Collaborative contacts

Information sharing across Collaboratives is encouraged in order share learnings, insight and best practice approaches when responding to abuse, neglect and exploitation of older people and adults with disability. Use this list to contact Collaborative chairs.

Blue Mountains Prevention of Elder Abuse Collaborative

LGA: Blue Mountains

Collaborative Chair/Convenors: Prue Hardgrove

Email: PHardgrove@bmcc.nsw.gov.au

LGA(s): Blue Mountains

Central West Region Collaborative for the Prevention of Abuse to Older People

LGA: Orange/Bathurst

Collaborative Chair/Convenors: Kim McLean, Amanda Rodwell and Sue Robertson

Email: KMcLean@orange.nsw.gov.au ARodwell@orange.nsw.gov.au and sherbertson7@gmail.com

LGA(s): Bathurst; Blayney; Cabonne; Cowra; Forbes; Lachlan; Lithgow; Oberon; Orange; Parkes; Weddin

Inner and Eastern Sydney Prevention of Abuse Collaborative

LGA: Eastern Suburbs

Collaborative Chair/Convenors: Emma Rodgers- Wilson, Nicole Pryor, and Bronwyn Elbourne

Email: emma.rodgers-wlison@woollahra.nsw.gov.au nicole.pryor@svha.org.au and Bronwyn.elbourne@waverley.nsw.gov.au 

LGA(s): City of Sydney, Waverley, Woollahra, Randwick, Bayside

Coffs Harbour and Coffs Coast Elder Abuse Prevention Collaborative

LGA: Coffs Harbour

Collaborative Chair/Convenors: Mel M, Diana Weekes

Email: melm@warrina.org.au, diana.weekes@chcc.nsw.gov.au

LGA(s): Coffs Harbour

Hastings Macleay Abuse of Older People Collaborative (HAOPC)

LGA: Port Macquarie - Hastings

Collaborative Chair/Convenors: Jillian McDonnell

Email: pmcd4@optusnet.com.au

LGA(s): Port Macquarie-Hastings

Hunter Central Coast Elder Abuse Collaborative (3 LGAs)

LGA: Central Coast, Hunter, Newcastle

Collaborative Chair/Convenors: In progress

Email: In progress

LGA(s): Central Coast, Newcastle, Lake Macquarie

Illawarra Prevention of Older Person Abuse (POPA) and Shoalhaven Older Abuse Prevention Network (SOAP)

LGA: Illawarra and Shoalhaven

Collaborative Chair/Convenors: Rayne Puckeridge and Belinda Crook

Email: agedcare@cigroup.org.au and belinda.crook@shellharbour.nsw.gov.au

LGA(s): Wollongong, Shellharbour, Kiama, Shoalhaven, Wingecarribee

Inner West Region Abuse of Older People Collaborative

LGA: Inner West & Canterbury

Collaborative Chair/Convenors: Mary Ciantar

Email: Mary.Ciantar@canadabay.nsw.gov.au

LGA(s): Inner West, Canada Bay, Burwood, Strathfield, some of Canterbury Bankstown

Northern Rivers Communities of Practice Ageing

LGA: Northern Rivers

Collaborative Chair/Convenors: Ian O’Reilly and Meredith Elton

Email: sectordevelopment@socialfutures.org.au

LGA(s): Tweed, Byron, Kyogle, Richmond Valley, Ballina, Lismore, Clarence Valley

South West Sydney Elder Abuse Awareness Collaborative

LGA: South West Sydney

Collaborative Chair/Convenors: Eunice Sansour and Donna Ayoud

Email: ssdo@tmn.net.au and donna.a@jsc.org.au

LGA(s): Canterbury-Bankstown, Camden, Campbelltown, Fairfield, Liverpool, Wingecarribee, Wollondilly

St George Prevention of Abuse of Older Person Collaborative

LGA: St George

Collaborative Chair/Convenors: Maryana Nasour and Angela Huang 

Email: mnasour@amanacommunityservices.com and Zixian.Huang@health.nsw.gov.au

LGA(s): Georges River, Bayside

Sutherland: Collaborative Against Abuse of Older People in Sutherland Shire

LGA: Sutherland Shire

Collaborative Chair/Convenors: Julie Dale

Email: julied@ecs.org.au

LGA(s): Sutherland Shire

Wagga Wagga Elder Abuse Collaborative Team (WWEACT)

LGA: Wagga Wagga

Collaborative Chair/Convenors: Andrea

Email: srs@racr.org.au

LGA(s): Wagga Wagga; surrounding areas supported

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