Training & Consultation

 The Bouverie ABI team provides training and consultation for services providers throughout Victoria who are working with families affected by ABI. 

A range of workshops in family sensitive approaches to working with families are available as well as ongoing individual and group consultation for workers.  Please see the Short Courses section of this website for dates of metropolitan workshops.  Dates for rural workshops are negotiated with respective ITAS training coordinators and distributed through rural ABI networks. 

Enquiries about training and consultation can also be directed to the ABI team coordinator.
 
Franca Butera-Prinzi
Ph. 9385 5100
f.butera-prinzi@latrobe.edu.au
 
Training and consultation services are subsidised by the Department of Human Services, Disability Services branch.  Additional services or specific requests are negotiated on a fee-paying basis. 

The following short courses are offered by the ABI team:
•    Acquired Brain Injury – a family perspective (one day course)
•    ABI – Working with Families – Advanced Clinical Skills (two day course)
•    Paediatric Family Sensitive Skills Workshop
•    Single Session Work in ABI
•    Graduate Certificate in Family Therapy (one year part-time course, with some fully-funded places available for rural workers)
•    Masters in Clinical Family Therapy (two year part-time course)

The following Consultation Groups are available:
•    Family Work and ABI: Clinical Consultation Group for Metropolitan Workers (10 x 2 hour monthly clinical case discussion meetings facilitated by Bouverie staff)

Rural workers may join a metropolitan consultation group or negotiate with the ITAS training coordinator about the establishment of a consultation group in their local area.