Others involved in the network
The Steering Group
The network has also engaged key individuals to provide direction and guidance. Included are representatives from the Child and Adolescent Working Group (National Mental Health Disaster Response Taskforce) who provide expertise specific to child and adolescent trauma, loss and grief.
Also included are individuals from the National Consultative Network representing specific focal areas and organisations central to the network’s activities.
Child and Adolescent Working Group (National Mental Health Disaster Response Taskforce)
- Merrie Carling - Director, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, Mental Health ACT, ACT
- Tim Crowley - Complex Care and Trauma Mental Health (NPC), Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Child, Youth & Women’s Health Service (CYWHS), SA
- Christopher Hall, Director, Australian Centre for Grief & Bereavement, Vic
- Margaret Jones - Consultant Clinical Psychologist, CAMHS Executive North Metro Health Services, WA
- Professor Justin Kenardy - Deputy Director, Centre of National Research on Disability & Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Queensland, Qld
- Assoc. Professor Brett McDermott - Director, Mater Child and Youth Mental Health Service, Qld
- Dr Elspeth Macdonald, Director, ACATLGN
- Mal McKissock - Co-Clinical Director, "A Friend's Place" Bereavement Care Centre, National Centre for Childhood Grief, NSW
- Professor Louise Newman - Director, Monash University Centre for Developmental Psychiatry & Psychology, Vic
- Professor Beverley Raphael, Chairperson ACATLGN
- Michelle Roberts - Psychologist; Schools Consultant, Vic
- Professor Kevin Ronan - Professor of Psychology (Clinical), Department of Behavioural & Social Sciences, Central Queensland University, Qld
- Ruth Wraith - Psychotherapist; Disaster Recovery Consultant, Past President ASTSS, Vic
The National Consultative Network
The National Consultative Network comprises individuals available to be consulted when needed, such as to provide comment and feedback and respond to documents from their own areas of expertise and specialty. Over time further individuals will be included in order to span stakeholder groups, developmental stages, trauma, loss and grief experiences, professions, settings, socio-cultural contexts and geographic locations.
Included are representatives from key stakeholder groups representing issues concerning grief and loss, psychologogical trauma, schools, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, refugee communities, and rural and remote communities.
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