Presenters
Dr Tim Jones
FRACGP
Dr Tim Jones is a GP with an interest in child and infant health. He is passionate about supporting parents and families in a holistic manner. His clinical areas of interest include infant feeding and settling support, primary care led childhood learning and behavioural assistance, and eating disorder management. Tim works at Glebe Hill Family Practice Hobart, as a senior medical educator with the RACGP and provides developmental and behavioural services for the Tasmanian Health Service.
Judith Lovegrove
Indigenous Governance and Engagement Lead, Menzies School of Health Research – Mental Health ‘Stay Strong' team
Judith Lovegrove is a Ngarrindjeri woman with cultural connections across South Australia with Wirangu, Kaurna and Narungga nations.. Judith has extensive experience working with children, young people and adults in different capacities including therapeutic counselling and intensive family-based support with a focus on child protection, family preservation and early intervention. She has held several roles in both government and non-government organisations.
Judith has contributed to many national, state, and local initiatives that work towards closing the gap empowering Aboriginal people and voices, with an emphasis of improving culturally responsive service delivery for organisations and departments. Judith holds qualifications in psychology and is a media spokesperson for the Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention.
Shirley Young
Shirley Young is an Aboriginal woman descending from the Nukunu people in South Australia. She is the proud mother of two children and the Director of Two Worlds Consultancy and co-director of Endless Eden.
She has worked in various Public Service organisations over a span of 24 years in portfolios such as Health, Child Protection and Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
For the last five years she has been running a private practice called Two Worlds Consultancy that contracts services for reunification, provides therapeutic support to children in Out of Home Care, providing supervision to staff in government and non-government organisations, contracting services to the NDIS sector, delivering corporate training and development packages, and lecturing to university Social Work students on a variety of topics.