CETC - Training - CETC

Virtual workshop

Safe and Connected: Supporting online safety for children and young people in out-of-home care

Children and young people in out-of-home care are navigating a digital world shaped by connection, creativity—and risk. For those with trauma histories, online spaces can offer belonging, but also bring unique vulnerabilities. This two-hour workshop is designed to equip practitioners and carers with the knowledge, tools and confidence to support young people's online safety in trauma-aware and relationship-based ways. Drawing...

Date Cost

May 07, 2025

$110.00

Virtual workshop

Blocked Care: For professionals and practitioners

Do you ever feel disconnected to the children and young people you work with? When care workers feel angry, lost, or disconnected in their role, it’s not just about resilience—it’s a normal brain response. The cycle of "blocked care" happens when a care workers’ stress response becomes overwhelmed by the distress behaviours they experience at work. In turn, the young...

Date Cost

May 14, 2025

$110.00

Virtual workshop

Consent Conversations: Supporting young people to safely navigate affirmative consent

Who has regular conversations about consent with the young people you know? And who should? Recent legislative changes have clarified affirmative consent, requiring young people to say or do something to explicitly check for ongoing agreement. Unfortunately, not all young people are well-prepared to navigate how ongoing agreement, communication, and safety work in healthy relationships. For young people involved in...

Date Cost

May 21, 2025

$110.00

Virtual workshop

Let’s Talk: Pornography, consent, and young people’s sexual development

Introduction What is your role as a kinship carer, foster carer or residential youth worker in supporting children and young people learn about sex, consent, healthy relationships, and sexuality? For many of us, these questions cause discomfort and confusion about how and when to provide appropriate support and guidance. In this workshop, social worker and Practice Lead Consultant at the...

Date Cost

June 26, 2025

$110.00

On-demand

Foundational Training in Intensive Therapeutic Care

The Foundational Training in Intensive Therapeutic Care is an on-demand course for residential care workers, house managers and therapeutic specialists designed to support the implementation of the Intensive Therapeutic Care (ITC) reform in New South Wales. This course aims to equip you with a shared language and understanding to effectively support young people with complex needs in residential care. This...

Cost

$99.00

On-demand

Responding to Child Sexual Exploitation

Responding to Child Sexual Exploitation is an online self-paced training for caseworkers, residential workers, house supervisors and managers, therapeutic specialists and organisational leaders working in out-of-home care and therapeutic care. The Centre for Excellence in Therapeutic Care was commissioned by the New South Wales Department of Communities and Justice to develop this training in response to recommendations made by...

Cost

$49.00

On-demand

When yes means YES: A carer’s guide to conversations about consent with young people

The When yes means YES course is an on-demand course designed to build carer’s skills and confidence to talk with young people aged developmentally 12 – 14 years in their care, about non-sexual consent and affirmative sexual consent. This course was developed by carers, young people, the Australian Childhood Foundation, the Centre for Excellence in Therapeutic Care and OzChild, supported by...

Cost

$0.00

On-demand

Kinship carer on-demand training: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Hearts

"Ordinary People, Extraordinary Hearts" is an on-demand training program designed to support kinship carers in creating safe, nurturing, and healing environments for children and young people in their care. This course is built around the idea that ordinary people with extraordinary hearts can make an incredible difference in the lives of children who have experienced trauma and adversity. Throughout the...

Cost

$99.00

On-demand

Foster carer on-demand training: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Hearts

"Ordinary People, Extraordinary Hearts" is an on-demand training program designed to support foster carers in creating safe, nurturing, and healing environments for children and young people in their care. This course is built around the idea that ordinary people with extraordinary hearts can make an incredible difference in the lives of children who have experienced trauma and adversity. Throughout...

Cost

$99.00

ONLINE SELF-PACED LEARNING

Joint protocol training series

A series of training videos to support the implementation of the Joint Protocol to reduce the contact of young people in residential out of home care with the criminal justice system.

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