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  • Voluntary assisted dying and palliative care

    Online, Via Teams WA, Australia

    During May and June, the WA VAD Statewide Care Navigator Service, in conjunction with the Department of Health, will be hosting a series of online information sessions covering topics related to voluntary assisted dying in WA. The webinars will provide information for consumers, health professionals and service providers. This session will include: What the process might look like for someone receiving specialist palliative care services Important information for palliative and hospice care providers Click here to register

  • Black Dog Institute online workshop: Youth in Distress: Managing Suicidality and Self-harm

    Online, Via Teams WA, Australia

    Duration 7 hrs  Program Outline With a focus on self-harm and suicide in adolescence, the new program will assist clinicians to manage youth in distress, self-harm and suicidality. The program has been designed to build on the current level of skills of participants and to further develop confidence in undertaking risk assessment and safety planning for youth in distress. This format has been designed so that modules 2, 3 and 4 can be completed in one day. Module 1 will need to be completed prior to the commencement of module 2. Eligibility for CPD points requires completion of all 4...

  • Carbohydrate Counting – HP Upskilling (Zoom)

    Online, Via Teams WA, Australia

    This session will explore carbohydrate counting in the context of diabetes management. Useful tools and resources will be covered that can help individuals to better manage their diabetes.

  • Voluntary assisted dying in medical practice

    Online, Via Teams WA, Australia

    During May and June, the WA VAD Statewide Care Navigator Service, in conjunction with the Department of Health, will be hosting a series of online information sessions covering topics related to voluntary assisted dying in WA. The webinars will provide information for consumers, health professionals and service providers. This session will include: First Request obligations for all medical practitioners Practitioner eligibility and mandatory training requirements Support for practitioners Click to register.

  • Responding to Domestic Violence with a Trauma-Informed Lens for GP’s and Primary Care Providers – virtual classroom

    Online, Via Teams WA, Australia

    The Safer Families Centre is leading The Readiness Program, a national domestic and family violence (DFV) training program for primary care. As part of The Readiness Program series, Blue Knot Foundation is bringing you the latest in trauma-informed awareness and support for general practitioners and primary care providers to recognise complex trauma and its possible health presentations. The Readiness Program provides a range of learning options to support for primary care providers to effectively recognise, respond and refer domestic and family violence using a trauma and violence informed approach. To find out more visit The Readiness Program The virtual classrooms are...

  • Insulin Update – HP Upskilling (Zoom)

    Online, Via Teams WA, Australia

    This session will cover insulin types and administration regimes and current practice and recommended guidelines for insulin administration.

  • Webinar – Social Media and Survivors (Practitioner Only)

    Online, Via Teams WA, Australia

    This webinar is for DFV practitioners and covers social media misuse by perpetrators and what can be done to support victim-survivors. About this event This one-hour webinar covers the most common social media platforms used by Australians. We will discuss how DFV perpetrators commonly misuse social media and what can be done to support victim-survivors. We’ll also look at the data these platforms collect, store and share, and cover how victim-survivors can maximise the built-in privacy and security settings, use the abuse-reporting features and potentially document abuse. Details Online Webinar Date: Tuesday 14th June 2022 Time: 12:00pm to 1:00pm Cost:...

  • Black Dog Institute online workshop – Diagnosis and Treatment of PTSD in Emergency Service Workers

    Online, Via Teams WA, Australia

    This workshop has been designed with a focus on GPs, to diagnose patients with acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and other comorbidities. Evidence based guidelines will be used as the foundation to appropriately diagnose and identify treatment pathways including recommended referrals, trauma focused psychological therapy and psychological first aid to help support their management of emergency service workers. The training may also be relevant to other health professionals. This training aims to increase participants’ skills and confidence to: 1.   Understand the relationship between traumatic events and the development of mental health conditions 2.   Identify evidence-based treatment and referral pathways for a...

  • Injury Matters online workshop – Dive into the data: Injury Epidemiology

    Online, Via Teams WA, Australia

    An online interactive workshop training to build the capacity of professionals to use Co-design principles and translating theory to action. This online workshop aims to: Increase knowledge of the role of epidemiology in injury prevention. Increase skills in interpreting epidemiological injury data. Increase knowledge of how to access WA injury data. Increase confidence to use epidemiological data to influence injury prevention initiatives. Who can attend? This online workshop is suitable for anyone looking to clarify or grow their ability to interpret injury epidemiological data, including; public health practitioners, health promotion professionals, local government workers, WA Country Health staff, recent environmental...

  • Focus on Fats – HP Upskilling (Zoom)

    Online, Via Teams WA, Australia

    What is the first thing someone newly diagnosed with diabetes is told? Usually something like; don't eat sugar, don't eat rice, potato, bread or bananas, you can't eat carbs. So are carbohydrates the only thing we need to consider? What about fats? This session will explore how different types of fats may affect blood sugar levels and overall health