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Professional Development

Short Courses for Professionals in the Community Housing Sector

Professional Development Courses

Working in a Culturally Safe Way with First Nations People

This course explores colonisation, government policies and shared history as the knowledge base to inform culturally safe practice. We will define cultural safety and examine ways to ensure cultural safety in our own work practice.

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2 HALF DAYS

Housing Pathways

Housing Pathways is the way applications for housing assistance are managed in NSW. The Housing Pathways Framework provides coordinated information and advice using a single application and standard assessment process across all social housing organisations.

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3 DAYS

Induction to Community Housing

The Induction Course provides new workers with information to assist them understand their work in community housing and what role they play in delivering high quality services to their customers and tenants.

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2 HALF DAYS

Managing Challenging Behaviour

Managing challenging behaviour is a significant issue for Community Housing Providers in sustaining tenancies and maintaining good neighbour policies. This session will explore good practice for managing challenging behaviour, investigate resources available through the toolkit and, reflect on and explore how you manage difficult situations.

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3.5 HOURS

Managing Hoarding and Squalor

As a Community Housing professional, you will respond to tenants who are identified as hoarders and may live in squalor. It is a complex mental health condition that can affect the person, their family and neighbours.

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3.5 HOURS

Three Rs of Mental Health – Recognise, Respond & Refer

Community Housing plays an important role in the housing of people experiencing mental ill health and/or mental distress. This program was developed by CHIA NSW and the Mental Health Coordinating Council for Housing Workers.

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2 HALF DAYS

Strengthening Practice in Responding to Domestic & Family Violence

This session will discuss the myths and realities of domestic and family violence and explore strategies of reducing risk and increasing safety. Working with perpetrators is included as part of the session as many staff will work with perpetrators of domestic and family violence.

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3.5 HOURS

Trauma Informed Practice

As a Community Housing Provider, you are working everyday with people who have experienced trauma. This session gives you the opportunity to understand trauma and complexities, examine what impact trauma has on your work, and offers you some tools and strategies to improve and validate your current practice.

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3.5 HOURS

Applying Commonwealth Rent Assistance

Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) is the way Community Housing Providers calculate rent subsidies for social housing properties, by using a single standard calculator to determine the assessable income of a tenant and their commonwealth rent assistance contributions.

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3 HOURS

Presenting at NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Community housing organisations have a responsibility to ensure tenancy issues are managed well and that attempts to resolve issues are made in a timely manner. You will be equipped with essential knowledge and understanding of the workings and processes of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT), with an emphasis on sustaining tenancies.

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2 DAYS

Starting out in Social Housing?

If you are a new professional in social housing, you may want to consider our Certificate IV in Housing.

This qualification is our foundational program of study for those starting out in social housing and provides critical skills in areas the sector supports.

Need to Chat?

If you are unsure which qualification or Professional Development course would be best for you, give our CHIA NSW Learning & Development team a call on (02) 9690 2447  or send us an enquiry via the form below.

Contact our Learning & Development team