Keeping PACE speakers

FASD Navigator Anna Gundesen
**FASD-CAN Inc**
https://www.fasd-can.org.nz

Upon a foundation of tertiary study in Occupational Therapy is more than two decades of leadership and a further three years in the foster care sector with experience of advocacy, support and facilitation.However, more importantly, Anna has been an advocate navigating her way through the social, education and health se...
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Ph.D. Daniel Hughes

Dan Hughes, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with a limited practice in South Portland, Maine. He founded and developed Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), the treatment of children who have experienced abuse and neglect and who demonstrate ongoing problems related to attachment and trauma.

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Minister Hon Kelvin Davis

After the Government was formed following last year’s election, Minister Davis quickly put his hand up to take control of one of the most challenging portfolio’s – Children.Oranga Tamariki’s challenges have been laid bare to the public, but the reality of the agencies’ work is one that many people in New Zeal...
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Janise Mitchell
**Australian Childhood Foundation**
https://www.childhood.org.au/

Janise Mitchell is the Deputy CEO of the Australian Childhood Foundation and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Therapeutic Care in Australia. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Arts and Social Sciences with Southern Cross University.

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Jo Robertson
**The Light Project**
https://www.thelightproject.co.nz

Jo is The Light Project’s research and training lead and oversees all the project’s youth and youth professional talks. She’s worked as an external sex educator and school counsellor for trauma and abuse cases with children and young people – and is a qualified sex therapist with her Master of Science i...
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Dr Joe Tucci
**Australian Childhood Foundation**
https://www.childhood.org.au/

Dr Joe Tucci is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Childhood Foundation. Joe is a registered psychologist and social worker and author with significant experience in child protection and working therapeutically with children. He has worked in the field of child abuse and childhood trauma for the past 30 yea...
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Ph. D. Jonathan Baylin

Dr. Baylin received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in 1981. He has been working in the mental health field for 35 years.

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Linda Surtees
**Caring Families Aotearoa**
https://www.caringfamilies.org.nz

Linda has been with Caring Families Aotearoa since 2010 and has a wealth of experience in the foster care sector. Linda is a strong advocate for fostering families to receive robust, collaborative support and training to provide qulaity care for our most vulnerable children.

Associate Professor Nicola Atwool
**University of Otago**

Nicola Atwool is an Associate Professor in the Social and Community Work at the University of Otago. She returned to academia at the beginning of 2012 having spent six years as a Principal Advisor in the Office of the Children's Commissioner. She previously worked at the University of Otago as a lecturer and senior...
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Rob Surtees
**Caring Families Aotearoa**
https://www.caringfamilies.org.nz

Rob’s professional interests lay with Family Therapy and parenting children with attachment disorders. He has a degree in counselling, has completed study in Psychotherapy, and has experience in foster caring.Travelling the country, Rob has delivered training in Kim Goldings “Foundations of Attachment” and provid...
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Sally Moffatt
**Caring Families Aotearoa**
https://www.caringfamilies.org.nz

Sally holds a Diploma of Teaching and a Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood). Sally is a skilled facilitator, delivering the Foundations for Attachment programme to caregivers across Aotearoa. Sally has an in-depth knowledge of developmental trauma, attachment, therapeutic parenting and the impact of developmental t...
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Sophie Parrant
**Traniston Support Service - Oranga Tamariki**

Sophie Parrant is an Associate Service Manager with Oranga Tamariki Transition Support Service. With a passion for positive outcomes for rangatahi and their whānau, Sophie’s ‘why’ is to create systems that are easy for community and whanau to navigate. Sophie has a background in Youth Work, Community Development...
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Tania Henderson
**Education 4 U Limited**

Tēnā koutou katoa Ko Poho-o-te-rangi te maunga, Ko Matumako te awa, Ko Te Ao Hou te marae, Ko Ngati Ruawaipu te iwi, Ko Whanau-A-Tapuhi te hapu, Ko Tania Henderson ahau.

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Tuihana Ohia
**Centre for Social Impact**
https://www.centreforsocialimpact.org.nz/

Tuihana Ohia has been involved in the design and implementation of a number of significant wellbeing initiatives including Vodafone’s Manaaki Support Network and Te Wānanga o Aotearoa’s wellbeing programme Tau Ora.

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VOYCE - Whakarongo Mai

VOYCE – Whakarongo Mai, which stands for Voice of the Young and Care Experienced – Listen to me. Established in 2017, as an independent charity organisation that helps to advocate for the approximately 6000 children with care experience (children in foster or whanau care) in New Zealand.

FASD Navigator Anna Gundesen

FASD-CAN Inc

Upon a foundation of tertiary study in Occupational Therapy is more than two decades of leadership and a further three years in the foster care sector with experience of advocacy, support and facilitation.

However, more importantly, Anna has been an advocate navigating her way through the social, education and health services to find the best fit to support their third child with the neuro-diverse challenges that are symptomatic of her pre-natal alcohol exposure. Over the past six years Anna has undertaken a breadth of professional development in FASD in order to best understand her child.

Now her biggest buzz is walking alongside whānau and family members who are parenting those with behavioural symptoms caused by prenatal exposure to alcohol.

Ph.D. Daniel Hughes

Dan Hughes, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with a limited practice in South Portland, Maine. He founded and developed Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), the treatment of children who have experienced abuse and neglect and who demonstrate ongoing problems related to attachment and trauma. This treatment occurs in a family setting and the treatment model has expanded to become a general model of family treatment. He has spent over 40 years helping children and youth reach their full potential and reconnect with others in their lives.

Dan has conducted seminars, workshops, spoken at conferences and guest lectured throughout the US, Europe, Canada, and Australia over the past 18 years. He is also engaged in extensive training and supervision in the certification of therapists in his treatment model, along with ongoing consultation to various agencies and professionals. He is a member of the American Psychological Association. He is also president of the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Institute (DDPI) which is responsible for the certification of professionals in DDP. Information about DDPI can be found on their website, www.ddpnetwork.org.

Dan has authored many books including Attachment-Focused Parenting (2009), Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook (2011) and, with Jon Baylin, Brain-Based Parenting (2012) and The Neurobiology of Attachment-Focused Therapy (2016). He has also written or been featured in many articles, many of which can be found at www.ddpnetwork.org/resources/library/authors/hughes-daniel-a/.

Minister Hon Kelvin Davis

Hon Kelvin Davis

After the Government was formed following last year’s election, Minister Davis quickly put his hand up to take control of one of the most challenging portfolio’s – Children.

Oranga Tamariki’s challenges have been laid bare to the public, but the reality of the agencies’ work is one that many people in New Zealand have little understanding of.

Minister Davis will speak of those challenges facing Oranga Tamariki and the important work care families and whānau who open their homes and hearts to care for children in need of protection plays in the system.

He will also touch on changes happening within Oranga Tamariki and the wider foster/caregiving sector.

Minister for Crown/Maori Relations; Minister for Children; Minister of Corrections; and Associate Minister of Education (Maori Education)

Hon Kelvin Davis is a successful former teacher and school Principal who turned a struggling Northland school around, and enabled the students to achieve beyond their potential.

Born and bred in the Bay of Islands but now living in Kaitaia, Kelvin is a man of the north who brings skills in education and Māori issues to the Cabinet table to improve outcomes for all New Zealanders educationally, financially, culturally and socially.

He is a person with common sense and pragmatism who is able to relate across all sectors of society, but is most at home either fishing or up in the bush of his beloved Karetu Valley.

Janise Mitchell

Australian Childhood Foundation

Janise has 30 years’ experience in the field of child protection and child welfare, with a focus on therapeutic care. She completed a Master of Social Work (Research) in 2008 in which she researched the implementation of therapeutic foster care in Victoria, Australia. In her current role, Janise has been instrumental in the conceptualisation, development and implementation of the Australian Childhood Foundation therapeutic care programs.

Janise has extensive experience in the development of innovative therapeutic programs for traumatised children and young people in foster, kinship and residential care. She has provided consultancy to many governments on the issue of therapeutic services for children and young people and regularly participates on state and national Advisory Groups seeking to address the needs of children and young people in the child protection, out of home care, secure care and youth justice sectors.

Janise has a commitment to evidence informed practice and believes strongly in the participation of young people in the development of services, policies and programs that seek to support them.

Janise has presented nationally and internationally and has a range of publications, most recently she was lead editor on the 2020 book The Handbook of Therapeutic Care for Children: Evidence-Informed Approaches to Working with Traumatised Children and Adolescents in Foster, Kinship and Adoptive Care edited by Janise Mitchell, Joe Tucci and Ed Tronick, 2020, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Dr Joe Tucci

Australian Childhood Foundation

Dr Joe Tucci is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Childhood Foundation.

Joe is a registered psychologist and social worker and author with significant experience in child protection and working therapeutically with children. He has worked in the field of child abuse and childhood trauma for the past 30 years. Joe completed his Doctorate into emotional child abuse in 2005.

In 1993, he was awarded a Creswick Foundation Fellowship in Child and Family Relationships to work with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the United Kingdom.

He has acted as a senior consultant to government and non-government agencies across Australia on a range of projects related to trauma-informed care and child protection policy. He has demonstrated experience in developing and implementing child focused therapeutic programs.

He has presented at national and international conferences on therapeutic work with children, trauma and child abuse. His writing has been published in both Australian and international academic journals and the broader media. Most recently he was co-editor of the 2020 book The Handbook of Therapeutic Care for Children: Evidence-Informed Approaches to Working with Traumatized Children and Adolescents in Foster, Kinship and Adoptive Care edited by Janise Mitchell, Joe Tucci and Ed Tronick, 2020, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Ph. D. Jonathan Baylin

Dr. Baylin received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in 1981. He has been working in the mental health field for 35 years. For the past fifteen years, while continuing his clinical practice, he has immersed himself in the study of neurobiology and in teaching mental health practitioners about the brain. He has given numerous workshops for mental health professionals on “Putting the Brain in Therapy.”

Several years ago, Dr. Baylin began a collaborative relationship with Daniel Hughes, a leader in the field of attachment-focused therapy. Their book, Brain Based Parenting, was released by Norton Press in the spring of 2012 as part of the Norton series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. Dr. Baylin has delivered keynote sessions at international conferences and has also given numerous workshops both internationally and regionally within the USA.

Associate Professor Nicola Atwool

University of Otago

Nicola Atwool is an Associate Professor in the Social and Community Work at the University of Otago. She returned to academia at the beginning of 2012 having spent six years as a Principal Advisor in the Office of the Children's Commissioner. She previously worked at the University of Otago as a lecturer and senior lecturer in the social work programme from 1994 to 2005.

Nicola has professional qualifications in social work and child and adolescent psychotherapy and was employed in a variety of roles by what is now Oranga Tamariki for nearly twenty years before taking up an academic position. Her research interests include the social construction of childhood and adolescence, attachment theory, resilience, the impact of trauma on children and young people, the experience of children in care and social work intervention with children, young people and their families. Nicola is committed to bridging the worlds of academia, policy and practice.

Rob Surtees

Caring Families Aotearoa

Rob’s professional interests lay with Family Therapy and parenting children with attachment disorders. He has a degree in counselling, has completed study in Psychotherapy, and has experience in foster caring.

Travelling the country, Rob has delivered training in Kim Goldings “Foundations of Attachment” and provided more in-depth levels of understanding for foster carers. He believes anyone who cares for, or makes decisions for children in foster care needs to have an understanding of the trauma these children have experienced.

Sally Moffatt

Caring Families Aotearoa

Sally holds a Diploma of Teaching and a Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood). Sally is a skilled facilitator, delivering the Foundations for Attachment programme to caregivers across Aotearoa. Sally has an in-depth knowledge of developmental trauma, attachment, therapeutic parenting and the impact of developmental trauma on the developing brain. She has a passion to change the way we parent children and young people who have experienced maltreatment so that their trajectory in life changes for the better.

Tuihana Ohia

Centre for Social Impact

Ngāi te Rangi, Ngāti Pukenga, Te Arawa, Ngāi Pākehā

Tuihana Ohia comes with a wealth of experience within the wellbeing space. Her expertise spans across all aspects of wellbeing including project management, design, building inhouse capacity, strategy development, relationship liaison, and implementation.

Tuihana seamlessly navigates all sectors of business and communities, working among diverse range organisations both Māori and mainstream.

Recognised as one of Aotearoa’s leading wellbeing consultants she has won several awards for her work, notably with the launch of Manaaki Peer to Peer Support initiative in Vodafone and Te Wānanga o Aotearoa’s wellbeing programme Tau Ora.

Her passion for nurturing emerging wellbeing leaders and embedding wellbeing within communities and corporate spaces lead Tuihana, along with Pua Phillips and Tim Merhtens to create Rāngai – The Wellbeing Collective a space for those working with or who have an interest in the wellbeing space to meet, exchange knowledge, creativity, and innovation and who have recently been accepted into the Kōkiri Accelerator programme. She also the founder Woo Table Kōrero, a community-based initiative that brings people together to hear from Superstars within the community.

Veronica George

Soul Psycology

Veronica is a registered psychologist, certified in Dyadic Developmental Practice. She studied psychology at Waikato University, in the Applied Behaviour Analysis Programme. As she began working with children who had a background of relational trauma, she discovered there was something missing in the behavioural approach so attended much Professional Development to better understand the impact of this. The more she learned, the more passionate she became about helping others understand the hidden needs beneath the children’s behaviour, and how to support them.

Veronica works therapeutically, from a DDP perspective, with children, their parents/caregivers, and provide consultancy and professional development for other professionals, including within the education sector.

VOYCE - Whakarongo Mai

The VOYCE - Whakarongo Mai National Youth Council is made up of care experienced young people aged between 16 – 24 years old from all over NZ, who are interested in making a difference and connecting to the care community.

Their first year members have just elected their first co-chairs, and this highly engaged group has monthly wananga, backed by a specially designed curriculum aimed to build their knowledge of governance, professional standards and communication, teamwork and ultimately build their leadership, their rangatiratanga.

Four representatives from the National Youth Council will present on their behalf, along with VOYCE – Whakarongo Mai CEO, Tracie Shipton.

Speakers

FASD Navigator Anna Gundesen

Ph.D. Daniel Hughes

Minister Hon Kelvin Davis

Janise Mitchell

Jo Robertson

Dr Joe Tucci

Ph. D. Jonathan Baylin

Linda Surtees

Associate Professor Nicola Atwool

Rob Surtees

Sally Moffatt

Sophie Parrant

Tania Henderson

Tuihana Ohia

Veronica George

VOYCE - Whakarongo Mai