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  Woodend Workshops Overview These workshops are designed for anyone who has contact with an older person in the course of their employment. This includes police, health, housing, aged care and justice workers, HACC workers, welfare and family support workers. Could each person that will be attending complete and return the registration form and pre-survey to eaps@vu.edu.au or fax them to […]

  Woodend Workshops Overview These workshops are designed for anyone who has contact with an older person in the course of their employment. This includes police, health, housing, aged care and justice workers, HACC workers, welfare and family support workers. Could each person that will be attending complete and return the registration form and pre-survey to eaps@vu.edu.au or fax them to […]

   Woodend Workshops Overview These workshops are designed for anyone who has contact with an older person in the course of their employment. This includes police, health, housing, aged care and justice workers, HACC workers, welfare and family support workers. Could each person that will be attending complete and return the registration form and pre-survey to eaps@vu.edu.au or fax them to […]

     Maryborough Workshop Overview These workshops are designed for anyone who has contact with an older person in the course of their employment. This includes police, health, housing, aged care and justice workers, HACC workers, welfare and family support workers. Could each person that will be attending complete and return the registration form and pre-survey to eaps@vu.edu.au or fax them […]

Maryborough Workshop Overview These workshops are designed for anyone who has contact with an older person in the course of their employment. This includes police, health, housing, aged care and justice workers, HACC workers, welfare and family support workers. Could each person that will be attending complete and return the registration form and pre-survey to eaps@vu.edu.au or fax them to 9919 […]

Motivational Interviewing is “…a collaborative, person-centred form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for change.” A central concept of MI is the identification, examination and resolution of ambivalence about changing behaviour.  Ambivalence, feeling two ways about behaviour change, is seen as a natural part of the change process.  The skilful MI practitioner is attuned […]

Health Coaching interventions help health professionals to motivate patients towards readiness to change, assist them to change unhelpful thinking patterns, promote behaviour change and empower patients to achieve better health outcomes. The HCA Model of Health Change is based on a 10-step framework that has been developed with input from over 2,500 health practitioners.  It […]

  Motivational Interviewing is “…a collaborative, person-centred form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for change.” A central concept of MI is the identification, examination and resolution of ambivalence about changing behaviour.  Ambivalence, feeling two ways about behaviour change, is seen as a natural part of the change process.  The skilful MI practitioner is […]

Veteran Best Practice Seminar This free seminar is an opportunity for health providers to explore mental illness, mental health and resilience issues as they relate to the older veteran community.  The program will include presentation s, commentary on clinical scenarios and ample opportunity for questions and discussion. For further details click here.

A rural initiative of the Youth Affairs Council, funded by the State Government of Victoria.  This free session is suitable for support workers, teachers and other community members, with all levels of experience.  Training will be held on Monday 20th February, 2012 from 1pm-4pm at the Ray Bradfield Room, Victory Park, Castlemaine.  For more details […]