Aged and Dementia Online Education and Training Calendar - Southern Metropolitan Region

Aged and Dementia Online Education and Training Calendar for family/friend carers - Southern Metropolitan Region

The Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centre, Southern Region (CRCCSR) has launched an Aged & Dementia Online Education and Training Calendar for family/friend carers.

You can find the online calendar at this link: http://www.carersouth.org.au/training-education

This online calendar is a "one-stop shop" for carers and health professionals in the Southern Region. Not only is the CRCCSR Aged Service teams' Education and Training available on this website, but also external agencies, 'open-to-the public' aged related education and training courses for family/friend carers.

If you are a health professional in the Southern Region, you and your clients can now go online and look at the courses, print out the flyers and 2011 calendar as well as book courses online. With more courses for the latter part of the year to be added by CRCCSR over the next few months, this calendar is sure to be a new resource that will benefit health professionals and carers.

As health professionals, you can also post your own education and training courses for family/friend carers on our website. There is a link on the front page to post your own courses at no charge.

Some stand out features are:

- Each course listed has a matching flyer which can be printed out
- The complete CRCCSR Aged Service teams' Education and Training 2011 Calendar can be printed from the website (Found on the right hand side of the page,titled "print version")
- Search for courses via category, topic or month (in a list format or in a visual calendar (on right side of page))
- Easy to use Online Registration

The CRCCSR also invite health professionals and carers to give feedback about other course topics that carers would be interested in. The CRCCSR will endeavor to provide them in the future.

For more information, please don't hesitate to contact Alana Szylit via email: a.szylit@alfred.org.au or phone: 9076-4047.