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Description:
This training aims to support AOD workers to engage and include families when supporting clients. Single Session Family Consultation (SSFC) offers timely, accessible support to all family members while retaining a strong therapeutic relationship. In keeping with single session thinking, it enables workers to make the most of each encounter with families.
**Please ensure you can commit to the package below before enrolling.
Training package:
- Pre-requisite: Participants must complete a self-paced learning before attending the online training session. You will have approximately 6 weeks prior to the online training session to complete this at your own time (generally takes about 3 hours).
- In-person training session: Thursday 2 October 2025, 9:30AM – 1:30PM @ The Bouverie Centre 8 Gardiner Street, Brunswick VIC 3056
- Optional online consultation: Thursday 30 October 2025 – Participants will have the opportunity to attend an optional 1.5 hours online consultation 4 weeks after the training. This would take the form of a facilitated group supervision to explore your experience in applying SSFC in your practice.
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 including peer workers.
Who is not eligible?
Students on placement or internships, workers from other sectors (i.e. homelessness, mental health) and workers outside of Victoria.
Terms & Conditions
Please ensure you have clearance from your line manager to attend.
Email elevate@vaada.org.au at least 24 hours before the training to cancel you registration.
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Description:
This training aims to support AOD workers to engage and include families when supporting clients. Single Session Family Consultation (SSFC) offers timely, accessible support to all family members while retaining a strong therapeutic relationship. In keeping with single session thinking, it enables workers to make the most of each encounter with families.
**Please ensure you can commit to the package below before enrolling.
Training package:
- Pre-requisite: Participants must complete a self-paced learning before attending the online training session. You will have approximately 6 weeks prior to the online training session to complete this at your own time (generally takes about 3 hours).
- Online training session: Wednesday 20 August 2025 @ 9:30AM – 1:30PM
- Optional online consultation: Thursday 25 September 2025 @ 10:30AM – 12:00PM – Participants will have the opportunity to attend an optional online consultation 6 weeks after the training. This would take the form of a facilitated group supervision to explore your experience in applying SSFC in your practice.
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 including peer workers.
Who is not eligible?
Students on placement or internships, workers from other sectors (i.e. homelessness, mental health) and workers outside of Victoria.
Terms & Conditions
Please ensure you have clearance from your line manager to attend.
Email elevate@vaada.org.au at least 24 hours before the training to cancel you registration.
Presented by: Dr Eddie Mullen, Director of Medical Workforce, Lead Psychiatrist, Hype Clinic, Dual Diagnosis Stream, Substance Use Research Group
Slides: Autism Substance Use and Addiction_Eddie Mullen
In this video, Dr Eddie Mullen discusses the clinical understanding of autism and the challenges faced by autistic people.
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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
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The aim of this module is to equip Victorian alcohol and drug workers with a greater awareness of the signs of burnout along with practical skills, tips and strategies to promote enhanced worker wellbeing.
This e-learn aims to equip participants with introductory knowledge about the process of supervision and skills to be able to engage in a supervision session effectively.
The Forensic Foundations E-learn is designed for new Alcohol & Other Drug (AOD) sector staff to provide foundational knowledge to support the provision of AOD treatment of forensic clients. This one-hour e-learn will assist you in navigating the forensic AOD system and processes. The content was developed by VAADA, and the e-learn was designed by Caraniche. Specifically, the e-learn course will provide you with foundational knowledge about the following:
- how a forensic client is defined
- the differences between forensic and voluntary clients
- the key stakeholders and their roles and responsibilities
- the AOD funding system (targets and loadings for forensic treatment)
- treatment options for forensic clients
- the main referral pathways between the criminal justice and AOD treatment systems
- clinical safety, supervision and self-care
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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