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 complete 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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The 2-day training is provided in a blended format with both in-person and self-paced online learning. This workshop provides skills in facilitating productive and efficient family meetings where resource building and meeting the developmental needs of young people are central. Particular attention is given to the process of negotiating when and how to bring family members together to ensure the primary relationship between the young person and the practitioner is maintained.
Learning outcomes:
- Describe the rationale and practice principles underpinning Single Session Family Consultations (SSFC) and its place within a comprehensive response to families
- Unpack the conceptual and practical contributions of Single Session Thinking and Family Consultation to the model
- Outline and consideration of key tasks in convening an SSFC
- Describe and demonstrate the key stages of SSFC with young people
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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Working effectively with young people includes engaging with their social and cultural ecosystems in order to build resources that can sustain them into the future. This training outlines a framework for family inclusion where practitioners can better understand their role in relationship to families and communities.
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding how engaging with families can improve outcomes for young people
- Keeping the family in mind when care planning
- Strategies for enhancing communication and strengthening relationship bonds
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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Working effectively with young people includes engaging with their social and cultural ecosystems in order to build resources that can sustain them into the future. This training outlines a framework for family inclusion where practitioners can better understand their role in relationship to families and communities.
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding how engaging with families can improve outcomes for young people
- Keeping the family in mind when care planning
- Strategies for enhancing communication and strengthening relationship bonds
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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Understanding the social and biological factors that precipitate substance use in a young person is important, but support for young people in AOD withdrawal is not just about addressing the substance use.
The young person should be viewed through a bio-psycho-social lens, assessing risk factors and protective factors in the young person’s life as well as any barriers to accessing health care.
These guidelines have been developed primarily for use by YSAS staff, but also to assist individuals with a broad range of backgrounds including General Practitioners, Youth AOD services, community agencies and others to support adolescents in the community seeking to undergo AOD withdrawal.
The training will be split into two sections. Section one will be co facilitated with a senior nurse to cover medical/ clinical approaches to withdrawal. Section two will cover the biopsychosocial approaches to withdrawal
Learning outcomes:
Part 1 – AOD withdrawal – Clinical
- Adolescent Brain Development and Substance misuse
- Substance Use Disorders
- Use of Withdrawal Scales in Young People
- Medications to Support AOD Withdrawal in Young People
- AOD Withdrawal Treatment Options for Young People
- Alcohol and Other Drug Withdrawal presentations in Young People
Part 2 – Biopsychosocial approaches to withdrawal
- Using Risk and Protective Factors to advise AOD withdrawal approach
- Care planning during withdrawal:
– Nutrition
– Sensory Somatic practices
– Trauma-informed practice
– Sleep hygiene- Stages of change
– Brief intervention- Distraction techniques
– De-escalation
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.
