Health Professionals
Health professionals may be the first to hear or notice that a young person is struggling with something. Yet even trained mental health professionals aren't always getting enough training to deal with some of these issues. We tackle some of the big issues to help you better support youth.
Workshops for Health Professionals
Workshops can be booked individually or we can create a series of workshops and deliver them to your staff throughout the year.
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Workshops can be tailored to suit availability; with 3-hour, half-day and full day options at any time of day that will allow the greatest number of staff to attend.
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Once we understand what areas you would like help with, we deliver workshops to suit. The workshops below are commonly chosen by health professionals looking for professional development and training on how to better understand and support youth.
Popular Workshops
HEADSS
A psycho-social interview for adolescents that structures questions so as to facilitate communication and create a sympathetic, respectful environment where youth may be better able to attain adequate health care.
Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma is very commonly experienced by young people and they don't have the tools to process it. Get new and evidence-based tecnhiques for spotting signs of trauma and helping them handle it.
Understanding Mental Illness
More and more youth are presenting with anxiety and depression. We help you learn new and better ways of helping and supporting rangatahi who present with these concerns.
Self-Harm & Suicide
Self-harm and suicide are major issues amongst young people. This evidence-based, best-practice workshop will empower you to help a young person who is self-harming or suicidal.
Gender Identity & Rainbow Awareness
How gender is expressed and experienced has changed significantly in recent years. How you respond to these changes has a direct impact on your ability to provide health care for these youth.
De-Escalation
One of the most difficult parts of working with young people is when they become angry or upset. Health professionals often encounter this behaviour. We help you understand how it happens and give you tools to handle it.
Supporting Wellbeing
We address how wellbeing is researched and theorised in academia, and discuss ways that findings can inform work with young people, with a variety of activities, resources and strategies shared.
Developmental Challenges
With more and more children and youth showing signs of developmental challenges, we provide guidance on how to spot these and how to best support the youth themselves, and help their parents navigate it, too.