strategies for the individual worker and the service system.

Uncomfortable Conversations: How to Talk about the Elephant in the Room
March 9
Maximise your ability to have uncomfortable conversations that are honest, respectful and productive. Explore and practise frameworks to engage effectively in difficult conversations.

Everybody Hurts Sometimes – Anger Management Tools and Strategies for Young People
March 14
Learn about anger and explore approaches to anger management in adolescents. Understand anger and adolescent development, the physiology of anger, mental health issues, disorders, disabilities and risk taking. Learn a range of practical tools and strategies to help manage anger.

Challenging Behaviours in Children and Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
March 15
An interactive and practical course that answers all questions about ‘challenging behaviours’, how to manage them, what works and what doesn’t. Learn the strategies, know what to do and be ready for the NDIS.

Safe Home Visiting
March 17
Whether you are just starting your home visits or are experienced and want to review/refresh your practice, this workshop will help you to make your home visits safer and more productive. Use case scenarios and participant experiences to explore good practice policy, procedures and strategies.

Difficult Conversations
March 23
In this 1-day program we examine the origins and causes of conflict, natural responses to conflict and methods of preventing, managing, mitigating and addressing conflict. The learner will examine their own conflict styles and responses to conflict and explore how these have impacted their teams and workplaces. We will provide tools and processes that assist in the development of skilled and confident conflict managers. This program is suitable for those managing conflict in the workplace as well as client complaints. These insights are applied to managing difficult discussions with clients, colleagues and staff.

Tenancy Law for Non-Lawyers
March 29
This workshop provides community sector workers with an understanding of the Residential Tenancies Act and strategies to work with their clients when they are impacted by this Act. It is delivered by the NSW Tenants Union—the experts in this type of work.

Responding Effectively to People who have Experienced Sexual Violence
April 8
This course will equip participants with knowledge and skills to support progress towards recovery from sexual violence and know when referral to specialists is needed.

Clinical Supervision: Models and Methods
February 14
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.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Introduction
February 15
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.

Trauma, Identity and Hope: A Narrative Therapy Approach
February 28
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.

Art and Play Therapy with Children
March 23
Learn about child-led play therapy. Play therapy optimises children’s self-expression and safety in counselling. Maximise your success in engaging with and supporting change for children 2-10 years old.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Part A
March 30 & April 6
Working with suicidal and self harm behaviour can trigger anxiety, hopelessness, uncertainty and feeling ineffective. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy offers a sense of structure, understanding and effective strategies for managing 'problem' behaviours.
DBT-part A is the first 2 days of a two-part (4 day) course that provides a complete overview of the core concepts and skills utilised within DBT.

Team Leadership
February 17 & 18, March 3 & 4
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?
March 7, 8, 14 & 15
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.

Managing Teams Remotely
March 18
Many services are finding that they need effective ways of managing teams remotely — staff may be based in various locations or they may be working from home at times. This workshop introduces new skills that are effective for the remote environment and examines how we can adapt our existing skills.

New Managers and Coordinators
March 21 & 22
Gain new skills and tools that will assist you to be effective in your role as a manager or coordinator. This workshop includes topics such as supervision, managing team conflict, planning and prioritising and problem solving.

Facilitating Group Supervision
March 24
Group supervision can develop a cohesive, team approach if it is not habitual or minimal. You will have the opportunity to practise various approaches to facilitation and trial some resources.

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
April 4
EQ is fundamental to great leadership and productive, positive teams. Learn about EQ and how to identify and manage your own and the team's emotions, to achieve a positive workplace culture and improved outcomes, in this practical, fast-paced workshop.

Debriefing Skills
April 27
Promote staff wellbeing and retention by implementing comprehensive debriefing processes and stress management strategies. This workshop considers debriefing and organisational processes, including those required for critical incidents and legal considerations.

Parent Assessment for Restoration Tool Familiarisation (Step by Step)
February 10
Assessing parents for the return home of their children is challenging. Parent assessors must have relevant knowledge about good restoration practice. This two part course provides the relevant knowledge and access to the Step by Step Parent Assessment tool, to deliver quality restoration assessments. Prior familiarity with Step by Step Carer Assessments is essential.

Family Group Conferencing Facilitator Training
February 17 & 18
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.

How to Be an Engaged and Enthusiastic Employee
February 8 & 22, March 7 & 22, April 20
This series has been designed to help those who would like to learn key practical tools, tips, and strategies to really engage in their roles in their organisation and ultimately, love their work. Happy employees are productive employees and productive employees create successful organisations.
Each comes with pre-work, a workbook to use as we travel through the session and post-work in the form of reflective questions for participants to answer.

Emotionally Intelligent Frontline Work
February 22
Emotional intelligence (EI) is the capability of individuals to recognise their own emotions and those of others, discern between different feelings and label them appropriately, use emotional information to guide thinking and behaviour, and adjust emotions to adapt to environments. Developing your emotional intelligence is one of the most effective ways to improve work relationships and manage the stress and sense of overload that can be part of working in the community services sector.

Vicarious Trauma
February 22
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.