We offer our free Law for Community Workers training to non-legal organisations to assist workers to better support their clients experiencing legal issues and understand the law.
You can access our Law for Community Workers training in a number of ways:
Our Law for Community Workers Online Training helps you identify legal issues your clients have and connect them to legal help earlier .
After completing our training you will learn how to:
Find out more about our Online Training program and access our available Online Courses here.
We offer regular free virtual legal information sessions for community workers on priority legal topics. Information is facilitated live by our community lawyers and include an opportunity to connect with our service and ask questions.
Our information sessions will be recorded and made available to watch back.
Before attending our virtual information sessions
We ask all participants to have completed one module from our Law for Community Workers Online Training. You can register and access our Online Courses here.
Family Law Basics – Supporting your clients with family law problems
28th February 2023 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Hosted by: Barwon Community Legal Service
via: Zoom
In this information session join our Family Violence & Family Law Practice Manager Tamara Kotowicz and Community Development Manager Alexandria Jones for an informative session focusing on family law basics to assist you to support your clients with family law problems.
The session will focus on the following areas to help you support your clients through often complex family law issues:
For further information about this session please contact Alexandria Jones, Community Development Manager at education@barwoncommunitylegal.org.au.
Below are a list of topics that are upcoming:
You can access recordings of our previous virtual information sessions below.
No upcoming training sessions at this time.
In this information session join our Family Violence & Family Law Practice Manager Tamara Kotowicz and Community Development Manager Alexandria Jones for an informative session focusing on family law basics to assist you to support your clients with family law problems.
The session will focus on the following areas to help you support your clients through often complex family law issues:
Supporting your clients with Family Violence Intervention Orders and related legal issues
24th November 2022 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Hosted by: Barwon Community Legal Service
In this information session join our Community Lawyer Sam Hawkins and Community Development Manager Alexandria Jones for an informative session focusing on supporting your clients with Family Violence Intervention Orders and other related legal issues.
This session focused on the following areas to help support your clients through what is often a very traumatic time in their lives.
This session covers:
Family Violence Intervention Orders –
Interactions with other areas of law
Recording of our session is available here
In addition to our online training and monthly webinars, we may be able to provide a tailored training session for your organisation on a particular area of law.
For a list of the areas we can provide training about please see our website here:
If you would like to request a tailored training, please complete our online request form below.
Tailored training requestLast modified on March 9th, 2023 at 8:59 am
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