Member profiles
| Jan has a long history of involvement in health related issues including Southern Area Health Service Women's Review Group, the Falls Committee, Southern Area Health Council, Southern Slopes Health Council, Area Quality Council, Planning Forum, Aboriginal Forum and Multi-Agency Health Forum. She has been an active member of the Hospital Auxiliary for over 26 years. In 1999 she was appointed to the NSW Health Council Consumer & Community Participation Group and later joined the Information Management Implementation Coordination Group. She moved to Lismore in 2000. |
| Joanne Petrovic is the Community Projects Officer at Richmond Valley Council. In the course of her work she engages with Aboriginal people, the aged, people with a disability, migrants, youth, children and women. She is also responsible for investigating social issues such as crime prevention, affordable housing and public transport. Joanne is 30 years old and lives in Casino with her parents and a young child. |
| Yvonne holds a nursing degree as well as a doctorate in social science. She worked as a registered nurse before returning to study. Her honours thesis examined graduate nurses' perception of quality nursing care, whilst her PhD project investigated the lived experience of jobless families in regional NSW, focusing on the Far North Coast. As a result of this background she is well placed to understand the impact of social policy and represent socially disadvantaged sections of the community. As a lecturer in social science at Southern Cross University Yvonne has been teaching an undergraduate unit in community participation and consultation for the past five years, and is firmly committed to citizen input in decision making structures. She lives in Lismore and loves gardening and choral singing. |
| Amber resides in Dunoon and works in Lismore as the Northern Rivers Branch Lesbian Health Project worker at ACON. Amber is currently the chairperson of Lismore and District Women's Health Centre. She is passionate about women's health, social justice and community involvement at all levels of policy decision-making. In her spare time Amber enjoys DJ'ing for community radio (BAY FM) and planting trees. |
| Victoria is a registered nurse and midwife. She has a background as a university lecturer, clinical nurse educator and is currently Head Teacher of Nursing & Aged Care at the North Coast Institute of TAFE, based at Ballina. Victoria is particularly interested in contributing to increasing and improving the access and quality of services to the aged and disabled in our communities. Currently she is the community representative on the Ballina Hospital Quality Committee. |
Janet Wilson | Janet was elected to Kyogle Council as a consequence of her strong interest in community development and her desire to build more resilient communities to meet future challenges. Janet has a diverse background with much of her work history connected to teaching and education. In Canada she was a play therapist with terminally ill children. In Switzerland she was teaching and working with playgroups. In the late 70s she worked in Australia establishing and managing child care centres. From the early 1980s until her retirement Janet worked extensively in local government in the children's services, community services and human services areas. Apart from her current work as a Councillor, her participation in various Council committees and tutoring with Community Colleges, Janet is in the process of establishing a small business. |
| Jenny is a naturopath and pharamacist. She operates her clinic, "Massage and Medicinals - Centre of Wellbeing", from the grounds of Kyogle Hospital, with her husband Albert Clark, a remedial masseur. Between them they strive to offer a conduit between the usage of prescription drugs and natural therapies with an emphasis on preventative medicine. Jenny is passionate about advocacy for best health practices and educates clients, naturopathic students at Southern Cross University and fellow health practitioners. |
| Lavender has qualifications in health, arts, social science and law. Through her forty years in the workforce she has been a clinician, health educator, social researcher, disability services consultant, worked in policy, evaluation and service review, been a community development worker and publisher, and latterly a legal academic and researcher at Southern Cross University. Lavender has a long-time involvement with community services as an unpaid worker, management committee member and consultant, especially in the areas of women's community services (health and supported accommodation). Her interests in health and community include lesbian women (she co-authored the Australian groundbreaking paper with Helen Myers: "An Overview of Lesbians and Health Issues"), the ageing/aged population and the connection between social justice and health. Over the years Lavender has lived, studied and worked in rural and regional Australia and currently in her spare time sings in the Lismore Reconciliation Choir and works - and networks - for a better world locally and globally. |
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