Dr Caroline (Carlie) Atkinson is an Aboriginal women of Jiman – Bundjalung heritage. Carlie has a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of South Australia achieving first class honours. Her Honours thesis focused on the alternative dimensions of violence against Australian Aboriginal women. After her Honours Carlie completed a placement in Tamil Nadu, India, researching the specific issues and needs of adolescent girls. Following this she headed a team at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in Katherine, NT, before completing her PhD focusing on Aboriginal male violence and its relationship to generational post-traumatic stress disorder. Presently Carlie is focused on curriculum development and research for We Al-li providing trauma informed and trauma specific programs and activities throughout Australia and the Asia Pacific and co-ordinating study support for Indigenous students in a pathways course at the Southern Cross University.
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