Professional Development Training
Professional Development training is provided for organisations and kaimahi in the health and social services sector and tailored to meet the identified needs of the kaimahi within their context.
There are four broad categories
Child Protection Training
While the safety and protection of children is a community-wide responsibility in New Zealand, those working in education, health, and social sectors have a greater duty to advocate for tamariki and rangatahi. To support kaimahi in their roles, we offer two training modules.
Building Authentic Trust-based Relationships with Clients
The key to improving long-term outcomes for clients.Going Beyond the Froth (The coffee metaphor)
Developing the skills of assessment and analysis. This is really important when working long term with families. Otherwise, you are wasting their time and yours. Best practice works with clients to help them improve their lives.Practice Wisdom
Identifying, understanding and mitigating the dangerous dynamics that can develop when we work as a helping professional with clients.
There are three topic areas which inevitably overlap. I have also designed the material for kaimahi who work in the helping professions but are not necessarily qualified social workers or other APC holding professionals.
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Child Protection Training
To support kaimahi in their roles, we offer two training modules.
1) The first module focuses on child abuse and neglect as it relates specifically to your organisation and the primary client group you serve. This training is customised to your organisational focus, such as health, and the age range of their clients, for example, under 5s or rangatahi aged 12 to 18.
2) The second module aims to deepen kaimahi's understanding of Oranga Tamariki, the statutory child protection agency, the legislation they operate under, and how to work effectively with them when concerns arise about the safety and well-being of rangatahi, tamariki, or pepi..
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Building authentic trust based relationships as a professional.
Relationships, more than anything else, are the key to successful support and improved outcomes for clients and their whanau. This training is all about developing communication skills and understanding your place as a professional working with clients and whanau. Topics covered include positioning, how to question without interrogating, how to move conversations beyond small talk to more meaningful conversation. -
Assessment and Analytical Skill Building
The foundation for any successful intervention when working with clients and whanau is understanding the whanau and being able to build with them an intervention that is doable with support. Understanding comes from building relationships but also from being able to gather information and then understand that information within context. This is where the skills to gather information and then analyse the information prior to creating an intervention come into play. This training deals with those skills and the common pitfalls from not being open or seeing the whole picture. A relevant case study is used to assist kaimahi to learn the principles and to practice. -
Practice Wisdom
I am also developing training on dangerous professional dynamics as there are some common situations when working as a professional with people that can be dangerous for both client and kaimahi. Kaimahi knowledge, insight and supervision are key to recognising dangerous dynamics so that action can be taken before any harm is done to either client or kaimahi. Boundaries, self-fulfilling prophecy and kaimahi need to be needed are some examples of the topics to be addressed.