Caring for your own wellbeing is essential for sustaining your effectiveness and passion, but it’s not solely the responsibility of individual practitioners. We recognise that prioritising self-care can be challenging amid the demands of your role. Our resource page seeks to provide practical tools and strategies to help you manage stress, build resilience, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. We have also included tips to help with job roles and professional development opportunities.
Organising events and having a survivor advocate talk about their lived experience can be powerful ways of engaging audiences and sharing messages to promote change. But how can we ensure that these forums are effective, safe and ethical?
HEAR Principles of Engagement | This resource goes over strategies to engage with clients and or families who aren’t wanting to engage. This presentation was part of The Morning Series and Presented by Dr Maxwell Fraser (Principal Practitioner at DFFH) A summary of that session can be found under the Morning Series tab.
Feelings poster for children | Dots with feelings is a therapeutic resource designed to help children and young people explore and express emotions through colour, facial expressions and guided conversation. Featuring playful “feeling dots” and accompanied by age-specific reflection questions and creative activity ideas, it supports practitioners to build emotional literacy, encourage storytelling, and create safe spaces for children to notice, name and make sense of their feelings.
Managing Uncertainty in Professional Practice This practice guide provides an overview of what uncertainty and uncertainty tolerance are and their significance to professional practice. It also outlines the individual, practice and organisational factors that can contribute to uncertainty and describes evidence-based strategies for how practitioners can manage practice uncertainties. This resource includes a reflective practice activity that may be used in professional supervision (one-on-one or peer group setting) to help practitioners reflect on practice situations that contribute to uncertainty and identify ways to adaptively manage and respond to uncertainty in their practice roles.
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How to craft a heartfelt Acknowledgment of Country | Department of Education
LEAD offers flexible delivery options for their professional development courses. This includes online workshops, e-learning courses and webinars. LEAD offer courses on a variety of courses list below and are facilitated by subject-matter experts who have years of practical experience and academic/clinical qualifications.
Online courses and webinars:
- Finding Balance Through Mindfulness
- LEADers Community of Practice
- Key concepts in on the run (accidental) counselling for Family Support and Community Workers
- A balanced workday: How to achieve and maintain a work-life balance when working from home/remotely
- Make time work for you: Key concepts in time management
- Key concepts in talking to parents about hard stuff
- Loss and Grief
- Therapeutic relationships and professional boundaries
- Managing behaviours of concern
- Noticing change in children
- “Self-care is not self-ISH”
- Building resilience in clients: Strategies that improve the viability and sustainability of client outcomes
- Effective engagement with Aboriginal clients
- Case Notes: Writing for purpose
- Using trauma approaches when working with children and young people
- Cultural safety in the workplace
- Understanding the neuroscience of trauma
Follow link for more information on cost and contact details.
Sing & Grow– Music Tools Professional Development– 2 hour experimental workshop to upskill your team and support their growth, designed for those working with children from birth to 5 years. Provide practical guidelines and tools for incorporating music into your everyday work with children by understanding early brain development and the supporting role music plays.
National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse– Understanding and responding to disclosures of child sexual abuse from children and young people. This course explores how children and young people disclose experiences of child sexual abuse. You will learn about the factors that influence disclosure, develop skills to respond with compassion and understand the role of workers and organisations in creating a safe and supportive environment.
MoneyMinded Coach Training | Brotherhood of St Laurence MoneyMinded helps people build their financial skills, knowledge and confidence. Developed by ANZ following a 2003 survey of financial literacy. This is a free training for community workers who want to gain access to financial information and tools to help their clients. Community worker can then deliver training sessions to groups or use the resources in one-on-one meetings with their clients.
This website works to strengthen the wellbeing and resilience of all social sector staff and volunteers. Content provides resources such as toolkits, advocacy, and online courses.
The Community Well – Social Sector Wellbeing and Resilience Hub