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Please find information on the upcoming Safer Families Centre workshops, new IPV Clinical Audit tool (worth up to 10 Measuring Outcome CPD hours), Elder Abuse eLearning module and RACGP webinar below:
Last chance – Breaking the Barriers: Engaging and responding to patients who use domestic and family violence Advanced workshop
Join the Safer Families Centre, University of Melbourne, in this online advanced workshop to support general practitioners and clinical primary care provider staff to enhance confidence in responding safely and sensitively to disclosures of using domestic violence. It will also cover how to consider the whole family when working with people who use violence. This workshop is designed for GPs and clinical staff who already have a base knowledge of how to identify when violence is occurring and safely engage with people who use violence.
Thursday 16th May 12-1:30pm AEST
For more information and to register, please click here.
RACGP Overcoming Barriers for Addressing DFV Webinar:
Domestic and family violence (DFV) is common with one in three women being subjected to DFV worldwide. However, there are significant barriers to help-seeking by survivors, and identification of DFV by health providers. This RACGP webinar aims to give participants an understanding of the barriers faced by both survivors and health practitioners and how these may be overcome, as well as outlining the expectations that survivors have from health practitioners and a model for health practitioners’ readiness to address DFV.
Speakers for this webinar include Dr Jennifer Neil, GP and Educator with The University of Melbourne and Monash University, and A/Prof Laura Tarzia of the Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne.
Tuesday 7th May 12:30-1:15pm AEST
To register for this webinar, please click here.
Safer Families Centre IPV Identification and Initial Response Audit Activity (Measuring Outcomes CPD)
The Safer Families Centre has also developed a clinical audit CPD activity for GPs on Intimate Partner Violence Identification (IPV) and Initial Response that compliments this webinar. The activity aims to provide a better understanding of IPV and how to identify and ask patients about it. GPs will also strengthen their capacity to identify barriers to asking about IPV and how to overcome those barriers. The activity also attracts up to 10 RACGP CPD hours in Measuring Outcomes for GPs.
For more information on this Audit activity, or to download the Audit template, please click here.
Elder Abuse eLearning module:
Elder abuse is very common with close to one in 7 older Australians experiencing some form of abuse, from emotional and financial to physical or neglect.
To assist in identifying and responding to abuse and violence towards older people, the Safer Families Centre have developed an e-learning module called: Six steps to Support you to Assess and Respond to Elder Abuse.
This module looks at the nature, severity, and impact of abuse of older people and explains how to recognise the risk factors, types and signs. It describes barriers and enablers for seeking help, and strategies to identify and safely respond to older patients experiencing abuse or violence. The e-learning module is fully funded for anyone working in primary care.
To register for the module, please click here.
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