Professional development

Mental Health Coordinating Council (MHCC) webinar for mental health workers, with a panel of speakers exploring coercive control and its impact on mental health, focusing on adults experiencing domestic and family violence, older women, people living with disability, and considering culturally and linguistically diverse perspectives.
Monday, 16 March, 10.15am-12pm, via Zoom
Registration

Scanlon Foundation Research Institute webinar to mark the release of “Multiculturalism in Focus – Migrants’ Sense of Belonging Study 2025”, exploring how migrants from some of Australia’s fastest growing communities experience belonging, social connection, and civic participation.
Thursday, 12 March, 12pm-12.45pm, via Zoom
Registration | Contact: Liz Reynolds, info@scanloninstitute.org.au

Sutherland Shire and St George Multicultural Networks forum designed for workers and volunteers in Bayside, Georges River and Sutherland Shire to strengthen their understanding of social cohesion, and explore ways in which stronger social cohesion can be fostered in local communities through intentional program design and service delivery.
Friday, 20 March, 9.30am-1pm (plus networking lunch, 1pm)
Rockdale Library, Level 3, 446 Princes Hwy, Rockdale
Flyer | Registration | Contact: communitycapacitybuilding@georgesriver.nsw.gov.au

Livingworks ASIST helps participants recognise a person with thoughts of suicide and help connect them to safety. Participants will learn how to provide suicide first aid and keep someone safe who is thinking of suicide. The training is for anyone in the community who lives or works in the CESPHN region – professionals and non-professionals.
Thursday & Friday, 26 & 27 March, 8.30am-4.30pm | Registration, or Thursday & Friday, 16 & 17 April, 8.30am-4.30pm | Registration
CESPHN, Tower A, Level 5, 197-201 Coward St, Mascot
CESPHN Suicide Prevention Training flyer | Website

Stride Mental Health workshop for professionals featuring a set of Five Strategies empowering professionals to be a resource to a person in distress. Participants will be invited to consider how they might utilise these strategies to educate families, carers, and clients when symptoms of distress are high.
Tuesday, 24 March, 8.45am-4.30pm
The Juniors Club Kingsford, 558A Anzac Pde, Kingsford
Flyer | Registration | Contact: familyandcarer@stride.com.au or Danielle, 0431 163 617

Training focusing on building understanding of specific issues faced by people from refugee backgrounds who are members of the LGBTIQA+ community resettling in Australia: including strengths, vulnerabilities and the risks experienced in their home countries, during the journey and resettling in Australia. Includes training specifically for interpreters and bilingual support workers.
Various dates & times, February to May
Registration | Contact: heather.jones1@health.nsw.gov.au

Blue Knot training programs focus on building trauma awareness, managing stress outcomes, working with complex trauma clients, and trauma responsive leadership.
Various dates & times, February to June
Blue Knot Online Training February-June

Sector Support & Development collaboration symposium to explore volunteering in aged care: empowering volunteers through training, compliance and wellbeing; building a sustainable and inclusive volunteer ecosystem; and innovating volunteer roles for meaningful impact.
Wednesday, 25 March, 11am-3.30pm
Flyer | Registration

Inclusive & Diverse Communities Inc, City of Canterbury-Bankstown and STARS Training workshop for Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) / Support at Home (SaH) staff and volunteers, to strengthen their understanding of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander cultures, histories and lived experience, fostering a more respectful, empathetic and inclusive way of working in the community.
Tuesday, 10 March, 9.30am-12.30pm
Community Room 1, Function Centre, Bryan Brown Theatre, 80 Rickard Rd, Bankstown
Flyer | Registration

Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) self-paced online course with practical tools for practitioners who work with children, young people, and families in community-based mental health settings.
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