11/11/2025
🌿 Community Expression of Interest
✨ Help Shape New Local Wellbeing and Skills Programs for Kids ✨
I’m exploring what kinds of social, emotional, and behavioural supports local kids and families most need right now — across Cooktown, Hope Vale, Wujal Wujal, Rossville, and Bloomfield.
As a Clinical Psychologist with a background in Aboriginal wellbeing research (Interplay Project and AMSANT), I’m developing a series of community-led, culturally-safe interventions designed to strengthen kids’ emotional regulation, social confidence, and resilience — while being grounded in science, cultural awareness, and community feedback.
The programs and interventions designed will be in conjunction with experts in neuroscience, complex neurodiversity, trauma, and First Nations cultural safety and awareness.
Working independently gives me the freedom to be flexible and responsive — meeting people where they’re at and tailoring support to what they truly need. It also means my services remain separate from other local organisations, ensuring privacy, trust, and genuine choice for clients.
Before these programs are developed, I’d love to hear from you — parents, carers, teachers, youth workers, community members, Elders, and service providers:
💬 What challenges are you seeing in local kids right now?
🌱 What kinds of programs, groups, or workshops do you think would make the most difference?
👣 What skills or supports do families and schools need to feel confident?
Your feedback will guide how these initiatives are designed, tested, and refined — ensuring they’re evidence-based, validated, and responsive to real community needs.
📋 Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts here: https://forms.office.com/r/G1fvwgZybk
📧 For collaboration or partnership discussions: admin@walkingbesideyou.au
