Keynote - Richard Weston, CEO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation
| Monday, October 22, 2018 |
| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
| Plenary 1 (Ground Floor) |
Details
Building healing informed and trauma aware organisations, policy and practice: using implementation science and co-design evaluation to make change. Trauma experienced as a result of colonisation, including the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families and communities and its associated abuse, has had a pervasive effect across generations and communities. Healing allows people to move from surviving this trauma to thriving. For this to occur service providers need to understand this trauma and become healing informed and trauma aware. In this presentation The Healing Foundation CEO Richard Weston will explore examples of implementation science and co-design evaluation processes, which have resulted in programmatic success that is breaking the Intergenerational Trauma cycle.
Speaker
Mr Richard Weston
CEO
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation
Building healing informed and trauma aware organisations, policy and practice: using implementation science and co-design evaluation to make change
Biography
Richard is a descendant of the Meriam people of the Torres Strait. For the past six years, he has served as CEO of the Healing Foundation, a national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisation that partners with communities to address the ongoing trauma caused by actions such as the forced removal of children from their families and communities.
Richard sits on the Board of Families Australia and is a member of the Commonwealth Government’s Independent Advisory Council on Redress for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse. He is also a member of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander forums and committees.
Prior to being CEO of the Healing Foundation, Richard was CEO of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service. Before that, he was CEO of Maari Ma Health in far-west NSW based in Broken Hill. Under his leadership, Maari Ma won several health awards, including five NSW awards and a national award.
