Looking for professional development? Search the Key Learning Areas to find our latest CCWT short course dates.
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If you are booking into face-to-face training please read our COVID-19 safety protocols before attending.
Key Learning Areas
Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change
December 5 & 6
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 December 8, 9, 15 & 16.
Shared Lives Training Skills
November 30 & December 1 & 2
Develop your skills and confidence in conducting effective Shared Lives carer training.
Domestic and Family Violence: Understanding the Impact on Children
November 22
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?
December 2
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.
Complex Case Management
November 16 & 17
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.
Applying a Trauma Informed Approach when Supporting Adults who have Experienced Domestic Violence
November 29
Examine and apply specific strategies and approaches that are trauma informed when working with and advocating for adults who have experienced domestic violence.
Difficult Conversations
December 7
Examine the origins and causes of conflict, natural responses to conflict and methods of preventing, managing, mitigating and addressing conflict. Participants will be provided with tools and processes that assist in the development of skilled and confident conflict managers.
Writing Case-notes and Documentation
December 7
Learn structured ways to ensure that your case-notes and documentation are clear, useful and consistent, and will hold up to scrutiny.
Trauma, Identity and Hope: A Narrative Therapy Approach
November 21
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.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Part A
November 23 & December 7
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.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Introduction
November 25
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.
Clinical Supervision: Models and Methods
November 30
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.
Introduction to Narrative Therapy
December 1
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.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
December 2 & 9
This introductory workshop will provide participants with an overview of the six core processes of ACT and the skills to develop and strengthen psychological flexibility in their own lives and those of their clients.
Team Leadership
November 23 & 24
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.
Family Group Conferencing Facilitator Training
December 7 & 8
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.
Check back soon for 2023 dates.
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.