Date: Thursday, 27th February 2025 9:30AM – 12:30PM
Location: Online
Description:
This training will provide you with:
- An understanding of the benefits and importance of effective case note writing, record-keeping and information sharing for yourself as AOD workers, for your clients and your workplace
- An overview of evidence-based practice and principles for clinically-relevant and compliant case notes
- An understanding of the legal context and important concepts (e.g. consent, disclosure, confidentiality, privacy, access, ownership, record-keeping and reporting)
- Consideration of ethical and operational barriers to case note writing
- Practical tips and resources for efficiently writing effective case notes
- Skill development through key examples, resources and activities
Eligibility Criteria
Workers employed in a Victorian State-funded Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) service.
Who is not eligible?
Workers from other community sectors such as Family Violence, Homelessness and Mental Health and AOD workers outside of Victoria.
Terms & Conditions
Please ensure you have clearance from your line manager to attend. If you cannot attend, cancel your registration and make your spot available to someone else on the waitlist.
This training is for AOD workers who would like to develop their skills in working with trans and gender diverse (TGD) communities.
We invite you to gain a deeper understanding of the experiences of TGD people, focusing on Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) issues and strategies for engaging with support services. The session will discuss population specific considerations and provide practical insights and in-depth reflections on the real-life impacts faced by the community.
Location: Online (Your zoom link will be sent to you a few days before the training)
Key topics covered:
- Overview of basic concepts regarding TGD people (sexuality =/= gender; pronouns; definitions)
- Data and statistics for different TGD populations relating to AOD, mental health and access to support
- Minority stress and incremental trauma
- Language
- Social construction of gender
- Community specific AOD presentations (Chemsex, Party and play (PnP), access to community, hormone therapy)
- Gender affirmation
- What does inclusive and affirmative practice for TGD people look like?
- Current research
- Reflective practice and case studies
Eligibility Criteria
This training has been funded for workers employed in a Victorian State-funded Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) service, including Peer and LLE workers and workers participating in the AOD Traineeship Program.
Who is not eligible?
Students on placement or internships, workers from other community sectors such as family violence, homelessness, mental health, and AOD workers outside of Victoria. Please ensure you have clearance from your line manager to attend. If you cannot attend, cancel your registration and make your spot available to someone else on the waitlist.
No-shows will be charged a $50 cancellation fee.
The AOD Collaborative ECHO (ACECHO) partnership involves VAADA, Turning Point, and Goulburn Valley Health. This dedicated ECHO for Victorian AOD state-funded services aims to enhance the capabilities of AOD workers in addressing substance use issues among their clients. The primary objective of these sessions is to foster a community of AOD workers with varying levels of expertise, united by the shared goal of improving the well-being, and achieving positive outcomes, for individuals with problematic substance use.
Conducted under the guidance of Turning Point, each session commences with a presentation delivered by a Turning Point expert or a related professional, focusing on a specific topic. This is followed by an in-depth case consultation, during which attendees have the opportunity to ask questions or offer recommendations based on a case study presented by one of the participants.
20th November, 2024
The invisible supports: Families and carers of people living with substance use problems or addiction
Presenter – Dr Keri Alexander
Dr Keri Alexander is an addiction medicine specialist at Hamilton Centre and Austin Health and has many years of experience in a variety of AOD and family violence programs, including Family Drug Helpline. She advocates for people living with substance use and addiction issues, as well as their carers, to be treated with dignity and respect.
Submit a Case Presentation to ACECHO
Case presentations by participating healthcare providers are the cornerstone of the ECHO model. Presentations are always followed by an open Q & A discussion of the case and recommendations by the hub team. To submit a case study, click Go to Form.
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Date: Tuesday, 18th February 2025, 9:30AM – 3:00PM
*catering will be provided*
Location: Level 6, 222 Hoddle Street, Abbotsford, Victoria 3067 (Read more about Travel Contribution)
Cost: $40 (tickets can only be purchased via credit card)
Description
VACCHOs Introduction to Aboriginal Cultural Safety training encompasses, and builds on, cultural awareness content by providing considerations and advice to implement cultural safety considerations into practice. Participant learning and understanding are enhanced by the personal stories and the lived experience of our facilitators while exploring Aboriginal identities, cultures, and history.
The session covers:
- Understanding cultural safety and its importance in increasing service accessibility and effective engagement with Australia’s First Peoples.
- The historical and ongoing impacts of colonisation and colonial policies on Australia’s First
- Peoples culture and Communities
- Trauma-informed practice
- First Peoples diverse identities; respectful terminology and language
- Cultural Load and its impacts on individuals, Communities, and organisations
- How Equity and Self-determination are vital to cultural safety
- Foundational skills to implement cultural safety into practice
- Fostering respectful relationships with First Peoples and Communities
- A timeline of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Strength and Resilience
Eligibility Criteria
Workers employed in a Victorian State-funded Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) service.
Who is not eligible?
Students on placement or internships, workers from other community sectors such as Family Violence, Homelessness and Mental Health and AOD workers outside of Victoria.
Terms & Conditions
Refunds are available up to 1 day prior to the event. Please ensure you have clearance from your line manager to attend. If you cannot attend, cancel your registration at least 24 hours before the cancel your registration and make your spot available to someone else on the waitlist.
Course Description:
This training supports practitioners and AOD workers to engage and include families when working with clients. SSFC offers timely, accessible support to all family members while retaining a strong client–practitioner relationship. In keeping with single session thinking, it enables practitioners to make the most of each encounter with families.
- 3-4 hour self-paced online learning unit (duration depends on your respective learning style)
- 3-hour in-person training at The Bouverie Centre, 8 Gardiner St, Brunswick
Pre-requisite: Participants must complete a online learning component before the in-practice sessions. Links to online training will be provided to participants approximately six weeks prior to the in-practice training dates (Early October).
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of SSFC, you will be able to:
- Understand the Single Session Thinking and Family Consultation frameworks that underpin SSFC
- Convene, conduct and undertake follow-up as part of SSFC
- Address challenging situations in sessions with families
- Identify how you can incorporate SSFC into your practice
Eligibility Criteria
This training has been funded for workers employed in a Victorian State-funded Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) service.
Who is not eligible?
Students on placement or internships, workers from other community sectors such as Family Violence, Homelessness and Mental Health and AOD workers outside of Victoria. Please ensure you have clearance from your line manager to attend. If you cannot attend, even if you find out the day before, please cancel your registration and make your spot available to someone else on the waiting list.
Doing Difference Differently aims to teach intersectionality in ways you can apply to your everyday practice.
The unit takes approximately 60 minutes to complete.
Learning objectives:
This course aims to provide you with tools, concepts, and frameworks to unpack how specific differences between people are made or constructed and how these differences are made to matter through hierarchies and binaries of status and value.
In this course you will learn:
- Identity and representations: what is intersectionality? What isn’t intersectionality?
- Power: understanding power and harnessing power
- Framing and Representation: putting intersectionality to work
To access the course: Make sure you are signed up or signed in,
Click on ENROL NOW. Click on the GO TO TRAINING button (it will appear once you are enrolled)
Create an account with Insight Queensland to receive your certificate of learning.
Details: Free training to build core skills in eating disorder identification and care
Date: Free of charge until the 30th of June 2026
Location: Online – eLearning module via NEDC
Description
This is a free training for AOD sector workers, health, mental health and lived experience workers, for a one-time professional development initiative to build knowledge and skills in prevention, identification, and evidence-based approaches to eating disorders and associated concerns.
This training will help practitioners to engage safely and confidently with people around topics of food, body image, and eating as part of routine care across a wide range of roles and settings.
About the initiative
As part of a collaborative effort to implement the National Eating Disorders Strategy and the Victorian Eating Disorders Strategy, the National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC), in partnership with the Victorian Department of Health, the Centre for Excellence in Eating Disorders (CEED), and Eating Disorders Victoria (EDV), is offering a suite of eLearning courses free of charge to Victorian health professionals until 30 June 2026.
Participants receive free access to eLearning modules that form part of a stepped skill development pathway, tailored to discipline, service and role.
Registration: To register, please follow the instructions here: Foundations in Eating Disorders: Identification eLearning
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