Sue Steedman Email and Phone Number

Capacity building, strategic communications, stakeholder engagement, marketing and advertising concepts to implementation, paid and free media strategy. Servicing the NFP sector.

GM of a support centre for homeless and other disadvantaged people in Sydney's inner West. Started up by a small group of four community-focused partners including myself, the service grew from six visits in its first week to 10,000 visits in its third year of operation. Providing meals, accommodation search, emergency accommodation placement, welfare application assistance, legal service, trauma and drug and alcohol counselling, referrals to mental health and welfare professionals as well as social support and activities including art therapy. As General Manager my role was broad and included fundraising, networking with other services, marketing, stakeholder and volunteer management and face to face work with clients. Our Place was staffed by 45+ permanent volunteers - skilled and unskilled - without whom the Centre could not have succeeded. My special interest in Community Mental Health arose from my experience at the coalface.