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JP and C.Dec Training

Join us for a free interactive and educational workshop designed to help you understand: recent shifts in community finance, how a loan for asset purchase could help your social the barriers that exist to accessing finance for asset purchase enterprise, and business development.

If your organisation engaging volunteers or thinking of engaging volunteers? If so, this training will be of significant value to you and your organisation. SUCCESSFUL VOLUNTEER MANAGERS * Are aware of current and emerging models of volunteering. * Learn to understand and respond to the priorities of volunteers. * Adapt their practice to changing community perceptions, demographics, and expectations. * Take a leadership role in shaping how their organisation understands and works with its volunteers. * Support their volunteers in safe and meaningful practice.

The qualification is 30942QLD Course in Providing Community Justice Services (Commissioner for Declarations) (Justice of the Peace [Qualified])

About Lives Lived Well Lives Lived Well are proud to present the 2013 Australian Winter School Conference. Lives Lived Well formed in May last year when Alcohol and Drug Foundation Queensland, the Gold Coast Drug Council and the Queensland Drug and Alcohol Council merged For more information go to www.liveslivedwell.org.au

This workshop will explore the strengths approach as it applies to the lives and work of workers in the Disability Support Industry and how they can continue to apply the principles of the strengths approach in their work with people with a disability.

Human services workers are increasingly familiar with the range of conversation-building 'seriously optimistic' practice tools produced by St Luke's Innovative Resources. These hands-on tools offer rich interpretive metaphors that can act as catalysts for change for individuals, families, groups, communities and organisations. In addition to Innovative Resources, a number of other tools have recently been developed by other individuals or organisations, such as Illuminations, Mind Gardner cards, Photolanguage and Just Like When. This workshop will offer participants a number of immediately useful ideas for the use of these tools within a range of practice contexts. The client-directed philosophy behind the tools will also be explored throughout the day. Participants can look forward to a highly participative, interactive workshop in which their own creativity, storytelling and sense of humour will be encouraged. A full range of tools will be available for practice during the workshop and availble to purchase from the bookstore.

As a case manager have you ever felt like you are trying to work towards change for your client, but wondered why change is not occurring? Strengths-based Case Management is becoming a widely used role in the field of social services, but what does it look like in action? This workshop will be an opportunity to step back from our everyday "doing" of case management to explore client-directed, strengths based approaches to case management. This approach seeks to support clients to be active players in the case management process, to enable them to make decisions that will promote preferred possibilities in their lives. Throughout the workshop key skills of Strengths-based Case Management will be explored in a range of experiential ways. Participants will expect to hear stories of collaborative Strengths-based Case Management processes that generate energy and hope for both the worker and client.

In this two day workshop participants will reflect upon their supervision framework considering the skills around mentoring, professional development of staff and reviewing staff performance. In addition the training aims to increase confidence in addressing performance concerns using appropriate processes that are respectful to staff and fulfill the industrial relations legislative obligations. Why do some managers report that it is easier to work with clients than to manage staff? “At times it can feel like walking on a tightrope” How do I create a workplace that demonstrates that “our staff are our most valuable resource”? How do I create a workplace that enhances staff performance ensuring quality service delivery to clients? How do I manage staff performance issues using clear and respectful processes? How do I ensure that I meet my obligations under industrial relations legislation?

This one-day workshop supports participants to recognise opportunities for change and explores how they can be used positively in the lives of young people. Issues influencing vulnerability and resilience are considered, with an exploration of the implications for youth-work practice.

The qualification is 30942QLD Course in Providing Community Justice Services (Commissioner for Declarations) (Justice of the Peace [Qualified])

The strengths approach invites workers and organizations to step into a ‘way of thinking’ about practice that is often at odds with traditional human service thinking. This contrast will be highlighted in the workshop through an exploration of the post-structuralist philosophical foundations of the strengths approach. The workshop is specifically designed for workers who want to use this philosophy to ‘go further’ in applying a strengths ‘way of thinking’ to their work. Particular attention will be given to the skills and resources workers can use when trying to further incorporate a strengths approach into their work. Key concepts covered during the workshop will be ‘hearing strengths over the noise of problems’ and the ‘absent but implicit’. The workshop will be highly interactive with participants invited to reflect, discuss and ask questions.

JP and C.Dec training

The qualification is 30942QLD Course in Providing Community Justice Services (Commissioner for Declarations) (Justice of the Peace [Qualified])

The qualification is 30942QLD Course in Providing Community Justice Services (Commissioner for Declarations) (Justice of the Peace [Qualified])

This workshop utilises the latest research to better equip workers with young people involved in non-suicidal self injury, and will provide answers applicable to your day-to-day work.