Sustainability Home Audit Training
for Community Care Workers
Environment Victoria has put together a free training package for community care providers, to help community care workers to help their clients to reduce their environmental impact and save energy and water. The training helps clients meet the coming challenge of climate change, as well as cutting the cost of their bills, as energy and water prices rise.
The training aims to provide care workers with the knowledge and tools to do simple sustainability audits of clients’ homes during their normal visits. The audits give the clients and their families a whole host of suggestions of things they can do to make the home more sustainable and more comfortable, from simple things like blocking draughts, to bigger things like replacing bar radiators with more effective heating systems. The training package provides all of the tools you need to train care workers and to help staff to complete audits.
The training is based on our experience of training Home and Community Care (HACC) workers from the City of Greater Bendigo, the Colac Otway Shire, the Surf Coast Shire, Latrobe City Council, Baw Baw Shire and South Gippsland Shire. It came out of our Regional Sustainable Living Program, which worked with senior citizens from 2006 to 2010. The program was made possible through funding from the Victorian Department of Sustainability and the Environment.
If you are interested in running the program, please contact us, so we know the resource is being used and so we can chat to you about the training. If you would be interested in contracting Environment Victoria to run the program for you, please also contact us.
To check out the training package on screen, click on each of the document images below. To download, click on the individual document names. These documents were updated in September 2010.
1. Complete care worker training guide (1.4 MB)
2. Home audit information booklet for community care workers (1.2 MB)
3. Home sustainability audit worksheet (650 kB)
4. Training session plan (330 kB)
5. Training presentation (12 MB)
6. Audit data entry spreadsheet (190 kB)
7. Cover letter for families (70 kB)
8. Draft network booklet (380 kB)
9. Feedback form (200 kB)
For more information on the carer training package, contact Environment Victoria. We'd also love to hear if you've used the package and how many people you trained, as well as any feedback, so we can make it even better next time.
