FairShare International Annual General Meeting with guest speaker Professor Dorothy Scott
Monday, 18 April 2005, 6:00 pm
RSVPs by email or phone 08 8411 5105 help with catering
Quaker Meeting House, North Adelaide, (just off Pennington Terrace, right behind St Peter's Cathedral)
Guest Speaker: Professor Dorothy Scott
Director, Centre for Child Protection University of South Australia
Dorothy was born in Wales and emigrated to Melbourne with her family when she was four years of age. She has just moved to Adelaide to take up the Foundation Chair of Child Protection at the University of South Australia. She first became involved in child welfare when she was at school and responded to a request to assist children in State care with their school work. After training to become a social worker at the University of Melbourne she worked in the fields of child protection, sexual assault and mental health. Having taught in the School of Social Work at the University of Melbourne since the early 1980s, she recently had a three year secondment as Executive Director of The Ian Potter Foundation, one of Australia's major philanthropic trusts.
Dorothy sees the challenge of child protection as essentially that of strengthening families and rebuilding communities. If it takes a village to raise a child then what might it take to rebuild the village?
Dorothy will draw on her understanding of children, families and communities and her personal and professional experiences in an address entitled "Reciprocity and Generativity as the Foundation Stones of Philanthropy".
