November 2019
RTA REFRESHER FORUM FOR EXPERIENCED TENANCY WORKERS
The Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) is the most important legislative framework for the Community Housing Sector. CHIAVIC annually provides tenancy staff with a refresher forum on the RTA covering a number of issues that experienced tenancy workers in member organisations would like discussed. Topics will include: Latest VCAT News The Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2018 Changes resulting from the RTA Amendment Act that have already been brought in Changes resulting from the RTA Amendment Act that will be brought in…
Find out more »December 2019
The Incidental Counsellor Course
Are you in a front-line role, interacting with clients? Do clients, work colleagues or family members sometimes start talking to you as if you were a counsellor, but you are not employed in a counselling role? What should you do? How should you respond? What is an appropriate and helpful way for you to deal with that situation? In this highly interactive one-day course, you will learn to Define the role of Incidental Counsellor Identify a range of…
Find out more »CHIA budget submission consultation webinar
Members are invited to take part in a consultation on CHIA National's 20/21 Budget Submission. The CHIA Board has agreed that the submission should include outline proposals for an affordable housing program. Our feeling is that any proposal we make should be compatible with the CHIA National Plan (for example the focus on co-investment models) and chime with the government’s priorities. We identified the following as being critical: - Attractiveness to Industry Super and other ethical institutional investors who would…
Find out more »Introduction to Residential Tenancies Act
The Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) is the most important legislative framework for the Community Housing Sector. This course will give new housing and tenancy workers the basic skills and understanding of the RTA, and how to use it in their day-to-day work. This training would be suitable for: New housing workers Experienced housing workers that need to know more about the RTA Experienced housing workers or managers who are new to the community sector Managers who need to incorporate RTA…
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