New, South, Wales, Training, Arbias

New South Wales

arbias Specialised Training Services

In partnership with department of ageing, disability & homecare (ADHC, NSW) arbias training and education service has extended into the state-wide delivery of a one-day ABI training course for information and referral staff; support workers and attendant care workers; program staff and team leaders, case managers and managers in community service organisations funded by the NSW Family & Community Services, Ageing, Disability and Home Care (ADHC) workers across the metropolitan and rural areas of NSW.

The Acquired Brain Injury Awareness training workshop

Session 1:

Working with people with an acquired brain injury providing participants with an understanding of ADHC directions in relation to people with an ABI and it introduces you to ABI and the cognitive, physical, behavioural, emotional and social implications for a person with acquired brain injury.

Session 2:

Common outcomes of ABI providing participants with an understanding the common outcomes of ABI including the complex needs often associated with ABI and issues that factor in complexity; co morbidity; cultural and contextual factors; having an understanding of assessing a person’s decision making ability and capacity and how the system in NSW works for guardianship and administration orders.

Session 3:

Strategies for working with people who have an acquired brain injury providing participants with strategies for working with people who have an ABI including understanding compensatory strategies, how to reduce demands on cognitive functioning and memory problems, understanding behaviours of concern and how to support positive behaviour.

Session 4:

Supporting and planning services with people with an ABI providing participants with practical skills to facilitate goal orientated, person centred support plans for people with an ABI.

Further Information

24 ADHC funded training sessions will be facilitated over 2011 – 2012 and will be open to staff working in ADHC based and funded organisations.

Organisations who would like to include their staff in this training, or would like their organisation trained in ABI awareness can book the training to be held in their own venues in locations across NSW on a fee paying basis.

Please contact the arbias NSW Office for further information on (02) 9708 0027 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it