Shelter Tas is very excited to continue our schedule of targeted, capacity building training opportunities with Alcohol and Other Drugs Brief Interventions Masterclass. This face2face training will be facilitated by Drug Education Network (DEN) Educator, Dave Reynolds. Dave will be joined by Samantha a lived experience speaker.

Following on for our Online session on Alcohol and Other Drugs – A Workers’ Guide, the Brief Interventions Masterclass offers advanced skill in performing Brief Interventions in an evidence-based, ethical manner.

The session will cover the following topics:

Methodology, evidence and impact of brief interventions;
How people change, react to stress, learn and reinforce skills, form habits and addictions;
Increased skills in providing Very Brief Interventions based on best practice evidence;
Increased skills and understanding of stage-matching and providing stage-matched interventions

About the Training

This half day training will equip housing and homelessness professionals with the skills and resources to advance their professional practice. The Brief Interventions Masterclass offers an interactive, evidence-based opportunity to build knowledge and skills to identify the most effective response for meeting consumers at their stage of change. Brief Interventions are effective and low-cost interventions with potentially long-lasting outcomes for health behaviour change. The session will embed the best practice tools, resources and strategies as well as the invaluable reflection and discussion that face2face training with peers offers.

Suitable For:

Housing & homelessness professionals
Front line staff
Team Leaders
Program Coordinators
Program Managers
Managers

About the trainer:

Dave is a qualified Gestalt therapist, has a background working as a drug and alcohol counsellor, and is passionate about groupwork, personal growth and environmentalism. Dave has worked in private practice and was part of the outreach team at the Buttery Rehab in Northern NSW. In this role, Dave ran several groups, including DRUMBEAT groups with men from the Aboriginal community, AOD support groups, and court diversion psycho-educational groups. Dave moved to Tasmania eight years ago and worked in the homeless and mental health sectors before joining DEN as project coordinator for the wungana makuminya project. Following the successful completion of this project Dave joined the DEN team as an educator with a focus on workforce development. Dave continued to work until recently in the AOD sector as a DRUMBEAT facilitator with Holyoake Tasmania as well as developing and delivering groupwork at the Tasmanian Men’s Gathering.

Location:

North, North West (Devonport).

This workshop will also be held in the South (Hobart) on Tuesday 27th February 2024.

Eligibility and Available Places

Places are subsidised and exclusively available for employees of eligible Shelter Tas member organisations, Specialist Homelessness Services and Community Housing Providers. Total numbers at each session will be strictly capped in order to ensure quality of training. Shelter Tas will have a waitlist for those that miss out, so please email details to training@sheltertas.org.au

More information:

If you have any further questions, please email the Shelter Tas Administration and Projector Coordinator at: training@sheltertas.org.au

Brief Interventions Masterclass Training Devonport