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SUMMARY:Supporting carers in the palliative care setting (online)
DESCRIPTION:Supporting someone at the end of life can be a challenging and stressful time for carers. \nSupporting Carers in the Palliative Care Setting is designed to build the confidence of residential aged care staff\, palliative care teams and other palliative care professionals in supporting family and friend carers of patients/ clients/ residents who are approaching their end of life. \nThe training will explore: \n\nWho carers are and what they do\n\n\nThe NSW Carers (Recognition) Act 2010 and its purpose\n\n\nThe support needs of carers in palliative care settings\n\n\nServices and resources to support carers.\n\nFor further information email education@carersnsw.org.au \nRegister here 
URL:https://sector.yourside.org.au/event/supporting-carers-palliative/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20251202T103000
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SUMMARY:Invox National Care Partner Forum (online)
DESCRIPTION:The December National Care Partner forum explores early lessons from the first 30 days of Support at Home. Four hours online designed for care partners\, coordinators and team leaders. \nJoin the experts and your colleagues online to discover practical ways to adapt your Care Partner approach. \nPresale Tickets: $365 \nRegister here
URL:https://sector.yourside.org.au/event/invox-national-care-partner-forum-online/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Strengthened Quality Standards: Home care (online workshop)
DESCRIPTION:The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission is running free online workshops on the Strengthened Quality Standards. These sessions are designed for Home Care service providers. \nThe workshops provide an overview of the structure and requirements of the strengthened Quality Standards\, and how they can be applied in your service setting. \nThe session uses a detailed case study to explore the application of the Standards and key considerations for providers. While specific Outcomes and Actions are considered as part of the case study\, we will not be discussing the application of the Standards to individual service settings. The session does not cover all the Outcomes and Actions of the Standards\, but draws on key elements relevant to the case study as an example of how providers might consider their obligations. \nThe session provides opportunities to discuss approaches and ideas with other participants. \nVarious dates to choose from: \n\n5 November 2025\, 10:00am – 11:30am (AEDT)\n18 November 2025\, 1:30pm – 3:00pm (AEDT)\n2 December 2025\, 11:00am – 12:30pm (AEDT)\n\nRegistration here . \nLogin to your ALIS account (Aged Care Learning Information Solution) and click Live Learning Sessions. \nOverview of Commission’s Live Learning Sessions here
URL:https://sector.yourside.org.au/event/strengthened-quality-standards-home-care-online-workshop/2025-12-02/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20251204T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20251204T143000
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SUMMARY:Accessing Aged Care Services (online session for community)
DESCRIPTION:Delivered by Carers NSW. \n\n\n\nMy Aged Care is the main entry point to access government funded aged care services in Australia. There are a wide range of services and supports available to support older people to stay at home longer\, including respite. However\, many carers find the aged care system to be confusing and difficult to navigate. Join us for a discussion on what services and supports are available\, choosing a provider\, fees and charges\, and who can help you get services in place. \nFor further information email education@carersnsw.org.au \nRegister here
URL:https://sector.yourside.org.au/event/accessing-aged-care-services-online-session-for-community/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20251208T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20251210T170000
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SUMMARY:First Nations Elders Wellbeing Conference
DESCRIPTION:The 2025 National First Nations Elders Wellbeing Conference will be a transformative event\, bringing together aged care professionals\, service managers\, and frontline workers to engage in crucial discussions about the landmark changes introduced by Australia’s new aged care reforms. This conference provides a vital platform to network\, share insights\, and collaborate on the implementation of these reforms\, with a particular focus on My Aged Care’s consumer-directed care model\, the Support at Home program\, and the single assessment service. These initiatives are designed to empower frail older individuals living in the community by offering greater choice\, control\, and independence over their care\, allowing them to live safely and with dignity in their own homes. \nThe conference will delve into the successes and challenges of these reforms while exploring culturally appropriate models of support and engagement\, ensuring that First Nations Elders can live life on their own terms. Acknowledging the power of storytelling within Aboriginal & Torres Straits communities\, the event will highlight how cultural practices can foster healing and build stronger community connections\, setting a path for the future of aged care services. \nA central theme of the conference will be the continued empowerment of First Nations Elders\, ensuring they have true “choice and control” over their care. Attendees will work together to create culturally respectful\, adaptable resources and tools to navigate the evolving landscape of community services\, disability\, and aged care. This collaboration will ensure that First Nations Elders are equipped to make decisions that reflect their personal needs\, values\, and aspirations\, allowing them to live with respect\, autonomy\, and safety. \n​This conference aims to highlight the eight priority areas which My Aged Care clients identified as important to them\, based on the survey results outlined in the Consumer Experience Report (CER) for home-based and community-based aged care services. These priority areas include but are not limited to: control\, Interpersonal interaction\, Flexibility\, Local residence in Country\, Affordability\, Administrative and financial literacy\, Safety and Timeliness of service provision. Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Elders and their families would more likely access aged care services when it allows them to stay on Country\, being cared for by their own mob and the ability to maintain their connection to country\, culture and community. \n​The conference will also be a great resource and avenue to identify models of support and engagement that reflect various cultural practices of our communities\, to ensure that First Nations Peoples who are frail aged can live life their way. Sharing stories and story-telling is so strong in Aboriginal communities\, in that it leads the way to support healing in our community so we can move forward and get things right. Reflecting the importance of culturally respectful planning resources and tools to adapt the changes in community services\, disability and aged care sectors\, that is our Elders will have “choice and control” over their own lives and empowered to make decisions for their own care\, according to their personal needs and wants. \nFurthermore\, the conference also aims to give a voice to frail aged\, over 50 years old Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Elders and their family carers to share their needs\, their concerns and share their story and experiences. Similarly\, this conference presents a chance for Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander frontline aged care support workers\, mainstream community and allied health workers serving First Nations Peoples who are frail aged\, to engage with industry leaders and peers\, learn cutting edge innovations and techniques as well as hear firsthand experiences from Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Community Elders . The conference will also examine innovative ways to activate and engage family carers in employment opportunities and challenge delegates individually and collectively to identify the way forward for their organisations. This conference is for anyone who is interested in strengthening and upholding the rights of our Elders. With a rich diversity of speakers\, delegates and exhibitors\, this two-day conference will empower you\, inspire you and invigorate your passion for supporting your clients to reach their goals of keeping their independence and stay at home for as long as they can\, stay on Country as safe as they can. \nThe 2025 National First Nations Elder’s Wellbeing Conference focuses on how service providers are finding ways to deliver high quality support to First Nations peoples who are frail aged in the My Aged Care context to tackle some of the difficult issues that have threatened to derail the delivery of My Aged Care in our communities. The conference themes include: \n\n\nControl Over Health & Wellbeing \n\n\nCommunity Living – housing and supported living accommodation \n\n\nResidential and Centre-based Day Respite Services \n\n\nMobility & Transport \n\n\nLife skills\, education and employment \n\n\nAged Care Workforce Sector Development \n\n\nGeriatric Nurse Patient Ratio in Residential Facilities \n\n\nTechnology & Innovations \n\n\nReablement \n\n\nThe conference will highlight how service providers are working together\, with government and with Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander peoples and their families to find innovative ways to address the above topics. The conference will include keynote speakers\, practical workshops and concurrent sessions as well as yarning circles and interactive panel discussions. \nThe conference is not politically based\, rather should be seen as an opportunity to access information that is not readily available. The conference envisions that partnerships and working in unison should form the basis of closing the gap in Indigenous disadvantage\, particularly in Aboriginal & Torres Straits Islander peoples whose living with a disability. \n\nWHO SHOULD ATTEND​\n\n\n\nCommunity Support Workers and Aged Care Workers \n\n\nIndigenous Community Workers \n\n\nAboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Elders \n\n\nNurses\, Doctors\, Psychiatrists\, Social Workers and Allied Health Workers \n\n\nCommunity groups and Human Rights Enthusiasts \n\n\nFamily relationship workers \n\n\nElders and Community leaders \n\n\nIndigenous women’s and men’s groups \n\n\nCEOs\, Executive Management\, Program Managers \n\n\nFirst Nations groups\, Human Rights Enthusiasts \n\n\nGovernment and Non-Government Organisation Representatives \n\n\nField\, Remote & Rural Health Workers \n\n\n8 to 10 December 2025\, Gold Coast \nRegister here
URL:https://sector.yourside.org.au/event/first-nations-elders-wellbeing-conference/
LOCATION:NSW
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SUMMARY:Understanding severe weather information for CHSP providers (online)
DESCRIPTION:Accessing and understanding severe weather information to help CHSP providers plan and respond. \nThis education session is provided by Bureau of Meteorology in partnership with Carers NSW. The webinar will explore: \n\nWhy it’s important for CHSP providers\, clients and carers to understand weather information\nHow everyday weather can become hazardous\nInterpreting weather forecasts and warnings\, exploring both flood and heatwave as weather and hazard examples\nUseful tools and resources for weather and emergency information and planning\n\nFor any questions about the event education@carersnsw.org.au \nRegister here
URL:https://sector.yourside.org.au/event/understanding-severe-weather-information-for-chsp-providers-online/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20251210T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20251210T150000
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SUMMARY:Associated Providers under the new Aged Care Act (webinar)
DESCRIPTION:This webinar is hosted by the Department of Health\, Disability and Ageing in collaboration with the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission. \nWe will cover what ‘associated provider’ means under the Aged Care Act 2024 and how organisations can deliver government-funded aged care services as an associated provider. \nThere will be an opportunity for Q&As \nRegister here
URL:https://sector.yourside.org.au/event/associated-providers-under-the-new-aged-care-act-webinar/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner,Department of Health Disability and Ageing
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SUMMARY:Trauma Aware\, Healing Informed Care for Forgotten Australians and Care Leavers (webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Free training webinars are available for aged care staff on Trauma Aware\, Healing Informed Aged Care for Forgotten Australians and Care Leavers. With the Strengthened Standards and new legislative requirements to provide trauma aware\, healing informed aged care\, this work is more important than ever. The Real Care the Second Time Around Project worked alongside people who identify as Forgotten Australians or Care Leavers to co-design the training and resources. \nReal Care the Second Time Around Project\nThis webinar is part of the Real Care the Second Time Around project\, designed to support aged care providers to provide trauma aware services for care leavers\, and to give Care Leavers practical information about the questions they can ask and what to expect in aged care. The resources and training are free and are available at www.realcaretoolkit.com.au. The training and resources will assist any provider wishing to apply for specialisation under the Verification Framework. The Real Care the Second Time Around Project has been developed by Helping Hand Aged Care\, Relationships Australia South Australia and Flinders University. \nForgotten Australians and Care Leavers*\nForgotten Australians and Care Leavers refers to the 500\,000 children that were placed into institutional and out-of-home care in Australia in the last century. Of this group\, 7\,000 were former child migrants\, 50\,000 were indigenous children from the Stolen Generations and over 440\,000 were non-indigenous children.  Forgotten Australians and Care Leavers often face barriers to accessing aged care and the idea of requiring care as they age can be deeply retraumatising as their experiences as children in care were often traumatic.\n*We respect that not everyone will identify with the terminology ‘Forgotten Australians’. \nAudience: The training is suitable for everyone working in aged care. While there is a focus on residential care\, the learnings also apply to home care. \nCost: Free to attend \nAny questions\, please contact clewis@helpinghand.org.au \nMultiple Dates: Each of the following webinars are the same – you only need to attend once. \nWednesday 20 August 2025\, 1:00pm to 2:30pm Sydney time (here)\nWednedsay 17 September 2025\, 1:00pm to 2:30pm Sydney time (here)\nFriday 15 October 2025\, 2:00pm to 3:30pm Sydney time (here)\nWednesday 26 November 2025\, 2:00pm to 3:30pm Sydney time (here)\nWednesday 10 December 2025\, 2:00pm to 3:30pm Sydney time (here)
URL:https://sector.yourside.org.au/event/trauma-aware-healing-informed-care-for-forgotten-australians-and-care-leavers-webinar-december/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20251211T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20251211T144500
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SUMMARY:Working with Supporters: for CHSP providers (online)
DESCRIPTION:Carers NSW is delivering a workshop to build the confidence of CHSP funded aged care providers (frontline staff\, managers) to deliver quality\, person centred care in partnership with older people and their nominated supporters. \nIn this session\, you will: \n\nLearn about changes to representative arrangements\n\n\nExplore the differences between supporters and appointed decision makers\n\n\nApply practical strategies and access resources to embed supporter roles within your organisation.\n\nDon’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your approach to inclusive person-centred care. \nTo find out more email education@carersnsw.org.au \nRegister here
URL:https://sector.yourside.org.au/event/working-with-supporters-for-chsp-providers-online/
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