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Cindy Torrens

Chief Executive Officer

North Australian Aboriginal Family Legal Service

SESSIONS

Day 1

11.50

Panel: Shifting Punitive Responses to Self-Determined Therapeutic Support for Children and Mothers

  • Approaching child and family care with a trauma informed lens

  • Ensuring genuine community engagement to foster self-determined solutions to child and family matters

  • Providing services that meet the spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children


Moderator: Cindy Torrens, Chief Executive Officer, North Australian Aboriginal Family Legal Service


Jacynta Krakour, Aboriginal Enterprise Fellow, Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia; Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne

Carly Stanley, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Deadly Connections

Madeleine Mitchell, Senior Social Worker, Jaghu Maternity & Infant Program, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

Marg Sutherland, Early Childhood Development Consultant, Cullunghutti Aboriginal Child and Family Centre

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