Training courses and workshops
This page lists organisations that provide training and professional development to workers in the sexual assault field and other professionals seeking to increase their skills and understanding in responding to sexual assault. Please note: not all courses offered are listed on this page - refer to the contact organisations for full details.
Training program contacts
- International/National/Various states
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
International/National/Various States
MindMatters
MindMatters provides a professional development program to support Australian secondary schools in promoting and protecting the social and emotional wellbeing of members of school communities.
The Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training Course
CPI is a USA based training organisation that provides crisis prevention and intervention training and resources supporting the work of helping professionals and those whom they serve.
Training is intended to increased confidence and effectiveness in handling challenging situations using techniques from the Nonviolent Crisis Intervention training course; the safe management of disruptive and aggressive behaviour.
Online CPI website
Training dates and locations in Australia
Email info@crisisprevention.com
Phone Australia 1800 55 3247
Fax 0015 1 262 783 5906
Graduate Diploma and Certificate in Adolescent Health and Welfare
This Certificate is offered by the Centre for Adolescent Health through the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne. The course is offered in flexible learning mode and is specifically designed to meet the professional development needs, goals and interests of participants who work with young people in different disciplines and community service settings.
Online Centre for Adolescent Health website
Phone (03) 9345 5890
Fax (03) 9345 6502
Dulwich Centre
Training in narrative therapy, psychosocial support and community work.
Online Dulwich Centre website
Email dulwich@senet.com.au
Australian Capital Territory
Sexual Health and Family Planning (SHFPACT)
SHFPACT offers both set and tailored courses throughout the year related to or specifically addressing sexual assault including:
- Educating in Sexuality and Health
- Managing Challenging Behaviours in Sexuality
- Sexuality & Disability
- Introduction to Sexuality and Health
- SHFPACT offers tailored workshops, seminars and info sessions for professionals, parents and other members of the community
Online SHFPACT website
Phone (02) 6247 3077
Email shfpact@shfpact.org.au
ACT Health Promotion Online
This website aims to provide information, resources and support to people involved in health promotion (HP) in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
Online HP Training Courses
Phone 13 22 81 or +61 2 6207 5111
Email healthpromotion@act.gov.au
Domestic and Sexual violence survivors support groups
For details of these groups see the WiRC Community Calendar for Women.
- Domestic Violence Support Group - WiRC
An 8-week group for women who have been in an abusive relationship in their adult lives. This is a small safe group in which women can explore the effects of living in an abusive relationship, increase self-esteem and gain an increased sense of control of their lives.
WiRC
Phone (02) 6205 1075
wirc@act.gov.au - Domestic Violence Women's Group
Recovering from Violence and Abuse A 6-week group for women who have been in abusive relationships. Relationships Australia
Ginny Condon
Phone (02) 6122 7100 - Support Group - Canberra Rape Crisis Centre
An ongoing confidential group for women whose lives have been affected by sexual abuse.
Canberra Rape Crisis Centre
Phone (02) 6247 8071
New South Wales
Education Centre Against Violence
The centre offers a large number of sexual assault courses throughout the year and training manuals and packages.
Courses include:
- Foundations for working with adults who were sexually assaulted as children
- Who can a man tell: working with men who have been sexually assaulted
- Responding to adults and children with a disability who have been sexually assaulted
- Adult sexual assault in aboriginal communities
Online Education Centre Against Violence
Phone (02) 9840 3737
Email ecav@wsahs.nsw.gov.au
NSW Child Sex Offender Counsellors Accreditation Scheme (CSOCAS)
The NSW Commission for Children and Young People administers a scheme to help people find or become an accredited counsellor to work with people who sexually offend against children.
Online NSW Commission for Children and Young People website
Phone (02) 9286 7243
NSW Rape Crisis Centre
NSW Rape Crisis is a state-wide twenty four hour telephone and online crisis, support and referral service for women who have experienced sexual violence. The following training is offered:
- Responding to Victims of Sexual Assault
- Sexual Assault Responding to the Crisis
- Sexual Assault Responding with Compassion
- Student Presentations
Online NSW Rape Crisis Centre
Northern Territory
Ruby Gaea Centre Against Rape - Darwin
Ruby Gaea Centre offers specialised training and workshops throughout the year in a number of areas.
Phone (08) 8945 0155
PO Box 42082, Casuarina NT 0811
Fax: (08) 8945 2783
Email: info@rubygaea.net.au
Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC)
SARC can help with referal to workshops and training throughout the year in a number of areas.
Casuarina Plaza, Casuarina
Phone (08) 8922 7156
Queensland
Lighthouse Resources
Lighthouse Resources is an initiative of Kyabra Community Association that provides training, professional supervision and organisational consulting services to human service workers and organisations wanting to learn about the practice implications of strengths-based, solution focussed or narrative approaches. Traning workshops are based on the St Luke's format for strengths-based training and include: From Strength to Strength; Mapping Narrative Conversations; Developing Strengths-Based Practice in an Organisational Context; Strengths-Based Leadership; Documenting for Difference; and Stepping Stones to Narrative Practice.
Phone 1800 009 462
Online www.lighthouseresources.com.au
Email info@lighthouseresources.com.au
South Australia
Women's Health Statewide and Respond SA and NETTSAS - Working with CSA Survivors in a Rural Community
Lower North Health has been running groups for csa survivors since 2001. Each program runs for 10 to 12 weeks for 3 hours each week. Based on feminist and narrative therapy principles, the groups incorporate storytelling techniques, art forms such as painting, drawing, dance and poetry, and guest speakers. The overall aim of the program is to support women in standing against the effects of abuse in their lives and develop new and preferred identities.
Phone (08) 8239 9600 ( Women's Health Statewide)
Claudia Schiek (08) 8226 8777 (NETTSA)
(08) 8419 2000 and 1800 176 900 (Respond SA, Adult Childhood Sexual Abuse Services)
Online Women's Health Statewide CSA training page
Yarrow Place Rape & Sexual Assault Service
Yarrow Place offers a number of accredited and non-accredited training programs for health workers.
Courses offered include:
- Counselling survivors of adult rape and sexual assault
- Recognise and respond to disclosures of rape and sexual assault
- Short course in the provision of health care to adults who have been raped or sexually assaulted
- Short course in the provision of forensic services to adults who have been raped or sexually assaulted
- Work towards the prevention of rape and sexual assault
Phone (08) 8226 8777 or 1800 817 421
Email yarrowplc@mail.wch.sa.gov.au
Online Yarrow Place training page
Narrative therapy at the Dulwich Centre
The Dulwich Centre offers a range of training opportunities for practitioners wishing to learn more about narrative therapy and to develop their own skills at narrative practice.
Email dcp@senet.com.au
Online Dulwich Centre Website
Clinical Forensic Nursing
Flinders University offers a Postgraduate coursework program in Forensic Nursing (external mode) to Registered Nurses within the Graduate Certificate in Health and the Graduate Diploma in Nursing.
This stream will introduce students to the emerging specialty practice of clinical forensic nursing. It is available to registered nurses working in all areas of practice and will be of particular interest to nurses working in rural and remote areas, accident and emergency units, paediatrics, community health, women's health and aged care but may also be of interest to other disciplines.
Online Flinders University website
Phone Ms Linda Saunders, Coordinator (08) 8201 3558
Fax (08) 8276 1602
Email linda.saunders@flinders.edu.au
SHine sexual health agency in South Australia
SHine SA is the lead sexual health agency in South Australia. SHine's aim is help people enjoy relationships and sexual health with safety, pleasure and respect. SHince has a number of training programs. Information is available from the SHine website
Tasmania
Sexual assault Support Service
SASS offers community education to a diverse range of people including school students, police recruits, nursing staff from the Royal Hobart Hospital and staff from non-government organisations. Our community education provides information about sexual assault, including indications of child sexual abuse and the needs of survivors.
Online Sexual Assault Support Service - Education and Training
Victoria
CASA House - Workshops Semester 2, 2009
- Responding to sexual assault - Level 1
- Responding to sexual assault - Level 2
Phone (03) 9635 3600
Download CASA House Training calendar (PDF 177 KB)
Online CASA Training
CASA Loddon Campaspe Region - Professional Development Calendar 2008
- Responding to disclosures of sexual assault
- Working with male survivors of sexual assault
- Working with adult survivors of sexual assault
- Working with adolescent survivors of sexual assault
Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria (DVRCV)
- Introduction to Domestic Violence - Nationally accredited training
- Children and Domestic Violence - Nationally accredited training
- Young people and family violence
- Adolescents who are abusive in the home
- Family violence and the New Family Law System
- Supporting the Process of Recovery from Family Violence
- Educating the Public about Domestic Violence
Phone (03) 9486 9866
Online DVRCV training page
Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, The University of Melbourne
Contact the Key Centre for Women's Health in Societyfor short course, graduate and postgraduate streams and information relevant to the study of sexual assault
Phone (03) 8344 4333
Email enquiries-kcwhs@unimelb.edu.au
Online Key Centre for Women's Health in Society courses
Graduate Certificate in Social Science (Male Family Violence)
No To Violence (NTV), the Male Family Violence Prevention Association Inc. offers a range of competency-based training packages for individuals and organisations working with men in the context of violence, particularly towards family members. Applications can be made for a Graduate Certificate in Social Science (Male Family Violence) for Men's Behaviour Change Group Facilitators and Telephone Counsellors.
For a course outline and applications contact Peter Pendlebury or Lindsay Clark
Email lindsay@ntv.net.au
Phone (+61 3) 9428 3536
Mobile 0408 761 806
Online No To Violence website
Training on Prostitution & Trafficking Issues for Workers in Women's Services
Project Respect offers training to health care practitioners, women's service workers, police, and others who may come into contact with women working in the sex industry, and trafficked women.
Online Project Respect Website
Phone contact Valli (03) 9416 3401
Email vallim@projectrespect.org.au
The Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ASTSS)
ASTSS offers workshops and training relevant to sexual assault throughout the year.
Online Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ASTSS)
Victoria Offender Treatment Association
VOTA is a non-profit incorporated organisation that promotes the development of a consistent, well informed approach to the behaviour, treatment and management of sex offenders. Information and training sessions are held throughout the year.
Western Australia
Sexuality Education Counselling and Consultancy Agency (secca)
secca conducts professional and community training workshops and seminars at various times throughout the year. Workshops and seminars are designed to address the needs of people with disability their staff, carers, family, health and human service professionals.
Phone secca (08) 9420 7226
Email admin@secca.org.au
Online secca website
Sexual Assault Resource Centre (SARC)
Workshops for health and welfare workers, medical and emergency staff, police, Indigenous workers and those working with sexually abused clients.
Education and Training Calendar August-November 2008 (PDF 950 KB)
Registration Form (PDF 611 KB)
FPWA Sexual Health Services
FPWA provides programs that cover skills required to work with sexual health issues. The program is for a range of community workers in relevant fields including drug and alcohol, health, education, peer educators, Indigenous communities and youth.
Email sonya.arcidiacono@fpwa.org.au
Courses planned for 2008 can be found on the FPWA website