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Latest Updates

 

Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement to host the 8th International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society in Melbourne in July 2008. Visit the conference website.

New toll free Bereavement Information and Referral Service and Practitioner Consultancy Service for Victoria.

Victorian Government announces that the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement is awarded tender to provide specialist bereavement services throughout Victoria Department of Human Services Media Release

Download the 2008 Education Program

Subscribe to Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement podcasts subscibe

Download the June 2007 edition of our member newsletter Connections and the latest edition of our e-newsletter The Grief Brief

Download a copy of the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement Resources Guide


Welcome to the web site of the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement. From here you can download a detailed guide to our 2008 training program and a registration form for any of our programs and courses. These PDF documents can be read using the free Adobe Acrobat reader.

The site also has details of our free bereavement counselling service, links to many other grief related web sites, information on the peer-reviewed journal Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement, an extensive listing of free and low cost grief counselling services in Victoria, details on projects conducted by the Centre, information about membership benefits, recent media releases, grief support information and products that can be purchased from the Centre.

The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement is an independent, not for profit organisation which opened in January 1996 and is the largest provider of grief and bereavement education in Australia. Registered as a public benevolent institution the Centre receives operational funding through the state palliative care program of the Victorian Department of Human Services. A copy of the Constitution for the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement can be downloaded here.

Its mission is to build the capacity of individuals, organisations and communities in order to enhance well-being following adverse life events. The Centre is a statewide service which is located alongside the McCulloch House Palliative Care Unit at Monash Medical Centre. In 2006 the Centre was appointed by the Victorian Department of Human Services as the statewide specialist bereavement service.

You can download a copy of the 2006-2007 Annual Report on the Centre here.

Goals

The Centre has set as its goals to:

(a)

Develop and provide a range of specialist interventions and innovative education services, informed by evidence based practice, for grieving people who are at risk of adverse outcomes.
(b)
Provide grief education and a range of consultancy services to develop and enhance the capacity of individuals, organisations and communities to deal effectively with loss.
(c)
Provide grief and bereavement counselling training and supervision through the placement of practitioners at the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement Counselling and Support Service and other settings as deemed appropriate.
(d)
Build the capacity of the universal health services to provide bereavement supports and responses.
(e) Provide advocacy and representation on grief and bereavement issues in order to inform policy development, raise community awareness and support universal access to mainstream grief and bereavement services.
(f) Undertake research, program evaluation, public policy development and the production of evidence based publications and resources to enhance grief and bereavement knowledge and practice.
(g)
Maintain cooperative links with relevant state, national and international groups and organisations in relation to grief and bereavement.
(h)

Provide a national clearinghouse of grief and bereavement resources and literature to inform policy, practice and research into grief and bereavement and to enhance the activities of the Association, other practitioners, support agencies and self-help groups.


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Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
McCulloch House
Monash Medical Centre
246 Clayton Road
CLAYTON  VIC  3168  Australia

Phone: +61 3 9265 2100

Facsimile: +61 3 9265 2150

Freecall: (Australia wide) 1800 642 066

Email: info@grief.org.au

 

 

 

Last Updated: February 8th 2008
© 2008 Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement Inc.