Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future: Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families

Self-directed online training

Event description

This course has been developed by Emerging Minds in partnership with Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future, a project under Onemda, the Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander Health, Wellbeing, Equity and Healing unit, within the University of Melbourne.

This course, designed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners and researchers, reflects the strengths, resilience and perspectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It shares learnings from four years of co-design work, led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, to develop strategies to identify and support parents experiencing complex trauma – ‘healing the past by nurturing the future’.1

Eligibility criteria

This course is designed for non-Indigenous care providers working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and their children. This includes those practitioners working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled or mainstream services, and those working in private practice.

Categories: Capability 2 - Working with Aboriginal consumers, families, and communities, Capability 4 - Understanding and responding to trauma, Working with infants, children, and younger persons
Disciplines: Allied Health, Lived Experience Workforce, Medical, Nursing, Other
Levels: Intermediate
Lifespans: Youth, Adult

5 hours

Provided by Emerging Minds