Let us introduce you to an exciting Online Training Platform called Emerging Minds
Carer competency 5 is about taking responsibility for your own learning. Yorganop requires Carers to attend a minimum of 2 training sessions each calendar year as part of your ongoing Carer Registration.
This training can be done either with Yorganop, the Department of Communities (the Department), or other training providers such as your current workplace.
If you can’t attend training sessions that are held on weekdays, you may like to participate in online training.
Emerging Minds Learning is a fantastic resource for online training.
They offer free online training courses to support children’s mental health and wellbeing.
They have innovative courses that are designed to help professionals in health, community and social services and we think that there are many courses that would allow foster carers to grow their skills and confidence in caring for children aged 0-12.
As a foster carer, you help to nurture a child to flourish and play an important role in strengthening children’s resilience and wellbeing. Emerging Minds’ online training courses are interactive, engaging and contain video demonstrations designed to help you put your learning into practice.
Emerging Minds offer a range of online training. Choose from under an hour to 4+ hours training based on your interests including:
- infant and child mental health
- trauma
- family and domestic violence
- alcohol and other drug use
- working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
- parental mental illness
- disability
- natural disasters and community trauma events
- chronic physical illness
- intergenerational mental health
- child-aware practice
- working with children and with parents, and more!
Here are a couple courses that we recommend for foster carers
Good mental health gives children a sense of security and enables the steady development of essential life skills, such as trust, independence and resilience. However, children also rely on the adults around them to support and safeguard their social and emotional wellbeing.
https://emergingminds.com.au/online-course/understanding-child-mental-health-an-introduction/
This course is for anyone who wants to better understand the factors that influence child mental health.
You can undertake the course at your own pace, in one sitting or in several sittings. The last page you visit will be bookmarked so that you can jump straight back to where you left off.
Learning outcomes
As learners progress through this course, they will work towards being able to:
- Describe the factors that contribute to children’s positive mental health
- Define the range of interconnected factors that exist in children’s relational and social world that affect children’s mental health
- Recognise that children’s mental health and wellbeing occurs along a dynamic continuum, from positive mental health to diagnosed mental health conditions.
- Explain the central role of the parent-child relationship, and how the parent’s circumstances, parent behaviour, and the child’s inner emotional world are interconnected
- Describe how mental health difficulties can present in children, and how this is different to how adult mental health difficulties present.
https://emergingminds.com.au/online-course/the-impact-of-trauma-on-the-child-foundation/
This foundation-level course is designed for professionals, volunteers, families, carers and community workers who work with, or care for, children.
You can undertake the course at your own pace, in one sitting or in several sittings. The last page you visit will be bookmarked so that you can jump straight back to where you left off.
Learning outcomes
- As learners progress through this course, they will work towards being able to:
- Describe what is meant by trauma and adversity
- Explain the potential impact of trauma and adversity on children
- Recognise child responses to trauma
- Explain ways that children and families can recover from trauma
- Recognise the importance of a trauma-informed approach when supporting children.
Yorganop offers the following online training
Connecting to Family, Culture and Country
Understanding Developmental Trauma
