This training is aimed at a range of front line workers including but not limited to: housing and homelessness support workers, mental health, home care services, social workers, disability support, aged care, tenancy managers, cleaning services, council health and safety officers, fire safety services, child protection, animal rescue, and at times concerned family and friends have attended.
Course Outline:
Trauma informed approaches and considerations, DSMV addition and definition, statistics and characteristics, complex and challenging behaviour, different types of hoarding, fire risks, council concerns, OH&S issues, at risk tenancies, children safety concerns, animal welfare, neighbourhood issues, strategies and examples for case coordination with multiple service providers, practical strategies for service users and therapeutic tools, real case examples used throughout to draw information from, links to helpful resources and websites, promotion of workers self-care and a focus on a reduction of vicarious trauma impacts.
Variations of this training have been delivered across New Zealand and Australia since 2011. Each year the training is updated to include current research and trends within this very specialised field. Integral to this specialised training is the case examples and strategies that the facilitator has witnessed and used in her time working in the sector as a specialised mental health worker for government agencies, direct in-home support worker sustaining tenancies, a hoarding support group facilitator, supervision services for workers, a hoarding behaviour and strategist consultant for government bodies, and as a trainer developer and facilitator in this specialty field. Maire Barron the facilitator and developer of this training, has been working in the human services field since 1998. Maire holds a Bachelors Degree in Social Sciences Majoring in Counselling among a plethora of other qualifications and trainings.
To date over a 2000 professionals have attended this training.
Private In House Courses:
Course duration: 7 hour day – flexible based on needs
Course cost: please contact for quote, which may include facilitator travel and accommodation considerations.
Recommended participant numbers: max 20
