HMA News October 2007

From Ken's Desk

Over the past three months we have been building a resource that we know you will find useful. Our new look website not only provides an extensive number of tools that you can use to enhance your practice as a professional, it also provides self-help tools for clients who want to manage their behaviour. In addition you may be interested to read about the number and diversity of projects such as programme design and development, skills training, and community initatives, that HMA staff have been involved with.

Our people are in the training room a lot (808 training days during the 2006/07 year) so we know what the issues are managing groups to take on new ideas. In the fast moving world of intervention theory and practice, we are interested in keeping abreast with new thinking, while at the same time not giving away the rich practice ideas and wisdom built up over time.

Our site provides a number of key areas that you will find helpful. We invite you to come on over and spend time looking around at the various resources available to you free of charge. The site has the following areas to explore:

Home page

Check out Ken's desk for a number of key ideas to enhance practice. Move your cursor over the icons and see what they do. Take me to Ken's desk

Professional resources

HMA staff have a lot of knowledge built up over many years of both clinical and training practice. Our philosophy of 'Working with passion and integrity to bring out the best in people' sits behind our committment to enhancing best practice. If you have a unique practice idea send it through with a photo and we will consider adding it onto our website resources. Read more

Publications

HMA has had a strong commitment for the past twenty years to translating theory into practice. In this regard we have encouraged practitioners to write about what they are doing with clients and reflect upon their practice. HMA is proud to be associated with a number of books around themes of stopping violence, problem gambling, risk assessment and management. We also regularly contribute chapters to edited books in the human services arena. Read more

Bookshop

For useful resources in our field of practice and training resources have a look at what we have on offer. Read more

Programme design and development

HMA has a long history in programme design and development. From the early days of establishing a number of core resources in the field of intervention for perpetrators of family violence and sexual offending, we have grown to design a number of sustantive intervention programmes. These include a number of 100 hour interventions for generic offending, an alcohol and other drug intervention, a number of intervention modules for youth justice offenders, and the family violence area of practice. Read more

Self help

We are firm believers that many people can help themselves or augment the work they are doing with a professional helper. In this regard we have added a number of self-help tools for individuals to work through in order to assist with the change process. Read more

Skill training

Our work at HMA is heavily focussed upon assisting organisations and others with the skills of effective assessment and intervention. We have built up significant respect from those we work with in enhancing best practice. Have a look at what exciting projects we have been working on during the last few years. Read more

Our team

Over the past ten years we have grown from a one person consultancy to a strong team of developers, trainers and writers. When you get an HMA staff member you know you are getting quality and a depth of experience, along with the reliability of a proven track record in delivering to a high standard on projects. To find out who is HMA Read more

Supervision and mentoring

An important aspect of our prctice in addition to programme development and training is to support workers in their practice. For HMA this has two aspects, firstly, direct supervision practice and secondly, training in the skills of supervision. For more information about the supervision model we have adopted Read more

We trust you enjoyed coming over to our place. Come again.

Regards

Ken McMaster and Suzanne Hall
Directors
HMA