Events

HEPReady Regional Workshop-Traralgon

Comfort Inn and Suites 5601 Princes Hwy, Level 2, Traralgon

The HEPReady regional workshop (funded by the Department of Health and Human Services) is an opportunity for your workforce to develop a comprehensive understanding of hepatitis along with local perspectives. Will feature expert presenters, lived-experience speakers and community based health experts. What will we cover? Epidemiology, methods of transmission, progression, treatment and management. Understand the

Free

Everything You Thought You Knew About Addiction Is Wrong – Johann Hari

Astor Theatre 1 Chapel St, St Kilda VIC 3182, St Kilda

Tickets selling fast for Johann Hari, best-selling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections only Melbourne appearance. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, is the New York Times best-selling book, praised by everyone from Elton John to Richard Branson to Russell Brand to Naomi Klein. It tells

$29 – $39

Hepatitis Victoria HEPSpeak Training day 2 of 2

Hepatitis Victoria 5/200 Sydney Rd Brunswick, Brunswick

Hepatitis Victoria is welcoming new public speakers to join our public speakers bureau "HEPSpeak" Join us for a two day FREE workshop to improve your public speaking skills and make a difference! Why should I become a HEPSpeaker? This is an opportunity to connect with others and share experiences Help to educate the community and

Free

Harm from gambling and people affected by mental health issues

Our six Integrated Service Activity (ISA) workshops will focus on a specific 'at-risk' population (young people, people with a mental health issue, people in the justice system, Aboriginal communities, Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Communities and people affected by family violence). This workshop will focus on gambling harm and people affected by mental health issues. Our ISA workshops are

Free

NWMPHN Forum – Intersectionality: what it is and why it matters

Melbourne Polytechnic 22 St Georges Road, Preston, Victoria, Australia

VAADA has been commissioned to run an AOD Workforce Development and Stakeholder Engagement Project for the North Western Melbourne PHN region, coordinating forums, training, communities of practice and managers networks. Intersectionality explains how an individual may experience multiple types of overlapping discrimination, depending on their age, gender, ethnicity, physical or cognitive ability, class or other

$75.00

HEPReady Essentials

Do you work helping people who may have hepatitis? Get the Essentials. HEPReady® training for health and community professionals Hepatitis Victoria is the peak not for profit community organisation working across the state for people affected by, or at risk of viral hepatitis. Anyone can contract hepatitis B and C but incidences are higher among

$60.00
Recurring

Hepatitis Victoria LiverWELL Coaching

Hepatitis Victoria 5/200 Sydney Rd Brunswick, Brunswick

Participants will support each other to learn how to better manage various aspects of their life with chronic liver disease and learn about a range of topics. The Chronic Disease Self-Management model has consistently shown improvements in the confidence and health literacy of participants which by extension shows improvements health outcomes. Each week an expert

Free

Professional boundaries

This workshop will explore the professional boundaries of helping roles and why we need them, issues around ethical principles, challenges to maintaining boundaries, triggers of our emotional and physical reactions, transference of our ideas to others, when to refer to other professionals and self-care, including separating ourselves from our work.

Free

AOD workers – Learn how to respond to people affected by ice.

Punt Hill Little Bourke 11-17 Cohen Place, Melbourne

** AOD specific session** 360Edge, Australia’s leading alcohol and other drug consultants, is now delivering free half-day workshops to frontline workers across Victoria. For bookings visit https://cbd_aod_24_10.eventbrite.com.au What you will learn. The training will build your confidence, knowledge and skills so you can respond safely and effectively to people affected by the drug ice. Understand the

Free

Melbourne CBD Drug & Alcohol MHPN Meeting

Windana Drug and Alcohol Recovery An overview of Windana’s treatment programs and Therapeutic Community Benn Veenker – Senior AOD Practitioner and Peer Lead Charlie Wood, Windana Benn has been working at Windana for the past 18 months. Prior to that he had worked in the AOD sector for more than 5 years, initially starting in

Free