The Federation of Community Legal Centres offers staff and volunteers at our Member Community Legal Centres opportunities to develop their professional skills throughout the year. We offer diverse training sessions in areas including climate justice, cultural safety, finance, governance, leadership, management, media, and mental health first aid through trusted facilitators.
Most training sessions offered by the Federation are exclusively available for staff and volunteers at Member Community Legal Centres. However, our annual Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Event, which is offered to Members free of charge, is open to participants outside of the Victorian community legal sector for a modest fee.
Annual CPD Event 2024
The Federation of Community Legal Centres, Victoria will deliver 10 online sessions across 26 February–8 March 2024.
The Federation is delighted to offer a well-rounded program with a mix of sessions that will meet the CPD needs of lawyers while also offering learning opportunities for Federation members more widely.
Event Schedule
Sessions will:
- be delivered Monday- Friday
- start at 2pm
- be of varied duration - 60 or 90 minutes
We hope that this schedule will offer members the flexibility to attend as many sessions as possible.
Cost
Attendance is free to Federation members (CLC staff, board members, volunteers and students).
There is a fee for non-members.
Program and Registration
The detailed program including speaker bios and registration details can be found here.
A one page document of condensed information can be found here.
You can register for the event here.
During the registration process you can nominate the sessions you want to attend from the options below. Registration for sessions will close progressively as each one is delivered.
Week One
Monday 26 February, 2pm–3pm
Shove it in their face: Alternative strategies for advocacy when conventional methods fail
Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service Inc, Mental Health Legal Centre, Southern Disability Advocacy
Tuesday 27 February, 2pm–3pm
Intersections with migration law: a toolkit
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Wednesday 28 February, 2pm–3pm
Financial counselling in CLCs – rewards and challenges
Gerard Brody, Carolyn Bond, Mortgage Stress Victoria, a program under WEstjustice
Thursday 29 February, 2pm–3.30pm
Working with clients experiencing mental distress or mental ill-health: assessing capacity, taking instructions and ethical considerations
Mental Health Legal Centre, Mental Health & Wellbeing Commission, Lived and Living Experience Consultant, Mental Health Nurse
Friday 1 March, 2pm–3pm
WEstjustice – Collaborative & innovative early intervention and prevention projects
WEstjustice, Victoria Police
Week Two
Monday 4 March, 2pm–3.30pm
Working with families to achieve systemic change in Coronial Inquests
Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
Tuesday 5 March, 2pm–3pm
Family Law Amendments - Parenting
Women’s Legal Service Victoria
Wednesday 6 March, 2pm–3pm
The value of early intervention criminal work – a crash course for non-crime specialists
Youthlaw
Thursday 7 March, 2pm–3.30pm
Impact & Influence – Building knowledge and skills in integrated legal practice
Eastern Community Legal Centre, Centre for Innovative Justice RMIT University, Women’s Legal Service Victoria, South-East Monash Legal Service, Hume Riverina Community Legal Service
Friday 8 March, 2pm–3pm
Justice at Home: Remote Hearing Research
Northern Community Legal Centre
CPD Requirements
All attendee registrations will be captured by Zoom and also separately during the session by the Federation to ensure all attendance is noted for CPD reporting.
CPD obligations are regulated by the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner and their CPD information for lawyers can be found on this page of their website.
Contact
Should you have any questions about the CPD Event, please email Gabby Talmadge via [email protected].