Connect & Learn
Connect & Learn webinar series address a wide range of practice-relevant topics presented by local expert clinicians. The webinars aim to enhance the capabilities of Victorian AOD and MH workers in responding to substance use and addiction issues among their clients and consumers.
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- This webinar briefly covers the main opioid agonist pharmacotherapies for opioid dependence, and summarises the evidence for the use of these treatments for pharmaceutical opioid dependence. The webinar describes what clinicians can do to help clients transition to treatment as well as describing current treatments – who is suitable for what – why clients might consider it.
- This webinar brings to light how we can provide sensitive and appropriate services and treatment pathways for Trans & Gender Diverse people. Including a presentation by Sally Goldner from Transgender Victoria, this webinar will cover an introduction to gender diversity, differentiating sexual orientation, intersex status, gender identity and expressions.
- Connect & Learn is Turning Point’s webinar series which is funded by DHHS. Designed to support AOD clinicians throughout regional and metropolitan Victoria, the webinars are presented by experienced clinicians, AOD workers and researchers currently working in the AOD sector.
- This webinar explores the objectives and operations of online communities which enable peer support for those making change in their substance use.
- This webinar aims to provide AOD workers with an introductory overview of new and emerging psychoactive substance (NPS) use in Australia.
- Through an exploration of substance use coercion, this webinar will provide participants with an understanding of how the presence of substances within an intimate relationship may co-exist with behaviours associated with a broader pattern of power and control found within Intimate Partner Violence.
- This webinar is aimed at AOD workers and other people who work with people who use opioids and/or people who may witness an opioid overdose.
- This Connect & Learn session aims to synthesise and translate new research that has examined a broad range of AOD treatment providers’ views about the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA) and its clinical impact.
- HepReady training has been tailored specifically to drug and alcohol workers including dual diagnosis and forensic settings.
- This webinar will explore real-time prescription monitoring and its implementation in Victoria.