Working with people affected by Squalor Workshop ONLINE

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Working towards a robust community housing and homelessness sector
Q Shelter is committed to supporting the housing and homelessness sector through building the strength and capacity of individual organisations via training, resources, tools, facilitation

Working with people affected by hoarding & squalor

This training will provide participants with tools for screening & assessment in both outreach & non-outreach settings plus risk management.

Hoarding and squalor can have a significant impact on health and wellbeing of individuals and surrounding communities. It can also have implications for tenancy sustainment.Monica Lord has conducted numerous trainings across QLD on hoarding and squalor. Based off feedback, Monica has created a workshop specifically on responding to squalor.It will provide participants with a better understanding of squalor, tools for screening and assessment in both outreach and non-outreach settings, risk management processes and strategies (particularly to manage issues such as environmental safety, animal safety, child safety and fire hazards) and strategies to implement an intervention.'Trash or Treasure' utilises best-practice frameworks to increase the confidence of clinical and non-clinical workers to providing a respectful, client centred intervention. The training draws on theory, skills and strategies from therapeutic frameworks such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and actively focuses on harm minimisation strategies.This training is suitable for tenancy and property managers of community housing providers or Department of Housing, support workers/case managers of specialist homelessness services and similar, and local government officers. This training is relevant to anyone supporting people affected by squalor. Date: Tuesday 18th November 2025Time: 9am - 1:00pmDelivery: Online Via ZoomTickets:Member of Q Shelter or ATSI Housing QLD $90Non-member $120Students $65People with experience of living in social or affordable housing, homelessness, or housing need (please contact us for the code to register) FREE<ul><li>All ticket prices exclude gst</li><li>To book for more than 5 members of your organisation, contact us for a discounted rate.</li><li>Accessibility and inclusion are very important to us. Please let us know what you need to participate in this event through the registration process.</li></ul> Participants at the end of the workshop will:• Have a better understand of squalor• Be able to screen and assess for the presence of or squalor in an outreach or non-outreach setting• Identify and apply skills to manage challenging client behaviours which may inhibit engagement• Undertake a risk assessment and identify appropriate evidence-based risk management strategies• Identify and implement harm minimisation strategies• Identify and apply best practice strategies for client engagement, assessment, risk management and intervention Please contact the Q Shelter Events Team on events@qshelter.asn.au if you are experiencing any barriers for registering.