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Ollie Ryan

Youth Family Violence Peer Worker

Amplify

Ollie (he/him) is a Peer Worker at Melbourne City Mission (MCM) working in the Amplify: Specialist Family Violence program. He uses his lived experience to walk alongside young people in their journeys through the service and advocate on both individual and systemic levels.

Ollie sits on several advisory groups both within and outside of MCM, working across intersectional issues impacting young people including homelessness, mental ill-health, disability, alcohol and other drugs, and family- and sexual-violence. He also leads the Frontyard Youth Action Group (YAG) and is passionate about empowering other young people to be heard in the services and systems that support them.

SESSIONS

Day 1

11:20

Exploring age-appropriate responses to young people fleeing domestic and family violence and homelessness

Session Moderator: Frances Crimmins, Chair, Homelessness Australia; Chief Executive Officer, YWCA Canberra


Amplify: A new family-violence and homelessness response for unaccompanied children and young people


Alice McDonald, Senior Family Violence Practicioner, Melbourne City Mission


Ollie Ryan, Youth Family Violence Peer Worker, Amplify


The Aspire Program - Meli Youth Services


Fiona Millard, Senior Case Worker, The Aspire Program, MELI

Jo Baillon, Manager Housing Services, MELI

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