11am, Wednesday 23 October 2024
Join us for Webinar 2: Thriving Kids in Disasters: Words into Practice to learn more about how we can build resilience and support kids’ and caregivers’ social and emotional wellbeing in the context of disasters.
Sharleen Kelleher PhD is the ECEC Infant Mental Health Statewide Coordinator in the Queensland Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (QCPIMH). She works with and brings people together from a range of sectors to benefit children and their caregivers, and her doctoral research focused on evaluating a professional learning program for educators and teachers that fosters disaster resilience in early childhood. Sharleen is well placed to talk with us about creating learning and care environments and partnerships that empower children to thrive inside and outside of disasters.
Brad Morgan is the Director of Emerging Minds and leads the delivery of national infant, child, adolescent and family mental health strategies. These include national workforce, health promotion, policy and implementation activities designed to strengthen support for child mental health, trauma, child development and parent and family mental health. His leadership is focused on bringing together practice and lived experience expertise together with international and Australian research to support the design and delivery of national mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention strategies that improve the mental health and wellbeing of infants, children, young people and their families.
Contact anita.egginton@aracy.org.au for more information.
