Peer Projects, a program of SHARC are thrilled to announce registrations are now open for the next round of SHARC Peer Worker Training. Details as follows:

Duration: 6 days – 9:30am – 3:00pm each day

Dates: 4^th, 5^th,6^th,7^th,8^th,12^th March 2024

Where: Online via Zoom platform, links to be sent once registered

Summary: Peer workers, like in any professional discipline, need quality, standardised training and ongoing professional development. Through extensive research and co-design, SHARC has developed Peer Worker Training. This comprehensive training provides a vital knowledge base for peer workers and ensures that the peer workforce has a discipline-specific framework to assist them in working within formalised and clinical settings.

Audience:
This training is designed for current peer workers, emerging peer workers, volunteer peer workers and those with lived/living experience interested in participating in peer work.

Outline:

The SHARC Peer Worker Training seeks to:

• Educate peer workers around the concepts and core competencies of the peer work discipline
• Assist peer workers to apply best practice peer work in formalised settings
• Explore the key components of the role with a focus on the peer relationship
• Increase confidence and develop skills in communication and navigating relational parameters
• Develop understandings of ethical practice and workplace legislative requirements
• Empower peer workers to advocate for the discipline and manage their own wellbeing and development needs
• Prepare peer workers to work across a number of domains, remaining ‘peer’ within clinical governance frameworks

Cost:

$1291.00 + GST per person or concession price $663.00 + GST (must provide valid concession card)

Please note, concession rate is only applicable if participant is paying for themselves. This rate cannot be applied if a third party is paying on behalf of a participant, even if the participant holds a valid concession card.

Registrations close on the 20^th of February 2024.

To register your interest please fill out the following questionnaire via this link: https://form.jotform.com/221729082980865