Education Update
What has the Hepatitis SA Education team been up to?
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his year it’s been great to get back to some sort of normality and deliver some face-to-face education sessions again. We were lucky last year in being able to continue our education using such platforms as Zoom and Teams, however it’s not quite the same as being in the same room with the audience, which creates a lot more personal engagement and interaction. In saying this, we have certainly learnt some lessons from the online approach and been able to broaden
our reach to connect with organisations that we have been unable to in the past, particularly those in remote areas of the state. The most exciting aspect of the lifted restrictions and return to ‘regular programming’ has been the opportunity to resume rural visits around SA, including prisons (a significant component of our community-based work), and we were able to set up a regional screening clinic. We have also been busy visiting a number of Adelaide
based services to deliver our workforce and community training.
Prison visits
In the last several months we have been able to visit Mount Gambier Prison, the Adelaide Women’s Prison with the successful ‘Keeping Safe’ program and Cadell Prison in the Riverland. We also resumed our regular visits to the Adelaide Youth Training Centre in early 2021. All of these education sessions have been well received after the long hiatus.
Adelaide Women’s Prison
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HEPATITIS SA COMMUNITY NEWS 90 • June 2021