Aboriginal Cultural Awareness and Aboriginal People Strengths Based Practice Workshop - Day 2

Venue TBC - Western Sydney

Please note:

This is the second session in a two-day workshop, in order to attend this session, you must have complete day one within the last 12 months. To register for day one, please follow this link:

https://events.humanitix.com/aboriginal-cultural-awareness-and-aboriginal-people-strengths-based-practices-workshop-day-1

Overview

Day 2 Aboriginal People & Strengths-based Practices Workshop

WUNGURWIL KILI NHAWI, WUNGURWIL MARNMARNAPU (strong today, strong tomorrow)

Exploring practical solutions in providing more holistic and effective service delivery for Aboriginal people.

This workshop is a follow-up to the Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Workshop.

Course topics include:

• Revisiting Workshop 1 (Aboriginal Cultural Awareness)

• Communicating effectively

• Current themes and figures relating to Aboriginal people

• Contributing factors around contemporary Aboriginal health and wellbeing

• Media and public perceptions

• Proactive campaigns

• Tools and resources

• Referral points

• Case studies

• Individual action planning
  

About the facilitator:

Felicity (Flic) Ryan is a Wadi Wadi woman and her mother’s family are freshwater people from the mallee area of Victoria, specifically around the Murray River (Miilu). She also has strong family connections to the Wemba Wemba and Yorta Yorta people around this region. Flic’s father is of Scottish background and his family hail from the area below Glasgow in the central lowlands.

Flic spent 13 years working within both State and Local Government areas and her previous roles include Women and Children’s Refuge Worker, Child Protection Officer, Community Development Officer, HIV Care and Support Officer and Sexual Health Worker.

Flic has been an accredited trainer for the past 19 years and now specialises in the development and delivery of face-to-face training packages designed around Aboriginal Cultural Awareness and Competency, Self-Care for Aboriginal Workers, Aboriginal Health and Employment, Aboriginal People and Lateral Violence, and Teambuilding. She is particularly interested in assisting Aboriginal people up-skill within the workforce and has also tailored packages around Facilitating Workshops and Working with Small Groups. Each of Flic’s workshops are grounded in strengths-based concepts and focus on the well-being and advancement of Aboriginal peoples and strengthening partnerships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.

Who should attend?

This is a NADA member event.

Frontline support and clinical staff from any NADA member service are welcome to attend. There will be a limit of two staff per service. If you have more staff wanting to attend, please email raechel@nada.org.au and we will place these staff on a waitlist.

How do I register?

To register, please click the button Get tickets at the top. Your registration will be confirmed via email.

Other information

Please note: Participants must complete the Aboriginal Cultural Awareness workshop prior to attending day 2 workshop Aboriginal People and Strengths-Based Practices.

Due to limited spaces, there will be a limit of two staff per service. If you have more staff wanting to attend, please email raechel@nada.org.au, and we will place them on a waitlist.

For more information about the workshop

Please email raechel@nada.org.au