Type: Non-accredited

1-day Youth Mental Health 101

Youth workers have a key role in the early intervention of mental health issues and assisting clients to develop skills to improve their mental wellbeing. In this session, you will increase your knowledge of our client group’s most prevalent health issue and develop practical strategies that both you and your centre/program can implement to improve the mental health outcomes of young people.

This half-day session is designed for non-clinical youth and AOD workers.

Want practical, no-jargon training on how to:

  • Identify mental health issues
  • Assist clients to link in with the care they need
  • Support them on their journey

Then this is for you!

Eligibility Criteria

This training has been funded for workers employed in a Victorian State-funded Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) service, including those who are new to the AOD sector or recently employed under the COVID-19 Workforce Initiative and Peer workers.

Who is not eligible?

Students on placement or internships, workers from other community sectors such as Family Violence, Homelessness and Mental Health and AOD workers outside of Victoria.

Please ensure you have clearance to attend from your line manager. If you cannot attend, even if you find out the day before, please cancel your registration and make your spot available to someone else on the waiting list.

 

Trauma and Harm Reduction in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples

This is an interactive conversation about trauma and harm reduction when supporting Aboriginal clients. These sessions allow for a safe space to ask any questions about working with Aboriginal clients who are experiencing trauma while following the principles of harm reduction.

By attending this session, we hope you can walk away with a better understanding on the impacts of intergenerational trauma, engaging with Aboriginal clients in a culturally safe way, and the importance of harm reduction.

Eligibility Criteria

This training has been funded for workers employed in a Victorian State-funded Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) service, including those who are new to the AOD sector or recently employed under the COVID-19 Workforce Initiative and Peer workers.

Who is not eligible?

Students on placement or internships, workers from other community sectors such as Family Violence, Homelessness, and Mental Health, and AOD workers outside of Victoria.

Please ensure you have clearance to attend from your line manager. If you cannot attend, even if you find out the day before, please cancel your registration and make your spot available to someone else on the waiting list.

Trauma and Harm Reduction in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples

This is an interactive conversation about trauma and harm reduction when supporting Aboriginal clients. These sessions allow for a safe space to ask any questions about working with Aboriginal clients who are experiencing trauma while following the principles of harm reduction.

By attending this session, we hope you can walk away with a better understanding on the impacts of intergenerational trauma, engaging with Aboriginal clients in a culturally safe way, and the importance of harm reduction.

Eligibility Criteria

This training has been funded for workers employed in a Victorian State-funded Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) service, including those who are new to the AOD sector or recently employed under the COVID-19 Workforce Initiative and Peer workers.

Who is not eligible?

Students on placement or internships, workers from other community sectors such as Family Violence, Homelessness, and Mental Health, and AOD workers outside of Victoria.

Please ensure you have clearance to attend from your line manager. If you cannot attend, even if you find out the day before, please cancel your registration and make your spot available to someone else on the waiting list.

Doing Difference Differently – Reflective Practice

Description

The aim of the Doing Difference Differently Reflective Practice sessions is to provide a safe, supported, reflective space to dive deeper into implementing intersectionality in practice, using peer learning models and case studies.

Practitioners will be invited to:

  • Explore and navigate case studies/practice issues/incidents together fusing an intersectional lens and utilising tools provided in the training (e.g. Power Matrix, Peer Support Model).
  • Raise questions arising from training modules for further discussion and learning.
  • Develop critical thinking/analysis through cases/video/stimulus materials provided by facilitators if time permits.

Prerequisite to this course

Students are required to complete the Doing Difference Differently self-paced learning unit.

To access the learning unit, go to Self-Paced E-Learning and click on Doing Difference Differently E-Learn. Enrol in the unit by clicking on ENROL NOW and change it to I’m Going).  Go to your dashboard and access the unit from MY COURSES.

Eligibility Criteria

This training has been funded for workers employed in a Victorian State-funded Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) service, including those who are new to the AOD sector or recently employed under the COVID-19 Workforce Initiative and Peer workers.

Who is not eligible?

Students on placement or internships, workers from other community sectors such as Family Violence, Homelessness and Mental Health and AOD workers outside of Victoria.

Please ensure you have clearance to attend from your line manager. If you cannot attend, even if you find out the day before, please cancel your registration and make your spot available to someone else on the waiting list.

Doing Difference Differently – Reflective Practice

Description

The aim of the Doing Difference Differently Reflective Practice sessions is to provide a safe, supported, reflective space to dive deeper into implementing intersectionality in practice, using peer learning models and case studies.

Practitioners will be invited to:

  • Explore and navigate case studies/practice issues/incidents together fusing an intersectional lens and utilising tools provided in the training (e.g. Power Matrix, Peer Support Model).
  • Raise questions arising from training modules for further discussion and learning.
  • Develop critical thinking/analysis through cases/video/stimulus materials provided by facilitators if time permits.

Prerequisite to this course

Students are required to complete the Doing Difference Differently self-paced learning unit.

To access the learning unit, go to Self-Paced E-Learning and click on Doing Difference Differently E-Learn. Enrol in the unit by clicking on ENROL NOW and change it to I’m Going).  Go to your dashboard and access the unit from MY COURSES.

Eligibility Criteria

This training has been funded for workers employed in a Victorian State-funded Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) service, including those who are new to the AOD sector or recently employed under the COVID-19 Workforce Initiative and Peer workers.

Who is not eligible?

Students on placement or internships, workers from other community sectors such as Family Violence, Homelessness and Mental Health and AOD workers outside of Victoria.

Please ensure you have clearance to attend from your line manager. If you cannot attend, even if you find out the day before, please cancel your registration and make your spot available to someone else on the waiting list.

Doing Difference Differently – Reflective Practice

Description

The aim of the Doing Difference Differently Reflective Practice sessions is to provide a safe, supported, reflective space to dive deeper into implementing intersectionality in practice, using peer learning models and case studies.

Practitioners will be invited to:

  • Explore and navigate case studies/practice issues/incidents together fusing an intersectional lens and utilising tools provided in the training (e.g. Power Matrix, Peer Support Model).
  • Raise questions arising from training modules for further discussion and learning.
  • Develop critical thinking/analysis through cases/video/stimulus materials provided by facilitators if time permits.

Prerequisite to this course

Students are required to complete the Doing Difference Differently self-paced learning unit.

To access the learning unit, go to Self-Paced E-Learning and click on Doing Difference Differently E-Learn. Enrol in the unit by clicking on ENROL NOW and change it to I’m Going).  Go to your dashboard and access the unit from MY COURSES.

Eligibility Criteria

This training has been funded for workers employed in a Victorian State-funded Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) service, including those who are new to the AOD sector or recently employed under the COVID-19 Workforce Initiative and Peer workers.

Who is not eligible?

Students on placement or internships, workers from other community sectors such as Family Violence, Homelessness and Mental Health and AOD workers outside of Victoria.

Please ensure you have clearance to attend from your line manager. If you cannot attend, even if you find out the day before, please cancel your registration and make your spot available to someone else on the waiting list.

Doing Difference Differently – Reflective Practice

**Please note change in date from June 12t to June 19th**

Description

The aim of the Doing Difference Differently Reflective Practice sessions is to provide a safe, supported, reflective space to dive deeper into implementing intersectionality in practice, using peer learning models and case studies.

Practitioners will be invited to:

  • Explore and navigate case studies/practice issues/incidents together fusing an intersectional lens and utilising tools provided in the training (e.g. Power Matrix, Peer Support Model).
  • Raise questions arising from training modules for further discussion and learning.
  • Develop critical thinking/analysis through cases/video/stimulus materials provided by facilitators if time permits.

Prerequisite to this course

Students are required to complete the Doing Difference Differently self-paced learning unit.

To access the learning unit, go to Self-Paced E-Learning and click on Doing Difference Differently E-Learn. Enrol in the unit by clicking on ENROL NOW and change it to I’m Going.  Go to your dashboard and access the unit from MY COURSES.

Eligibility Criteria

This training has been funded for workers employed in a Victorian State-funded Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) service, including those who are new to the AOD sector or recently employed under the COVID-19 Workforce Initiative and Peer workers.

Who is not eligible?

Students on placement or internships, workers from other community sectors such as Family Violence, Homelessness and Mental Health and AOD workers outside of Victoria.

Please ensure you have clearance to attend from your line manager. If you cannot attend, even if you find out the day before, please cancel your registration and make your spot available to someone else on the waiting list.

Doing Difference Differently E-Learning

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

To access the course:  Make sure you are signed up or signed in,

Click on ENROL NOW. Click on the GO TO TRAINING button (it will appear once you are enrolled)

Create an account with Insight Queensland to receive your certificate of learning.

Managers and Leaders Capability Training

This is the application for selection to the Managers and Leadership Capability Training.

There are two training options with 10 places available in each course.  Applicants must select one option only.

The options are:

The Diploma of Leadership and Management

Starts in July

Open to managers with three or more years of experience wishing to have a recognised national qualification, this course has been contextualised for AOD settings.

  • Designed for coordinators/team leaders/managers with responsibility for:
  • Supervising others
  • Developing teams
  • Using emotional intelligence and critical thinking skills – developing them in others
  • Presenting, negotiating, leading meetings, engaging with stakeholders
  • Implementing and monitoring operational plans and continuous improvement processes
  • Supporting wellbeing of self and others

Duration: 

6 months

Commitment:

  • 3 workshop days (one day in-person, the rest online)
  • 2 take-home assessment tasks
  • Recognised Prior Learning (RPL) available

 

Brenè Brown’s Dare to Lead Program™

Starts in May

Based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, Dare to Lead™ is an empirically based courage-building program designed to be facilitated by organisational development professionals. Phillip Ralph, Managing Director of The Leadership Sphere, is a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator. We add to the core program content to address specific leadership challenges faced in organisations.

Individuals who successfully complete the full 24-hour program will receive a certificate of completion.

Duration:

8 weeks

Commitment:

  • 3-hour online workshops weekly
  • Approx. 4-6 hours of reflections, reading and exercises over the course duration outside of workshops

Include Extras:

  • Workbook
  • Brenè Brown’s book: Dare to Lead
  • Habit builder app
  • 1-hr world-cafe style 1-hour Practitioners Lab
  • Access to TLS Community Hub
  • 8 hr online course “Leading Through Trust”

TO APPLY:

  1. Sign in or create an Elevate! account
  2. Click on ENROL NOW to change it to I’m GOING (NOTE: by changing the event to I’M GOING only allows you to view it in your account)
  3. Click on your name at the top right of the web page>MY ACCOUNT>MY COURSES
  4. Click on BEGIN APPLICATION

 

 

2-day Motivational Interviewing Foundational Skills

Dates

Day one: Tuesday July 4th, 9:00AM – 4:30PM

Day two: Tuesday July 11th 9:00AM – 4:30PM

*Download both days to your calendar.  Bookings can only be made from day one of training.

Description

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative method for guiding conversations about change. More than a set of techniques, MI is a discipline in its own right that brings together a set of values, principles and disciplined use of skills to assist people in resolving ambivalence and deepen motivation to pursue meaningful changes for them.

While the skills take time and practice, the conversation style is gentle, and curious and comes from a place of faith in the other person. The hope is that, together, we may discover what is meaningful for this person and what choices would work best for them, knowing who they are and what they want deep down for their future. MI asks us to be mindful of the way our own hopes and assumptions can interfere in the process as much as they can help and create a space of genuine enquiry and deepening understanding.

Rather than replace other approaches, MI can enhance and deepen the full range of interventions we use by bringing a more acute awareness to the how and when of conversation rather than just what we talk about.

The training is highly interactive, with a focus on practical skill development. The two-day workshop will offer an opportunity to:

  • Gain a clear and up-to-date understanding of MI – what it is, how it works and recent changes to the framework
  • Increase understanding of the change process
  • Review and practice the core skills
  • Apply the skills to the change process
  • Increase ability to work effectively with resistance and ambivalence
  • Practice skills in softening sustained talk and eliciting change talk
  • Develop strategies to continue learning and practising MI.

 

Eligibility Criteria

This training has been funded for workers employed in a Victorian State-funded Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) service, including those who are new to the AOD sector or recently employed under the COVID-19 Workforce Initiative and Peer workers.

Who is not eligible?

Students on placement or internships, workers from other community sectors such as Family Violence, Homelessness and Mental Health and AOD workers outside of Victoria.

Please ensure you have clearance to attend from your line manager. If you cannot attend, even if you find out the day before, please cancel your registration and make your spot available to someone else on the waiting list.

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