courses for your development

Our registered training organisation

Adding qualifications to your skillset

If you are looking to increase your capacity or qualifications, we have a number of learning opportunities available.

As a Registered Training Organisation (RTO 22094) we currently offer four nationally accredited qualifications for professionals to access. These are:

CHC40313 Certificate IV in Child, Youth and Family Intervention

CHC40513 Certificate IV in Youth Justice

CHC50313 Diploma of Child, Youth and Family Intervention

10800NAT Graduate Certificate in Developmental Trauma

We also have other courses in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy that are run in partnership with Dan Hughes and the DDP Institute from USA.

Studying with the Foundation gives you opportunities to extend your professional skillset, meet others working in your field, reflect on your models of interventions and make informed decisions about practice. We look forward to meeting and learning with you.

Featured Courses

10800NAT Graduate Certificate in Developmental Trauma

A course designed for professionals, by professionals in the child trauma field. Learn about the impacts of trauma on development, models of intervention, assessment and systems for support. This course is offered through our training calendar however it can be tailored to workplace teams. If you are interested in working with us to tailor this course to your workplace needs, please let us know!

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Tailored to unique workplace settings.

CHC40313 Certificate IV in Child, Youth and Family Intervention

An accredited qualification that seeks to build knowledge and skills to professionally support children and young people in out of home care. We can offer the whole qualification or a number of units of competency from within it. We will tailor the program to support your team’s growth and professional development and contextualise the course content to your organisation’s services. This course is only offered to organisational specific groups. If you are looking for a qualification to be completed by your team please contact us and we will discuss your needs with you. If you are working in the sector and interested in this qualification, please discuss your needs with your manager to see if we can customise a program for your organisation.

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Tailored to unique workplace settings.

CHC40513 Certificate IV Youth Justice

An accredited qualification that seeks to build knowledge and skills to professionally support children and young people in the youth justice system – both in community and custodial contexts. We can offer the whole qualification or a number of units of competency from within it. We will tailor the program to support your team’s growth and professional development and contextualise the course content to your organisation’s services. This course is only offered to organisational specific groups. If you are looking for a qualification to be completed by your team please contact us and we will discuss your needs with you. If you are working in the sector and interested in this qualification, please discuss your needs with your manager to see if we can customise a program for your organisation.

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Tailored to unique workplace settings

CHC50313 Diploma of Child, Youth and Family Intervention

An accredited qualification that seeks to enhance the knowledge and skills of professionals working with children and young people – particularly in the context of out of home care. This course integrates a trauma responsive approach and we can deliver it for your team as a series of units of competency or as the whole qualification. This structure provides opportunities to map previous participant learning to the course content and provide a seamless learning pathway. We are happy to discuss your individual organisational needs further.

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Therapeutic Modalities

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Courses

The Australian Childhood Foundation has partnered with Dan Hughes to offer courses for welfare, education and health professionals interested in supporting children and young people in out of home care, as well as resourcing carers to understand their role in shaping the relational environment that supports children's recovery from trauma.

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Student Handbook

Inside the handbook you will find additional information you may need to help clarify your decision to study with us. Including our processes for support services, rights and responsibilities, our equal opportunity, privacy, withdrawal, refund and recognition of prior learning policies as well as other general policies and procedures.

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