Working with clients with complex needs

In conjunction with Sydney Uni, the Community Restorative Centre (CRC) is offering a 2 day training workshop for community workers engaged in working with clients caught up in the criminal justice system who present with complex needs.
The workshop will be held in Sydney on 22 and 23 November 2011 at Sydney Uni.
The aim of this 2 day training package is to provide community workers with both theory and practise strategies for working with clients with complex needs. The training is focussed on the interaction between drug and alcohol use, cognitive impairment, mental health, trauma and involvement in the criminal justice system.
By the end of the course participants will:

• Identify the key features of 'complex needs' clients and understand the difference between complex and multiple needs
• Have a working knowledge of the relationship between alcohol, drug use, cognitive impairment and mental health problems and practise some interventions which can be used with this client group.
• Begin to think critically about the role of diagnosis in working with complex needs clients.
• Develop an understanding of cognitive impairment, mental health, personality disorder and identify some of the common features.
• Understand different models and approaches used in working with the client group, including: trauma informed practice, the good lives model, positive behavioural support , mindfulness and inclusive practice.
• Identify what is meant by challenging behaviour, and begin to think critically about the extent to which challenging behaviour is defined in some ways by our own expectations

For further details on registration please click here.