Events

RMIT’s Graduate Certificate in Domestic and Family Violence provides an exciting opportunity for current and future family violence practitioners, with subjects in gendered violence, responding to family violence, primary prevention of violence against women and specialist case management. Apply here or for more information, visit the Program Overview.

Practitioners and students in sectors including community services, health, youth and social work, mental health, education, alcohol and drugs, housing and homelessness, local and state government, criminal justice, criminology, and psychology will benefit from this course’s practical and theoretical content.

This course is offered part-time and fully online to support your work/life/study balance.

This interactive workshop steps frontline staff through the process of identifying potential instances of elder abuse, connecting with older people, respectfully enquiring about suspected abuse (as appropriate), and beginning to formulate an appropriate plan of action, including the provision of referral options, guided by an older person’s will and preferences.

Duration: 3 hours (3hrs CPD)

Pre-requisite: This workshop builds on The Victorian Government’s elder abuse prevention online training module so it is important that participants complete the online training prior to attending.

This training explores how to respond to suspected elder abuse using an intersectional and trauma informed approach that reflects the uniqueness and complexity of an older person’s identity and experiences.

This module builds on The Bouverie Centre’s Level 1 training so it is important that participants are already familiar with how to recognise and sensitively inquire about suspected elder abuse. It is designed for practitioners from the health and aged care workforce, including nurses and allied health staff, direct care workers, team leaders and senior clinicians and staff working in case manager roles or in ACAS.