Gain your Diploma in Alcohol and other drugs via RPL from $550*

Would you like to gain your Diploma in Alcohol and Other Drugs work, and feel your current skills should be recognised?

Have you:
· been working in the Alcohol and Other Drugs sector for two years or more?
· performed a variety of roles and responsibilities in community services work?

What is RPL?
RPL is Recognition for Prior Learning. It is a process whereby you gain a qualification based on evidence of your work, prior training and job description. We can visit you to conduct the necessary assessment for you to gain the qualification.
Do you hold no higher than Certificate IV as your highest Australian qualification? If so, you are likely to be eligible for subsidised funding to gain this qualification – and receive your qualification through assessment with recognition of prior learning (RPL).

Odyssey Institute offers a workplace based RPL process for the Diploma in Alcohol and other drugs (CHC08 package) for individuals and groups and usually takes just one or two visits.

Full Fee: $2,800, however Odyssey House Victoria is able to offer eligible Victorian candidates qualifications in the Diploma of Alcohol and Other Drugs for only $550.

This qualification is aimed at AOD clinicians, nurses and other AOD sector workers who are working in or aspire to work as coordinators or other management roles and those who wish to enhance their practitioner skills.

Enquiries and registration http://www.workskillsweb.net/dip_info.html
or contact Sariah on 03 9420 7644, email studentadmin@odyssey.org.au

*This training is provided for eligible Victorian student with Victorian Government Funding, $550 represents the required student contribution.

Enrolments are subject to available funding. Eligibility criteria varies depending on your personal circumstances click here for details or visit www.odysseyinstitute.edu.au

From Turning Point:

“A series of one-day training courses on Psychostimulants have been funded by the Commonwealth. These free courses are available to a broad range of health and welfare workers . The aim of the project is to assist health professionals such as medical practitioners, nurses, mental health workers and alcohol and drug workers to manage and treat users of psychostimulants (speed, base, ice, MDMA, cocaine). A series of one-day courses are being delivered nationally. These will be coordinated by Turning Point but delivered by specialist staff from individual states and territories.

Two courses have recently been organised in the Northern Territory. A course overview is provided below. Details of course locations, delivery schedules and the registration process are available at www.turningpoint.org.au – use the link to from GO to WHOA.

Please feel free to contact Kieran Connolly on kieranc@turningpoint.org.au for further information.

Module 1 Introduction

By the end of this module participants will be able to identify:
· what psychostimulants are
· concerns about psychostimulant use
· why people take psychostimulants
· how psychostimulants affect people
· how psychostimulants are taken
– frameworks for responding to psychostimulant use

Module 2 Pharmacology

By the end of this module participants will be able to identify:
· what psychostimulants are
· influences on drug effects
· common psychostimulant effects
– common features of withdrawal

Module 3 Epidemiology and risks

By the end of this module participants will be able to identify:
· the history of psychostimulant use
· current prevalence of use
– risks associated with psychostimulant use

Module 4 Responding to psychostimulant use

By the end of this module, participants will be able to identify:
· effective ways to raise the issue of psychostimulant use
· behavioural indicators of psychostimulant use
· physical indicators of psychostimulant use
· emergency response situations
· appropriate strategies for the management of intoxication
· mental health issues
· strategies to manage agitated behaviour
· strategies to reduce harm at various harm points
– appropriate treatment strategies”