Trauma informed care approach to working with people at risk of or experiencing homelessness - training for NWMPHN funded mental health and AOD service providers

This training will explore the link between trauma and homelessness and provide participants with information on Trauma Informed Care and practical brief recovery focused interventions and strategies.

This training will provide a framework for understanding, responding, and aiding recovery when working with people who are long-term homeless and have experienced trauma.

The training will include:

• “Understanding Homelessness” presented by members of the Council to Homeless Persons’ Peer Education and Support Program which will provide an opportunity to hear from people with lived experience of homelessness about their experience of accessing health services.
• Trauma Informed Care training facilitated by Dr Richard Cash from Phoenix Australia which will focus on:

1. The role of evidence-based approaches to understanding trauma and homelessness
2. The main biopsychosocial impacts of trauma exposure and the links between trauma and homelessness, mental health issues, AOD use issues, social and other disadvantage.
3. Phoenix Australia’s Trauma-Informed recovery model, using brief interventions to support psychosocial recovery

•  Information on homelessness sector in the North and Western Melbourne presented by the Coordinators of Western and Northern Homelessness Networks who will discuss eligibility, access, pathways and service types.

Who should attend? Mental health and AOD clinicians from all NWMPHN funded services.

Morning Tea and Lunch will be provided.