Free training for NDIS providers or disability agencies who are considering registering with the NDIS
Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health (CEH)
To improve your agency’s capacity for supporting CALD clients and to discuss how CEH can help your agency engage with CALD communities under the NDIS, contact: Sophie Dutertre via email or phone: (03) 9418 99 11.
Understanding the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) workshop for interpreters of languages from Burma/Myanmar
Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health (CEH)
This FREE workshop will take participants through NDIS language and concepts and give them the opportunity to translate these into their own language in a way that they feel is most accurate. We will also discuss cultural understandings of disability.
Participants will receive a certificate from CEH and will be able to apply for 10 Professional Development points from NAATI.
Date: 27 April 2018, 3.30 - 5.30pm
Venue: RMIT University, Building 080. Level 05. Room 011
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How culture influences dementia: implications for care
National Ageing Research Institute
This interactive workshop will include how to communicate with CALD families about dementia; how to negotiate different understandings of care; how to manage cultural conflict.
Date: 10 May 2018, 9.00am – 1.00pm
Cost: $250
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Working with Uncertainty
Foundation House
This workshop will explore the psychosocial realities of living with long-term uncertainty for people from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds.
Date: 10 May 2018, 9.30am – 4.30pm
Cost: $250
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Working with Families from Refugee Backgrounds
Foundation House
This seminar will explore how services and professionals can get to know the histories and needs of families from refugee backgrounds. It will consider the range of themes that exist when clients and services encounter each other and how the voices of children and families can be heard.
Date: 16 May 2018, 5.00pm – 8.00pm
Cost: $120
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Engaging CALD communities in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) - eastern Melbourne
The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health (CEH) and the Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria (ECCV) are running a FREE training and networking session for disability service providers in inner and outer eastern Melbourne to increase their ability to reach and engage with CALD communities.
Date: 23 May 2018, 9.30 - 12.30pm
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Building networks to support people with a disability from CALD communities - eastern Melbourne
CEH and ECCV are running this event for disability service providers and ethnic and multicultural organisations in the east to share knowledge about their services, build networks and establish partnerships to ensure greater choice and control for CALD NDIS participants.
Date: 23 May 2018, 12.30 - 2.30pm
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Incidental Counselling Skills
Foundation House
This two day workshop will provide an approach to working with people from refugee backgrounds in a range of settings. Participants will gain incidental counselling and other skills for responding to difficult situations.
Date: Thurs 24 and Fri 25 May 2018, 9.30am – 4.30pm
Cost: $380
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Sustaining Practice and Ourselves in Contexts of Injustice
Foundation House
This one-day workshop provides those working in contexts of injustice with a space to reflect on the impact of their work, and ways of sustaining themselves. The workshop will review and critique concepts related to stress and burnout, and explore contextual factors impacting on worker well-being.
Date: June 7, 9.30am – 4.30pm
Cost: $250
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Call for abstracts - Australia and New Zealand Refugee Trauma Recovery in Resettlement Conference
Forum of Australian Services for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (FASSTT)
FASSTT invites abstracts for the 2019 Australia and New Zealand Refugee Trauma Recovery in Resettlement Conference. The theme is Healing in Exile – Current and Future Challenges.
Date: 27-29 March, 2019
Venue: Brisbane
More information or to submit an abstract
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