Professional development
Complex behaviour support in OSHC (designed by NOSHSA)
Professional development for OSHC professionals
Want to learn tools and techniques to support children with complex behaviours? Our complex behaviour support package is tailored to outside school hours care (OSHC) educators. Your educator team will build conflict resolution and de-escalation skills, discover how children’s behaviour often serves as a form of communication, and learn strategies to support the emotional regulation and wellbeing of children with complex behaviour.
Pakage 1: Virtual
3 hours of PD – online workshop
Package starts from $1199 + GST for your team or service
Educator numbers may affect the quote.
- Learn what might be going on in children’s brains when they engage in behaviour that challenges us
- Discover strategies to help children express themselves and better understand and manage their emotions
- Gain tools and techniques to more effectively support children with complex behaviour
- Explore proactive approaches and preventative strengths-based strategies to use before behaviour escalates
- Undertake a ‘reflective audit’ to gather information about the child’s situation
- Learn emotion coaching methods
- Recognise how to respond to escalated behaviours using diffusing techniques
- Build conflict resolution skills
- Explore the link between behaviour and the National Quality Framework.
Package 2: Face-to-face
3 hours of PD – workshop
Package starts from $1319 + GST for your team or service
Educator numbers may affect the quote. Any travel or accommodation costs for It Takes A Village consultants are additional.
- Learn what might be going on in children’s brains when they engage in behaviour that challenges us
- Discover strategies to help children express themselves and better understand and manage their emotions
- Gain tools and techniques to more effectively support children with complex behaviour
- Explore proactive approaches and preventative strengths-based strategies to use before behaviour escalates
- Undertake a ‘reflective audit’ to gather information about the child’s situation
- Learn emotion coaching methods
- Recognise how to respond to escalated behaviours using diffusing techniques
- Build conflict resolution skills
- Explore the link between behaviour and the National Quality Framework.
This PD aligns with QA2, 5, 4 and 7. It contributes towards the 20 hours of required PD for VIT renewal of registration.
What early childhood and OSHC services are saying
[Our facilitator’s] approachable and knowledgeable style made the session feel welcoming and supportive. She ensured we walked away feeling better informed and confident in using new strategies. Since the session, there have been ongoing discussions among educators about how we can adapt and improve our behaviour guidance protocols to be even more effective.
– Anon.
Why choose It Takes A Village for your professional development?
- We will come to your service – whether you’re in metro Melbourne or regional Victoria – or we can deliver your PD virtually
- Fully customisable PD to match your quality improvement goals, your team’s development areas and your budget
- Our expert consultants have 150+ years’ lived experience in the field, which means you get practical, relatable PD that you can immediately apply in your service
- It Takes A Village members get a 25% discount on professional development
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