Industry News

Communicating with Clients with LLN Needs (in the Community Services Sector) Feedback

The Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council are holding free national consultation forums (in every State and Territory) and online questionnaires to receive industry feedback on draft additions and changes to the Community Services Training Package (CHC08).

The draft changes are intended to assist:

• volunteer tutors who provide adult Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) support
• workers in community services who work directly with clients with low LLN skills

Registrations for the forums are now open and the online industry feedback material is now availalbe on the project webpage.

Nursing Review - new website

Nursing Review have announced their move into online publishing, with a new website, www.nursingreview.com.au. The comprehensive site presents the best original journalism in all their regular sections, as well as a ‘breaking news’ section updated weekly.

Sign up to a free online trial to the Nursing Review website for 28 days and experience the complete product for yourself.

Health Care Consumers' Nurse Survey

The Health Care Consumers’ Association of the ACT is running a survey to find out how health care consumers feel about seeing a nurse when they visit their general practice. Would you help us get the word out to your contacts and members.

 

Would you be happy to see a nurse instead of a doctor for some of your medical care? The Health Care Consumer’s Association of the ACT, Canberra’s peak health consumers organization, in partnership with the ANU is asking just that question through an Online Survey: Consumer Views of nurses in primary health care .

Recognising, preventing and responding to abuse of older people living in the community

Community Aged Care Research to Practice Briefing 3: Recognising, preventing and responding to abuse of older people living in the community: A resource for community care workers has been launched. This is the third in a series of Research to Practice Briefings which focus on topical issues in community aged care and it was prepared by Assoc. Prof. Elizabeth Ozanne (University of Melbourne).

This series has been developed by The Benevolent Society in partnership with the Social Policy Research Centre as a resource for community aged care workers and managers. Each briefing draws on the existing research about a certain topic, with a strong focus on what the research says about the value of existing practices and suggestions for improving practice.

This third briefing summarises key Australian and international research about the abuse of older people, and gives pointers about what community care workers and agencies can do to recognise, prevent and respond to abuse. The briefing also contains a discussion guide developed in partnership with Community Care (Northern Beaches).

These briefings are designed to be clear, concise and in plain English, with an emphasis on the significance of the research findings for the day-to-day work of care workers and managers.

International Marte Meo Training for Community Care Workers

Date: Thur 8th & Fri 9th July 2010

Trainer: Maria Aarts

Venue: Y Hotel, Hyde Park Sydney

Cost: $450

The Marte Meo Developmental Support Program was developed by Maria Aarts in the late 1970s, and is now established in over 40 countries. The method was originally developed in clinical psychology as a tool for improving communication and interactions between parents and infants but is now widely used in schools and ageing and community care. The workshop is particularly relevant to those working with people with dementia.

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ABCD - Asset Based Community Development Workshop

Date: 5th to 6th July 2010

Trainer: Ted Smeaton

Venue: Glen Waverley Vic

Cost: $200, Concession: $50

ABCD is a powerful approach to community development with a particularly strong approach for supporting a productive and inclusive life for people with a disability, older people, marginalised young people, refugees, long term unemployed and people with a metal illness.

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Protecting Elders Assets Study

State Trustees is pleased to make available the second report from Monash University, as part of the Protecting Elders Assets Study (PEAS) research project.

Please click here for a colour copy of the report. Click here for black and white version also available.

Information that you may wish to use to accompany a link to the report from your website or other communication (available from State Trustees website)

The first report, Financial abuse of elders: a review of the evidence (June 2009), provides a summary of existing Australian and international research and the next stages of the study aim to build on this existing knowledge.

The second report, Data on prevalence of financial elder abuse in Victoria (May 2010), provides a summary of existing data.

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