Cultural Awareness Training
This training provides a professional development opportunity for participants to build and increase knowledge on Aboriginal culture, working with Aboriginal people in Gippsland and and North East Victoria.
Join the waitlist for the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) Cultural Awareness Training.
This training will provide a professional development opportunity for participants to build and increase knowledge on Aboriginal culture, the best ways of working with Aboriginal people who’ve been impacted by the bushfires and many more key topics.
Key topics covered include:
- Aboriginal life before and after colonisation
- Resilience of Aboriginal people
- Aboriginal culture overview
- Working respectfully with Aboriginal children, families and colleagues
- Trauma for Aboriginal Communities impacted by both the bushfires and COVID-19
- Strategies and supports to assist healing and working with Aboriginal people from bushfire and COVID affected communities
- The holistic model of trauma - the nature and effects of trauma including physical, social, emotional and cultural impacts
- Working with Aboriginal Communities impacted by bushfires and COVID-19
Training Dates:
East Gippsland
- Mallacoota on Thursday 5 May 2022
North East Victoria
- Towong on Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 May 2022
- Alpine on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 May 2022
Venue to be confirmed closer to the date.
To register your interest in attending, please contact VACCA's Learning and Development unit by email: lilliana@vacca.org or bonnieb@vacca.org
