Training and Education

QPASTT offers training and professional development opportunities for practitioners and service providers in health, education and human services. Our training is relevant for people who occasionally work with people from refugee background as well as those working with people who arrive as asylum seekers or identify as being of refugee background on an everyday basis. Training is provided by qualified and experienced staff and can be tailored to suit the needs of your organisation within the capacity of our resources. QPASTT training helps practitioners and service providers to respond sensitively and effectively to the needs of people from refugee background.

To register your interest in our training, or to book our training services, please complete  our Training Request Form   (download pdf) , Training Promotion Document

If you would like QPASTT to come to your school, please complete our Training Request form for Schools (download pdf)

Our training can cover the following topics:

• Who refugees and asylum seekers are and why they leave their countries
• Impact of trauma and response to trauma
• Refugee experiences and working with refugees
• Building resilience
• Cross cultural work and working with interpreters
• Self care and vicarious trauma
• Parenting and working with families
• Suicide and self harm prevention
• Working with children from CALD backgrounds
• Working with young people from CALD backgrounds
• Supporting students from refugee backgrounds in a school context
• Working with interpreters