The Bouverie Centre has a state-wide role in helping public mental health and related health and welfare services to work responsively, respectfully and effectively with families and other carers. Within the Community Services Program, the Centre has created a range of training and consultation services to help organisations develop family sensitive cultures and to support professionals in their work with families and other carers. Family sensitive work is built on the systemic philosophy that the long term interests of consumers, families and workers are often different but interdependent.

The Bouverie Centre is interested in developing collaborative relationships with local agencies to help implement family sensitive practices in Victoria. Support services provided by Bouverie include: Continuing Education for professionals, On Site Training, Clinical Consultation Services, Service Development support for organisations, Research and Projects and Public Education.

The Bouverie Centre's Community Services program has been developed during 20 years of work in training and consultation, and has more recently, been informed by the highly successful 1998 state-wide Get Together FaST Training and Service Development initiative ( FaST stands for Family Sensitive Training). This initiative involved Child and Adolescent, Adult and Aged Mental Health Services. Last year Get Together FaST was successfully adapted for the state-wide Forensic Mental Health Services. Get Together FaST and advanced FaST services are now available to organisations other than mental health. See the FaST brochure for services and costs or visit the FaST section of this site.

Community Services are available to all Child & Family Services, Adult and Aged Services in public mental health and in the Specialist Clinical areas of Mental Health, Sexual Abuse and Acquired Brain Injury, and in the Single Session approach.