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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 various topics ranging from disabilities to aged care 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 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)

Current Clients

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  • The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
  • 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
      • Consumer Participation on Health Care
      • 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

Past Clients

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  • 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)

Services Provided

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  • 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

Professional Development

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2009 Traumatic Loss Bereavement after sudden unexpected & Violent Death
2009 21st Century Approach to Grief Counselling & Therapy
2009 Loss & Grief Experienced by Adult Children of Mental Health Clients
2008 8th International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary
2007 Sharing the Grief
2006 Reflections on Grief and Trauma in Migrant and Refugee Communities
2006 Spirituality and Bereavement Counselling
2006 Beyond Gender: Understanding the way Men and Women Grieve
2006 Challenging the Paradigm: New Understanding of Grief
2005 Family Loss and Grief Issues before and after Death: Implications for care
2005 Family Care Giving: Hoping, coping and surviving
2005 Ethics and Self Care in Bereavement Work
2005 Introduction to Bereavement Support
2004 Development in Grief Theory
2004 Healing the Father Wound (Loss & Grief)
2004 Core Skills fro conduction Effective Grief Support Groups (Loss & Grief)
2003 Understanding Differences in Grieving Styles in Bereavement Experience
2003 The Death of Older People - Providing Sensitive and Appropriate Care
2003 Understanding Disenfranchised Grief - the Experience of Silent grief
2003 Exploring Dimensions of Grief within Disabilities
2001 Grief in the Work Place
2001 Recruiting and retaining Volunteers
2001 Dealing with Difficult Clients
2001 Engaging creatively in grief
1999 Humour and Grief - Using our lighter side
1998 Workshop on Conflict Resolution
1998 Managing Challenging Behaviours Workshop
1997 Workshops on working with volunteers and group facilitation
1996 Two Day workshop on Compulsory Competitive Trading
1996 Two Day workshop on Loss and Grief by Mal McKisock
1995 Completed Toastmasters course on public speaking
1995 Individual Employment Plan Training
1992 Activities and Ideas for Groups in general and Aged Care in particular
1992 Alzheimer's Society of Vic
  • The Heart has no wrinkles Workshop (Attitudes and Issues in Aged Care)
  • Working with Families (Strategies and Ideas for Caring for the Families)
  • Legal issues for the Worker
  • Caring for the Carer (Strategies for Caring for yourself as a Worker)
  • Communications the Wider View
1992 Advanced Communication Skills (Cross Culture Issues)
1992 Vic Roads - Skills of Management
1991 Experienced in the Sharikat Khoo Computer System (Local Government use - involved in its development as an Assessment Officer at Moorabbin City Council).

Tertiary Qualifications

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2005 Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training
2004 Certificate in Grief and Bereavement Studies (Centre for Grief Education)
1999 Certificate in Applied Aspects of Loss and Grief (Centre for Grief Education)
1996 Certificate in Small Business Management (Casey College of TAFE)
1987 Associate Diploma in Welfare Studies (Chisholm Institute of Technology)

Professional Associations & Membership

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Australian Institute of Welfare and Community Workers (Past President)
The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement (Associate Educator)
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
entre 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

Current Affiliations

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  • 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

Past Affiliations

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  • 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

Community Service and Appreciation

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The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
Health Issue Centre
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

Board and Committee Participation

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  • Board member of the Health Issues Centre
  • Board member of The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
  • Executive Committee Member of the Communities Council on Ethnic Issues (Eastern Region)
  • Community Advisory Committee Member of the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital

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