CPD Hours1.5 hrs
CPD CategoryCategory 2: Skills and Knowledge
Event FormatOn-Demand
Practice & careerClinical SW, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Private Practice
CPD Hours1.5 hrs
CPD CategoryCategory 2: Skills and Knowledge
Event FormatOn-Demand
Practice & careerClinical SW, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Private Practice
Member price: $99.00 including GST (member price will display once logged in)
Non-member price: $198.00 including GST
This course is designed to support social workers and allied health professionals to provide culturally sensitive, respectful, and inclusive services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities. This course:
This course is presented by an Aboriginal female psychologist and a non-Aboriginal male social worker. They discuss key findings from their research and experience in providing clinical services, training, and consultancy in service development. The presenters highlight practical applications and tips that have been effective in their work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people, adults, families and communities.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will:
AASW Credential: Clinical
Presenter details
Anthony Hillin and Vanessa Edwige have collaborated on a number of programs, including developing and delivering the NSW Aboriginal Grief & Loss Training Program, a significant initiative by NSW Health. Anthony and Vanessa’s two-day workshop, Walking together: Creative ways of working with Aboriginal young people, has been highly evaluated by participants, as have their other training programs.
Vanessa Edwige, MAIPA, is a registered psychologist, working as a relieving Senior Psychologist Education for the last two years and before that as a school counsellor in Sydney for 19 years. Before this, she was seconded to two programs with the Attorney General of NSW, Aboriginal Victims of Crime, and Aboriginal Child Sexual Assault taskforce as Senior Researcher. She worked on the report ‘Breaking the Silence: Creating the Future’, addressing child sexual assault in Aboriginal communities in NSW. Since 2009 Vanessa has worked as a psychologist at a service in Redfern for Aboriginal young people, women and communities.
Anthony Hillin, MAASW, has over 25 years of experience as a clinician, educator, consultant, and service manager. While based at the NSW Institute of Psychiatry and NSW Centre for Mental Health for 14 years, Anthony co-developed Australia’s most comprehensive interagency training program in adolescent mental health for the NSW School-Link and Queensland Ed-LinQ initiatives. Anthony has delivered a suite of courses to over 4,000 mental health clinicians, school psychologists and social workers. He conducted one of the largest consultations undertaken with NSW Aboriginal communities regarding young people's mental health and well-being. He contributed to NSW Aboriginal Mental Health and Well-being policy development. Anthony’s work includes Interpersonal Psychotherapy, experiential learning, and group facilitation.
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