About the trainers:
Ada Conroy & Kelly Finch
Ada Conroy (she/her/they) first developed this training while at Women’s Health In the North. After leaving her role, she went on to redevelop it in partnership with Kelly.
Ada has over 22 years of experience in the family violence sector in Victoria. She has worked in family violence case management, crisis response, counselling, outreach, court support, intake, refuge, and training. Ada spent 10 years leading a family violence workforce development team in the northern metro region and is an experienced men’s behaviour change facilitator.
In private practice, Ada specialises in reflective practice supervision (individual and group), training, consultation, facilitation, and capacity building for those responding to adult victim-survivors and men who use violence. Ada provides practice consultation and support to services across Australia seeking to strengthen their family violence practice, build their ethics and politics into their work, enhance accountability, and reflect on their collective values.
Ada is a queer woman living in Naarm.
Connect with Ada on LinkedIn
Listen to this podcast featuring Ada, presented by Sisters in Law.
Kelly Finch (she/her) has over 20 years’ experience working in the social justice sectors, both in Australia and the UK, with a focus on crisis response and refuge support with adult victim survivors, as well as specialist support to children and young people.
In addition, Kelly has developed and delivered a range of training packages to upskill practitioners, both in her private practice and in her previous roles with specialist family violence training organisations. As a family violence training and content specialist, Kelly can develop and design tailor-made workshops for organisations seeking to enhance their worker’s skills and knowledge.
As a Principal Men’s Behaviour Change Facilitator, delivering intervention programs to address behaviour change, Kelly has used her first-hand skills and experience in working with men who use violence, to co-create the Resisting Collusion with Men who Use Intimate Partner Violence training alongside Ada Conroy, as an offering to organisations and practitioners, seeking to do more to promote perpetrator accountability in their work.
Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn.