Workforce Development Support Unit (WDSU)
The Workforce Development Support Unit (WDSU) provides support to Aboriginal Community Controlled Health and AOD Services in areas focusing on social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB).
Currently, training workshops available through the WDSU include:
- Culturally Responsive Trauma-Informed Practice
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health First Aid
- SEWB and Self-Care
- Case Notes and Case Management
- Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence, and
- Narrative Practice.
We work with the wider SEWB team to provide customised training, forums, and holistic support to organisations of all sizes throughout the Northern Territory, including those in remote and regional areas.
Through a collaborative approach, we acknowledge the strengths of health services’, their staff and the communities they serve in knowledge, culture, skills, and behaviours and identify gaps for further learning to improve health service delivery.
Why choose us?
Our team offers locally developed and Aboriginal-led training and support services to the ACCHS workforce.
Workshops are led by professionals with strong cross-cultural abilities and a focus on providing high-quality SEWB training, both face-to-face and online support, including professional networks and communities of practice.
We use interactive yarning in our workshops and art resources, as well as incorporate case studies to elaborate theory into practical examples. We can adapt training to the health career stages and needs of your workforce.
Contact AMSANT to learn more about how the SEWB Workforce Development Support Unit can assist your organisation.
Training under development/review
Narrative Practice
A compassionate and solution-focused approach to doing counselling and community work, this workshop provides an introduction to working from a narrative approach.
This approach is based in deep listening and curiosity, we look at how to build connection and understand the story from the perspective of communities and people in their own words. Narrative approaches:
- Centre people as the experts in their own lives
- Views problems as separate from people
- Assumes people already have the strengths, skills, values and abilities that can help them to reduce the influence of problems in their lives.
Narrative practice can help people in working one-on-one, with families, or in addressing bigger social and community concerns.
Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence
This workshop steps through how to recognise and respond to family violence. Developed by Aboriginal staff from the SEWB team, the training is usually held over two days and draws from a trauma-informed practice approach. Topics covered may include:
- What is Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (DFSV)
- How trauma changes the brain and influences stress states
- Exploring ways to self-regulate and heal
- Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experiencing DFSV
- Confidentiality and Mandatory reporting requirements and obligations
- Safety Planning
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Current training
Case Notes and Case Management
This workshop on best practice approaches to case notes and management is usually held over 1-2 days. Through an interactive yarning approach, we can guide staff through some the following topics:
- Creating safety, regulation and co-regulation
- Professional boundaries
- Basics of case management
- Implicit bias and deep listening
- Case notes and safety planning
- Professional standards and team communication
- Worries and barriers to approaching services
- Understanding what supports are available
- Vicarious trauma, burnout and self-care
SEWB and Self-Care
This workshop provides an introduction to Social and Emotional Wellbeing and considers how SEWB workers can support their own wellbeing in their work. Some of the topics covered include:
- History of SEWB in Australia and the NT
- Social, political and historical determinants of health
- Holistic care and working effectively in teams.
- Understanding the role of a SEWB worker
- Self-reflection & awareness
- Tools and techniques to support our self-care.