|
 Since
2003 Rickter UK has been training
Rickter
Scale®
practitioners in Australia and New Zealand. A group of
trained Rickter Practitioners became so excited about the
benefits of the tool, they got together to create Team Oz.
The goals of Rickter Team Oz are to develop the use of the
Rickter
Scale® and adapt
it to the diverse needs of our own society and culture.
As experienced
practitioners, managers and evaluators in the human services
sector, we understand the need and requirement for an
effective assessment, evaluation and action planning process
that empowers individuals, enables people to take control
and gives us the opportunity to measure those all important
"soft outcomes" and distance travelled.
The
Rickter
Scale® is such a
tool, and has demonstrated its capacity to measure a wide
range of outcomes derived from varying service delivery
approaches and interventions.
Members of Rickter Team Oz
are promoting and using this tool because we realise the
enormous benefits it brings to the way we work, and how it
improves the way we incorporate evaluation and assessment
into all aspects of our work.
The Members
of the Rickter Team Oz are:
 Marika
Kontellis
Community
Sector Adviser
Marika holds a Bachelor
of Arts (Welfare Studies), a Bachelor of Social Work and
a Master of Management (Community). Marika has held
various frontline roles in the disability and aged care
sectors as well as senior management roles with the
Spastic Centre of NSW, the Benevolent Society of NSW,
Amaroo Industries, Jewish Community Services and London
Borough of Barnet in the UK.
Marika is a successful
Community Sector Adviser specialising in organisational
change and development for government and not for profit
organisations.
A current member of the
Guardianship Tribunal of NSW, and former member of the
Disability Council of NSW, Marika has already experienced
the benefits of the Rickter
Scale® in her
Strategic Planning and Service Review Projects.
Diana
Qian
Diana holds a Bachelor of
Applied Science (Social Ecology) and an Honours degree in
Social Sciences. She is currently the Executive Officer
of National Ethnic Disability Alliance and the Deputy
Chairperson of Disability Council of NSW.
She has been active in
the disability community for the last 10 years and her
previous roles include advocacy, project management and
training.
Barbel
Winter
Barbel arrived in
Australia in 1991 from Germany. She hold a Degree in
Social Work and Social Policy (Hon.) and a masters Degree
in Adult Education.
Barbel has been working
as an advocate for people with disability, firstly in the
brain injury field and since 1998 as the Executive
Director at the Multicultural Disability Advocacy
Association of NSW, the peak representative body for
people from a NESB with disability and their family in
NSW.
In last ten years Barbel
has been working with, and managing people with all kinds
of disabilities from diverse backgrounds. Barbel
considers good diversity management, cultural competence
and other reflective practices as the keys to providing
good quality services.
The other members of the
team are:
Sharon
Smith
Maree
Crosbie
Maree Crosbie has a
background in nursing and also spent a number of years in
the corporate sector working for American Express, Chase
AMP Bank and Dun and Bradstreet
For the past ten years
Maree has worked in the community sector. She is an
accredited Financial Counsellor and Life Coach. Maree set
up two new projects at the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation, a
new Financial Counselling service specifically for
clients with HIV/AIDS and Choices - a program based on
Life Coaching principles.
Maree currently lives in
the Southern Highlands of NSW and works part-time as the
NILS Co-ordinator at a local community centre. She also
runs groups on financial literacy in the community. Maree
offers consultancy services to the community sector and
is an active consumer representative and
advocate.
Maree was in the first
group of people to be trained in Australia in September
2002 to use the Rickter Scale.
Kim
Hill
email
us: rickter@mdaa.org.au
call
us: (02) 9891
6400
The
Rickter Company (Australasia) Pty. Ltd. is a registered
company. ABN 42 106 689
|
