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FPWA Sexual Health Services
Annual
Report
2013
Roe Street Centre
Education & Training
Services
Quarry Health Centre
Magenta
People 1st Programme
Information Services
Research
Northbridge
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Contents
Acknowledgements3
President’s Report 4
CEO’s Report 5
Rural Services 9
Highlights 10
Northbridge Clinic 12
Education and Training Services 15
Magenta20
People 1st Programme 25
Information Services 30
Quarry Health Centre
33
Roe Street Centre36
Research39
FPWA Board41
Financial Information44
Staff and Volunteer List
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To provide leadership in
sexual and reproductive
health throughout2 WA
FPWA Annual Report 2013
- Mission Statement
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FPWA Sexual Health Services wishes to thank the following people and
organisations for their support and financial assistance during 2012/13
Department of Health WA –
Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus
Program
The Department of Families, Housing,
Community Services and Indigenous
Affairs (FaHCSIA)
Department of Health WA –
Women and Newborn Health Service
Department for Communities (WA)
HepatitisWA
Disability Services Commission
Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Health
Edited by Rebecca Smith
Design by Jessica Predovnik
Ansell International
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PRESIDENT’S REPORT
managers rallied together to
continue to deliver best practice
sexual and reproductive health
services across WA amid challenging
times.
ESTELLE DAWES
FPWA PRESIDENT
The last year has been one of
change for FPWA. In January 2013
the organisation experienced a
significant funding cut, which
lead to reductions in both staff
and operating hours across the
organisation. Led by Chief Executive
Officer Steve Blackwell, staff and
While the Annual Report outlines
FPWA’s excellent service provision
over the last 12 months, my
report will concentrate on the
organisation’s role at a national level
as part of Sexual Health and Family
Planning Australia (SH&FPA).
FPWA has been a member of
SH&FPA since 1974. I represent
FPWA as a member of the SH&FPA
Council, while FPWA’s CEO is part of
the SH&FPA National CEOs Forum.
Like FPWA, SH&FPA is also
experiencing a period of change
after its main funding contract
expired at the end of June 2013.
This required family planning
organisations around Australia
to review the requirements for a
Sexual and Reproductive Health
(SRH) industry peak body, and
saw them make the decision to
become a company limited by
guarantee. Members of SH&FPA
are committed to establishing a
vibrant and relevant peak ‘alliance’
of sexual and reproductive health
agencies in Australia, which will
facilitate advocacy work and the
development of national policy to
support advocacy efforts. This is an
exciting sign of things to come, and
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we will watch in anticipation as to where the next twelve
months takes us.
Special interest groups around Aboriginal and Torres
Straight Islander Peoples, Youth and Disability have been
established at a national level, and work will continue
with member organisations through the Professional
Working Groups (Medical Professionals, Education/
Training and Health Promoters and Nurses) to develop
policies and positions on a range of topics.
Advocacy work focusing on research, education and
data collection at a national level is an important part of
SH&FPA’s agenda (and will remain so even within a new
structure), with these areas offering potential for gains
in population and public health. An event of note this
year was the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Research Roundtable. Held in Sydney in December and
attended by 33 people, the roundtable was a positive
first step in moving towards a national SRH and rights
research framework, including future development of a
national priority-driven SRH research strategy.
Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Call to Action’, hosted
in partnership with the Public Health Association of
Australia. Held over two days in November, registrations
reached around 300, with this being the first Australian
conference to bring together practitioners, policy
makers, scholars and others enthusiastic about
improving the sexual and reproductive health of all
Australians.
Finally, on behalf of the Board I wish to express our
appreciation to Steve, FPWA management and staff for
their ongoing commitment to the provision of such
high quality services. I would also like to personally
thank Board members for their continued support and
commitment to FPWA.
Estelle Dawes
President
Another significant event this year was the First National
Sexual and Reproductive Health Conference, ‘Australia’s
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CEO’S REPORT
STEVE BLACKWELL
FPWA CEO
Welcome to this year’s annual
report.
In 2002 the Western Australian
Government implemented
the Funding and Purchasing
Community Services (FPCS) policy,
which was predicated on the
following values; development of
mutually respectful relationships,
reduction of bureaucracy,
transparency and accountability.
Building on this framework, the
Government then introduced the
Delivering Community Services
in Partnership (DCSP) policy in
2011. The DCSP policy has all the
ideals of FPCS with the addition
of putting the interests of the
Western Australian community first
and foremost. The DCSP policy
statement identifies many enablers
to facilitate implementation of the
policy, including;
• promoting flexibility,
innovation and community
responsiveness in the funding
and contracting of services by
Public Authorities, to better
meet community needs
• encouraging a more
productive working
relationship between Public
Authorities and the not-forprofit community sector
based on trust, collaboration,
accountability and
effectiveness and sustainable
service delivery
• clarifying when services are
to be put out to open tender
and when a more targeted
non-market based approach
is more appropriate
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• reducing “red tape”,
complexities and
inconsistencies, and
standardising terminology to
clarify the dialogue between
the parties
• requiring the Public Authorities
remain aware of Government’s
core desire to contract with the
not-for-profit community sector
in a manner that supports
sustainable service delivery
and recognises the importance
of ongoing organisational
viability.
The policy also identifies the
following Partnership Principles
which are to underpin all negotiations
between Public Authorities and the
not-for-profit sector;
• a commitment to improve
social, cultural and economic
outcomes for the Western
Australian community
• a collaborative approach to
decision making and working
together recognising the
interdependence in the delivery
of Community Services
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It was in this environment that FPWA
entered into negotiations with our
current State funders, the Department
of Health and the Disability Services
Commission, to transform our grants
to Service Agreements. The process
was a steep learning curve for all
a partnership based on
parties. The outcomes for FPWA,
mutual trust and respect, with
apart from new contracts for services,
openness and transparency in
has been a better understanding of
all activities
what funders are wanting to purchase
from us, and what is a fair and
a recognition of the value and
reasonable price to charge for these
contribution of both sectors
services. The discussions, for the most
in the design and delivery of
part, have been open and respectful,
Community Services and the
important role each play in the with FPWA aware that funders have
a finite amount of money and that
wellbeing of the community
now they are paying the real price
for services, funders understand that
an enduring commitment to
the sustainability of Community outputs will be reduced.
Services
Notwithstanding FPWA’s strategic
a commitment to employment intent, there was a requirement
for us to re-evaluate what we were
of service users in planning,
providing for funders, and in some
design and delivery of
circumstances readjust to meet
Community Services.
both the funder and our client’s
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needs. This process has been demonstrated most clearly
in our restructure of the clinical services offered at the
Northbridge Clinic, which are now more focussed on
professional training in sexual and reproductive health
in four core areas: sexually transmissible infections,
contraception, Pap smears and unplanned pregnancy.
Following on closely from the funding negotiations,
the Management Team commenced a nine-month
development program. The program, which is being
facilitated by an external consultant, has resulted in
the managers working more coherently and with a
very strategic focus. This has enabled us to take up the
challenges provided by the changes in funding to ensure
the best outcomes for our clients, our funders and the
organisation. The team has also commenced developing
the new FPWA Strategic Plan which will be finalised in
early 2014. This plan will re-enforce the value of our core
business to the Western Australian community, as well
as signify the new initiatives that the organisation will
undertake to ensure sexual and reproductive well-being
for all Western Australians.
This Annual Report demonstrates the good work that
FPWA has undertaken in the previous twelve months,
including the provision of clinical and counselling
services, community and professional education, health
promotion activities and research. These services have
been provided to the general public as well as to our
priority groups including young people, people with an
intellectual disability, Aboriginal people, people from
culturally diverse populations, people working in the sex
industry and people from non metropolitan areas. This
work would not be possible without the support of the
organisations named in the Acknowledgements section of
this report, so to one and all, thank you for your continued
support.
I would like to thank the Management Team and staff
of all FPWA services. It is our continued passion and
commitment that ensures that we are able to achieve as
much as we do.
Finally I would like to thank Estelle Dawes and the FPWA
Board for their guidance, governance and commitment to
the vision and mission of FPWA.
Steve Blackwell
CEO
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NORTHBRIDGE
CLINICAL SERVICES
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NORTHBRIDGE CLINICAL SERVICES
The Northbridge Clinic offers sexual
and reproductive clinical services as
a basis for providing clinical training,
and is conveniently located in the
heart of Northbridge. The Clinic
is serviced by a specialist team of
medical and nursing staff. While the
majority of clients are predominately
female, a weekly men’s clinic is also
well utilised. The Clinic offers training
for both doctors and nurses who are
supported through their practicums
in a professional environment.
Observation sessions are also provided
for medical students wishing to gain
a greater understanding in the field of
sexual health.
members from across the State.
Staffed by Advanced Practice Nurses
(APNs) and funded by the WA
Department of Health Sexual Health
and Blood-borne Virus Program, the
SHH responded to 7,410 requests for
information and advice on sexual and
reproductive health over the past 12
months. A website FAQ page has also
been developed to support people
in rural and remote areas seeking
information. The Helpline also received
requests for information from a variety
of other professionals and agencies,
including teacher’s, pharmacists and
allied health workers.
Health Promotion
This year the Clinic supported
National Men’s Health Week by
offering week-long drop-in clinics
for men wanting STI testing, with
46 men attending
The Sexual Health Helpline (SHH)
offers confidential advice to health
professionals and community
Men’s Health Week
June 10th - 16th 2013
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Have you had unprotected sex in the past?
Need to get tested for sexually transmissible infections?
Drop into FPWA Sexual Health Services during Men’s Health Week!
To celebrate Men’s Health Week, FPWA in Northbridge is offering drop-in clinics
specifically for men wanting to get tested for STIs.
These clinics will operate on a first come, first served basis. Limited number of
appointments each day. Male and female clinicians available.
Monday June 10th
Tuesday June 11th
Wednesday June 12th
Thursday June 13th
1:30pm - 5pm
1:30pm - 5pm
1:30pm - 5pm
1:30pm - 5pm
Cost
$20. Please bring your Medicare card.
Location
70 Roe Street Northbridge.
Quarry Health Centre for under 25s in
Northbridge is offering free annual memberships
for all young men making an appointment during
Men’s Health Week. Clinics are offered:
Monday and Wednesday 9.30am - 12.30pm
Tuesday and Thursday
1.30pm - 4.30pm
Ring 9227 1444 to make an appointment.
fpwa.org.au/mens-health-week/
Clinical Services
Changes in funding saw a restructure
of the Northbridge Clinic come into
effect in January 2013, resulting in a
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reduction of operating hours. Services
now only run during the week and
during business hours. The bookings
line and the SHH were combined, and
the colposcopy service discontinued.
The main focus for the Clinic is now
on training professionals in sexual
and reproductive health by providing
a specialist service in four core areas:
sexually transmissible infections,
contraception, Pap smears and
unplanned pregnancy.
slowly increased to over 12% of the
clinic’s population, and the number of
women attending for gynecological
issues reduced.
The Northbridge Clinic also hosted
clinics for young people aged
under 25 while Quarry Health
Centre underwent relocation and
refurbishment.
Training
The Northbridge Clinic provided 7,710
consultations during 2012/13. Client
support officers and nurses worked
together to screen clients to determine
the most appropriate consultation
(ie APNs see asymptomatic and well
clients, leaving doctors free to attend
and treat clients with symptoms as
well as referring clients to alternative
services). Around 50% of clients were
The Northbridge Clinic continued
symptomatic, with the majority of
as a center of clinical excellence for
clients between the ages of 20-29.
professional education and training in
sexual and reproductive health. FPWA
A total of 1,924 clients were new
offered specialist skills placements
to the service. The number of men
to training GPs through one-toattending the Northbridge Clinic
one tutorials, coupled with 3rd, 4th,
5th and 6th year medical student
placements, specialist Implanon and
Intrauterine Device (IUD) placements
for doctors, graduate nurse programs,
nursing student placements and GP
Registrar placements.
Clinical staff had the opportunity
to work across units and support
programs run by Education and
Training Services, and staff worked
alongside the Nurse Educator in
providing Pap smear training for
country nurses in Geraldton.
Partnerships and
Linkages
FPWA continues to provide Midland
Women’s Health Care Place with APN
support to run a Well Women’s Pap
Clinic. Nurses also run annual Pap
smear clinics at Hollywood Hospital
as part of their well women’s health
screening for staff.
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EDUCATION &
TRAINING SERVICES
B u l i d i n g t h e c a p a c i t y fo r e d u c a t i o n a n d t r a i n i n gFPWA
i n WA
Annual Report 2013
EDUCATION AND TRAINING SERVICES
This past year has been a productive one
for Education and Training Services: the
continuing shift to focus on strategies
to build workforce, organisational and
community capacity to promote sexual
health and respectful relationships has
resulted in fewer direct community
education programs, but has increased
workforce development activities,
including addressing barriers to the
implementation of knowledge and skills
gained into practice.
Health Promotion,
Community Education and
Information
Education and Training Services
provided sexual health education to 833
community members over the past year.
The vast majority of these (642) were
young people aged 14-24, and 310 were
disadvantaged, 200 were Aboriginal and
58 were from CaLD communities.
Sexual health education for young
people in schools is a strong priority.
The main focus is currently on the
development and pilot of the RelaTE
program - an eight-week program
for each of Year 8, 9 and 10, which is
mapped to the draft Australian and WA
curriculum documents and designed
to be facilitated by classroom teachers
- with a small amount of direct delivery
of sexual health education by FPWA
educators. These programs also have a
capacity building partnership approach,
with schools completing an audit to
ensure that any FPWA sessions are part
of an ongoing program. Schools are also
provided with additional resources to
ensure that teachers can incorporate
suitable follow-up material into their
program.
Staff from these schools were also
trained and supported in the delivery of
Mooditj to the students, enhancing the
sustainability of Mooditj in these schools.
Outside schools, Education and Training
Services continued to provide sexual
health education for a range of atrisk and marginalised young people,
Education and Training Services
partnered with two primary schools
with large numbers of Aboriginal
students to deliver Mooditj programs.
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Workforce Development
Stopes International Australia (MSI) to
develop an Abortion Provider Education
The capacity of the workforce in Western Program is almost complete.
Australia to deliver effective sexual
health services was greatly enhanced
A highlight for Nurse Education was a
this year, with 2,405 professionals
Regional Pap Smear Provider Course
and tertiary students attending FPWA
in Kalgoorlie in May 2013. The strong
courses, workshops, seminars and other partnerships between the Medicare
professional training events. Clinical
Local, Population Health Unit and FPWA
practicums were completed by 71
resulted in a very successful course,
doctors, nurses and medical students.
with two participants having already
Professionals were also provided with
completed the full clinical component
One community project that was
one-to-one information and advice on a with a local FPWA-approved preceptor.
particularly successful was a new
further 551 occasions.
program, Songbirds, run in partnership
A highlight for non-clinical workforce
with the City of Armadale. Five girls
development was the completion
and a female youth worker participated The Clinical Education team had a
very busy year, with a large number
by the Schools Team of the draft and
in this song writing course focusing
of seminars accounting for a majority
then the pilot of RelaTE Year 8 with
on respectful relationships. The girls
of the professional training. The new
five teachers, a school nurse and 300
produced and recorded a song,
regular evening Clinical Updates for
students at an outer northern suburbs
attended all eight sessions, and all
GPs and Practice Nurses are now well
senior high school. Based around
were engaged when talking about
respectful relationships and recognizing established, with the first Contraception the themes of gender and identity,
respectful relationships and assertive
relationships that weren’t respectful and Update being booked to capacity
and a repeat session required. The STI
communication, it complements the
how to best support each other.
Update was also very well attended.
more clinical traditional sexual health
A partnership project with Marie
education lessons. Research shows
including programs for young males on
remand or in detention. Unfortunately
these programs have been disrupted
since their transfer to Hakea Prison.
The program has been limited to two
hours and conditions have not been
conducive to education. It is anticipated
that a more effective program will be
able to be resumed once Banksia Hill is
fully functioning again.
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has also been made on the review and
updating of the Mooditj program for
young people. This has included a formal
evaluation of the Parenting session and
feedback on the new pictures and script
for the STI activity.
PHOTO: Considering identity in Mooditj Leader Training
that these are all aspects of sexuality
education that students want and
many teachers find difficult to teach.
Weekly qualitative and quantitative
feedback from staff and students was
overwhelmingly positive. Changes
based on the feedback received have
been incorporated into a second
version of the Year 8 RelaTE and Year 9
RelaTE which has been drafted.
Mooditj Leader Training continues to
be in high demand, with six programs
delivered this year. A particular
achievement was the successful
engagement of 13 Aboriginal men
to attend an all-male Mooditj Leader
Training delivered at Point Samson
(near Roebourne). Programs were also
run in Onslow, Port Hedland, Kalgoorlie
and Perth. Considerable progress
The Nuts and Bolts of Sexual Health
training program has also been delivered
six times this year, three times at FPWA,
twice in regional WA (in Newman and
Kalgoorlie) and once for Aboriginal
Health Professionals at the South
Metropolitan Population Health Unit.
The updated program was also effective
and well-received in those regional
environments. The partnership between
FPWA and the Youth Affairs Council of
WA (YACWA) to build the capacity of the
youth sector to promote sexual health
has continued this year, and a more
formal MOU has been agreed and is
awaiting sign off.
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The Goldfields region was the focus for
the Statewide Capacity Building Project
this year.
Working in partnership with the
Goldfields Population Health Unit was
essential to the success of this strategy.
Mooditj Leader Training was delivered in
Kalgoorlie in November, with an FPWA
female Aboriginal Educator staying on
for three days to provide support and
mentoring for the two members of the
Goldfields Regional Sexual Health Team,
both of whom were new to the field of
effort has been required to develop
the solid relationships essential to
the partnership approach to building
capacity within Pilbara communities.
Mooditj Leader Training was requested
and delivered in three communities
(Roebourne, Onslow and Port Hedland)
and Nuts and Bolts training delivered
The 2012 WA Sexual Health Forum held in Newman. The Roebourne Mooditj
Leader Training was successful in
on 7-8 November was very successful,
attracting 13 men, when usually it is
attended by 104 participants and
very difficult to recruit men to training
presenters. The wonderful new venue,
or work in sexual health. The men were
the Maritime Museum in Fremantle,
much more comfortable attending alland the theme, Yarning from the Heart
male training. This strategy appeared
by the Sea, inspired and encouraged
to be effective in engaging men,
presenters to share the personal and
without whom it is very difficult to work
community effects of their programs.
appropriately with the young men
Qualitative feedback was positive
and boys in the community. During
and heartfelt, with comments such as
the year a productive relationship
“Personal recounts had a big impact on
was developed with key people in the
me, discussing Aboriginal identity and
Jigalong Community, resulting in an
empowerment”.
invitation and community support to
Turnover in staff in the Pilbara, including deliver a full Mooditj Leader Training in
Jigalong in August 2013.
at senior levels, continued to be high,
creating extra challenges for the
Pilbara Project this year. Considerable
sexual health. This support included
assistance to deliver a Mooditj session.
This was followed in May with the very
successful delivery of Nuts and Bolts,
further enhancing the local community
capacity to promote the sexual health of
young people in the region.
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MAGENTA
O f fe r i n g s u p p o r t , h e a l t h s e r v i c e s, e d u c a t i o n a n d i n fo r m a t i o n
t o t h o s e i nv o l v e d i n t h e s e x i n d u s t r y
Magenta
Sex worker support service Magenta
faced some significant challenges in
the past year that tested the resilience
of staff members, including a reduction
in staff hours and hours of operation.
The part-time nature of Magenta’s work
continued to prove challenging in terms
of maintaining full service delivery,
with the agency more reliant than ever
on highly committed staff with the
experience and qualifications to deliver
effective service provision.
A policy change approved by the FPWA
Board meant that for the first time in
Magenta’s history, the agency is able to
employ peers currently working in the
sex industry. It is envisaged that this
change will assist in peer involvement
in the planning and operation of the
project. Magenta’s biggest asset is its
staff, and their focus and determination
has allowed the agency to reach its
funding targets while continuing to
expand the agencies reputation among
WA sex workers and other service
providers.
In recognition of the lack of sex worker
voices in mainstream media, and the
great need for sex workers to have a
voice regarding sex work issues, this
year Magenta recruited a small group
of people working in the WA industry
who are willing to speak to the media
regarding sex work. It is hoped that this
group will contribute to a wider and
more informed debate that will enable
serious and practical decision- making
to help improve the health and safety of
WA sex workers.
Health and Safety
Promotion
Magenta educators made 532 outreach
visits to sex industry premises during
2012/13, with safe sex supplies regularly
sold to workers during these visits. A
wide range of health and safety issues
were discussed with individuals and
small groups of sex workers. Workers
new to the sex industry are encouraged
to have a one on one appointment
with an educator during which a
comprehensive range of information
can be imparted. New workers are
encouraged during these sessions
to regularly contact the agency for
supplies and ongoing support.
This year Magenta’s information
packages for sex workers were
translated into Thai and Chinese. These
resources are coupled with a tri-lingual
STI information booklet published by
the national sex worker organisation.
Both publications aid English speaking
educators in providing appropriate
information to sex workers with limited
English skills. Information on STIs,
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BBVs and sexual health issues are also
displayed throughout the agency and
are available on the Magenta website in
three languages.
In 2012 Magenta ran an extended
campaign to raise awareness of sexual
assault in the sex industry. The agency
held a series of meetings with the
Sexual Assault Resource Centre (SARC)
in order to strengthen ties and develop
professional relationships to better
understand and promote SARC services
to sex workers. SARC contributed
to Magenta’s sexual assault themed
newsletter and a SARC counsellor
attended Magenta/SWOPWA’s “Self
Defence for Sex Workers” workshop,
talking to participants about services
and SARC’s willingness to support sex
workers.
Priority Populations
Regional Sex Workers
Street Based Sex Workers
In June Magenta visited Bunbury for the
first time since 2007. Educators held
meetings with Population Health, South
West Health and Information Centre,
SARC, WA Police and Western Australian
Substance Users Association (WASHUA)
to discuss issues for local sex workers.
All sex workers operating in the area
were contacted, and educators met
with three workers to provide health
and safety supplies and resources.
Information was gathered during this
trip to inform Magenta on local issues
that will be used to plan a subsequent
trip to the south west in the future.
Street based sex workers have been
under increased pressure this year,
with an extensive police crackdown
resulting in many move-on notices
being issued, charges for soliciting, and
accompanying higher risk behaviour
with workers seeking to avoid police
attention. Often Magenta is the only
agency that street based sex workers
engage with, and as such plays an
important role in promoting health,
safety and harm minimisation practices
to this small but important population.
Magenta educators supported street
based workers through priority clinic
appointments and referrals to drug and
alcohol agencies, Legal Aid, Centrelink,
Ruah Women’s Services and SARC.
Culturally and Linguistically
Diverse (CaLD) Sex Workers
Magenta regularly visits CaLD parlours
and private establishments on outreach.
Magenta continued to utilise the
language skills of bilingual educators to
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translate health and safety documents
for in-house and outreach purposes.
CaLD clients also constitute a big
presence at the Magenta clinic and
represent a significant number of firsttime appointments.
Magenta Clinical Services
Clinical services at Magenta were
halved in January 2013 under the new
funding agreement. To help combat
the impact of reduced clinic times at
Magenta, a fast-track system for sex
workers was established with Royal
Perth Hospital Sexual Health Clinic,
and has been working effectively
for the past six months. A priority
appointment is also now reserved at
every Magenta clinic to cater for those
most in need.
This year 258 appointments were
attended at the Magenta clinic, 63 of
which were sex workers new to the
clinic who received a comprehensive
overview of Magenta services by an
educator prior to their appointment,
including an extended conversation,
a tour of the shop, printed resources
and free samples. This session also
provides the opportunity for education
regarding practical safe sex advice,
and interpreters are always available at
these times. Thirty two percent of all
clinic appointments were attended by
CaLD sex workers.
Professional Education
In April Magenta staff participated in a
symposium at Notre Dame University
around issues for sex workers in
accessing public health services, with
more than 75 medical students in
attendance. Eight medical students
visited Magenta in the past year, with
an educator providing an individual
agency tour and introduction to the
service.
Partnerships and Linkages
Magenta worked with Scarlet Alliance,
(the national peer based sex worker
organisation) on dual outreach on
two separate occasions this year,
during which Scarlet Alliance and
Magenta services were promoted and
information gathered regarding sex
worker attitudes towards legislation
proposed by the WA State government.
A series of meetings were also held
with WA Police (WAPOL) in an attempt
to build bridges between sex workers
and WAPOL. The importance of the
police liaison position was reiterated
to senior police, and a range of issues
were discussed including policing of
street based sex workers, assault in the
sex industry, increasing accessibility
to WAPOL for WA sex workers and the
need for training of new WAPOL recruits
to help facilitate better understandings
of sex work.
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Regular joint outreach continues to
be conducted with the WA Substance
Users Association to help staff deliver
professional advice on safe injecting
practices from an agency specialising
in harm minimisation in relation to
substance use.
Magenta partnered with the People
First Programme and other disability
support agencies to form the Disability
and Sex Worker Project. Magenta is
committed to forwarding the aims of
this project in order to increase the
access of people with disability to safe
and appropriate sexual services in the
sex industry, workers, and promoted
the establishment of new working
partnerships.
Magenta also met with the following
agencies to exchange information
and collaborate on improvement of
services for sex workers: HepatitisWA,
Drug and Alcohol Office, People for
Sex Worker Rights WA, Family Inclusion
Network, Mental Health Emergency
Response Line, Women’s Health and
Family Services, Saint John of God
Drug and Alcohol Withdrawal Network,
WA AIDS Council, Population Health
and WorkSafe. Magenta continues to
undertake street based outreach with
WASUA on a weekly basis.
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PEOPLE 1ST PROGRAMME
S u p p o r t i n g p e o p l e w i t h a n i n t e l l e c t u a l d i s a b i l i t y i n h u m a n re l a t i o n s h i p s,
protective education and sexuality
PEOPLE 1ST PROGRAMME
The People 1st Programme (PIP) works
alongside people with an intellectual
disability and their parents, carers, and
service providers in sexuality education,
consensual adult relationships and
protective education.
PIP is funded through the Disability
Services Commission (DSC), with
the service available in the Perth
metropolitan area and some regional
parts of the State. This year PIP delivered
one to one sessions to 211 people
in the metropolitan area, and to 98
people via regional services (Bunbury,
Busselton and Albany). PIP continued
to see an increase in people attending
from rural and southwest areas, and
needed to be creative in service delivery
to meet this need by providing double
appointments, capacity building
strategies and videoconferencing.
Individuals attend between 11 and 15
one hour sessions.
The Albany Educator continued to
offer services on Thursdays and Fridays,
assisting in delivering one to one
sessions in schools, and PIP currently
utilises a room at Denmark Health
Service to provide a service to those
residing in the area.
PIP’s services to the Bunbury/
Busselton area continued to grow,
with a counsellor/educator delivering
additional sessions as part of a two-year
counselling project.
The service was successful in securing
a contract with DSC to deliver services
for the next three years: PIP will now
see fewer clients, which will allow the
service to deliver more intense sessions
to a more complex target group.
Information
PIP delivered sessions to an additional
491 young people and adults with a
disability in schools and employment
agencies. PIP delivered school
programmes to students aged 11-19
years at the following schools:
• Corpus Christi Catholic College
• La Salle Catholic College
• Atwell Senior High School Education
Support Centre
• Leeming Senior High School
Education Support Centre
• Cannington Community College
Education Support Centre
• Newman Catholic College
• South Fremantle Senior High School
• Ocean Reef Senior High School
• Ashdale Senior High School
• Cyril Jackson Education Support Unit
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• Christchurch Grammar School
• Great Southern Grammar School
• Australind Senior High School
Educators once again noted an increase
in requests for information relating
to sexting. As a result, cyber safety
laws now play a significant part in
Professional Development education
sessions. Other topics covered include
promoting self-esteem, feelings, my
changing body, sex and sexuality,
protective education (including
public and private places, body parts
and clothing), developing respectful
relationships, cyber safety sex and
bulling, choices and consequences,
promoting friendships, anger
management, managing inappropriate
masturbation, managing menstruation,
women’s and men’s health issues and
assertive communication strategies.
‘The Meeting Place’, PIP’s friendship
group, continued community sessions,
with an average of 11 members
meeting monthly for 3-4 hours to
practice interpersonal and social skills.
Facilitated by a peer educator (who also
plans outings), the group’s membership
remains at 22.
PIP’s website attracted 9,969 visitors in
the last year, an increase by 3,800 from
the previous year, with 21,056 page
views (compared to 15,098 in 2011/12).
A new user-friendly website is under
construction, with menu bars being
replaced with visual images to support
accessibility.
PIP has been unable to recruit
additional members to the Disability
Reference Group over the last year,
however carers and family members
are still being encouraged to
participate. This group took part in the
independent service monitoring visit
conducted by DSC, and assisted with
the development of PIP’s new website.
PIP worked with Artemis Productions
this year, who directed a documentary
for ABC TV around relationships and
sexuality for young adults with an
intellectual disability. PIP was filmed
delivering two sexuality education
sessions to four young people leaving
home. The programme is scheduled to
screen in late 2013.
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Professional education remained
integral to PIP’s service role this year.
Training sessions were delivered to
service providers and education staff at
Perth, Karratha, Bunbury and Albany.
Participants travelled to workshops from
Narrogin, Roebourne, South Hedland
and the Midwest. The Level Three ‘Train
the Trainer’ workshop was delivered
in the metropolitan area. In line with
the Carers Recognition Act (2004), PIP
continued to deliver sessions to parents
and carers, with individuals attending
workshops in Perth, Karratha and
Bunbury,
‘People with a Disability and Sex Worker
issues’. The group is currently developing
guidelines for people with disability,
family members, carers and disability
support workers, and will include
current legislative practice. A funding
submission will be circulated in the next
financial year. It is proposed that work be
carried out to further develop and print
the guidelines and develop teaching
sessions for family members, disability
support workers and commercial sex
workers.
In August 2012 a six-month proposal
was successfully submitted to the
National Disability Insurance Scheme
Practical Design Fund. The ensuing
project adapted and developed two
tools to support people with intellectual
disability to express appropriate sexual
behavior.
The first tool, an individual client
assessment to assess pre and post
sexuality knowledge in twelve areas, will
be an integral part of service delivery.
Research and Development
PIPs teaching modules continued
to remain its focus, supporting its
governance and capacity building
framework.
FPWA, PIP and Magenta worked
collaboratively with other disability
service and advocacy groups to look at
PHOTO: PIP’s new brochures
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The second tool consists of five agespecific brochures around identifying
and responding to inappropriate
sexual behaviours. These were piloted
at ten different stakeholder events in
metropolitan, regional and rural WA,
and both tools were showcased at
the DisabilityCare Australia national
conference in June, attended by 1450
delegates.
fire prevention process within the
Bunbury office. All recommendations
have now been addressed, with new fire
procedures and equipment installed,
a new database implemented, and
dividers used in client files to improve
access and management. PIP also
developed an informal complaints log
to note small concerns raised by people
with disability and family members.
Disability Service
Commission Independent
Quality Monitoring
The service was highlighted as a
model of good practice in areas
such as innovative service delivery
(implementing a flexible service
conducive to client need) and
robust processes within the unit and
organisation (effective entry and exit
of clients, excellent risk and serious
incident processes). The eclectic skill
base of educators and capacity building
philosophy to support work carried out
with clients was also noted as a model of
good practice.
PIP took part in a three-month
assessment by DSC, with the service
evaluation measuring against the
Disability Service Standards. All three
service outlets were reviewed, with
service user and family input an integral
part of the process.
The majority of feedback was positive,
with some minor changes required
relating to accessing data, filing of
current notes, and documenting
informal complaints. The main area of
need was the absence of an adequate
PIP has renewed its contract with
Commonwealth Care Respite Service for
another year; this will enable parents
and carers to attend education sessions
without financial cost to the family.
Partnerships continued to be forged
with rural service providers to deliver
teaching and one to one client
workshops when required.
One to one sessions were also carried
out at the Albany Prison over the
course of the year. Sessions prepared
individuals for release back into the
community, with protective behaviours,
sex and the law and inappropriate
sexual behaviours being addressed.
PIP continued its partnership with the
Disability Diversionary Programme,
funded by DSC, to prevent people with
disability entering the prison system.
The Friendship Group and support
provided to clients exited from the
service were both highlighted as
effective post education strategies.
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INFORMATION SERVICES
Pro v i d i n g i n t e r n a l a n d e x t e r n a l c o m m u n i c a t i o n s
INFORMATION SERVICES
Operating as an integrated team,
Information Services continued to
provide internal and external services
this year including media and public
relations, events and health promotion,
library and bookshop, social media,
publications, graphic design and
website management.
Health Promotion,
Information
Staff promoted sexual and reproductive
health to diverse groups of people at
a variety of events, holding interactive
stalls as part of NAIDOC Week, PRIDE
Fairday, the Big Day Out music festival
and university orientation weeks. Staff
also attended a number of expos and
health days where they covered topics
such as sexually transmissible infection
testing and treatment, sex and the law
and contraception.
calendar during WA Sexual Health Week,
which was run by the WA AIDS Council
and supported by FPWA.
Convened by Information Services, the
FPWA Publications Committee reviewed
and reprinted a number of brochures
and information sheets during 2012/13,
and developed new STI and safe sex
brochures.
Information Services convened
a workshop for Culturally and
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providers to gather input into the
‘Rock and roll on a condom’ concert
development of a new CaLD resource
at the Northbridge Piazza. Several
for young people utilising funding from
staff involved in the music industry
the Department of Health WA. This was
performed sets, with nearly 200 musichighly successful, with 27 attendees
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from 19 different organisations working
the audience and passers-by, many
with CaLD young people. CaLD students
of whom also entered a safe sex
competition. Nearly 3,000 free condoms from TAFE and a secondary school
were also surveyed about issues of
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importance to them, along with useful
to 39 organisations running their own
resource formats. As a result of the
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a specialist information service through
its library and bookshop. Funding from
the Department of Health WA allowed
the library to greatly increase its DVD
collection. There was over 72,000
visits to the FPWA website in the past
year, with health information sheets
pages remaining the most popular
pages accessed. The FPWA Twitter and
Facebook accounts continued to grow
in popularity, proving to be useful tools
for sharing articles and promoting news
and events.
The FPWA Library and Bookshop
continued to service professionals,
trainees and students in their requests
for sexual and reproductive health
resources.
Valuable relationships continued with
the CaLD reference group.
FPWA continued to seek and respond
to media requests, increasing public
awareness about the organisation and
related sexual and reproductive health
PHOTO: New STI and safe sex resources
issues. The organisation’s quarterly
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develop banner pens (which have a
350 subscribers. Safety packs were
discreet, retractable banner that rolls
developed and made available during
around the barrel of the pen) covering
Leaver’s Week, and Information Services
the topics of puberty and contraception supported National Men’s Health
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QUARRY HEALTH CENTRE
Providing clinical, counselling and education services to young people
QUARRY HEALTH CENTRE
After 11 months of planning, building
and construction work, Quarry Health
Centre’s new premises opened at 170
Aberdeen Street Northbridge in May
2013, providing a youth-friendly, safe
space for young people aged under
25 years wanting to access specialized
sexual health services.
Health Promotion,
Information
Quarry’s educator provided 43
education sessions to young people
from a variety of schools and services
throughout the year, engaging with 2,
519 young people on topics such as safe
sex, sexually transmissible infections,
contraception, risk taking behaviors,
pregnancy, relationships and respectful
relationships including pornography
and negotiating consent. This also
included ongoing work with various
alternative youth and community
work settings, providing sexual health
education sessions to numerous at risk
and hard to reach young people.
and nurses engaged with 851 young
people during this period, the majority
of whom were young women.
Quarry’s counselling service provided
93 counseling sessions for young
Education sessions with Aboriginal
people, again lower than in previous
young people remained constant:
years due to delays with the new
152 young people engaged through
education sessions were Aboriginal, and building. The main issues discussed and
addressed in counselling sessions with
142 were culturally and linguistically
diverse. There were 4,373 free condoms young people included self-esteem,
distributed to young people throughout relationships, anxiety, mood regulation
and depression. Quarry also entered into
the year, as well as 2,221 free Quarry
a partnership with the Sexual Assault
memberships. Quarry’s new youthResource Centre to provide counselling
friendly website was launched in June
from Quarry one day per week for 12
following consultation with over 50
months.
young people.
Clinical and Counselling
Services
Temporary clinics for young people
were run at Northbridge Clinic for the
majority of this year while Quarry’s new
premises were finalised. Quarry Doctors
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What young people
say about Quarry
“Nice people,
easy to talk to
about safe sex!”
“Happy, calming and
positive environment!
Great service!”
“Very comforting
to have talks with no
judgment!”
Quarry continued to work alongside
a large number of key youth and
social service professional partners
in related fields. Staff also continued
to attend the ANY (Agency Network
Youth) and CMF (Cockburn, Melville
and Fremantle) Interagency Meetings.
These partnerships allow for the sharing
of resources and information, as well
as strengthening referral networks for
young people.
Quarry staff formed part of the YEP
(Youth Educating Peers) Project for
YACWA (Youth Affairs Council of
Western Australia) reference group.
This focuses on the building of capacity
in the youth work sector through the
YEP Alliance. Quarry also facilitated
a National Youth Week Event in April
which attracted 25 service professionals
and 28 young people, all of whom who
were at risk and marginalised.
The Healthy Relationship Art Project
for Aboriginal young people, facilitated
in conjunction with Save the Children
in Armadale, allowed 14 young people
to explore healthy and unhealthy
relationships, as well as develop art
work to be displayed in the service.
The Quarry Banner Project attracted
partnerships with Swan View Youth
Service, the Shire of Mundaring and
Parkerville Children’s Centre to engage
a mixed group of six young people to
design a graffiti arts mural for Quarry to
use on a range of promotional material.
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ROE STREET CENTRE
FOR HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
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Specialist counselling for relationship and sexual health issues
ROE STREET CENTRE
The Roe Street Centre for human
relationships is FPWA’s specialist
counselling service. Five part-time
counsellors are available (including
two male counsellors), supported by a
manager and an administration officer.
The counsellors come from a variety
of professional backgrounds including
social work, psychology, nursing
and psychotherapy. All counsellors
are accredited by their respective
professional bodies.
of 820 counselling appointments to 445
clients during 2012/13. Clients attended
676 sessions (80%) with 12% of clients
who either did not show or cancelled
(8%).
The majority of counselling sessions
were for relationship issues, particularly
those pertaining to sexuality and sexual
concerns. When clients present with a
sexually transmissible infection/s, the
most common one is genital herpes.
Genital herpes leads to significant
distress, particularly in the areas of
symptom management, perceived/
actual stigma and discrimination,
disclosure to sexual partners and fear of
rejection.
Short and medium-term sessions are
available and cover all areas of sexual
and reproductive health for individuals
and couples. The Centre also provides
individual and group supervision,
training services and consultancy to
internal units and external professionals. It is pleasing to note that men
comprised 25% of all Roe Street Centre
clients, a significant increase from
The Roe Street Centre provided a total
previous years, and that the number
of couples accessing counselling also
increased, comprising 8% of the total
sessions. Men are generally more
reluctant than women to access health
services, and these figures demonstrate
that more men are beginning to seek
help and are viewing both the service
and counselling as ‘male-friendly’.
Roe Street Centre counsellors provide
unplanned pregnancy and post
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termination counselling appointments
which are subsidised by Women
and Newborn Health Services of the
Department of Health WA, with 192
sessions delivered this year. Waiting
times are low for clients requesting an
unplanned pregnancy appointment,
with 60% of clients seen within three
days and 90% of clients seen within a
week of contacting FPWA. Telephone
counselling is available for country
and rural clients, the uptake of which is
increasing due to advertising aimed at
general practitioners and people in rural
and regional areas.
When a woman experiences an
unplanned pregnancy, the support
people in her life can be an important
factor when she makes a decision
regarding the pregnancy. The number
of partners and significant others
attending counselling with the woman
steadily increased this year, which
highlights their commitment to the
woman making the decision. Regardless
of the outcome of the unplanned
pregnancy, the availability of support
for women at this difficult time is of the
highest importance.
Roe Street Centre continues to deliver
its three-day training course for health
professionals on the provision of
non-directive unplanned pregnancy
counselling. This is the only such course
in Western Australia and is based on
best practice and evidence based
approaches. Funded by the Women and
Newborn Health Service, the course is
offered to 18 participants from a range
of backgrounds including psychologists,
counsellors, community nurses, school
nurses, youth workers and social
workers. Country and metropolitan
practitioners are both represented. The
success of the program ensures that
provision of non-directive unplanned
pregnancy counselling is more widely
available to women, their partners and
significant others throughout Western
Australia.
Evaluation of the three-day nondirective unplanned pregnancy
counselling course demonstrated that
the course was well designed, well
delivered and those who attended were
highly satisfied.
For the first time this year Roe Street
Centre offered clinical supervision to
external agencies. At present two notfor-profit organisations use FPWA for
their external supervision requirements.
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RESEARCH
RESEARCH
The model aimed to give those
involved in supporting people with an
intellectual disability a framework of
the range of expected behaviours by
age group; behaviours that are outside
the expected range of behaviours for
the age group; and behaviours that
In 2012 the People 1st Programme
require professional intervention. The
submitted a research proposal to the
Commonwealth Department of Families, project also included ways to respond
to the identified behaviours, with this
Housing, Community Services and
information presented as a Response
Indigenous Affairs to identify ways of
Guide. The behavioural model and
supporting people with an intellectual
disability to express appropriate sexual Response guide were used in education
behaviours. This initial proposal was not sessions for parents, carers and support
staff involved with people with an
successful and a revised proposal was
intellectual disability to support them
submitted to the National Disability
Insurance Scheme Practical Design Fund in identifying and responding to sexual
behaviours. The final report on the
which was successful.
project was submitted to the Practical
Design Fund in May 2013.
The project reviewed the current
available literature to identify a
FPWA collaborated with Curtin
behavioural model for use in the
University School of Nursing and
education and training for family
Midwifery when a Midwifery Masters
members, carers and support staff of
student did an audit on nurses and
people with an intellectual disability.
The FPWA Research subcommittee met
regularly during 2012/13 to review and
make recommendations on internal
and external research proposals and
invitations for collaboration.
midwifes who had completed FPWA’s
Nurse Pap Smear Provider course.
FPWA staff met with the student and
her supervisors, reviewed and made
suggestions on the development of the
survey questionnaire and supported the
project by mailing out and collecting
the returned surveys.
In 2012 the Department of Health WA
funded the Sexual Health and Bloodborne Virus Applied Research and
Evaluation Network (SiREN) aimed
at promoting applied research and
evaluation in WA focusing on the control
and prevention of sexually transmissible
infections and blood-borne viruses.
FPWA is involved in the Project Steering
Group, the Workshops and Toolkit, and
the Symposium Reference Groups. Two
workshops have been presented and
the Toolkit information will soon be
available online.
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FPWA BOARD
Estelle Dawes
(President)
Estelle came to Australia in 2001 from
Johannesburg, South Africa where she was a
Finance Manager at BHP Billiton for 23 years.
Her first job in Australia was as Corporate
Services Director at the South West
Aboriginal Land and Sea Council, as well as
doing a short stint at Diabetes Australia WA
and one year as the WA Secretary for the
Winston Churchill Memorial. She was also
previously the Director of Corporate Services
at Ngala. Estelle is currently the Business
Manager at the Centre for Exploration and
Targeting at the University of WA, and is the
current Perth alumni representative for the
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Estelle became FPWA’s representitive on the
Sexual Health & FPA council and is also its
Treasurer.
Mandy Stringer
(Vice President/
Secretary)
Mandy is currently employed as the
Executive Director at Women’s Healthworks.
She has worked in the community sector
for over 20 years, and has a particular
interest and commitment to the continuing
development and health status of women
and communities. Mandy has previously
worked as a Community Development
Worker in Madang, Papua New Guinea.
As a community educator with Family
Planning (1989-1992), she delivered a range
of educational programs in Darwin and
regional Aboriginal communities.
Marilyn Clark-Murphy
(Treasurer)
Dr Marilyn Clark-Murphy was a Professor
of Finance, with a special interest in
superannuation and financial decision
making, at Edith Cowan University in WA
until her retirement at the end of 2010. Prior
to entering academia she had a career in
the private sector, primarily in stock and
commodity broking and all aspects of
financial and administrative management.
Marilyn holds a PhD and Bachelor of Arts
from the University of Western Australia and
a Master of Business from Curtin University.
During her career Marilyn has served
on a wide range of government boards,
commissions and advisory groups at state
and national level and is currently on several
not-for-profit boards and committees.
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Margaret Pyrchla
at Marr Mooditj College. Jennifer is the
author of ‘Sounding the Alarm: Remote Area
Nurses and Aboriginals at Risk’. Jennifer’s
Margaret commenced her professional career wide experience includes working with
in accounting before moving to auditing
the management committee at the WA
and risk assurance. She spent a considerable
Substance Users’ Association, and she
amount of time working for Ernst and Young was previously a board member with the
before moving to the Australian Securities
Chiropractor’s Registration Board. Jennifer is
and Investments Commission, which gave
a founder of the National Council of Remote
her exposure to the Australian financial
Area Nurses of Australia.
sector and capital markets. In recent years
she focused on compliance and regulation,
and is currently the Regulatory Compliance
Manager at Western Power. Margaret holds
a Graduate Diploma in Applied Corporate
Madeleine worked as a commercial lawyer
Governance, a Master of Applied Finance and for more than 10 years, both in private
Investments and a Bachelor of Business. She
practice and as in-house counsel with The
is currently also on the board of the Keogh
University of Western Australia. Madeleine
Institute for Medical Research.
has held the position of Chief of Staff at UWA,
Madeleine King
Jennifer Cramer
Jennifer is a registered nurse and midwife
with a post-graduate Diploma in Public
Health, Masters in Health Services
Management and PhD in Nursing. Working
extensively with Aboriginal people, Jennifer
has been a remote area nurse and a lecturer
and researcher at the Centre for Indigenous
Studies, Curtin University, and an educator
and most recently worked as a Ministerial
Adviser to the Hon Gary Gray AO MP, Special
Minister of State. Madeleine has now
returned to the University as Director of the
UWA Centenary Celebrations and Principal
Adviser in Strategic Projects.
Irena Morris
(Resigned 30th April 2013)
Irena is a management consultant, trainer,
facilitator and executive coach with 22
years experience in both large and niche
firms, delivering a range of projects for
executives and the boards of large and small
companies. Irena has experience in a range
of organisations: health, community/not-forprofit, financial services, resource sector and
construction, as well as government and a
range of member based bodies. Irena holds
a BSc in Management Information Systems
(Summa Cum Laude) International University,
San Diego, and an MBA from the University
of WA Graduate School of Management. She
is a director of two firms – a management
consulting and project management
practice, as well as a boutique organisation
focussing on training, people solutions,
culture change and personal transitions.
Lewis Marshall
(Resigned 23rd October 2012)
Lewis is a Sexual Health Physician and Public
Health Physician, and is the Head of Sexual
Health Services at Fremantle Hospital and
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the Former President of FPWA and Sexual
Health and Family Planning Australia. He
brings experience of the bureaucratic process
in Western Australia around health funding,
particularly in the sexual health arena, and
practical clinical skills in the field, giving him
a valuable insight into the work of FPWA.
Christina Kadmos
Christina has worked across the government
and not-for-profit sectors in Western
Australia, Victoria and Tasmania for over
25 years, and currently runs a consultancy
business. She has worked in direct service,
management and research. Christina’s
qualifications include a Master of Applied
Social Research and Bachelor of Social
Work. Professional associations include
membership to the Australasian Evaluation
Society, International Association for Public
Participation and the Australian Facilitators
Network.
Danusia Davis
(Staff Representative)
Danusia joined FPWA in December 2009. She
is currently part of the People 1st Programme
(PIP) in Northbridge, working with clients
on a one-to-one basis as well as educating
school groups and presenting at workshops
for carers/parents, and visiting rural client
when required. Previous employers have
included the Departments of Corrections
and Human Services. Danusia has a Nursing
background in both the intellectual disability
field as well as the geriatric area. She has also
completed an Associate Diploma in Welfare
Studies at Monash University.
Judy Straton
(Commenced 5th February 2013)
Dr Judy Straton is a public health physician
with considerable experience in academia
and in government as well as in family
planning. She has worked and taught in
family planning clinics in Minneapolis USA,
in Sydney and in Perth. She has long been
an advocate for women’s reproductive rights
and played a leading advocacy role in the
abortion law reform debate in WA in 1998.
Dr Straton taught for over 20 years at the
University of Western Australia where she
was Associate Professor of Public Health
and later Associate Dean in the Faculty of
Medicine and Dentistry. Following this, she
spent several years working in government,
first as a Senior Medical Advisor in the
Commonwealth Department of Health and
Ageing, and later as Director of Child and
Community Health in the WA Department of
Health. She is currently an Adjunct Professor
at the Telethon Institute for Child Health
Research and serves on the Board of Silver
Chain.
EX OFFICIO FPWA
MANAGEMENT STAFF
Chief Executive Officer
Stephen Blackwell, RMHN, RN, B.Appl.Sci
(Nursing), Grad Dip Arts (Counselling), Post
Grad Dip (Social Research and Evaluation),
MHRM
Director Corporate
Services
Jean McGibbon, BBus, CPA
Life Members
Dr Carol Deller
Mr Jim Palmer
Dr Myrna Tonkinson
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FINANCIAL INFORMATION
FPWA is an autonomous, not-for-profit, non-government organisation
FPWA Revenue
FPWA Expenditure
2
1
3
4
1
2
3
4
5 6
1 State funding 71%
2 Federal/Other funding 15%
1 Staffing 81%
2 Client costs 3%
4 Infrastructure 10%
3 Client co-payments 10%
3 Insurer, Legal, Audit 2%
6 Travel 2%
5 Print & Communications 2%
4 Self generated 4%
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STAFF & VOLUNTEER LIST
AS AT 30 JUNE 2013
Northbridge Clinic
Maria Abbonizio Client Service Officer
Karen Bonte Advanced Practice Nurse
Julie Cayley Advanced Practice Nurse
Elizabeth Christie Doctor
Angela Cooney Doctor
Alison Creagh Doctor
Chelsee Crocker Client Service Officer
Teresa Duffield Clinic Administration Officer
Gail Elson Manager
Kamala Emanuel Doctor
Gaynor Evans Advanced Practice Nurse
Maria Garefalakis Doctor
Rachel Hopkins Registered Nurse
Delphine Hunter Doctor (WAGPET Registrar)
Sally Hutchinson Graduate Nurse
Jegaluckshumy Jegasothy Doctor
Isabella Kaiser Client Service Officer
Jessica Marcotte Client Service Officer / Team Leader
Catlin McKell Client Service Officer
Helen McDonough Client Service Officer
Stephanie O’Connor Client Service Officer
Stephen Plecas Registered Nurse
Zena Robinson Advanced Practice Nurse
Mariana Rodrigues Galrao Jorge Doctor
Tracey Rose Pathology Nurse
Sarah Smith Doctor
Kylie Sutton Advanced Practice Nurse
Leanne Wallace Client Service Officer
Beverley-Ann Williamson Client Service Officer
Heidi Wyss-Prestage Advanced Practice Nurse
Gwenda Zanella Client Service Officer
Gina Zammit Advanced Practice Nurse
Chantal Abbott Educator
Elaine Alderson Manager
Emma Blackwell Educator
Leanne Carter Educator / Counsellor
Danusia Davis Educator
Elizabeth Dunn Educator
Andrew Goldswain Peer Educator
Andrea Griffiths-Ghosh Educator
Samara Pierce Educator
Natalie Prue Educator
Francis Townsend Senior Educator
Education and
Training Unit
Sonya Arcidiacono Administration Officer
Alison Creagh Medical Educator
Suzanne Dimitrijevich Schools Coordinator
Paul English Educator
Lucy Farley Educator
Sally Hutchinson Educator
Alice Iaveta Senior Educator
Michelle Lambert Education Consultant
Murray Masters OATSIH Program Coordinator
Catlin McKell Administration Assistant
Kay Morton Nurse Educator
Julie Potter Educator
Rueben Robinson Educator
Robyn Wansbrough Manager
Corporate Services
Collette Barbour Accountant
Stephen Blackwell Chief Executive Officer
Alexander Cook IT Systems Administrator
Maria Garefalakis Medical Director
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STAFF & VOLUNTEER LIST
AS AT 30 JUNE 2013
Catherine Hakanson Nursing Consultant
Jean McGibbon Director Corporate Services
Helen Nicolaou Assistant Accountant
Stephen Plecas Nurse Researcher
Roe Street Centre for
human relationships
John Bluntschli Senior Counsellor
Suzanne Calver Manager
Yalda Cassidy Counsellor
Emily-Anne Hirshman-Smith Counsellor
Stephen Plecas Counsellor
Nicole Setton Senior Counsellor
HR and Administration
Services
Leza Bridges Administration Officer
Ellen Dodd Manager
Mark Ellis HR Administration Officer
Kirsty Felton Administration Officer
Nanette Garvin Payroll Officer
Carolyn Millar Administration Officer
Maricruz Wignall Receptionist
Magenta & SWOPWA
Projects
Quarry Health Centre for
under 25s
Sophie Croft Educator
Pat David Educator
Kamala Emanuel Doctor
Jessica Halicki Educator
Jacqueline Hunt Administration Officer
Catlin Mckell Administration Assistant
Josephine Rayson Educator
Damien Smith Volunteer
Max Taylor Manager
Hanieh Tolouei Educator
Karen Bonte Advanced Practice Nurse
Dianne Carmody Advanced Practice Nurse
Yalda Cassidy Counsellor
Julia Chin Advanced Practice Nurse
Elizabeth Christie Doctor
Angela Cooney Doctor
Sarah Crawford Educator
Gaynor Evans Advanced Practice Nurse
Maria Garefalakis Doctor
Debra Hindley Manager
Isabella Kaiser Client Service Officer
Leticia Marquez Gonzalez Administration Officer
Stephanie O’Connor Client Service Officer
Lauren Reid-Dornbusch Client Service Officer
Information Services
Cynthia Cross Library Technician
Dale Donraadt Volunteer
Jessica Predovnik Graphic Designer
Rebecca Smith Manager
Lauren Tann Events and Resource Officer
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FPWA SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICES
70 Roe Street, Northbridge WA 6003 08 9227 6177 | [email protected]
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www.fpwa.org.au

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