Trauma

This webinar brings you on the journey of creating a new service for the targeted population of newly arrived Iraqi and Syrian refugees aged 0 to 24 years of age living in North West Melbourne and why specialised refugee access services are needed, as well as what initial learnings from this service health professionals can consider within their practice or interaction with refugee service users.

Working, either directly or indirectly, with young people who have at some point in their life journey have experienced trauma and injustice is complex. It is complex because those we want to help those who have experienced injustice. It is complex because of the process of empathetic and relational engagement. It is complex because it can be rewarding, emotionally exhausting, raise existential distress and we can even develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress in response to a process of vicarious traumatisation. This webinar focuses on vicarious trauma, self care and workplace support.