Dr Trina Hinkley’s background is in behavioural epidemiology and behaviour change, with a particular focus on the impacts of behaviour on wellbeing and other outcomes. Her experience includes research for not-for-profit and government organisations with a focus on making lasting change happen at a population level. She is skilled in stakeholder engagement, facilitation, knowledge translation, and program development, delivery and evaluation. Trina completed her doctoral thesis in 2011, where she examined multidimensional correlates of physical activity during early childhood. Her research has informed multiple sets of Australian and international guidelines and reports.

At the time of the original broadcast, Ali Knight was an Early Years Specialist at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Adelaide, South Australia. Alongside this, Ali worked as an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker in private practice with children, young people and their families. Ali has over 25 years of experience as a Social Worker, primarily in Health, where she has provided assessment and therapeutic services for infants, children and their families impacted by trauma and abuse. Ali is passionate about Infant Mental Health and has seen first-hand how timely therapeutic intervention can change a child’s trajectory.

At the time of the original broadcast, Kathryn Lenton was the Program Manager for the Australian Childhood Foundation in Tasmania. She holds a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Counselling and has been working in the mental health industry for 20 years. Kathryn’s clinical experience has included both clinical interventions and leadership in trauma therapy for children, adolescents and adults, disaster recovery, child protection, health social work, older persons care, community development, mental health in education, suicide postvention, and child and adolescent mental health. Kathryn has a particular interest in complex developmental trauma and the impact on children.

Chris Dolman is a social worker who has been working for the past 15 years with individuals, couples and families facing a broad range of concerns in their lives and relationships. Chris currently works with Emerging Minds and the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health, as well as a narrative therapist with Country Health SA, providing consultations via video link to people living in rural and remote South Australia. Previously Chris has worked as a counsellor, supervisor and manager in a family and relationships counselling service with Uniting Communities with a particular focus around responding to family violence and the effects of childhood sexual abuse. He holds a Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work and is a member of the Dulwich Centre Teaching Faculty.