A Path to Follow

OUR TEAM

The friendly faces that make up A Path to Follow's Peer Workforce

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prevention

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Early intervention

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personalised support

Board of Directors

Kirstie Edwards

FOUNDING DIRECTOR AND SECRETARY (SHE/HER)

Kirstie uses her living and professional experiences and training to provide peer support to families where at least one family member is experiencing mental health related life challenges.

Kirstie is passionate about ensuring that all family members’ voices are heard and respected and that those families know they are not alone in a journey that can feel totally isolating.

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PRESIDENT 

Amy

VICE PRESIDENT (SHE/THEY)

Amy’s role is to chair Director meetings in the President’s absence and support the President with other role related matters. 

Amy chose to join A Path To Follow as a Director because they support the values of APTF, believe in the services offered, and thought that with both their lived/living experiences and professional experiences as a psychologist they could provide a helpful perspective and contribution to the service. 

Chris

(HE/HIM)

Chris brings years of experience in the mental wellbeing and community service fields. He also has living/lived experience in supporting many friends and family members in their mental health journeys. Chris would like to see APTF become a well-recognised, flourishing, resilient and sustainable NFP with some profit for purpose.

Nicki

(SHE/HER)

Nicki is a Director who brings a vast professional knowledge in all things HR. Nicki would like to see APTF as a ‘household name’ that’s recognised for its human/people centred approach. That is financially viable, in a position to support more employees and have more resources/offices/collective skills in order to reach further throughout the community.

Ady

(HE/HIM)

Ady comes with great experience as an IT professional within community settings.

Ady would like to help APTF become a growing service with an established road map and matured service pack offerings.

Our Peer Support Workforce

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Maddi

YOUTH PEER WORKER – Flexible

This is Maddi, our most recent workforce peer to join us. 

Maddi loves Italian food, camping and exercising.

She wants to use her past experiences in mental health challenges to support others.

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Sushi

senior YOUTH PEER WORKER – Clyde/cardinia

Sushi hopes by becoming a peer support worker, she can become that vital support system for a young person so that they are always reminded that they are never alone during their journey but most importantly, that they feel safe and noticed.

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Alexander

YOUTH PEER WORKER –                                 Ormond and surrounds                          

Alexander comes to APTF with a deep passion to offer supports that were never offered to him growing up. 

He wants those young people with wellbeing related challenges to know they are not alone.

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Laura

YOUTH PEER WORKER – forest hill to bentleigh areas

Laura understands that navigating life can be hard; especially as a young person going through things that friends may not necessarily be going through. 

Laura has collected a lot of tools and strategies on her mental health journey that she’s love to share. She’s also more than happy to simply hang out and listen or chat – for Laura, it’s all about meeting people where they’re at. 

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Daniel, a Youth Mental Health Peer Support Worker, smiles warmly in a casual setting. He is friendly and approachable demeanour, embodying his role in providing support and guidance to young people.

Daniel

YOUTH PEER WORKER –                          Bentleigh & Surrounds

Daniel has lived experience of depression, anxiety, eating disorders and neurodiversity. 

He understands what current issues young people may be experiencing as a young person himself. He understands that everyone has different needs and not one approach will work for everyone.

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Justin

SOCIAL WORKER & YOUTH PEER WORKER –    bentleigh and surrounding areas

Justin  has over ten years of experience in the mental health field, but more importantly according to him, a lifetime of lived experience with mental illness issues in what he believes to be a system fraught with inconsistencies. 

Justin loves forest green (and nature), music and basketball. He is enthusiastic to begin his role as a peer worker and to help APTF evolve using his years of experience working and using services within the service system.

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