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Twanny Farrugia

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Twanny Farrugia is a qualified loss and grief worker, welfare worker and educator with wide experience in community, welfare, loss and grief issues. Twanny's own health, loss and grief experiences and an understanding of childhood migration have equipped him to empathise with people facing difficulties in life. Health adversities such as a kidney transplant, mobility, vision impairment and premature loss of significant family members have not prevented him from fully participating in every day life.

Twanny has provided loss and grief workshops on gender issues, disabilities and in aged care including Alzheimer's/dementia issues for community based organisations, local government and the non-profit sector. Furthermore, he has gained a great satisfaction in assisting individuals who have a disability, elderly people and those from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse groups to reach their optimum potential as individuals. Twanny is currently in private practice providing support services in the Human Services sector.

(Presented technical papers on all the above issues at various medical and general workshops/conferences/seminars)

• The Centre for Grief Education (Associate Educator on Loss and Grief Issues)
• Griefwork
• Yooralla Society of Victoria
• Frankston City Council
• National Health and Medical Research Council
• McArthur Management Services (Locum Positions)
• Stonnington City Council
• City of Glen Eira
• Bayside City Council
• Frankston Council (Managing high risk difficult clients)
• Carer Respite Centre Southern Region - 24-Hour CareLine
• Specialist Care Services (Locum Positions)
• Brotherhood of St Laurence Community Care
• Baptist Community Care
• Boroondara City Council
• Southern Cross Care - Dandenong
• Public Speaker on
• Dialysis and Renal Transplantation
• Effective management on waiting lists for elective surgery at public hospitals
• Loss and Grief (disabilities, the aged, dementia, gender issues, volunteers, coping with festive season and other special occasions).
• Inspirational/motivation area

• Carer Respite Centre Southern Region - CareLine Intake Worker (Permanent part-time)
• SensWide Sensory Employment Resource Victoria - Sensory Support Advisor. (Developed rural outreach program)
• City of Kingston (Moorabbin Office) - Assessment Officer.
• Dandenong City Council - Tanjenong Adult Day Care - Assistant to Co-ordinator.
• Dandenong City Council - Tanjenong Adult Day Care Centre - Project Worker. (Established Adult Day Care Centre)
• Dandenong City Council - Aged Services - Review Worker
• Kidney Health Australia (Previously known as Australian Kidney Foundation - Assistant to Executive Manager)
• The Retinitis Pigmentosa Society of Vic - Welfare Officer. (Developed and managed an outreach program)

• Research assistant on various loss and grief issues
• Literature reviewer on various loss and grief issues
• Research Interviewer - General
• Project worker on Consumer Participation in Management Decision Making project
• Health Consumer Participant on Xenotransplantation Working Party (Animal to human transplants)
• Facilitated various workshops and trained HACC staff on Loss and Grief (disabilities, the aged, dementia, gender issues, volunteers, coping with festive season and other special occasions).
• Communications
• Pain Management
• Motivation for people with a mental illness
• Assessment Officer for
• HACC funded services
• Milpara Park Hostel (Residential Aged Care Facility)
• Managing difficult and challenging behaviour clients
• Case/Care Management

Australian Institute of Welfare and Community Workers (Past President)
Centre for Grief Education (Associate Educator)
National Association of Loss and Grief
National Speakers Association of Australia
Blind Citizens of Australia
Alzheimer's Society of Victoria
Council on the Age
Consumer Health Forum
Chronic Illness Alliance
Health Issues Centre
Community Council on Ethnic Issues

Centre for Grief Education
National Association for Loss and Grief
Council on the Ageing
Australian Institute of Welfare and Community Workers
Blind Citizens of Australia
Alzheimer's Society of Victoria
Vision Australia

• Community Council on Ethnic Issues (Eastern Region
• Xenotransplantation Working Party (Consumer Representative
• Greater Dandenong Community Health Service, Community Reference Group.
• Community Representative on the Best Value Research Panel (City of Greater Dandenong).
• Member of the Chronic Illness Association
• Member of the Health Issue Centre
• Honourary Life Member of Kidney Health Australia
• Honourary Life Member of the Dialysis and Transplant Association of Vic
• Perpetua In The Pines - Proposal for Multi-cultural Aged Care Facility

• South East Palliative Care
• Committee member - Disability Consultative Committee (City of Greater Dandenong)
• Peninsula Employment Access Program Advisory Committee
• Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau
• Christian Blind Mission
• Do-Care (Volunteer)
• Community Representative during the Year for the Disabled (1981 City of Springvale)
• Community Representative on the Westernport Disability Advisory Committee

Wheelchair Sports
Alzheimer's Association of Victoria
SkillsPlus Peninsula Inc
International Year of Volunteers 2001
Australian Kidney Foundation
Kidney Health Australia
Australian Rotary Health Research (Rotary Club of Bayswater)
The Rotary Club of Dandenong
The Salvation Army
Lions Club of Springvale (Charter member and Newsletter Editor)
Overland Primary School