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Workforce Development Collaborative WA is a joint commitment by Western Australian (WA) family and domestic violence and sexual violence peak bodies, Stopping Family Violence and Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing.

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About us

As co-peaks, we operate across the national landscape and drive key priorities for workforce development and training connected to the WA service system.

WDCWA services provide short and long-term partnering to individuals and organisations committed to preventing and responding to family, domestic and sexual violence.

Our Purpose

To offer dependable leadership, knowledge and expertise in order to establish and sustain a workforce in Western Australia that is capable, secure, and sensitive to family, domestic, and sexual violence.  

Our service improves a collaborative and system-integrated industry by connecting the Workforce to the state and federal environment.

Our Team

Our experience spans across leadership, practice and research in areas of prevention, early intervention and response for both victim-survivors and perpetrators of violence.

About Us

Workforce Development Collaborative WA is a joint commitment by Western Australian (WA) family and domestic violence and sexual violence peak bodies, Stopping Family Violence and Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing.

About us

As co-peaks, we operate across the national landscape and drive key priorities for workforce development and training connected to the WA service system.

WDCWA services provide short and long-term partnering to individuals and organisations committed to preventing and responding to family, domestic and sexual violence.

Our Purpose

To offer dependable leadership, knowledge and expertise in order to establish and sustain a workforce in Western Australia that is capable, secure, and sensitive to family, domestic, and sexual violence.  

Our service improves a collaborative and system-integrated industry by connecting the Workforce to the state and federal environment.

Our Team

Our experience spans across leadership, practice and research in areas of prevention, early intervention and response for both victim-survivors and perpetrators of violence.

Our highly qualified staff ensures that knowledge, skills, and competence are transferred from their experience with perpetrator intervention and men’s behaviour change programs, women and children’s services (crisis assistance, refuge, counselling, advocacy), and school-based programs that provide knowledge on family and domestic violence and skills for young people to experience healthy relationships.

We have work across and partnered with organisations that provide services intersecting with family, domestic and sexual violence such as child protection, alcohol and other drug abuse, mental health, homelessness, disability, education, culture, and diversity, as well as justice, magistrates and family courts.

Leadership

Alison Evans

Chief Executive Officer
Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing

Damian Green

Chief Executive Officer (Trainer)
Stopping Family Violence

Kate Jeffries

Operations & Workforce Development Manager (Trainer)
Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing

Mark O’Hare

Operations Manager (Trainer) Stopping Family Violence

Colleen West

Business Manager (Trainer)
Stopping Family Violence

Lucille Rowland

Learning and Development Lead
Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing

Staff

Alicia Gibbs

Manager, Preventing Violence Together (Trainer)

Gemma Hofman

Office and Events Manager

Helen Howard

Senior Project Officer (Trainer)

Linda Jenkins

Sector Development Lead (Trainer)

Kelly Marlow

Advocacy, Policy and Engagement Coordinator

Kyalie Moore

Senior Program Manager (Trainer)

Nicola Stokes

Project Officer

Renee Solomon

Events Coordinator

Rodney Vlais 

Project Consultant (Trainer)

Sharon Dean

Finance Coordinator

Tanya Elson

Senior Project Advisor

Triana Williamson

Office Coordinator
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Contact

0499 363 493
admin@wdcwa.org.au

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Damian Green

As CEO of Stopping Family Violence (SFV), Damian Green is a passionate advocate and researcher for Family and Domestic Violence interventions, with 20 years experience in the sector. Through his work at SFV, and previous role as a Research Associate at Curtin University, Damian has been involved in numerous research projects exploring family domestic and sexual violence, behaviour change interventions and parenting.

Damian is an APHRA registered psychologist and supervisor and an experienced group work facilitator and trainer in the areas of violent offending, working with men, parenting and Men’s Behaviour Change Programs. In addition, Damian is an accredited Safe and Together trainer and an Australian trainer for the Caring Dads program.

Kate Jeffries

Kate Jeffries is a registered psychologist with 20 years working in community services across Australia and New Zealand. She has experience in service development and delivery with a focus on family and domestic violence perpetrator interventions and women’s and children response services. Kate has led psychological and counselling services for not-for-profit services, worked for Department of Justice in the role of Family Consultant for the Family Court of Western Australia and supported several Networks as Chair across Family Law and Youth Services and she is the current Western Australian Men’s Behaviour Change Program Chair.

Kate’s work with Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing, as Operations and Workforce Development Manager involves extensive consultation across Western Australia focused on sector and workforce development, family and domestic violence advocacy, research and training. Kate is an accredited trainer in the Safe and Together model and AHPRA Board-approved supervisor.

Mark O’Hare

Mark O’Hare is a Senior Social Worker with over 20 years experience in working in Men’s Behaviour Change Programs, Violent Offender Treatment Programs, Sex Offender Treatment Programs and working with Men with AOD issues. Mark has held a number of positions in government including a specialised FDV Coordinator and consultant role with WA Department of Justice.

Mark’s work with Stopping Family Violence, as Operations Manager has involved extensive consultation across the sector in WA with a focus across FDV advocacy, policy, research and training. Mark is an experienced FDV specialist in WA and fully accredited trainer in the Safe and Together model and Caring Dads program.

Colleen West

Colleen has worked in management roles in health and mental health for the last 7 years in Government, not-for-profit and the private sector. Seeing the impact of family domestic and sexual violence through services has influenced a passion for creating change and increased awareness and creating better systems and practices. Colleen has a strong interest in holistic health and well-being and is currently finalising a Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science from The University of Notre Dame Australia and a Bachelor of Psychological Science from the Swinburne University of Technology.

Colleen’s experience includes working for Stopping Family Violence since early 2021 as part of the leadership team in engagement with stakeholders to support SFV organisational goals as well as project management, event planning, and delivering training across the organisation. Working on the front line in one of the busiest public emergency departments in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria, Australia managing over 200 staff brings an understanding of the role of service response and the role each service must work together for better outcomes. Whilst also bringing the experience of working in the private sector running a busy mental health department that looked after 80,000 employees including managing critical incident responses, well-being programs and general counselling on a global scale for Australian workplaces with the insight of the intersect to the work needed in family, domestic and sexual violence.

Lucille Rowland

Lucille is an accomplished Learning Design and Development specialist with over twenty years’ experience and a strong foundation in the design, development and delivery of face-to-face, online and blended learning. As a qualified  Instructional Designer and Training Facilitator, Lucille combines creativity with pedagogical expertise to design training programs that captivate learners and drive meaningful outcomes.

Lucille holds a Graduate Certificate in Online Learning from the University of Adelaide, specialising in technology-based learning, instructional design, online assessment, adult learning principles, learning styles and digital pedagogies. Lucille is also an accredited MATE (Motivating Action Through Empowerment) Creating Respectful Workplaces and MATE Cultural Change Workshop facilitator.

In her previous role as eLearning Consultant at Curtin University, Lucille worked with a team of subject matter experts to design, develop and deliver a blended program on Domestic Violence Awareness to Managers and Supervisors at Curtin. She was also responsible for the coordination, instructional design, program development, implementation and management of Curtin’s Online Learning Programs to over 7000 staff at Curtin’s multiple sites, and was the LMS Administrator for Curtin’s staff learning platform.

Lucille is the Learning and Development Lead at the Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing.