First 1000 Days Australia Barwon Heads training

First 1000 Days Australia Barwon Heads training

Update: Thank you for your expressions of interest. The in-person training has been confirmed for Tuesday 27th September - Wednesday 28th September 2022, for more information and to secure your spot click here.

If you have any questions please email us at info@first1000daysaustralia.com.

First 1000 Days Australia is seeking expressions of interest for their CPD accredited course in-person training over two days. Normally offered online as a self-paced course, this will be an intensive two-day workshop with Professor Kerry Arabena to complete the training from start to finish.

The details for our offering include:

  • Face-to-face 2-day training of the First 1000 Day course run by Prof. Kerry Arabena

  • Cost: $1500

  • CPD accredited course (RACGP, ACRRM & ACM)

  • Two-day training and overnight stay at Barwon Heads Resort

We are seeking expression of Interest for the following dates:

Monday 9th May - Tuesday 10th May 2022
Tuesday 27th September - Wednesday 28th September 2022

Expression of Interest closes on the 31st of March 2022.

Contact First 1000 Days Australia at info@first1000daysaustralia.com to express your interest in attending the course.

A bit about us and our course

First 1000 Days Australia is a First Nation model aimed at strengthening all families so they can give their children the best start in life. Our First 1000 Day course aims to inform professionals working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families on specific knowledge and skills relating to cultural, ecological and anthropic principles that support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander early life interventions.

This RACGP, ACRRM and ACM CPD/PDP accredited course consists of five modules. This course will inform participants on specific knowledge and skills relating to cultural, ecological and anthropic principles that support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander early life-interventions, in particular:

  • Impact of out-of-home care

  • Maternal nutrition

  • The neuroscience of infants

  • Understanding the lifelong impacts of early childhood experiences

  • Importance of kinship and other relationships, conception and extended concept of family

  • Epigenetics

  • Infant learning capacities (much earlier than predicted)

  • Building capabilities for parents in vulnerable families (adolescence)

  • Developing executive functioning and self-regulation skills in children

  • Building cultural security in engaging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families

  • Group pregnancy care

  • Interventions during pregnancy and up to two years for parents experiencing complex trauma.

  • Improving parenting capacity for socio-emotional wellbeing to reduce the stressors and provide information about social and cultural determinants that will help protect them

  • Addressing racism, cross-cultural learnings that focus on building rapport, understanding content and background, suspending judgment and working in partnership

  • Inclusion of men and what does fathering look like from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective, including how to increase their role in family care