Events

360Edge ice training workshop

Punt Hill Little Bourke 11-17 Cohen Place, Melbourne

360Edge, Australia’s leading alcohol and other drug consultants, is now delivering free half day workshops to frontline workers across Victoria. This free session will empower you with the knowledge and skills required to manage people affected by ice. The training will build your confidence, knowledge and skills so you can respond safely and effectively to

Free

360Edge ice training workshop

Punt Hill Dandenong 157/163 Princes Highway, Dandenong

360Edge, Australia’s leading alcohol and other drug consultants, is now delivering free half day workshops to frontline workers across Victoria. This free session will empower you with the knowledge and skills required to manage people affected by ice. The training will build your confidence, knowledge and skills so you can respond safely and effectively to

Free

Wise Choices: Acceptance & Commitment for people with ‘hard life syndrome’

Free Workshop: 6.30-9.00pm Living Room, 7-9 Hosier Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000 MHPN - Melb. CBD Drug & Alcohol Peer Support Network Meeting. Light Refreshments Provided. This workshop is based on Wise Choices, an adaptation of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, developed by Spectrum personality disorder service, which was also successfully piloted at Turning Point. Jane will

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World’s Largest Overdose Prevention Training

Port Melbourne Town Hall 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne

Designed to coincide with International Overdose Awareness week, The World’s Largest Overdose Prevention Training is the coming together of 13 concerned organisations who saw an opportunity to help prevent overdose.  Our aim was both to honour those lost and to provide members of the community with the skills to recognise and prevent an overdose death

Free

BUDDYS EXPO: Youth Dual Diagnosis in a Changing Landscape

Michael Chamberlain Theatre 41 Victoria street, Fitzroy

BUDDYS (Building up Dual Diagnosis in Youth Services) is holding its seventh EXPO aimed at exploring the changing mental health and alcohol and other drug sectors (including NDIS) for young people. The aim of the expo is to explore changing and updated mental health and AOD services for young people aged 12-25, including implications of

$35.00

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

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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

Forensic Fundamentals Training (North Melbourne)

Hume Global Learning Center 1093 Pascoe Vale Road, Broadmeadows, Melbourne, Australia

Forensic Fundamentals is a half-day face-to-face forensic clinical training session for Victorian Alcohol and other Drug Workers The Forensic Fundamentals training session will provide attendees with information and clinical skills for working with forensic clients. The aim of the training is to enhance key clinical skills to enable clinicians to better work with forensic clients

Free

VAADA Conference 2019

Melbourne Pullman on the Park 192 Wellington Parade,, Melbourne

The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association’s biennial conference brings together the diverse Alcohol and Other Drugs Sector as well as fellow travellers in health, education, justice and community sectors to share ideas and experience for the benefit of our clients. The conference provides a space for clinicians, researchers, peer support, case managers, nurses, and counsellors

$160.00 – $595.00