This training focuses on all areas of practice that supports staff to provide client services in a consistent and systematic way. All training requires participants to be currently working in the field.
Introduction to Theoretical & Practice Frameworks in OOHC
Working with children, young people and families in OOHC can be stressful it can be hard to come up with the next step and how to measure if what I do works? Understanding key theoretical frameworks and incorporating the associated approaches provides the foundation for good practice. Over two days participants will be introduced to theoretical frameworks that assist workers from planning the ‘how to’ work with a client through to when they have to think on their feet. We will explore current client issues and see how different framework approaches may change the outcome.
Participants gain an understanding of how to apply frameworks that fit current thinking and how they apply to themselves as workers.
Topics include:
Narrative Therapy
Trauma & Abuse
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Case Management (OOHC, Disability and General)
Case management is an approach to arranging and coordinating care in its broadest definition. It is based on the recognition that a trusting and empowering direct relationship between the case worker and the client is essential to advance the client’s use of services along a continuum of care and to restore or maintain the client’s independent functioning to the fullest extent possible.
A caseworker needs to have the capacity to provide assistance in a sensitive and supportive manner to particular client populations based on knowledge of human behaviour and well developed observational and communication skills. With this foundation, a caseworker establishes helping relationships, assesses complex problems, selects problem-solving interventions, and helps clients to function effectively this then creates a therapeutic process.
Participants will be introduced to effective case management methods and develop key strategies to strengthen casework practice.
Topics include:
- Introduction to Case Management
- Client Entry: Risk Management & Service Establishment
- Developing a profile of the client
- Case Management: Make your recommendations count
- Facilitating Good Case Conferences
- Helping Create Sustainable Placements
- Working with Multi-Disciplinary teams: When & where to get support
- Providing Case Work for Children and young people with Mental Health Support Requirements
- Working with the Community
- Professionalism in Case Management
- Personal & Professional boundaries – keeping yourself safe (and sane!)
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Facilitating Good Case Conferences (OOHC, Disability and General)
This course will explore in depth the ways to ensure that case conferences operate effectively. The course will cover the preparation, structuring and facilitation of case conferences, recording and follow-up. The course will also cover, in brief, the particular requirements of protection planning meetings. The new requirements of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act in regard to case planning, review and case conferencing will be examined and incorporated into strategies developed.
Topics include:
- Preparation
- Convening
- Follow up
- Case Conference Context
- Case Conferences
- Case Planning
- Case Worker
- Participation in planning
- Case Conferencing in Practice
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Good Work Practice (OOHC & Disability)
Working with children and young people and people with a disability is both a challenging & rewarding career option. Increasingly, there is an emphasis on people working in OOHC developing and implementing a high level of professionalism in the workplace. This course looks at common expectations and importance considerations for maintaining professional standards in the workplace.
Topics Include:
- Preparing for Work
- Communication Skills
- Incident Reporting
- Stress Management
- Time Management
- Professional Boundaries
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Understanding the Impact of Trauma & Abuse (OOHC) (1 day)
Most children and young people who have been placed in Out of Home Care have had some exposure to trauma and abuse. Experiencing physical, psychological, emotional or sexual abuse and / or neglect can have a profound impact on a child or young person’s development. This module provides a basis for understanding the impact that a child or young person’s early history and experiences have had on their development and subsequent skills and difficulties. The module covers the following areas:
Topics include:
- Child Development (especially neurological development),
- Child development Models (Eriksson, Piaget theory etc).
- Understanding the attachment process.
- Identifying the different types of abuse.
- An overview of the impact of trauma, abuse, neglect, and rejection
- Hyper-arousal and Dissociation.
- Therapeutic Intervention (an overview).
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Profiling (OOHC, Disability and General) (1 day)
Children and young people who have been placed in Out of Home Care often have specific difficulties that require ongoing support and planning. Developing an awareness about all of the specific issues which impact on the development and well-being of the child or young person you are providing support for is critical in maintaining a sustainable placement, and ensuring that your child or young person is receiving the specific supports that he / she needs. This module will assist you to build your understanding of the child or young person in your care by helping you understand and analyse key issues and specific difficulties.
Topics include:
- Child Development (review)
- Biological or organic factors.
- The impact of trauma and abuse in Childhood (review)
- Learning Difficulties and perceptual disorders.
- Psychological Factors.
- Mental Health Issues
- Communication deficits and disorders
- Life Events and Experiences
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Positive Behaviour Support for Children & Young People with High Needs (OOHC) (1 day)
Children and young people in Out of Home Care often display behaviours that are challenging both for carers, and other people in community. Understanding what Positive Behaviour Support is all about, and learning the basic underpinning framework that provides support to children and young people with intensive behaviour support needs are essential prerequisites for working in residential care, and supporting a high needs foster care placement.
Topics include:
- Understanding challenging behaviour – overview.
- Assessment of the behaviour.
- Analysis & formulation
- Understanding “The Box”.
- Challenging Incidents
- Behaviour Intervention Support Plans
- Ecological Supports: Routines, Star Charts, House Rules and other tricky frameworks.
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Guided Incident Response Training (G.I.R.T.) (OOHC, Disability and General) (2 - 3 day)
This course aims to assist staff and carers develop the skills and awareness required to prevent and manage incidents in a safe and informed way. Participants will receive a training manual, and undertake a mixture of tutorials, workbook tasks, scenario exercises, and the practice of physical management techniques.
Guided Incident Response Training can support individuals and staff teams to develop the ability to manage incidents in a manner that helps minimise risk, and provides better outcomes for staff, agencies, and clients.
Topics include:
- Introduction to Guided Incident Response
- Being prepared and ready
- Profiling – What you need to know.
- When the whole day feels like an incident
- Preventing incidents
- Minimising risk
- Incident Response Plans
- Incident Reporting & Follow up
- Legal and Ethical Considerations
- Physical Management Strategies
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Effective On Call Systems (OOHC, Disability and General) (1 day) (managers or staff)
On Call can be one of the most misused systems in an agency and yet it is one of the most important ways that staff and clients can be supported. This course will take the participants through on call processes and practice.
Topics include:
- What is on call?
- Incident-related on call Support
- What is Critical Incident Stress?
- Factors Affecting Individual Response
- Stress Reactions
- Self-Care Behaviours
- Addressing Critical Incident Stress
- Defusing
- Debriefing
- Incident reporting
- Clinical Supports
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Working with Adults who have a history of Complex Trauma* (Disability & General) (2 days)
This course is suitable for those working with people who have a history trauma and abuse and complex emotional and behavioural presentations. It provides participants with an understanding of the impact of trauma and abuse on adult personality functioning; an understanding of some of the common presenting issues and behaviours (e.g. Self harm, aggression, emotion regulation difficulties, impulsivity); an understanding of the principles of intervention and support; and an awareness of the service systems issues associated with the support of this client group.
This emphasis of the course is on making a difference through developing understanding, building solid foundations, and using evidence based approaches.
Topics include:
- The Impact on Adult Personality Functioning
- Personality & Personality Development - ‘The Pathway’
- Risks to ‘The Pathway’
- ‘The Pathway’ - An Interaction Effect
- Worldview / Underlying Personality Traits
- Behaviours as ‘Symptoms’
- Features of Intervention Approaches
- Trauma and Abuse Background
- Common Presentation
- Levels of intervention
- Principles of Support / Intervention
- Critical Elements of Support
- Self -Awareness
- Service System Awareness
*Previously known as S.P.I.E.D
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