Acquired Brain Injury Community Rehabilitation

What we do

The ABI Community Rehabilitation team provides services that will enhance the quality of life and outcomes for individuals with a disability. We aim to to empower people with a disability to engage services of their choice to help achieve their personal goals.

We are part of the ABI Rehabilitation Centre. We provide a specialist service to people with a severe brain injury and their carers from the Victorian community. In addition we provide allied health, nursing and medical staff support and advice to clinicians working with people who have an ABI.

We are proud to provide 3 streams to clients in the community.

This includes:

• Active, goal-directed rehabilitation
  • Multi-disciplinary (2 or more allied health disciplines)
  • Active therapy to work on goals developed by the client
  • 12 week goal cycles
• A monitoring service
  • Periodic review functional change over time
  • Periodic review to prevent complications and/or monitor for potential for rehabilitation, for high dependency clients
  • Public Medicare funded (no cost to the client)
• A registered NDIS service
  • Multi-disciplinary (2 or more allied health disciplines)
  • Maintenance supports, given or supervised by multi-disciplinary allied health team
  • Interim behavior support
  • Consultation to service providers who require specialist ABI advice
  • NDIS funded (no cost to the client)

The ABI Community Rehabilitation program offers therapy and support to address the lifelong, evolving needs of people following an ABI.

These services are typically provided using a hybrid service approach of home-based, community, centre-based and telehealth.

Who we care for

Acquired Brain Injury Community Rehabilitation supports people with a severe brain injury following discharge from hospital and who require further support in the community with specialist service providers.

How to access this service

Contact us directly

Family, carers, case managers and patients can contact us directly by phone to access our services.

Referral phone: (03) 9076 7423