Our Walk-in Together service has gained significant exposure and recognition recently through presentations at state, national and international conferences. The elevated visibility of this clinical innovation is our invitation to services and sectors to collaborate and partner with us to provide accessible family therapy for the wider population.
It was a privilege to take the WIT Translation project to the most recent International Single Session Symposium in Chicago. There I got to see the vast array of ways Single Session ideas have influenced how services are being offered; from complete system designs such as Stepped Care Solutions in Canada, to micro self-directed online interventions such as “Rethink Agency” designed by Stephanie Leung a high school student from San Jose, California. WIT carried the flag for family centred ways of applying a Single Session approach and received strong interest for how it can deliver effective support to families.
Translating Walk-In Together to the Locals
Using the Single Session Thinking practice framework, the Bouverie Centre has developed, researched, published, implemented, and offered training for more than 20 years. In family therapy, single session thinking guides practitioners to make the most of every family contact, particularly the first session, by treating it as if it may be the only one.
The Victorian Department of Health commissioned Bouverie to translate and disseminate learnings from the Walk-In Together service to two of their Mental Health and Wellbeing “Locals”. These services will provide a newly established “front door” to Victoria’s reformed mental health and wellbeing system, offering accessible treatment, care and support for consumers, families, carers and supporters.
The Bouverie Centre has partnered with one adult local and one child local and we are currently at the “co-design” phase of the initial pilot of the process.
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Identify partner "Locals" - COMPLETE
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Capacity building - COMPLETE
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Co-design
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Implementation
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Evaluation and dissemination
What does co-design and implementation look like?
- Involves collaborative adaptation and design of the Walk-In Together model to be implemented at each Local.
- Our implementation approach is underpinned by systemic principles and single session thinking and aims to grow values-based models that promote healthier relationships for clients, families, staff and communities
- Informed by the PRISM and RE-AIM Frameworks, the approach supports the Locals to:
- Identify their context, stakeholders, rationale, guiding principles and values and hopes
- Detail the sustainability and evaluation plans
- Prepare for implementation.
- This scaffolded process is supported by ongoing implementation consultation and support.
What’s next?
The Bouverie Centre will measure capacity uplift through pre- and post-internship assessments and will evaluate project success through site-specific measures.
The learnings from this project will be translated into training resources to support capacity uplift across the mental health sector in Victoria, Australia.
To learn more about...
- Walk-In Together service contact Martin Pradel
- Workforce Implementation Projects contact Nick Barrington
