Family Therapy Training & Consultation for Aboriginal Child & Family Workers in Community
The Family Therapy Training and Consultation for Aboriginal Child and Family Workers in Community started late 2007, and currently has funding until the end of 2010. This project, delivered by Bouverie’s Indigenous Project Team, combines family therapy training, research, and consultation and policy development for Aboriginal child and family workers working in Aboriginal and mainstream communities across Victoria.
Training is conducted in partnership with Take Two, Berry Street, and in consultation with an Advisory Group comprising Indigenous and non-Indigenous representatives from the participating Aboriginal Community Co-Operatives (ACCOs), mainstream organisations working with Aboriginal families, Take Two and the DHS. It is funded jointly by La Trobe University and the DHS’ Indigenous Initiatives Unit in Child and Family Services.
An Indigenous researcher, Robyne Latham, has been employed in partnership with La Trobe University’s Indigenous Employment Scheme, and is conducting a participatory action research project. This research focuses on evaluating and identifying lessons learned about effective family therapy training for Aboriginal child and family workers. This process is supported by a Cooperative Inquiry Group (CIG) made up of partners from La Trobe University, Onemda-Melbourne University’s Aboriginal Health Unit, Take Two, Berry Street and The Bouverie Centre.
The Bouverie Centre’s Indigenous Project Team is involved state-wide in consultation and policy development with major mental and community health organisations and the ACCOs. This focuses on the clinical training and workplace support needs of emerging Aboriginal family therapists in Victoria.
More information about the different elements of this project can be found in the following web-pages, accessible from the menu on the left of this page.
The Indigenous Project Team members at the Bouverie Centre would like to respectfully acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which The Bouverie Centre stands, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and elders past and present. The Bouverie Centre strongly supports the Australian Parliament's action in apologising to the Stolen Generations thus acknowledging the profoundly traumatic legacy experienced by Indigenous people & community.
