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MARAM Safety planning for Financial Counsellors
- 1 hrs
- Technical, Skills
Considering the role and responsibilities of Financial Counsellors, the MARAM in Practice module have covered discussions and learnings on respectful, sensitive and safe engagement with victim survivors of family violence, MARAM evidence-based risk factors, assessing for family violence risk using the MARAM practice guidance and determining level of risk, applying MARAM risk management principles, and applying an intersectional lens and sharing information with other prescribed services (when and if required) to identify and manage family violence risks.
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- Resource Type: CPD, Learning Materials
- Topics: Family Violence
Including Gambling regulators in client and systemic advocacy
- 2-3 hrs
- 1 CPD points
- Technical, Skills
The National and State Gambling regulators have jurisdiction and the ability to impact on gambling harm in our community. As financial counsellors we can learn about the various regulators, their limitations and abilities and how to use a regulator to create systemic change, as well as individual client impacts.
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- Resource Type: CPD, Learning Materials, Session Recording
- Topics: Gambling related harm
Understanding the legal landscape of Owner’s Corporations
- 2 hrs
- 1 CPD points
- Technical
In this session, the presenter has explained how owner’s corporations operate within their legal context. Also, explored the Owner’s rights regarding hardship, forced bankruptcies and the lack of hardship options.
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- Resource Type: CPD, Learning Materials, Session Recording
- Topics: Housing
2023: the Year in Review
- 1-2 hrs
- 1 CPD points
- Technical, Skills
This year has seen changes across a few regulatory frameworks that underpin financial counselling practice (eg. Banking Codes of Practice; Buy Now Pay Later). This session has covered those changes, contrasting the new regulatory environment with the old, and exploring their impact
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- Resource Type: CPD, Learning Materials, Session Recording
- Topics: Consumer Law, Credit Law
Centrelink entitlements for parents
- 2-3 hrs
- 1 CPD points
- Technical
In this session, the presenter has looked at the different payment types available to parents, with a focus on issues clients are commonly presenting with.
Entitlements include Family Tax Benefit and parenting payments as well as Child Care Subsidy. Learn how to dispute the percentage of care for family tax benefit what this involves and what Centrelink entitlements single parents have.
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- Resource Type: CPD, Learning Materials, Session Recording
- Topics: Social Security and Centrelink
Gambling and criminal law referrals
- 2-3 hrs
- 1 CPD points
- Technical, Skills, Ethics
In this session presenters have explained that Gambling and legal issues can often co-occur and include the following:
- Forged signatures to increase credit card limits;
- Sale of items that didn’t belong to the client;
- Stealing from the employer or provision
- Incorrect information to credit providers.
When is a gambler’s help financial counselling case a legal case and what are our legal and ethical boundaries?
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- Resource Type: CPD, Learning Materials, Session Recording
- Topics: Gambling related harm