Regional Domestic and Family Violence Senior Practitioner, Queensland Government Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women, Qld

Emma has 25 years of experience working in the social work field in Australia and the UK in the areas of domestic and family violence (women’s refuges), mental health, youth homelessness, asylum seeker support and child protection. For the past three years, Emma has developed and worked in the Walking with Dads Program. This innovative program has a strong partnering foundation with mothers and children and creates interventions for fathers to hold them accountable and responsible for their destructive behaviours, and to increase safety and wellbeing for families. Emma is a Safe and Together trainer.