Training resources
The Centre provides a range of online training resources, which you can access from the pages below.
Inclusive Service Standards
Conference presentations
Ageing in Australia: The Immigrant Experience
Diversity Communities of Practice
Online Training
Training needs in aged care - survey results
We asked aged care providers from across Australia about the training and resources they need to support consumers
and carers from culturally diverse backgrounds. Click here to see what they said
Additional online training for aged care service providers
The Cross-Cultural Care Program for Aged Care Staff
Developed by Flinders University, Resthaven Inc. and AnglicareSA Inc. and funded through the Department of Health, this free online training program aims to support staff in residential aged care homes to provide high-quality cross-cultural care for residents and to improve team cohesion.
Diversity in Aged Care
Developed by CRANAplus, this free online training program for aged care staff provides an introduction to diversity themes including working with:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
- People from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds
- People with a Disability
- People that identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer/Questioning (LGBTIQ)
- People who live in rural and remote areas of Australia.
Access the Diversity in Aged Care training program
Introduction to Culturally Safe and Inclusive Practice*
Developed by CRANAplus, this online training program encourages you to reflect on your practice, review your own bias and the lenses through which you view the world and to further think about the cultures of your workplaces and communities.
*Please note there are fees to access this training program.
Access the Introduction to Culturally Safe and Inclusive Practice training program
SBS Inclusion Program
The SBS Inclusion Program is designed to give all workers core skills and knowledge around inclusion in general, and also specifically around different diversity dimensions - gender, age, disability, LGBTIQ+, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and cultural
diversity.
*Please note there are fees to access this training program.
Access the SBS Inclusion Program
Culturally Inclusive Care
This course is run by Altura Learning and explores the needs of older people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and identifies strategies to deliver culturally and linguistically appropriate care and support.