ATP Team
In 2006 NCWA committed to a capacity building initiative known as the Adviser Training Project. The ATP has been funded by the Australian Government Office for Women through the Women’s Leadership and Development Programme. The ATP Steering Committee has included NCWA President 2003-6 Leonie Christopherson, and President Elect Hean Bee Wee. Please read on to meet Leonie and Hean Bee as well as several of the other members who have been involved with the ATP- Pamela Williams, Dawn Butterworth and Glenys Jones.
| President | Leonie Christopherson |
| President Elect | Hean Bee Wee |
| Adviser | Dr Pamela Williams |
| Adviser | Dr Dawn Butterworth |
| Adviser | Glenys Jones |
Leonie Christopherson
Author
and editor Leonie Christopherson was quoted recently in Who’s
Who of Australian Women as saying 'You can only complain about things
in this country if you are prepared to stick the stamps and stuff
the envelopes to bring about change. Whingeing on the sidelines is
not an option.'
Leonie has been President of NCWA since 2003.
Hean Bee Wee
Hean
Bee is a successful accountant and educationalist and has had a significant
community involvement since her student days at the University of Adelaide.
She has been a member of NCWSA representing the Penguin Club since 1997, became an executive member in 2001 and Vice President in 2004. She is also a current member of NCW.ACT.
In 1991-92 she was one of the foundation members of a new group—the Asian Women’s Consultative Council Inc. set up to enable Asian Australian women to more fully participate in consultation with government. Hean Bee has had a significant role in education, especially with the International Baccalaureate program, acting as Chairman for SA Co-ordinators Committee 1992 – 1996.
Dr Pamela Williams
I
have now completed four and a half years as Nutrition Adviser for NCWA. I
am also Nutrition Adviser to NCWV. I have endeavoured to make contact
with each Sate Adviser for Nutrition at least twice a year. Along
with keeping in touch with the Advisers I have attended forums arranged
by Food Standards Australian and New Zealand. One example of my
role was in distributing information to Advisers that I obtained from
the Forum on Nutrition and Health Claims for Foods. After attending
the forum I made a submission on behalf of NCWA.I keep a watching
eye on the work of FSANZ and pass on information wherever I can.
Dr Dawn Butterworth
Holding
bachelor, honours and doctoral degrees in the areas of Education, the
Arts and Special Needs, Dawn has worked for children and families for
over 40 years. Further to her position as Head of Early Childhood Studies
at Edith Cowan University, Dawn has fulfilled teaching fellowships in
China, Malaysia, Korea and Thailand. Intensely interested in contemporary
social issues, Dawn has won numerous research awards for investigations
into gender equity, father role, child care, hospitalization and family
violence.
Glenys Jones
Glenys
commenced as a delegate for BPW Adelaide to National Council of Women in
SA ten years ago and is currently President Elect for the State coming into
the role in November 2006. She has facilitated workshops and forums for NCW
SA on Mental Health, Women in Prisons, and was a speaker at their Domestic
Violence seminar. She says 'My passion is to see women recognised for
their strength in the community' and she herself was honoured to receive
an Order of Australia medal on Australia Day 2006.