Learning Hubs
Enabling Workforces Toolkit: Resources & Communities of Practice
HEART: includes short, emotive, core message dissemination, common language/knowledge
HEAD: Understanding the ‘why’, actionable insights, opportunity for reflection into practice
HAND: Deeper understanding the ‘how’, support for application, ongoing supports
HANDS Deeper understanding of the ‘how’, support for application, ongoing supports
Resources & Communities of Practice
Brain Development & Brain Health
Black Dog Institute: e-Mental Health in Practice
1 hr modules, resources, online, webinars, podcasts free
Must be health professional registered with AHPRA.
Developed for mental health professionals
Mental Health Academy: Brain Architecture 101
1 hr, online $
Foundations of brain structure & architecture, how to integrate the brain for wellbeing
Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences
For Health workers, free
Understand & implement 5 core beliefs with young people to increase resilience and recovery.
Trauma & Healing
Harvard University -Centre on the Developing Child: Toxic Stress 101
1 hr, online, free
Responding to, tackling & preventing toxic stress
Emerging Minds: The impact of trauma on the child
1 hr, online, free
Trauma & adversity – impact & recovery
Early Childhood Australia: Being the champion for children who are impacted by trauma and adversity
45 mins, online, annual subscription to ECA
Health Academy: Understanding the Link Between Trauma and Addiction
1 hr, online, $
How trauma heightens the risk for addiction, how to treat both
Resilience
Alberta Family Wellness Initiative: Resilience Resources
Videos, tools, reports, free
Brain story: brain architecture, stress, resilience, serve & return, air traffic control.
Resilience Scale & Framework: Applying the scale at individual, organisation & system level
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute: Difficult Conversations: How do we have them
3 hrs, online / In-person, $
Build skills to hold conversations about challenging topics with parents.
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute: Facilitating Engagement
In person, 1 day, $
Engaging families with complex needs, facilitating parent groups, delivering practitioner training
The Whole Person
Online resources (apps, websites, audio, videos, documents, social media) free
Social, emotional and cultural wellbeing resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
Topics: Mind, Body, Our Mob, Culture, Keeping Safe & Healing.
94 online networks, free
Range of Communities of Practice including Brain Builders, Child Development Health and Wellbeing, Complex Pain, First Nations Care, Infant Mental Health
Online resources, Free
Explore the domains of the Social & Emotional Framework
For Early Childhood Educators, free
Strategies for engaging with families from culturally diverse backgrounds
2 x 1.5 hrs, online, $
Forge partnerships with families and redevelop services to meet community expectations
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute: Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC)
2 days, In-person, $
Community-based training for parents to run parenting groups in pairs.
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute: Platforms for Empowered Communities
2 days, In-person, $
Improve environments and experiences of children in communities
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute: Family Partnership Model (FPM)
3+ days, Hybrid, $$
Building and maintaining effective relationships with families
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute: Victorian Training Program in Community Child Health
1 year fellowship, In-person (Melbourne), $$
Clinical and theoretical training in developmental-behavioural paediatrics.
