CareSouth was recently awarded the Outstanding Therapeutic Residential Care Team Award at Youth Action NSW's Youth Work Awards. The CETC proposed the new Outstanding Therapeutic...
Kelly Royds
General Manager
Kelly is our General Manager. She works to ensure young people, carers, leaders, and policymakers can access, share, and contribute to knowledge about what works in therapeutic out-of-home care.
Kelly’s work at the CETC is focused on the effective delivery and development of training and digital learning, impact storytelling and the overarching knowledge mobilisation strategy. She works in close partnership with therapeutic care providers, practitioners and other key government and non-government stakeholders to progress the goals of the CETC. She has held senior roles in the child and youth sector locally and internationally and worked across primary and tertiary education, government and international development. Kelly has a PhD in Childhood Studies and has published on participatory research, intercultural education and child rights.
Kelly lives on Gundungarra and D’harawal country and is learning how to grow a native habitat in her little urban garden.
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Kelly Royds
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