Dr Robbie Lloyd
(Voluntary) Board Director of Strategy & Wellbeing MNCCC Ltd; Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Disability Studies, Sydney University Medical Faculty
Dr Robbie Lloyd is a professional educator, mental health worker and reform agent in community health and education for all ages and stages. He has worked in education for more than 50 years, and in frontline community-based mental health and alcohol and other drugs (MH & AOD) support across Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and India for more than 30 years. He has been part of the Global Mental Health movement across Asia Pacific since 2012, with colleagues from the Creating Futures Collaborative for Rural, Remote, Indigenous & Islander Mental Health. This work honours First Nations healers and medicines alongside western ways, in training local people to become the frontline workers in MH & AOD and Trauma Informed Care. Robbie has worked with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for nearly 30 years, and in the adult and community education movement across Australia for the past decade. He is passionate about building programs to support vulnerable community groups, including traumatised young people in Years 7-10 who are study in Special Assistance High Schools after being rejected by mainstream schools, because of their acting out behaviours due to trauma. Person-centred and community-building, not for profit approaches are Robbie’s priorities in both education and health.