Indigenous Professional Support Unit Provides Professional Development And Support To Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Children Services.

Available to these services is;

The Program is flexible and designed to meet the individual needs of each service type.

Advice

IPSU provides advice to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Services by building relationships through regular service visits, newsletters, forums and conferences.

Support

IPSU will also provide support to our services in way of face to face service visits, regular newsletters, forums and Conferences.

Training

The Training Staff here at IPSU, uses the strengths-based approach to all aspects of their delivery. This style assists to identify and improve the strengths of the workers in the child care service. We prepare, develop and present workshops that are tailored to the needs of each individual service. Our aim is to provide a high standard of professional development taking such things into consideration as culture, language and time during the planning process. In doing this, staff of the children's services are able to gain the knowledge required to provide high quality care to children.

Resources

We offer a selection of informative reference materials, toys, puzzles, puppets on a loan only basis. We also have quarterly newsletters and fact sheets that are sent out to our services thats full of information, updates and beautiful photo's of our travels. Our website itself is a resource which can be used to access this information and for linking in to other useful sites.

Referrals

IPSU can refer Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services onto other appropriate and useful agencies available.