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Newsletter Number 39 - December 2006 |
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DO YOU WANT TO CONTINUE TO RECEIVE HUM-BYTES? If not, please click here to cancel. MERRY CHRISTMASandHAPPY NEW YEAR! HSTAC
will be open for business over the Christmas/New Year period, except
for the Public Holidays.
'STAND UP' MULTI MEDIA TRAINING RESOURCE'The Stand Up' training resource which supports the delivery of the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, has been distributed to Registered Training Organisations in all states and territories. People receiving the resource have undertaken to conduct trials and report back to HSTAC with comments and recommendations. At this stage, there are no further copies of the resource available. However, following feedback from the trialling process, HSTAC will determine if there will be a further production run, which will be sold for cost recovery. WATCH THIS SPACE. 'THE COOL CONSUMER' IS VERY COOL 'The Cool Consumer' Series 2 youth newsletter, published by Consumer and Business Affairs, is now available due to public demand. The newsletter covers important and topical issues such as tenancy, mobile phone contracts and buying a used car as well as lifestyle tips on shopping, interest free loans and credit card debt. Other free publications available from Consumer Affairs are 'Tenants and Landlords', 'Warranties & Refunds', 'The Little Black Book of Scams' and 'Safe Toys for Kids'. Consumer Affairs is committed to increasing consumer rights awareness among young people and encourage young Territorians to understand their rights as consumers. 'The Cool Customer' will be distributed to schools in February 2007 and will be used as part of their financial literacy program. It is also available from:Consumer Affairs - phone 1800 019 319 (toll free) or email: consumer@nt.gov.au or visit their website www.caba.nt.gov.au and click on 'Youth'. LAST CHANCE BEFORE CHRISTMAS - 30% DISCOUNT !!HSTAC still has copies of Language, Literacy and Numeracy kits available for sale at this special price. Sets include Environmental Health Worker Resource Kit, Community Health Worker Resource Kit and Skills for Board and Council Members Resource Kit. Until 31 December 2006 if you purchase three kits - or any combination of the three kits - you will make a saving of $445 - and we will pay postage! Phone (08) 8981 2550 or email admin@hstac.com.au to order now.
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NEWS AND EVENTS FROM NARELLE (Narelle Higginson is HSTAC's Disability Coordination Officer)New Resource: disAbility Awareness Kit The disability Aware CD-rom presents a plain English resource aimed at promoting a better understanding of appropriate and effective methods of communicating with people with a disability within the general community. It is also designed to assist students, teachers and organisations, who may not previously have interacted with people with a disability, to develop their knowledge and skills. The kit contains fact sheets on:
Conference:'Doing It Better' - a Forum on Learning Disabilities in Education14-15 May 2007 in MelbourneThe forum is designed to:
For more information visit the conference website www.latrobe.edu.au/equity/LDforum Website:The Australian Employers' Network on DisabilityEmployers Making a Difference is a not-for-profit organisation funded by its members to operate as a strategic business partner with companies, organisations and governments employing people with a disability. It is Australia's only member funded organisation promoting and supporting businesses that encourage people with a disability as employees, customers and suppliers. For more information www.emad.asn.au REPORT ON ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REVIEWED ABORIGINAL AND/OR TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER HEALTH WORKER QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORKTo
read or download the report, please click
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