All of Equalis' Short Courses have been mapped to relevant competencies with the Community Services Training Package. They can be delivered via workshops, self-paced learning material and you can purchase the course(s) to deliver within your own organisation. All courses have assessment requirements that will enable you to gain a statement of attainment towards a specific qualification.

Disability specific:

• Dual diagnosis.
• Programming for skills development.
• Positive programming.
• Behaviour assessment and intervention design.
• Challenging behaviour.
• Advanced behaviour management.
• Working as a practitioner within the disability sector
• Medication management.
• Communication support.
• Autism.
• Legal and ethical issues.
• Working with people with disabilities who are ageing.

Children Services specific:

• Inclusion practices.
• Child protection and mandatory reporting.
• Children's music, movement and drama.
• Positive practice in guiding challenging behaviour.
• Manual handling techniques for child care workers.
• Food safety for staff.

Youth Services specific:

• Youth suicide prevention.
• Professional contingency management for youth workers.
• Managing challenging behaviour in the youth work environment.
• Case work and case planning for young people.
• Understanding the history and principles of out of home care service provision.
• An overview of clinical and intervention models in youth work.
• Working as a practitioner within youth services

Aged Care Specific:

• Using specialist communication skills to build strong relationships.
• Individual services development, design and delivery.
• Professionalism and workplace responsibilities within the aged care sector.
• Support for the older person to meet their emotional and psychosocial needs.
• Working with aged people with complex needs.
• Providing physical assistance with medication.
• Professional contingency management for the aged care worker.

Home and Community Care specific:

• Importance of effective communication for the HACC worker.
• Food safety considerations within the HACC work environment.
• Cultural awareness for the HACC worker.
• Manual Handling within the HACC environment role.
• Volunteers and their significance.
• Roles and responsibilities of the volunteer and the organisation.

Management Specific across all Community Services Sector:

• Developing a learning organisation.
• Developing positive workload management systems.
• Supporting continuous improvement strategies.
• Supporting workplace relationships.
• Occupational planning and service systems.
• Quality assurance in action.
• Internal audits.
• Managing accreditation process.

Generic courses:

• Report writing.
• Team building.
• Stress Management.
• Conflict Management.
• Time management and workload planning.
• Supervision and mentoring.
• Staff appraisal and performance management.
• Strategic and business planning.
• Quality assurance.