Primary Health Tasmania has partnered with the Safer Families Centre at the University of Melbourne to deliver education that supports both clinical and non-clinical primary care staff in Tasmania to identify and respond to family and sexual violence.
The training package will include both online and face-to-face education, offered for free to clinical and non-clinical primary care providers. The first of three online education courses, Identifying and Responding to Domestic and Family Violence, is now available to access. Grounded in lived experience and long-standing research, it promotes trauma and violence-informed care and a systems-based approach to supporting victim-survivors.
Face-to-face workshops
Primary Health Tasmania is offering two free separate Pathways to Safety workshops in Hobart to support a whole‑of‑practice response to family and sexual violence.
The clinical workshop on Tuesday, March 24 will provide GPs and clinicians with practical, trauma‑informed tools to recognise, respond and refer. A separate practice staff workshop Wednesday, April 1 for reception, administrative and practice management teams will focus on creating safer practice environments and supporting patients within scope of role.
Click on the links above for more information and to register for the Hobart workshops.
Pathways to Safety workshops will be delivered in other regions later this year, click here to submit an expression of interest for upcoming sessions.
Identifying and Responding to Domestic and Family Violence - e-Learning module
Designed for GPs and other primary care providers, the Identifying and Responding to Domestic and Family Violence eLearning module is also relevant for practice managers, reception and administrative staff. The module will enhance your understanding of what can be achieved in the primary care setting to better respond to the needs of patients experiencing family violence. It will assist you in providing a first-line response to patients experiencing family violence, including how to sensitively enquire, assess the level of risk and safety, and understand options for support and referrals.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module, you should be able to:
- Discuss the nature, prevalence, and impact of domestic and family violence.
- Enquire sensitively to a diverse range of patients about domestic and family violence.
- Assess the level of risk and safety of patients experiencing domestic and family violence.
- Provide a first-line response addressing the needs of patients, including brief safety planning and options for support and referrals.
- Distinguish methods and resources for changing the environment you work in and getting support for yourself.
Please read the instructions below before clicking on the button.
How to enrol:
- clicking the Enrol button will take you to an order and enrolment form (you will not be charged)
- once you complete the forms and check out of your shopping cart, you will receive two confirmation emails from the University of Melbourne (your University of Melbourne order confirmation and invoice for your University of Melbourne order). These emails can be ignored.
- to access the eLearning module please wait for a Welcome to the learning portal email from mobile-learning@unimelb.edu.au and then click the Access here button
- please check your junk mail if you do not receive your Welcome email within 15 minutes
- once activated, you can access the module at any time you wish. Please bookmark the learning portal link: https://mlu-portal.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au so you can return to the course whenever required using the login and password provided to you upon enrolment
- Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine CPD hours for GPs are administered once you have completed the module and answered all the mandatory assessment questions. You can then make a request for a Completion Certificate.
If you have any issues enrolling, please contact mobile-learning@unimelb.edu.au.
*Please note that this is for Tasmanian Healthcare Provider staff ONLY.
*Enter your Practice Name in the ‘Company’ field located in the ‘Billing Address’ section on the next page.
If you would like to know more about Primary Health Tasmania's Strengthening the response to family and sexual violence in Tasmania: A primary care learning initiative including Pathways to Safety workshops and collaborative learning opportunities. Click here
