Jacqui Van de Velde
Jacqui has more than 30 years experience in education, wellbeing, mental health and community engagement in both a professional and volunteer capacity.
She has worked in, and continues to work across, a variety of business, education and community contexts, in Australia, New Zealand, the EU, Singapore, and North America.
Jacqui is a passionate advocate for parent and family engagement, positive growth outcomes in education, professional learning networks and continuing education in the workplace, wellbeing, veteran health, and advocacy.
She describes her work as: Solution explorer ⎜Facilitator⎜ Path finder ⎜Collector of stories ⎜Trainer and speaker⎜ Message maker and communicator ⎜Community engagement ⎜Measuring what matters⎜Making sense of data
#amreading ⎜ #amwriting ⎜ #amthinking
In 2018, Jacqui co-authored a submission on Alternatives to Medical Discharge for Personnel with a PTSD Diagnosis to the Joint Parliamentary Enquiry into ADF Transition and was invited to give evidence in the public hearings.
She is the lead for the Veteran Wellbeing Summit VWS2019 and VWS2020.
Jacqui is engaged with various veterans groups and ESOs working for positive change in veteran care and policy.
“Veterans have a right to live their best life now. They have a right to move on, to flourish and have the agency to determine how they live their lives. When an Australian signs up to the ADF and agrees to subject themselves to military law, they are entering into a contract with three parties: the individual, the Australian government, the Australian people. We all have a stake in this. We all have obligations under this military contract. This is my motivation.”
Jacqui continues to hold board positions for a range of Non Profit Organisations including Wellbeing Australia and Australasian Solution Focused Association. She is a member of the Solution Focus in Organisations Australia - New Zealand Chapter.
MEd, BEc, Dip Ed, DipBus, Dip Training & Assessment Systems, Cert IV TAE, Cert IV PFCE
Read more about Jacqui Van de Velde here:
ww.vandevelde.com.au https://www.linkedin.com/in/
