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 Harm Reduction Masterclass comprises of seven modules over two half-days, each one designed to give you a basic understanding of each topic:

DAY ONE

Harm Reduction 101

• Understand the history of harm reduction in Victoria & Australia.
• Understand the National Drug Strategy policy of Harm Minimisation and how Harm Reduction fits in to this policy.
• Understand the Substance, Set and Setting principles as a way to understand an individual’s drug experience.

Safer Injecting

•  Understand safer injecting practices, including injecting sites; using a tourniquet, and infection & Blood Borne Virus risk.
• Understand the circulatory system and the difference between veins and arteries.
• Understand through “hands-on” demonstration the drug mixing up process and the transmission risk points during the process.

Drug Overdose & Adverse Effects

• Understand some of the common myths around opioid overdose.
• Be able to recognize the signs of overdose and of and actions to take in different circumstances
• Understand when and how to intervene in overdose situations.

Naloxone Administration

• Understand where to obtain naloxone for clients
• Understand the different formulations of naloxone available
• Understand the difference between someone who is ‘on the nod’ or overdosing and the appropriate time to administer naloxone.

DAY TWO

Introduction to Pharmacotherapy

• Be aware of the pharmacotherapy options available to PWUD in Victoria.
• Understand how to access pharmacotherapy in Victoria.
• Be aware of Victoria’s “broken system”

Working Effectively with people who use drugs

• Understand barriers to doing effective work with people who use drugs (PWUD), in particular people who inject drugs
• Understand and challenge the ‘gateway drug’ theory.
• Understand common myths about PWID; the effects of criminalisation and stigma on the health of PWUD

Stigma & Discrimination

• Understand how stigma and discrimination act as a barrier in healthcare settings.
• Understand how frameworks of morality and social discourse frame our understanding of drug use.
• Understand how we can all contribute to eliminating stigma and discrimination in ourselves and our services

IMPORTANT: Enrolments for training will go live approximately two months before training commences. If you do not have an Elevate! account, you will need to create your account first. Every time you wish to enrol into training, you will need to sign in. If you have not signed up to Elevate! previously, click the REGISTER button to create an account, then enrol.

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Peer workers, like in any professional discipline, need quality, standardised training and ongoing professional development. Through extensive research and co-design, SHARC has developed Peer Worker Training.  This comprehensive training provides a vital knowledge base for peer workers, and ensures that the peer workforce has a discipline-specific framework.

Audience:

This training is designed for current AOD Peer Workers of funded Victorian AOD agencies

Outline:

The SHARC Peer Worker Training seeks to:

• Educate Peer Workers around the concepts and core competencies of the peer work discipline
• Assist Peer Workers to apply best practice peer work in formalised settings
• Explore the key components of the role with a focus on the peer relationship
• Increase confidence and develop skills in communication and navigating relational parameters
• Develop understandings of ethical practice and workplace legislative requirements
• Empower Peer Workers to advocate for the discipline and manage their own wellbeing and development needs
• Prepare Peer Workers to work across a number of domains, remaining ‘peer’ within clinical governance frameworks

Completing this training:

• Make sure you sign in or register for an Elevate! Account.  If you are registering you will need to sign in to ENROL
• Click on ENROL NOW to be redirected to Insight’s online platform
• Create your Insight account
• Complete the training

You can download a certificate of completion for this training.

Completing this training:

• Make sure you sign in or register for an Elevate! Account.  If you are registering you will need to sign in to ENROL
• Click on ENROL NOW to be redirected to Insight’s online platform
• Create your Insight account
• Complete the training

You can download a certificate of completion for this training.

Completing this training:

• Make sure you sign in or register for an Elevate! Account.  If you are registering you will need to sign in to ENROL
• Click on ENROL NOW to be redirected to Insight’s online platform
• Create your Insight account
• Complete the training

You can download a certificate of completion for this training.

This training aims to place alcohol and other drug (AOD) workers in a position to understand the benefits of writing effective case notes for them, their clients, and their workplace. It will provide participants with key examples, resources and activities to develop essential skills required for effective case note writing, record-keeping, and information sharing.

It will include the following:

• An introduction to case notes (definitions, purpose)
• An overview of evidence-based practice and principles for developing 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; and practical tips and resources for efficiently writing effective case notes

Presenters:

Greg Coman *(Turning Point)

Dr Adam Rubenis (Turning Point, Specialist Clinical Services).