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Eleonora De Michele has been working in the child and family welfare field, specialising in child protection, for the past 35 years.

Eleonora has worked in a range of capacities in this field, including working for the Department of Family and Community Services for a number of years. Her career experience includes:

• Caseworker, providing direct child and family services, including the investigation, assessment and management of all forms of child and family welfare cases, specialising in child sexual abuse and domestic violence cases
• Manager Casework with responsibilities in the supervision, coaching and management of child and family casework within DoCS' Community Services Centres
• Manager Client Services of various Community Service Centres, with responsibilities in over-sighting the delivery of services to the community
• FaCS Child Protection policy advisor, with responsibilities in the development, oversight and implementation of State wide government child protection policies
• Senior Child Protection trainer, with responsibilities in the development, documentation, delivery and oversight of child protection and domestic violence training for government and non-government organisations.

For the past fifteen years Eleonora has worked as an independent consultant, providing a range of clinical and non-clinical services to various government and non-government organisations with child and family service intervention responsibilities.

These services include, but are not limited to:

• Community consultations and documentation of recommendations addressing child and family welfare legislation, including the child protection legislation, domestic violence legislation and service delivery models, models of interagency collaboration within and across indigenous communities
• Child and Family Welfare Conference co-ordination and facilitation
• Provision of training and development services, including the research, development, documentation and facilitation of a wide range of child and family welfare curricula, specialising in child protection issues. Customers include both government and non-government agencies
• Clinical services including staff supervision, policy advice, child and family welfare case consultation and case reviews, specialising in serious risk of harm assessments and child death reviews
• Case reviews and clinical assessments, specialising in child protection and Out-of-Home Care assessments