Our Board
PeakCare is administered by a Board of Management, elected by our members. They represent all members and come from a range of member organisations throughout rural, remote, regional and metropolitan Queensland.
The Board meets 9 times per year. Our elections are held annually at the Annual General Meeting in November.
Click on a board member's name to view more information, or scroll down.
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President |
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Vice President |
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Treasurer |
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Secretary |
Lindsay Wegener |
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Executive Member |
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Executive Member |
Shirley Pevitt |
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Executive Member |
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Co-opted Member |
Jason Thatcher |
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Co-opted Member |
Scott Bray |
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Co-opted Member |
Tracy Adams |
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Michael Tizard
President
Michael is the State Manager, Queensland with The Benevolent Society, Australia’s oldest charity. The Benevolent Society was established in Sydney in 1813 and today provides services in residential and community aged care and in the child and family services field from 48 sites across NSW and Queensland .
The Benevolent Society began establishing services in Queensland at the end of 2007. Today it manages the North Gold Coast Early Years Centre with satellites at Labrador and Coomera; the Browns Plains Early Years Centre with satellites being established at Acacia Ridge and Beaudesert; Family Intervention Services on the Gold Coast and Beenleigh; a Personal Helpers and Mentors Service at Logan; Queensland Leadership and Post Adoption Support Queensland.
Michael is a social worker with over 25 years experience in the child and family services sector, and has worked in both government and non-government organisations. He has worked in statutory child protection and in the family support and parenting areas, as a practitioner and senior manager.
Michael worked in Victoria until 1999 as the CEO of Children’s Protection Society, before moving to NSW taking up roles as Principal Policy Adviser Child and Family Services, and Regional Director Metropolitan South East Sydney with the NSW Department of Community Services.
He then spent three years as the Regional Director Metropolitan South East with the NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care before moving to a Senior Manager role with The Benevolent Society in 2005.
Michael has previously been a Board Member of the Children's Welfare Association of Victoria, now known as The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare Inc. and is a current Board Member of the Child and Family Welfare Association of Australia Inc (CAFWAA).
Michael joined the PeakCare Board in 2008 and became President in late 2009.
Avryl Gration
Vice President
Avryl has worked as a social worker for over 30 years as a practitioner and senior manager in the areas of interpersonal counselling, family court, mediation, private practice and child protection. In the past she has managed foster care and children's residential programs, and has worked in Tasmania, Canberra, north Queensland and southern Queensland.
Avryl is currently an Operations Manager with Mission Australia, oversighting programs working in the areas of homelessness and early intervention family services, including a Referral for Active Intervention Service.
She is committed to enabling best practice approaches and is particularly interested in models and processes of professional supervision and management that ensure best outcomes for workers and families and children.
Avryl joined the PeakCare Board in mid 2010.
Dr Katrina Lines
Treasurer
Katrina’s current role is Executive Manager Programs and Research at ACT for Kids. She is responsible for program quality, research activities and professional development across the organisation. Before taking up this role in Brisbane in early 2009, Katrina was based in the Cairns ACT for Kids Centre in the role of Program Manager for the Referral for Active Intervention program.
Katrina is a registered psychologist and her work experience is in child and youth mental health services, research and community consultation, university lecturing and private psychological practice, all in the Far North Queensland region.
Katrina’s interest, research and teaching in children’s development are what lead her to working in the area of child protection. She is passionate about early intervention and prevention, as many Australian children do not develop to their full potential because of their childhood experiences.
She is also passionate about working collaboratively with Indigenous people and communities to improve child and family outcomes.
Katrina joined the PeakCare Board in late 2009 and is keen to play an active part in the great work PeakCare does.
Leith Sterling
Executive Member
Leith is currently the Group Manager of Child Protection and Youth Services at Spiritus, overseeing foster and kinship care and residential programs, and family intervention services in Spiritus TRACC services, as well as Spiritus youth support and homelessness programs in Southern Queensland.
Leith is a registered occupational therapist with a long history of working with children and their families both in Victoria and in Queensland. She worked in the disability area and was among the small group of occupational therapists who pioneered school-based therapy services in Queensland state schools. Prior to taking up the position at Spiritus in February 2010, Leith worked in the statewide services and policy area of the Queensland Department of Education and Training, initially in disability services, and then more recently in Student Services in the role of Child Safety Director for the state schooling system.
Tricia Sheahan
Executive Member
Tricia has worked in child protection for 23 years, 18 of these in the statutory department now the Department of Communities, Child Safety Services. She held a variety of positions including Child Safety Officer in Toowoomba, Resource Officer in Ipswich, Manager of Child Safety Service Centres in Maryborough, Goodna and Ipswich and Manager of the Community Support Team in Toowoomba.
Tricia has worked for Mercy Family Services since May 2006 managing programs in specialist foster care, kinship care, sexual abuse counselling and men & family relationship counselling. She has a Bachelor of Arts, Psychology & Sociology, from the University of New England, Armidale NSW.