Trauma-Informed Toolkit for Workers in the Housing & Homelessness Sector Training Devonport

Shelter Tas is excited to continue our schedule of targeted, capacity building training opportunities with Trauma-Informed Toolkit for Workers in the Housing & Homelessness Sector training sessions. This face2face training will be facilitated by Director/Principal Psychologist of Bend Consulting, Carly Cameron.

About the Training

This workshop will incorporate a focus on understanding the complexities of the work, including the differences between vicarious trauma and related concepts such as stress, burn out, compassion fatigue and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  We will examine personal and professional risk factors and examples of vicarious trauma, as well as how to respond to these using practical strategies to protect individual workers, teams and organisations.

We will also discuss self-care, and individual and organisational protective factors, including the prevention of vicarious trauma.  The workshop has been designed with a focus on practical tools for responding to trauma in the workplace, with an emphasis on the agency we each have in our professional lives to create healthier teams and organisations.  The training encompasses theory, group discussions, action planning and personal reflection. 

Suitable For:

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

About the trainer:

Dr Carly Cameron is the Director at Bend Consulting. Shelter Tas has previously worked with Carly to deliver training sessions that received extremely positive evaluations, where 100% of participants stated they would recommend the training to others.

She has worked for twenty-five years as a psychologist in Australia and the UK in community-based settings, secure psychiatric services, child protection, foster and kinship care and private practice, providing consultation to individuals and organisations on trauma-informed practice.

Carly has a passion for delivering high quality evidence-based training and workshops, and has extensive experience working in, and managing teams that work with people from backgrounds of complex trauma.  Her research was in the area of Attachment and Psychopathology, with a specific interest in exploring the link between childhood adversity and the development of psychiatric disorders.

Location:

North (Devonport).

This workshop will also be held in the South (Hobart) on Wednesday 7th May 2025.

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.

More information:

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

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