This training program aims to increase the capacity of workers to effectively support and respond to the needs of young people who are using substances.

Our sessions are interactive and enhanced through real-world case examples. The trainers empower participants to reflect on their own work to learn for future practice experiences.

This workshop will look at how the understanding of trauma, attachment and adverse early childhood experiences inform our work with young people who use AOD. It will equip workers with a foundational knowledge of adolescent development and the function, meaning and purpose of risk-taking and other challenging behaviours including AOD use.  This workshop will cover key areas that underpin effective planning and support for young people through Resilience Based Care Planning.

Day 1 – Trauma, Attachment and Adolescent Development

Learning outcomes:

• Introduction to Attachment
• Understanding Trauma
• Impacts of Trauma on the Young Person
• Understanding the links between trauma and AOD use
• Adolescent Development theories
• Risk in Adolescence
• Developmental needs and adolescent substance use

DAY 2 – Young People, drug use and resilience-based care

Learning Outcomes:

• Perspectives on Youth AOD issues
• Harm reduction
• Commonly used drugs
• Understanding the function of substance use and exploring alternatives
• Engaging young people in ways that work for them
• Principals of assessment
• Building motivation and supporting change
• Overview of resilience-based care

This training program aims to increase the capacity of workers to effectively support and respond to the needs of young people who are using substances.

Our sessions are interactive and enhanced through real-world case examples. The trainers empower participants to reflect on their own work to learn for future practice experiences.

This workshop will look at how the understanding of trauma, attachment and adverse early childhood experiences inform our work with young people who use AOD. It will equip workers with a foundational knowledge of adolescent development and the function, meaning and purpose of risk-taking and other challenging behaviours including AOD use.  This workshop will cover key areas that underpin effective planning and support for young people through Resilience Based Care Planning.

Day 1 – Trauma, Attachment and Adolescent Development

Learning outcomes:

• Introduction to Attachment
• Understanding Trauma
• Impacts of Trauma on the Young Person
• Understanding the links between trauma and AOD use
• Adolescent Development theories
• Risk in Adolescence
• Developmental needs and adolescent substance use

DAY 2 – Young People, drug use and resilience-based care

Learning Outcomes:

• Perspectives on Youth AOD issues
• Harm reduction
• Commonly used drugs
• Understanding the function of substance use and exploring alternatives
• Engaging young people in ways that work for them
• Principals of assessment
• Building motivation and supporting change
• Overview of resilience-based care

This workshop is a combination of the Youth AOD 3 – Young people and drugs and Youth AOD 4-Resilience Care Planning.

This workshop will provide an introduction to effectively understanding and responding to young people who are experiencing AOD problems. It will also cover key areas that underpin effective planning and support for young people and will bring together learnings and perspectives from the 2 previous workshops (Youth AOD 1 Attachment and Trauma and Youth AOD 2 – Developmentally Conducive Practice) through Resilience Based Care Planning.

Learning Outcomes:

• Perspectives on Youth AOD issues
• Harm reduction
• Commonly used drugs
• Understanding the function of substance use and exploring alternatives
• Engaging young people in ways that work for them
• Building motivation and supporting change
• Formulation of resilience-based care plans – alignment of resources and need
• Review and continuous assessment

IMPORTANT: registrations for training will become live approximately two months prior to start of training. To enrol in this or any training, you must click the link below and fill in the registration. If you do not complete the registration, you will not have a place in the training. If you experience a broken link, please get in touch with us at elevate@vaada.org.au

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Safe and effective practice for young people from diverse backgrounds and communities (Co-presented with First Nations Community member)

This Cultural Bridging Workshop is founded on the deeply held belief that people genuinely want and need to understand and connect with each other and they will do so when they are in environments that promote curiosity and creativity.

The intention underpinning this one-day workshop is to create opportunities to bridge the space between one’s own culture and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture(s). The participants will explore, in a non-blaming and non-shaming way, the continuum of the similarities and differences between mainstream and First Nation Cultures.

The training has very few slides, is experiential in nature and hopefully will be fun.

Areas addressed (learning outcomes) will include:

• Listening deeply with all your senses.
• Collective unconscious racism and how it manifests.
• Working as a team, against the odds.
• To experience ‘being the other.’

This workshop will also be supported by Robyne’s friend and colleague Dr Jacqui Sundbery, YSAS General Manager Research and Practice.

IMPORTANT: registrations for training will become live approximately two months prior to start of training. To enrol in this or any training, you must click the link below and fill in the registration. If you do not complete the registration, you will not have a place in the training. If you experience a broken link, please get in touch with us at elevate@vaada.org.au

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Aiming to introduce family violence literacy, practice skills and foundational theories, this workshop covers a range of topics necessary for identifying and responding to family violence and enhancing participants understanding of how family violence impacts young people and skills required for providing appropriate support.

Participants will be introduced to foundational family violence knowledge including an exploration of the drivers of violence, an introduction to Intersectionality and develop communication skills that support young people’s safety, dispel family violence myths and avoid collusion. This workshop will also introduce workers to the use of the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) Tool from a youth AOD context, discuss adolescent-specific risk assessment considerations and provide an overview of the family violence service system. This workshop is an evidence-informed introduction to preliminary practice strategies to support young people who are victim-survivors and/or users of family violence and adolescent intimate partner violence.

Learning Outcomes

• Describe and identify family violence
• Discuss the drivers of violence
• Introduction to Intersectionality in Family Violence
• Be familiar with the Typologies of Family Violence used at YSAS
• Use sensitive and appropriate language when discussing or communicating about family violence
• Recognise risks of collusion and misidentification as the perpetrator
• Communicate in ways that dispel family violence myths
• Understand how family violence impacts young people
• Introduction to relevant legislation and practice frameworks including mandatory reporting
• Introduction to the role of the Multi-Agency-Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) framework
• Understand responsibilities as an Information Sharing Entity (ISE)
• Adolescent specific Risk Assessment considerations
• Use Sensitive Inquiry to discuss Family Violence
• Provided with basic skills to collaboratively Safety Plan