Explore our training and events calendar to find webinars, professional development opportunities, workshops and networking events, designed to empower professionals in the child and family services sector.
Shared Lives is the training package for foster care agencies and practitioners to learn and deliver the package to train prospective foster carers. The program offers tools and a clear framework for training foster care applicants, assessing their suitability, and guiding informed decisions.
This first in a series of two workshops is designed for practitioners who support parents and carers of children and young people with autism. It introduces a range of innovative techniques to better understand, communicate with, and meet the needs of, people with autism. The workshop approaches the topic of autism through the lens of […]
Shared Lives is the training package for foster care agencies and practitioners to learn and deliver the package to train prospective foster carers. The program offers tools and a clear framework for training foster care applicants, assessing their suitability, and guiding informed decisions.
This workshop is the second and final in a series of two. This second workshop in this series is designed for practitioners who support parents and carers of children and young people with autism. The workshop covers a range of strategies to build parental/carer capacity to manage the behaviour of, and teach self-management to, children […]
Course Overview This highly interactive 3-hour workshop is designed for practitioners, case managers, social workers, and other professionals working within an integrated system that supports children, young people, and their families. Participants will engage in a safe and reflective learning environment to deepen their understanding of professional boundaries and explore practical strategies for maintaining them […]
This workshop is designed for workers in disability support services that are not formally part of Victoria’s MARAM family violence prevention framework. It shares the best practices from Victoria’s framework as they apply to context of working with people with disability, including guidance around information sharing and privacy for organisations that are not part of […]
Shared Lives is the training package for foster care agencies and practitioners to learn and deliver the package to train prospective foster carers. The program offers tools and a clear framework for training foster care applicants, assessing their suitability, and guiding informed decisions.
This workshop aims to provide participants with the skills and tools to lead effectively and successfully.
Course Outline Culturally Responsive Case Management Practice with Culturally and Racially Marginalised Communities is an interactive workshop supporting practitioners working with children, young people and families from CARM backgrounds within the Victorian family services context. The training emphasises practical, values‑informed application through realistic case scenarios and guided reflection, supporting culturally safe, respectful practice grounded in […]
Course Overview This MARAM intermediate training for mental health and wellbeing clinicians runs over two hours and was developed with the Centre for Mental Health Learning with input from Specialist Family Violence Advisors in area mental health and wellbeing services. The training is designed for all mental health and wellbeing clinicians with intermediate MARAM responsibilities […]
This training is designed to bolster professional proficiency in family services, child protection, and placement and support services.
Session two in the Mental Health training series, Foundations of Anxiety Disorders provides a comprehensive introduction to anxiety, exploring how stress and anxiety differ, how the body and brain respond to perceived threat, and how anxiety presents across age groups. The session builds foundational know ledge of anxiety disorders, including their causes, components, common physiological […]