Target audience for this event: AOD Prevention Officers, Health Promotion Officers, Community Development Officers, Youth/Community Engagement Officers or similar, and those who have a role or interest in alcohol and other drug prevention at a community or population-based level.

Duration: Three-day training course.

Training details: This course provides participants with an overview of AOD prevention theory, practice and evidence-informed strategies and resources in addressing alcohol and other drug issues in the community. 

Key Learning Outcomes

• Principles and models of alcohol and other drug prevention
• Alcohol and other drug substances and their effects
• Culture of alcohol use in Australia
• Liquor licensing framework and avenues for community involvement
• Localising public health and education campaigns 
• Culturally sensitive ways of working with Aboriginal communities.

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Event 2

Target audience for this event: Professionals coordinating community or population based AOD Prevention.

Pre-requisite: Completion of ST275: An introduction to population-based alcohol and other drugs prevention within the last 2 years.
Duration: Interactive two-day workshop

Training details: This interactive workshop teaches participants how to develop, plan, implement and evaluate an Alcohol and Other Drug Management Plan (AODMP) to address alcohol and other drug issues at a community or population-based level.

Key Learning Outcomes

• Step-by-step process for developing an AODMP
• Stakeholder engagement, including facilitation skills
• Practical tools and models for developing an AODMP
• Resources and tools to supports community facilitation
• Application of the skills and knowledge learned during ST275 An introduction to alcohol and other drug prevention to a community case study.

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Target audience for this event: Human service workers and frontline workers responding to VSU issues.

Duration: One-day training.

Training details: VSU is a complex issue which can have a significant impact on individuals, families, and communities.

Key Learning Outcomes

• Volatile substances and their methods of use
• Short- and long-term effects of VSU
• VSU patterns and prevalence 
• Risks and harms associated with VSU.

The training will also include information about best practice strategies to respond to VSU and provide an opportunity to explore harm reduction strategies that can be implemented at an individual, agency and community level. 

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Event 2

Target audience for this event: Service providers and stakeholders interested in reducing alcohol-related harm in their community.

Duration: One-day workshop.

Training details: This workshop is designed to support the planning and delivery of localised FASD prevention activities.

Key Learning Outcomes

• Describe how prenatal alcohol exposure can result in FASD
• Plan localised prevention activities to reduce alcohol-related harm
• Create a FASD prevention network in their community
• Promote Valuable Conversations for reducing the impact of alcohol use during childbearing years training event
• Apply to the Commission’s FASD Prevention Funding Program.

Event 1

Target audience for this event: Human service workers (e.g. social workers, counsellors, nurses/midwives) with clients of childbearing age. 

Duration: Two-day training.

Training details: This training event is designed to increase confidence in delivering FASD prevention advice and information. 

Key Learning Outcomes

• Reflective Practice as a tool to improve working with community members.
• Trauma Informed Care and Practice to reduce shame and stigma around prenatal alcohol exposure and FASD.
• Motivational Interviewing to provide non-judgmental service delivery for behaviour change.
• FASD prevention using best practice for alcohol harm reduction.
• Brief Interventions to bring together new knowledge and skills to practice.

*Please note this training does not provide information on FASD diagnosis or treatment.