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
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Youth-focused AOD Practice Program
This training program aims to increase the capacity of practitioners to effectively support and respond to the needs of young people who are using substances while also promoting the integration of contemporary evidence-informed youth AOD perspectives into care planning and coordination.
This training program contains 4x course:
• Youth AOD 1 – Half-day Attachment and Trauma in Youth AOD work
• Youth AOD 2 – Half-day Developmentally Conducive Practice
• Youth AOD 3 – Half-day Young people & AOD
• Youth AOD 4 – Half-day Resilience Care Planning
It is highly recommended that the participants attend the 4 sessions.
Learning outcomes:
- Engaging young people in ways that work for them.
- Building motivation and supporting change.
- Factors that influence drug-using behaviour (predisposing, Perpetuating Precipitating & Protective)
- Assessment: identifying the function and meaning of AOD use and other behaviours
- Formulation of resilience-based care plans – alignment of resources and need
- Review and continuous assessment
- The Therapeutic ending: Transition planning for a better future