Sector Training Activities

Mental Health & Intellectual Disability

This unit describes the knowledge and skills required to contribute to the recovery of people affected by a mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.

The training focuses on the overview of mental health issues with discussions on :

• Types  of mental illnesses
• Impact of mental illness on individuals, their families/carers and their social networks
• Supports that are available to individuals that can contribute to the recovery from the illness
• Issues faced by individuals with intellectual disability and mental illness
• The strategies for support workers to assist individuals in the process of recovery from the mental illness.

Some of the feedback from staff who attended this training is:

“Excellent session. Topics discussed were very relevant to work related issues. More staff to be aware of this issue and tolerance can only increase.”

“I have more understanding of mental illness.”

“I believe all staff should attend this session, Very informative training session.”

“Group discussions on other people’s life experiences and videos were very interesting.”

Training dates:

13 July 2015

23 September 2015

14 October 2015