Self-directed online training
Event description
This webinar uncovers the role of risk in the processes of adolescence and their drug use, and presents ways to create opportunities for constructive risk taking to reduce dangerous behaviours.Through understanding why adolescents use drugs and how this relates to adolescent development as well as understanding other drivers of risk will help us recognise how risk relates to resilience and how to work constructively with risk.
Presenter
Geoff Bayldon is an experienced Youth Worker, and is a Senior Trainer and Practice Consultant. He has worked at YSAS for 14 years, across many programs, including Outreach, Day Program, Drug Withdrawal Unit, and long-term Residential Rehabilitation.
Geoff is currently providing ‘Understanding Methamphetamines’ training across Victoria to Human Service organisations, and as part of the Beginning Practice program at Child Protection.
Geoff is also a qualified VET trainer and assessor, and recently delivering and assessing AOD competencies at Melbourne Polytechnic.
Categories:
Capability 6 - Understanding and responding to substance use and addiction,
Working with infants, children, and younger persons
Disciplines:
Allied Health,
Lived Experience Workforce,
Medical,
Nursing,
Other
Levels:
Introductory
Lifespans:
Adolescent
