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If you are interested in preventing child abuse and neglect, work or have worked in child, youth, child protection, family or have other skills you would like to share the Victorian branch of NAPCAN would like to hear from you. You need to be able to make a two year commitment, attend 4 full council meetings per year and be prepared to participate on one sub committee.
If interested in joining the council or assisting NAPCAN in any way please contact Anne Paul (president) HERE
Anne is an ex Kindergarten teacher and is currently a program coordinator in the Department of Child and Family Studies at Swinburne University of Technology(Tafe Division). She has worked at Swinburne for a period of fifteen years and her areas of expertise in teaching and training include parent group leadership training, child and adolescent development, managing children's behaviour, and society, culture and diversity. She has also managed the development of new courses, customised existing courses and has written and edited curriculum for Swinburne and Government agencies at both State and National level.
She has managed large projects and joint venture projects for Swinburne University and with other Australian and overseas organisations. Recent projects include Indigenous research and writing in parenting for the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency(VACCA) and the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care)SNAICC.
Anne has also worked for Swinburne in Singapore for one month each year for the last seven years with a local organisation, customising and delivering parenting group leadership training to social workers, welfare workers, teachers and others involved in family services. She has also conducted other professional workshops and parenting seminars for parents both in Australia and overseas. Anne has published in the areas of child guidance, parenting and the development of inclusive, anti-bias practices to support children and families.
Leah is the Manager of the National Child Protection Clearinghouse at Australian Institute of Family Studies. She joined the Australian Institute of Family Studies in September 2004. Prior to coming to the Institute she was Research Coordinator for the Barwon Health Paediatric and Adolescent Support Service reporting to the Chief Psychologist. Throughout her research career she has had an interest in applied research in the areas of children and families and the impact of trauma. Her PhD research was on the topic of chronic child maltreatment in statutory child protection services. Some of the recent research projects she has been involved in include:
· National comparisons of child protection related policy and practice
· Evaluating the Australian out-of-home care research evidence base
· Conducting an audit of Australian child protection research
· Enhancing culturally appropriate practice for Indigenous carers
· Investigating the prevalence and risk factors for maltreatment in organisations
· Investigating the effectiveness of child abuse prevention programs
· Investigating the use of research by policy makers and practitioners in the child protection field
Pat Jewell has a background in teaching in the area of early childhood development specialising in working with families where the children had experienced trauma and disability.
For the past twenty years Pat has worked in the field of parenting focusing her work on preventing child abuse in families at risk. Pat is the author if three publications "Getting Good Speech Going" a resource to assist young children with their speech development and two group work manuals for professionals "Out of the Mainstream" focusing on working with parents with an intellectual disability in a group situation and "From Strength to Strength" for professionals facilitating diverse parenting groups.
Pat presently teaches at Swinburne University in the Child and Family Services Division in both undergraduate and post graduate courses Pat works as a project worker with Jesuit Social Services, Parenting Australia, does freelance training and group work and is currently undertaking her Masters of Education focusing on relationships between families and professionals in the early childhood sector.
Pat is committed to every child's right to a safe and nurturing childhood.
Jacqui is currently the Director, Corporate Services for Moreland Community Health Service, and prior to that, she spent many years within a variety of industry sectors including IT and Manufacturing. Her management experience covers strategic development and execution, ethics and governance, commerce, business administration, service delivery, and operations.
Jacqui holds an MBA, a Masters of Professional Ethics, and a Grad Dip in Applied Corporate Governance and is an experienced Non Executive Director. Her community interests span women's social policy, children's welfare, and children with special needs
Rachel Westaway has held numerous senior roles within the Australian media industry and has further enhanced her skills and expertise in working with multicultural communities across the country. She is the Executive Director of the NSW Country Press Association and previously worked in executive roles at Fairfax, SBS and Pacific Publications. She is a former Federal Tribunal Member of the Migration Review Tribunal and the Refugee Review Tribunal. She has held numerous community board positions such as Secretary of the Asian Media Council of Australia, Community Representative on the board of STARTTS - Service, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors, Chair of the former Federal Government's Multicultural Strategy Committee and an Ambassador of the Asia Australia Young Leaders' Programme. Rachel has a young family and is committed to the rights of children and working with non English speaking communities. She is particularly interested in increasing the profile of NAPCAN across all sections of the community.
Beth Guy is a Trainer, Educator, Consultant, and Psychodramatist and currently works as a Senior Trainer with Australian Childhood Foundation, providing training across Australia on Child Trauma, Neurobiology of Trauma and Creative Interventions for Children who have experienced trauma. Originally trained as a Secondary Teacher Beth has worked with young people at risk across the Health, Welfare and Education sectors both in Australia and Overseas for the past 17 years. In the past Beth was Team Leader of the Strengthening Families Program, Anglicare Victoria for 7 years whilst training in Drug and Alcohol Community Services Certificate – Turning Point, Certificate in Clinical Supervision – Bouverie Street whilst providing consultancy to Southern Health Drug and Alcohol Service, Teaching a Community Welfare elective at Melbourne University Social Work Dept & training Protective Behaviours for the Education and Child Care Sectors. Beth has a strong Community Development focus with regards to Child Protection and Child safety and participates in Advocacy and Public Speaking with regards to Children's Issues.
Catharine Hydon is currently managing an early childhood project for The Brotherhood of St Laurence in Melbourne. She has had extensive experience in a broad range of early childhood settings from sessional kindergarten and childcare programs in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne to a school in Papua New Guinea.
Prior to this position Catharine coordinated the training program at the FKA Multicultural Resource Centre and is strongly committed to education that supports children's rights. Drawing on her work with diverse children and their families and her master's studies Catharine hopes to inspire those wishing to explore innovative early childhood services based on children's rights and strong connections with the community. In addition to her work with children Catharine's involvement in local multicultural music and social justice make her an engaging speaker. In 2003 Catharine was awarded the Barbara Creaser Memorial award for outstanding contribution to early childhood education.
Helen has been teaching in the Department of Child & Family Studies at Swinburne University for 20 years. She originally trained as a kindergarten teacher, then after 4 years in Melbourne suburban kindergartens, studied for a BA at La Trobe University, majoring in Sociology.
She then taught for 6 years in an extended hours kindergarten in Collingwood which helped to develop her awareness of social justice and cultural diversity. Following on from this she established occasional child care in Collingwood for children of parents who attended English classes in the Collingwood estate.
She has recently been the Project officer for the WHELL Project in West Heidelberg , a community development project; networking & establishing playgroups with at-risk families, encouraging community links, self-esteem & training opportunities.
Her main areas of teaching include child development, working with families, communication with children, diversity and inclusion. She is currently teaching & mentoring a large group of Family Day Care workers, predominately form C&LD backgrounds in the northern suburbs."
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