CD ROM SHORT COURSE PACKAGES AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

Children's Services

During 2006, Equalis ran a training calendar specifically designed to meet the needs of Children’s Services. This training was well received and we have been requested to make these courses available on cd for services to purchase.

The topics covered include: Inclusion Practices; Children's Music,Movement and Drama; Positive Practice in Guiding Challenging Behaviours; Lifting Techniques & Manual Handling for Child Care Workers; and Food Safety for Staff (Not Just Cooks).

This training resource can be used as a staff development tool during team meetings, staff induction, or as a method of showing evidence towards accreditation. All courses have been mapped to relevant Children’s Services competency elements within the Community Services Training Package.

For further information, contact Equalis on 1300 653 340 or mail@equalis.com.au

Specialist Short Courses

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.

READINGS AND RESOURCES

It is our aim to make our readings and resources available online for those people who are currently completing training with us. Students and Partners will be able to log-in and access these valuable resources which will assist them in understanding material and completing assessments. This process will make accessing resources a lot easier, especially for those in remote areas completing their course via Distance Education. This will save time, money…and trees! Watch this space.