Module Description

The Mental Health & Addictions workstream, made up of Leaders from the participating agencies, have agreed on the foundational training content needed for Mental Health and Addictions, and have constructed a one-day, practical skills-based, wānanga for practitioners.

Practitioners must have completed a minimum of 2 (as decided by your agency, one of them must be module 4) of the required online modules below before you attend the wānanga.

Module Description

The Trauma-Informed Practice workstream, made up of leaders from the participating agencies, developed two wānanga, Self-Care in Trauma-Informed Organisations, and Trauma-Informed Practice. The Trauma-Informed Practice wānanga focuses on supporting practitioners to develop an understanding of the impact of trauma on children and their families, considers Māori perspective on trauma informed care, and develops practitioner skills in engagement, assessment and trauma informed interventions. The learning outcomes of this wānanga are:

• Understand how Ngā Pou inform trauma informed practice.
• Have an overview of the pōwhiri poutama model and the hui process, and their application to trauma informed practice.
• Have an awareness of Māori perspectives on trauma informed care.
• Become familiar with a framework of assessment and formulation.
• Gain skills and confidence in using models and tools to assist in courageous conversations.
• Develop an understanding of the pyramid of stepped care and an overview of trauma informed interventions.
• Develop skills in using the T-GROW peer coaching model within your learning circle and understand how the learning circles will work.

Module Description

The Trauma-Informed Practice workstream, made up of Leaders from the participating agencies, have developed two wānanga, Self-Care in Trauma-Informed Organisations, and Trauma-Informed Practice. In the Self-Care in Trauma-Informed Organisations wānanga participants develop an understanding of strategies to improve organisational culture, to recognise and respond to burnout and compassion fatigue, secondary and vicarious trauma, partisan thinking, and professional dangerousness. The focus is also on developing skills to assist with courageous conversations, growing resilience, and developing a plan around self-care. The learning outcomes of the this wānanga are:

• Develop an understanding of strategies to improve organisational culture, focusing on behaviours, well-being and self-care for practitioners and leaders.
• Understand how to recognise and respond to:
  • Burnout and compassion fatigue
  • Secondary and vicarious trauma
  • Partisan thinking
  • Professional dangerousness
• Understand the risks to an organisation, families and children, our community and other organisations of failing to manage these issues.
• Understand the components of a system that supports practitioners and leaders.
• Gain skills and confidence in using models and tools to assist in courageous conversations and follow-up for these issues. • Understand how to grow resilience in your workforce.
• Understand how Nga Pou inform self-care in trauma informed organisations.
• Know how to use the T-GROW peer coaching model within your learning circle and understand how the learning circles will work.
• Have a plan around your own and staff self-care. We have separate leader and practitioner self-care wānanga.