Training & Events
Capacity Australia runs regular workshops or can develop a workshop or presentation according to your organisation’s needs. Our trainers/presenters are specialists in the capacity area with backgrounds including in law, medicine, psychiatry, neuropsychology and nursing.
Capacity Australia runs regular workshops (see Events) or can develop a workshop or presentation according to your organisation’s needs. Our trainers/presenters are specialists in the capacity area with backgrounds including in law, medicine, psychiatry, neuropsychology and nursing.
Capacity Australia provides education and training in the following areas:
- human rights and decision-making capacity
- supported or assisted decision-making
- assessing decision-making capacity
- planning ahead – powers of attorney, enduring guardianship, advance care directives, wills and other similar documents
- capacity and medical and dental decisions
- person responsible
- guardianship and administration/financial management and
- prevention of abuse, neglect and exploitation of people who may lack decision-making capacity.
Our training is tailored to each individual State or Territory as the relevant law regarding decision-making capacity differs throughout Australian jurisdictions. Additionally, modules have been developed for various sectors, addressing issues specific to the audience.