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Autism and Suicide Prevention 21st March 2025 (online): Victorian CYMHS/CAMHS/ICYMHS, Orygen, AMHS including Forensicare, Children's Health and Wellbeing Locals (Hubs), Victorian headspace, ACHHO/ACHHS and Take Two clinicians

This is a two-day workshop delivered online via Zoom
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$70.00

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ASD2025S1SUI-MAR-S

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This is a part or fully subsidised Victorian training place. Please select your service from the list below to confirm your eligibility:

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Contact: mindful-asd@unimelb.edu.au

Phone Number: 03 8344 3425

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To register for this training, please click 'Enrol', then click the cart icon on the top left of the screen for payment (if applicable).

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Upon successful enrolment, you will receive two automated emails (an order confirmation and invoice/payment), in addition to a registration email from the Mindful team within 72 hours. If you do not receive an email from Mindful within 5 business days, please contact us.

For information about upcoming training and frequently asked questions, please visit our website: https://mindful.org.au/asd-training

This is the subsidised cost registration page for Victorian CYMHS/CAMHS/ICYMHS: including Orygen, Children’s Health and Wellbeing Locals, Victorian headspace, ACCHO/ACCHS, Take Two clinicians, and clinicians employed at Victorian publicly funded AMHS (including Forensicare). Please note you cannot reserve a place in this workshop by purchasing a ticket you are not eligible for. If you purchase a subsidised place and are not eligible, your refund may be subject to an administration fee.

Who is the training for?
Mental Health Clinicians and other professionals working with autistic children and young people, e.g. psychologists, social workers, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, paediatricians, psychiatrists and registrars.

Who provides the training?
Dr Darren Hedley is Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow and Research Director of the Health & Wellbeing research program at the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre (OTARC), La Trobe University. Dr Hedley has been involved in numerous research studies focusing on suicide and autism, as well as the development of suicide risk assessment tools specifically for autistic people including the Suicide Response Project.

Dr Sanjay Patel is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who works at the Royal Children’s Hospital Mental Health Program in Melbourne. Dr Patel has many years of experience working with children and adolescents experiencing complex mental health problems and co-occurring autism.

What does the training include?
This training will provide an overview of suicide prevalence and risk factors for autistic people and introduce participants to suicide risk assessment tools adapted for this population. Lived experience, clinical expertise and case examples will be incorporated in the training to support participants to develop their knowledge about how to assess and respond to suicidality in autistic youth.

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Mindful's workshops are funded by the Victorian Health Department. Some workshop places are made available for private practice and interstate clinicians, but many of our courses are specifically designed to skill-up particular cohorts of the Victorian mental health workforce. Our training is only available to overseas based clinicians on a case-by-case basis. If you practice outside of Australia please email our team at mindful-asd@unimelb.edu.au to confirm your eligibility.

Cancellation and No Show Policy:
Registered participants who are unable to attend and notify us of this in writing prior to fourteen days before the workshop may either:
(1) cancel their registration and receive a refund of their payment minus administration fee of 20% or $40, whichever is greater;
(2) transfer their registration once to another eligible participant within the same workplace (no fee);
(3) in some circumstances may be able to transfer their registration once to an equivalent-cost ASD workshop in the same calendar year, if space is available.
Cancellations with less than 14 days' notice are not refundable. If there is someone else in your workplace that you wish to transfer your registration to, this may be permitted. In exceptional circumstances, please contact us.