Professional Development
Professional Development for Mental Health WorkersARAFEMI has developed a number of workshops for mental health workers and service providers. This professional development focuses on the lived experience of carers of people with mental health issues and how services can best respond to supporting carers and families using the Carer Life Course Framework approach.
Our workshops are designed to assist workers and organisations to understand the lived experience of carers and explore barriers to carer sensitive practice by bringing together stories and research about carers. Participants are assisted to utilise a service framework approach based on carer / family need to identify service gaps and look for opportunities to build in carer support within their own organisation and practice in a practical and sustainable way.
Our programs are a great starting place for Program Managers and staff who want to develop service and staff capacity to respond to carers and families. They are also suitable for staff to explore the needs of carers and how to better respond to carers during assessment, service delivery and exit planning. ARAFEMI can also 'customise' a workshop for your service's needs. Call our Education Officer to discuss options.
Our standard workshops include:
Engaging the Carer As a leading mental helath carer agency, ARAFEMI has a history of supporting services to develop mechanisms for greater carer representation and peer support. This workshop aims to explore current models, build on service mapping and explore opportunities and needs for greater carer involvement.
The lived experience of carers – a Carer Life Course Framework approach
Develop an understanding of a continuum model for caring and recovery to develop a service map of interventions and supports that match carer need.
Walking the line with carers and consumers – Advocacy, Privacy and Confidentiality
Explore carers experience of information sharing, develop greater understanding of legislation and acts and explore ways in which services can better support understanding of privacy and confidentiality and support information sharing for recovery.
Recovery: how to promote recovery in families
The recovery of a loved one is central to a carers life. Mental health workers can encourage and empower carers to assist in the recovery of their loved one and also recover themselves from the challenges of the caring role.
Evening Seminars:
ARAFEMI offers targeted Evening Seminars for carers and health professionals. Health workers can enhance their understanding of how to communicate with carers about their caring needs.
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Details:
All of our professional development is delivered at a cost.
- Programs can be tailored to meet your specific needs and we can offer on-going consultation to support implementation of carer – peer support models and / or promote organisational organisational change.
- Workshops can be conducted throughout the year in our fantastic ARAFEMI training rooms at Hawthorn or our skilled facilitators can come to you. Workshops can be delivered at rural or metropolitan locations on request.
Phone: (03) 9810 9300
Email: admin@arafemi.org.au
Mail: ARAFEMI 270 Auburn Road Hawthorn 3122