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  • Lets talk about sex syphilis, STIs & BBVs – Raising the issue in a AOD setting

    Webinar WA, Australia

    **REGISTER HERE BY 9TH SEPTEMBER**   Target audience: Workers in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) and mental health specialist sectors. Presented by: Dr Donna Mak, Public Health Physician, Communicable Disease Control Directorate School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame with an expert panel from the AOD sector. Details: People who experience AOD-related issues or mental health conditions can be at higher risk of contracting Blood-Borne Viruses (BBVs) and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI). Raising these issues with consumers can be uncomfortable, but workers in the AOD and mental health sectors do play a role in the treatment and prevention of STIs and BBVs including...

  • Webinar : An Introduction To Clinical Supervision

    Webinar WA, Australia

    *REGISTER HERE* Applications Close: 30 September 2022 Target audience: Clinical and support workers in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) and mental health specialist sectors. Presented by: Heather Jacobson, Workforce Development, Mental Health Commission. Details: Regular, quality clinical supervision is a fundamental requirement for workers’ professional development. It has a wide range of benefits for clinicians and the organisation including: Provision of a supportive forum in which to develop/improve complex clinical skills Promotion and maintenance of quality, standardised practice skills throughout the organisation Increased job satisfaction, self-confidence and improved worker retention. This session will provide a brief overview of clinical supervision aims...

  • Webinar- Whats new with naloxone? 3 lives a day saved with take home naloxone

    Webinar WA, Australia

    REGISTER HERE BY 14TH OCTOBER  Target audience: Human service providers working with clients who use alcohol and other drugs (AOD). Presented by: Grace Oh, Service Development, Prevention Services, Mental Health Commission. Details: This webinar is an opportunity for an interactive discussion on opioids, overdose, naloxone and will cover: Findings of the Evaluation of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Subsidised Take Home Naloxone Pilot A discussion of the future of take home naloxone A snapshot of WA heroin and pharmaceutical opioid trends An update of WA Naloxone Program initiatives How individuals and agencies can get involved. Please notify us if you have not received...

  • Introduction to emotional regulation

    Webinar WA, Australia

    Presented by: Sarah Dansie, Workforce Development, Mental Health Commission. Target audience: Clinical and support workers in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) and mental health specialist sectors. Please note: This webinar is a brief stand-alone version of the one-day workshop ST343 Emotion regulation conducted on the AODtraining@MHC Calendar. Emotion regulation is the ability to manage and respond to emotional experiences in a socially tolerable way. AOD can be one of the strategies people adopt to regulate their emotions, which may not be effective in the longer-term. This training aims to assist the worker to: Develop an understanding of emotion and...

  • Valuable Conversations for reducing the impact of alcohol use during child-bearing years

    Main Roads Geraldton Eastward Rd, Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia

    The Mental Health Commission’s Valuable Conversation training is designed to increase confidence in delivering Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) prevention. The training covers: • Reflective Practice as a tool to improve the way we work with clients. • Trauma Informed Care and Practice to help us recognise why alcohol use may happen in pregnancy. • Motivational Interviewing to better understand and express empathy towards our clients. • FASD prevention using the National Strategic Action Plan to guide us in providing holistic care. • Brief Interventions to bring together new knowledge and skills practise with the AUDIT-C and ‘Five As’. This...

  • Working with people who identify as LGBTIQA+SB in an AOD setting

    Webinar WA, Australia

    Presented by: Workforce Development, Mental Health Commission and expert panel from AOD sector. Target audience: Clinical and support workers in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) specialist sectors. This webinar aims to support workers in the AOD sector to increase their knowledge and understanding to ensure inclusive practice when working with people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, intersex, queer, questioning, asexual, sistergirl and brotherboy (LGBTIQA+SB). More specifically, this webinar aims to assist workers to: Understand the underlying factors for AOD use amongst people who identify as LGBTIQA+SB Increase understanding around the functionality of AOD use Explore...

  • Family and domestic violence (FDV) and trauma

    Webinar WA, Australia

    Presented by: Joanne Kostopoulos, Women’s Health Strategy and Programs, North Metropolitan Health Service. Target audience: Human service providers working with people experiencing alcohol and other drug (AOD) and mental health issues. In order to work effectively and safely with those experiencing and perpetrating FDV, it is important we become FDV trauma-informed. This training will cover the physical and mental health outcomes of exposure to FDV and the many ways these manifest and may present to varied services. This training will provide an overview of the various types of trauma and how an understanding of biological responses assists in our meaningful...

  • Supporting sustained behaviour change over time (relapse prevention)

    Webinar WA, Australia

    Presented by: Rachel Rea, Workforce Development, Mental Health Commission. Target audience: Human service providers working with people who use alcohol and other drugs (AOD). Please note: This webinar is a brief stand-alone version of the one- day workshop ‘ST340 Preventing relapse and supporting behaviour change over time’ conducted on the AODtraining@MHC Calendar. Motivational Interviewing focuses on helping people build the motivation to start, or restart, a health-related behaviour change. This training will provide an outline of the motivating factors to maintain change and what evoking and subsequent maintenance strategies may look like in practice. Application deadline: 16 April 2024 To...

  • Family and domestic violence (FDV) and youth

    Webinar WA, Australia

    Presented by: Joanne Kostopoulos, Women’s Health Strategy and Programs, North Metropolitan Health Service. Target audience: Human service providers working with people experiencing alcohol and other drug (AOD) and mental health issues. This webinar will place Youth FDV within the broader context and highlight the complexity and duality of young people as both victim/ survivors and perpetrators. We will discuss language and definitions around the topic of youth FDV and consider current statistics around victimisation and those who use abusive and violent behaviour. Adolescent violence in the home (AVITH), dating violence, harmful sexual behaviour and the role of pornography in perpetuating...

  • An introduction to mindfulness

    Webinar WA, Australia

    Presented by: Anna Bennetts, Mental Health Commission. Target audience: Human service providers working with people who use alcohol and other drugs (AOD). Therapies based on mindfulness have become popular over the last 15 years with a growing evidence base for their efficacy, particularly for people who use AOD. This webinar will briefly discuss the history of and evidence for mindfulness therapies for people who use AOD. Different mindfulness strategies will be presented including mindfulness of the breath, mindfulness of emotions and mindfulness of thoughts. The session will include a number of practice exercises. Application deadline: Tuesday, 4 June 2024 To...

  • Webinar #3: Alcohol use during Pregnancy and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) prevention

    Webinar WA, Australia

    Presented by: Dionne Aitken, Community Support and Development Programs, MHC. Target Audience: Human service providers with clients of childbearing age, their families, and communities. This virtual session has been planned to coincide with International FASD Awareness Day.  We will review foundational concepts for the development and delivery of best-practice FASD prevention, such as: Contextualising alcohol use in Australia, Complexities associated with alcohol use during pregnancy, Defining FASD, Considering prevention strategies that respond to community strengths and needs. We will also briefly touch on the Mental Health Commission’s FASD prevention funding program.

  • Webinar #4: Co-occurring Mental Health and AOD issues with Young People

    Webinar WA, Australia

    Presented by: Mark Bowley, Workforce Development, MHC Target audience: Human service providers working with young people who use AOD and have co-occurring mental health issues. This session explores functional AOD use in the context of cooccurring mental health issues for young people, and considerations when working with young people with cooccurring mental health and AOD use concerns.

  • Webinar #5: An Introduction to Emotion Regulation

    Webinar WA, Australia

    Presented by: Sarah Dansie, Workforce Development, MHC Target audience: Clinical and support workers in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) and mental health specialist sectors. Please note: This webinar is a brief, stand-alone version of the one-day workshop ST343 Emotion regulation delivered on the AODtraining@MHC Calendar. Emotion regulation is the ability to manage and respond to emotional experiences in a socially tolerable way. It includes being able to reduce the intensity or duration of emotional states or changing the expression of the emotion to achieve a more positive outcome. Emotion regulation generally increases across the lifespan, however, it is a skill that...