Workforce Development

Workforce development and training opportunities for people working in the alcohol and other drug sector in Western Australia.

Upcoming Training and Workforce Development Opportunities

WAAMH - De-escalation Skills

Monday 25 March 2019 - Perth
Wednesday 10 April 2019 - Bunbury
Monday 20 May 2019 - Karratha
Thursday 20 June 2019 - Perth

Learn to respond calmly to threatening behaviour, diffuse aggression and avoid violence.

Cost: Full WAAMH members $195, Associate WAAMH members $220, Non-members $245.
Scholarships available.

Please contact the Western Australian Association for Mental Health (WAAMH) on (08) 6246 3000 or via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information or visit http://www.waamh.org.au

WAAMH - Positive Psychology Tools

Monday 1 April 2019
Perth
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of human flourishing, and offers a suite of practical tools to help everyone live an optimal life.

Cost: Full WAAMH members $195, Associate WAAMH members $220, Non-members $245.
Scholarships available.

ACU - Kids centred practice

An ACU Institute of Child Protection Studies (ICPS) Keeping Kids Central workshop.
Monday 1 April 2019
9.30am - 4.30pm
Level 4, 45 St Georges Terrace, Perth
Cost: Free

The ACU Institute of Child Protection Studies (ICPS) developed the workshops with support from the Australian Department of Social Services. The workshops draw on research ICPS conducted with and for children and young people.

This action-focused workshop is designed to provide insights into children and young people’s lived experience of domestic and family violence and practical supports for engaging with families in ways that both address immediate safety and wellbeing needs and support children and young people to flourish.

Intended audience: All professionals that work with families at risk of, or experiencing, domestic and family violence and other challenging issues.

Contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 03 9953 3644

ACU - Leading the way

An ACU Institute of Child Protection Studies (ICPS) Keeping Kids Central workshop.
Tuesday 2 April 2019
9.30am - 4.30pm
Level 4, 45 St Georges Terrace, Perth
Cost: Free

This workshop addresses implementing policies, practices and strategies that provide the foundations for the delivery of child-centred practice. It covers to incorporating children and young people’s voices into service design, ensuring that service responses are safe, supportive and focused on children and young people’s needs.

Intended audience: Program Leaders

Contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 03 9953 3644

WAAMH - Drugs, Alcohol and Mental Health

Monday 8 April 2019
Perth

Cost: Full WAAMH members $195, Associate WAAMH members $220, Non-members $245.
Scholarships available.

NDRI - Harms to children from others’ drinking: recent findings and their policy impacts

A free public seminar with Dr Anne-Marie Laslett, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
Tuesday 9 April 2019
11am - 12noon
Technology Park – Building 603, Level 2 Seminar Room (Room 213) Sarich Way, Bentley

Anne-Marie Laslett initiated a program of work studying harm to children from others’ drinking while funded by the NHMRC on an Early Career Fellowship.

For more information, please visit NDRI Events. Please RSVP via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Training and Workforce Development Providers

Anglicare WA - Professional Development Training - draws on more than 40 years’ experience as a leading service provider in the social services sector to develop and deliver quality training and professional development workshops to a range of audiences; from administration and teaching aids, to community service workers and psychologist through to lawyers and corporate groups.
Cracks in the Ice - This online training provides frontline workers, including peer workers, alcohol and other drug workers and clinicians, with information and resources about ice (crystal methamphetamine).
Emerging Minds: National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health - free training and information.
Evolve Events - Training and Human Development - Along with their training services, they offer a complete event management service.
Holyoake - DRUMBEAT Facilitator Training - Holyoake is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) that offers DRUMBEAT Facilitator Training to community and youth workers.
Karen Hulls - Complex Trauma Training WA - deliver a range of comprehensive training programs for workers and carers who work with children, youth, adults and families who have experienced complex trauma.
Mental Health Commission - AODtraining@MHC - provides a range of knowledge and skills-based training events on alcohol and other drugs and comorbidity. Events are free-of-charge and include induction training for new workers.
Mental Health Commission - E-learning@MHC - online learning programs aimed at professionals employed in the AOD sector and other professional staff working to prevent AOD-related harm.
National Comorbidity Guidelines Online Training - free, online training developed by by The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use and funded by the Australian Government Department of Health. Completion will take approximately 10 hours.
Relationships Australia WA - Professional Development - provides training for family and community support professionals to develop specialist relationship counselling, mediation and management skills. Training is provided from basic to advanced professional competency levels.
Richmond Wellbeing - courses&events - provide specialist, evidence-based training in Recovery-oriented approaches and practice, corporate training courses and a number of community and cultural events within supportive and inclusive environments.
SMART Recovery Program Training - SMART Recovery Australia offers training in the SMART Recovery behavioural change and addiction treatment program and how to run a SMART meeting in the community or your organisation.
Sexual Assault and Resource Centre (SARC) - provides quality, evidence based education and training opportunities on issues related to sexual assault and sexual abuse to professional workers, students and volunteers.
The Western Australian Association for Mental Health (WAAMH) - offers a range of courses targeted to meet specific needs of the mental health workforce, enhance the skill development of roles which relate to mental health, and educate the wider community.
William Street Family Therapy Centre - provides family and relationship professionals with high quality hands-on training courses, workshops and supervision.
WISDOM in Your Life – Psychological and Aboriginal ways - provides training for mental health professionals.
Womens Health and Family Services - Training for Health Professionals - WHFS presentations, seminars, workshops and training sessions can be tailored to specific group interests and budgets. In addition WHFS offers a professional supervision and consultancy service for individual, group and organisational issues concerning women and families.

Useful Resources

pdf Comprehensive Alcohol and other Drug Workforce Development in Western Australia - Full Report (2.71 MB) - WANADA
2018 Peer Workforce Report - WA Peer Supporters' Network

WANADA provides information about training and workforce development through our e-newsletter FYI.