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📅 Tuesday, 1st December, 2026
🕐 9.30am - 11.30pm AEST
📍 Online

Overview

This engaging and interactive two-hour online workshop supports aged care providers to understand and apply trauma-aware and healing-informed practice in the delivery of funded aged care services. Grounded in contemporary evidence and aligning with Standard 1 of the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, the session explores how trauma can shape the way people engage with services, relationships, choice, communication, and care. Participants will be supported to move beyond compliance language and consider practical ways to embed safety, trust, choice, collaboration, empowerment, and healing-informed approaches into everyday interactions with aged care recipients.

Session outline

• Setting the context: Outcome 1.1 of the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, person-centred care, and the requirement to deliver services that are trauma aware and healing informed.
• Understanding trauma: How trauma, cumulative adversity and intergenerational experiences can influence wellbeing, behaviour, communication, trust, and engagement with aged care services.
• Trauma-aware practice: Recognising possible trauma impacts without making assumptions or requiring disclosure.
• Healing-informed approaches: Building environments and relationships that promote safety, connection, dignity, autonomy, identity, strengths, and hope.
• Applying the learning: Practical strategies for communication, care planning, responding to distress, supporting choice, and embedding trauma-aware principles into service delivery.
• Reflection and action planning: Identifying realistic next steps for participants, teams, and organisations.

Cost

Free - Places are limited to 20 participants per session!

Presented by

Jimmy Driscoll – JD Care and Community Consulting
Before establishing JD Care and Community Consulting in July 2026, Jimmy Driscoll spent over five years as a Regional Aboriginal Development Officer with the Grampians and Barwon/South-West Sector Support and Development Teams. He has supported aged care providers to strengthen CHSP service delivery and brings experience working with Aboriginal communities and young people in out-of-home care, including people who have experienced trauma. Jimmy has completed a Bachelor of Psychological Science and Honours and is currently completing a Master of Professional Psychology. His work is informed by community development, trauma-aware practice, healing-informed approaches and a strong commitment to supporting services to provide care that is safe, respectful and person-centred.

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