Congratulations to our Founding Director, Lisa Honeychurch Van Riel for being announced as a finalist in the Queensland Community Foundation Awards in the Emerging Philanthropist Category. This recognition helps to raise much needed awareness of the needs to children who have experienced abuse and neglect and who are living in foster care in Queensland.
Kerri Chard has worked with Little Stars Kids to create the trauma-based training program all tutors undergo. She is a leading voice in Child Protection with a background in psychology and over two decades of professional experience.
She has developed award winning interventions within the Education sector, assisting schools to better understand complex developmental trauma and support children in the education system as well as bringing trauma informed curriculums into the classroom.
Kerri is Queensland’s leading Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) practitioner, and is well known for her passionate yet pragmatic approach to the complex issue of Child Protection.