Kate O'Donnell Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Victoria, Australia

Gun for hire - if you are looking for experienced guidance in developing your Lived Experience practices or programs, or with developing and implementing a Reconciliation Action Plan, I can help. Passionate about lived experience as a pathway to social justice, I draw on my own Lived Experience to inform all my work. I understand evidence based thinking and take a collaborative facilitator approach to help organisations find their 'WHY' in bringing Lived Experience expertise into their decision making and practice. I can develop and deliver tailored practical LE training to upskill your people so that your consumers and employees get the most out of Lived Experience wisdom.Reconciliation Action Plans (RAP's), are about the journey, not the document, and are more successful with facilitated involvement from all levels of an organisation. I can support your organisation with a process to do this, engaging people in the conversations that help embed a reconciliation mind set to support RAP actions so they are aligned with strategy and business priorities.DM me to discuss your organisations needs.

Australia

Leading Client Participation planning & practice, inclusion & diversity projects.

Leading client partnerships with people with Lived Experience of Family Violence and Reconciliation Action Plan

Victoria, Australia

Connecting lived experience to quality, safety and improvement

Melbourne, Australia

Connecting lived experience expertise to quality and Continuous Improvement.

Melbourne, Australia

Consumer participation and partnership practice - practice development, leadership, project management.

Melbourne, Australia

Project management; consumer engagement and participation.

Melbourne

Management of quality program and leadership on continuous improvement projects; QIP accreditation; policy & procedure writing to comply with DHHS Human Services Standards; auditing and policy implementation; systems development.

Broadmeadows

Hume Moreland Services Connect was one of eight pilot projects funded through DHHS testing an alternative model of service delivery to vulnerable clients utilising a multi-disciplinary team of twelve staff realigned from twenty five partner agencies. Managed the transition of the pilot program to successful closure, including staff transition planning, client services demand management, evaluation report and governance.

Collingwood

Project support to:• Koori Energy Efficiency Project (KEEP) was an innovative 3 year pilot program to support Aboriginal communities in Victoria to reduce energy consumption and bill stress. Funding ceased 30 June 2016. • In collaboration with NOUS Consulting Group co-ordinated a feasibility study on accumulated poverty and risk of homelessness in women aged 50+. Project received implementation funding through Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation.

Fitzroy

The Home Interaction Program for Parents and Young people (HIPPY) supports vulnerable preschool aged children and their parents to prepare for school. I co-ordinated over 30 community information sessions in remote and rural Aboriginal communities as part of the federal Department of Education funding process for an additional 25 HIPPY programs targeted to Aboriginal communities.

Education And Early Childhood Development

Early Childhood policy and legislation implementation, child abuse mandatory reporting protocol training.

Health And Human Services

Policy reform implementation, Aboriginal Child & Family Services, Family Services standards, contract management

Graduate Certificate Mental Health, Social Work

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Basc)

Activities and Societies: President & VP Science Students Association