Jacynta Krakour
Aboriginal Enterprise Fellow, Australian Centre for Child Protection; Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
University of South Australia; University of Melbourne
Dr Jacynta Krakouer, is a Mineng Noongar woman who lives and works on Wurundjeri country in Naarm (Melbourne), also occasionally working on Kaurna country. She is currently employed as an Aboriginal Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia, in the UniSA Justice and Society Unit, affiliated with the Australian Centre for Child Protection.
A professional social worker and academic, Her PhD in social work at the University of Melbourne focused on cultural connection in out-of-home care for First Nations children and young people in Victoria.
Jacynta previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Monash University in the Health and Social Care Unit in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Prior to this, she worked as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Melbourne in the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (MDHS) where she taught topics in child and family welfare and social work practice with Indigenous Australians.
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