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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Adam’s professional involvement in housing extends over twenty years but he also has wide experience in the community sector. This includes working at the NSW Council of Social Service (NCOSS) where he was Deputy Director, and ACOSS where he was respectively Head of the Urban & regional Development Unit and Policy Manager of the Future of Work Program. He has been a board member of a housing association, a childcare peak (Community Child Care), chair of the Consumer Credit Legal Service, and was the independent Chair of the NSW Supported Accommodation Advisory Council.
Through his previous position as Executive Director of the National Community Housing Forum, he helped build a national approach to community housing and undertook research as an associate of the Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute and has been an AHURI Board member.
The Federation believes strongly in the importance of our links with broader social policy communities and is represented by Adam on a number of committees. Adam is the principal housing policy advisor to the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS).
Adam has a Masters degree from Sydney University, and is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a member of the Australasian Housing Institute.
GOOD PRACTICE UNIT
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POLICY TEAM
Lam has worked in the community sector in various positions over the last decade. He is a registered psychologist who has had extensive experience working clinically with homeless and at risk young people in Sydney. He has previously served as part of the senior management team of a Youth Service in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.
Prior to starting his research and policy role with the Federation, Lam worked as a program manager for the Youth Action and Policy Association, the peak representative organisation for Youth Services and Young People in NSW. He was involved in establishing various community development projects across NSW for this organisation.
Lam holds an Honours Degree in Psychology and has completed a Masters in Policy Studies from the University of UNSW.
Rachel has worked in the social and community services sector for the past 16 years.
She began her career as a volunteer youth worker with homeless young people in Kings Cross. She has worked in out of home care with children and young people, with young people in detention, and as a counselor and case manager. Rachel has spent the last four years working in the community housing sector. She has worked for two years in a casual role with the Good Practice Unit, delivering and writing training for the Certificate IV and Diploma in Social Housing. She is also an accredited Mental Health First Aid trainer, and has delivered the program over the last three years to frontline community housing staff.
Rachel holds a BA in Educational Psychology and English from the University of Sydney, a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, and a Masters in Counseling from the University of Western Sydney. Her current research, through the University of Canberra, is examining the consumer and clinician experience of the Assertive Community Treatment model of mental health care in Sydney’s Inner West. This model of service delivery is being explored in terms of how it creates, promotes and sustains social inclusion for persons with chronic mental health issues.
OFFICE SERVICES TEAM
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