Patrons / Ambassadors
Patron
Mrs Larissa Bartlett (Wife to Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett)
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"I believe we are each responsible for our own destinies and the choices we make along our life's journey. Sometimes these responsibilities rest easily and the choices can seem insignificant, but sometimes they're absolutely enormous and the impact of them is immediately life changing.
Pregnancy - at whatever time of life - is one of these huge, life changing choices.
Bringing a person into the world is a tremendous responsibility, that brings with it depths of emotions and demands of self-sufficiency that people who don't have children can never fully understand.
Making this choice - as a teenager - to progress with a pregnancy, give birth to, and commit to bringing up a little person is an extremely brave and exciting thing to do. It's also one that will be made much easier by people providing practical and emotional support.
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I commend Bernadette Black and her family for taking the initiative and setting up the Brave Foundation, to do just this - provide real support for young mums.
I believe it's tremendously important for young mums to retain and pursue their own personal life dreams, because this will help them to bring up their child(ren) as happy, healthy people. Bernie Black - and many of the girls who have given their stories here on this website - are great examples of this seriously rewarding challenge, and I hope that readers and other young or pending mums are inspired as I have been.
Anything that I can do to help others achieve their life goals is, I believe, effort well spent."
Read more about Larissa Bartlett
http://www.google.com/profiles/larissabartlett01
Ambassadors
Ms Marcia Hines
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Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Marcia Hines arrived in Australia in 1970 at the tender age of sixteen to perform in the Australian production of the musical “Hair”.
With a career spanning over 37 years, seven multi platinum albums, along with host of Top 10 singles, Marcia remains the most successful Australian female performer and recording artist of all time. She is a recent inductee into the ARIA Hall of Fame, and a recipient of an Order of Australia award.
As well as her commitments as a judge on “Australian Idol”, Marcia and her seven piece band continue a busy performance schedule throughout Australia and overseas, rewarding old fans, and embracing new ones. |
“First and foremost I do not condone teenage pregnancy, please understand this, but in life things do happen ...and it happened to me. Luckily Bernadette and I had support and self belief that we were going to make it. If you do fall pregnant, remember you are no longer a child. You are now taking care of a child. From my heart, I wish you and your baby all the luck and God Bless you both”
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Julie Quinlivan, Professor
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Obtained her FRANZCOG qualification in 2000 and due to family commitments chose to be employed half time between 2001 and December 2004. She has published over 60 research articles, 4 book chapters, edited 1 book and presented nearly 100 abstracts to Australian and overseas meetings. As a training registrar, she conducted 3 multicentered projects involving over 1,200 pregnant women. The pregnancy research was independent of her simultaneously completed doctoral program, which was supported by a NH&MRC Medical Postgraduate Research Scholarship.
Julie Quinlivan has obtained significant peer reviewed funding worth in excess of $2.5 million.
Julie Quinlivan graduated in Medicine from UWA with 4 academic prizes including the Caltex Medal for top all round female graduate in WA for 1990. As a medical student, she was elected President of the UWA Student Guild and deferred studies for 1-year to manage the $2.5 million annual program budget (APB) organization. |
In specialty training she won the Organon prize as top candidate for the RANZCOG specialty examinations 1st part. She has since won two international research awards: American Society of Gynaecological Investigation President’s Prize (Chicago, 2000) and the Asia Oceania Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Young Scientist award (Singapore 2000), as well as several Australian prizes (Perinatal Society Australia and New Zealand Young Investigator award 1997; RANZCOG National Young Investigator prize 1998; Crown Street Medal 1999; RANZCOG WA Young Investigator award 2000).
Julie Quinlivan has had an accelerated academic career going from Clinical lecturer at Flinders Medical Centre upon graduation in 2000, to Senior Lecturer at Melbourne University in 2001, promoted to Associate Professor at Melbourne University in 2003, and offered tenure in 2004, and then head hunted to become Foundation Dean of the University of Notre Dame Sydney School of Medicine which she commenced in February 2005. She has since been appointed ProVice Chancellor and Executive Dean of Medicine with responsibilities for both the Fremantle and Sydney medical schools in the University. Her clinical career has been similarly accelerated, transitioning from senior registrar at Flinders Medical Centre in 2000, to consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Royal Women’s hospital (RWH) in Melbourne in 2001, to Head of the RWH Gold Maternity Care program in 2002 responsible for 2,000 deliveries a year. She was also appointed as a Senior obstetrician and gynaecologist at Sunshine hospital and Head of High Risk Pregnancy and Paediatric and Adolescent Pregnancy. She is currently Head of High Risk Pregnancy at the Joondalup Health Campus in WA.
Julie Quinlivan has been a Medical Member of the Victorian, NSW and currently the WA Social Security Appeals Tribunal, having been appointed by the Governor General. She has been a Ministerial Advisor in domestic violence and teenage pregnancy. She has been invited speaker at the Roundtable for Headstart: A National Initiative for the Early Years 0-8. She has been on the Executive of the Australian Society of Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology and has co-authored two National Consensus Statements, and is a past President of the Australian Society of Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She has previously been a Ministerially-appointed Board Member of the WA Sports Centre Trust (APB $8.9 million), Ministerial Reference Group on Domestic Violence (APB $9 million) and is a current Board Member of the Moreland Community Health Service (APB $11.5 million).
She was a National invited Plenary speaker at the 2000 & 2002 National Partnerships Against Domestic Violence Meetings (Federal Office Status Women), the 2002 NIFTEY/AAMI National meeting, and 2003 AAIMH/Marce National meeting, and 2004 Australian Society of Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynaecology National Scientific meeting and was an international invited speaker at the World Conference on PUFAs in mother-child health in Kansas in 2000. She reviews for many grant organizations and journals.
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