The Bouverie Centre has developed a range of services to help organisations develop a family sensitive practice culture and to support professionals in their ongoing work with families and other carers.
Services include:
- Training and Service Development Initiatives in specialist areas (Family Sensitive Training in Mental Health, Community Health, Acquired Brain Injury, Sexual Abuse & Trauma and Breaking Through in Schools);
- Consultation Services;
- Onsite Training - Design your own training course for your own organisation; and
- Bouverie Centre Based Training - The Continuing Education Program.
A ‘one off’ primary and secondary consultation service is available free to mental health practitioners who are seeking assistance in their work with families. The Bouverie Centre also offers a service directly to families affected by mental illness who want some new ideas about their situation or perhaps want a ‘check up’ for their family relationships. Videoconferencing is available to rural services.
Enquiries: Brendan O’Hanlon
Ph. 03 9385 5100
The Bouverie Centre has developed a fully evaluated six half-day training and service development program for promoting family sensitive practice in the following services:
- Adult Mental Health Services including Psychiatric Disability
- Support Services
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Aged Mental Health Services
- Forensic Mental Health Services
- Adult Mental Health and Child and Family Services
Whilst originally designed for mental health services, the Get Together FaST program can be adapted to any health service interested in creating a culture of greater family sensitivity. The Get Together FaST program targets a complete Area Mental Health Service, providing a broad family sensitive framework which every worker can adopt to inform their specific work role (Cost on application).
For more information, please see the Get Together FaST section of this website.
Enquiries: Brendan O’Hanlon
Ph. 03 9385 5100
The state-wide Family Sensitive Practitioners Group supports mental health clinicians (nominated by their service) who are interested in promoting Family Sensitive Practice within their organisation. The group, which meets four times a year, also provides a great opportunity for participants to ‘swap notes’ about their successes and struggles in developing family based services within their organisations.
Enquiries: Sue-Ellen Radford
Ph. 03 9385 5100
Disability Services funds the ABI team to provide a range of training & consultation services without charge to non-compensable services in the ABI field. Workshops and consultation services on working with families and ABI are held across metropolitan and rural regions throughout the year. See Continuing Education calendar in Section 2 for dates of Metropolitan workshops. Dates for rural workshops are negotiated with respective ABI training coordinators and distributed through rural ABI networks.
Training & consultation services to the compensable sector can be negotiated on a fee-for-service basis. More information can be found on the ABI Team pages of this website.
Enquiries: Franca Butera-Prinzi (ABI training & consultation coordinator)
Ph. 03 9385 5100
The Bouverie Centre, together with DHS, is offering 6 fully-funded places in The Graduate Certificate in Family Therapy course in 2009 for rural ABI workers. The initiative offers formal introductory training in Family Therapy theories and practices and in skills development with follow-up clinical supervision and consultation in the rural areas. Applicants must be working with families with a member with an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) in services such as community health, mental health, juvenile justice, alcohol and other drugs, preferably in rural Victoria.
More information can be found on the ABI Team pages of this website.
Enquiries: Naomi Rottem (Coordinator at The Bouverie Centre)
Ph. 03 9385 5100
The ABI Team has expanded its service to provide secondary consultation and training to service providers working with families with a child with an ABI. This new initiative, funded through Disability Services, aims to work in partnership with agencies to support the development of family-sensitive paediatric services in metropolitan and rural areas of Victoria.
Enquiries: Nella Charles
Ph. 03 9385 5100
Families with children with an ABI can also be referred to the team for counselling by contacting the Intake Worker on 03 9385 5100.
Bouverie staff experienced in the area of sexual abuse and trauma have developed a range of consultation, training and service development initiatives for organisations that provide support to people who have experienced abuse. This work can be adapted to suit a range of organisations involved in this work. We can also provide training and consultation about the vicarious traumatisation of workers.
Enquiries: Julie Beauchamp (Clinical Program Manager)
Ph. 03 9385 5100
An accessible and user-friendly resource including a video, resource booklet and training program has been produced.
The Bouverie Centre is available for consultation and training on Breaking Through, and more information about this project is available on the Breaking Through pages of this website.
Enquiries: Dr Kerry Proctor
Ph. 03 9385 5100
