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Key Learning Areas
Complex Trauma and Mental Health
October 9 & 10
Complex developmental trauma is the trauma of childhood neglect, physical and sexual assault, and exposure to family and community violence. This training explores mindful, strengths-based and creative counselling for transformation and recovery.
Unpacking the Complexity of Hoarding and Squalor
October 11 & 12
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: Helping People Change
November 1 & 2
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.
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.
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
October 25, 26 & 27
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.
Effective Casework and Case Management
September 26 & 27
Learn the fundamentals of quality case management, and develop essential skills and strategies in key aspects of strengths-based and person-centred case management.
Applying a Trauma Informed Approach
September 28
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.
Tenancy Law for Non-Lawyers
October 9
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
October 13
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.
Applying a Trauma Informed Approach when Supporting Adults who have Experienced Domestic Violence
October 17
Examine and apply specific strategies and approaches that are trauma informed when working with and advocating for adults who have experienced domestic violence.
Safe Home Visiting
October 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.
Everybody Hurts Sometimes—Anger Management Tools and Strategies for Young People
October 27
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.
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.
Writing Case-notes and Documentation
November 13
Learn structured ways to ensure that your case-notes and documentation are clear, useful and consistent, and will hold up to scrutiny.
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.
Complex Case Management
November 21 & 22
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.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Part B
October 11 & 18
Practise the strategies used both within a DBT session and coaching. Explore agenda setting, chain analysis and contingency management and an overview of the Distress Tolerance and Interpersonal Effectiveness modules.
Completion of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Part A is a prerequisite for enrolling in this course.
Working with Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma
October 18 & 19
Enhance your relational and therapeutic skills and examine strategies for supporting post-traumatic growth when working with adults who have survived childhood abuse (complex trauma).
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.
Debriefing Skills
October 10
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.
Facilitating Group Supervision
October 31
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.
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.
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
November 29
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.
Ambiguous Loss in the context of child protection and OOHC practice
November 6
Emerging research has demonstrated that children and young people in care experience ambiguous loss prior to and during their OOHC journeys. However, this experience is rarely recognised and therapeutically responded to by adults, which often leads to disenfranchised grief. This training aims to develop your understanding of ambiguous loss in OOHC context and develop practice to reduce ambiguity for children and help them cope with the grief associated with ambiguous loss.
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.
Ambiguous Loss in the context of child protection and OOHC practice
November 6
Emerging research has demonstrated that children and young people in care experience ambiguous loss prior to and during their OOHC journeys. However, this experience is rarely recognised and therapeutically responded to by adults, which often leads to disenfranchised grief. This training aims to develop your understanding of ambiguous loss in OOHC context and develop practice to reduce ambiguity for children and help them cope with the grief associated with ambiguous loss.
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.