Who We Are
Our Principal Facilitators
MELANIE ATKINS
Melanie started her working life as a Registered Nurse becoming Director of Nursing in a home for older people in 1983. She has worked with people with brain injury since 1986 and believes that every person can and should be a part of their community and free to contribute if that is their desire.
Melanie also:
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is an experienced trainer/facilitator, working with adult learners
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has a strong project management focus in all her work
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developed and directed Communitique Pty Ltd, a service that provided support to over 1400 people with disabilities, focusing on people with brain injury
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has 12 years experience managing an organization that employed and trained over 4000 largely unskilled workers to work with people with disabilities, mainly focused on brain injury.
SANDRA BATTEN
Sandy began working life as a secondary school teacher training in Physical Education with a focus on remedial education. She has worked with people with brain injury since 1989.
- is an experienced trainer in a range of educational settings for people of all ages and backgrounds
- has extensive experience in the design of training and education material for competency-based training in Disability, Community services and Aged Care
- is experienced in working directly with families and people with brain injury in a range of settings
- has been responsible for developing, implementing and managing the training, support and supervision of a largely unskilled workforce providing support to people with disabilities living in the community
- has worked as instructional designer and trainer for the development and delivery of competency-based training packages to workers and family members of people with dementia.
Board of Management
RUTH HARGRAVE
MARK KEILY
Mark was born in 1954 and describes his life as nearly finishing in 1977 when he sustained a brain injury as a result of a motor vehicle accident. Mark spent 2 years in hospital and "was let free" into the world in 1979. Mark was an original member of Headway Victoria and has been involved in a number of presentations and workshops on brain injury for various organisations over the years since his injury. Mark is an active board member of The Journey, he brings to the board not only his personal experience of living with a brain injury but also an ability to challenge the thinking of the board and, most importantly, great humour which keeps us all sane.
