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The Education and Training Committee was established in 2005 to address the need for continuing professional education in the fields of Critical Incident Stress Management, trauma and loss.

Committee members

 
Linda Espie
Chair

Linda is a counsellor, educator, supervisor and consultant and has specialised in loss and grief for 25 years. She educates in many areas of loss, grief, bereavement and trauma including road trauma, suicide, bereavement, illness, pregnancy loss, separation, infertility and job loss. Linda provides course in Japan annually educating in health, welfare and education and she manages Client Support Services in a Melbourne Palliative Care Services.. Linda is a CISMFA trainer.

Robyn Robinson
AM, PhD, FAPS
 
Robyn is a Clinical Psycholgist and founding President of CISMFA. Robyn trained the first combined emergency service CISM team in Australia in 1987 and she has trained over 200 teams in 7 countries and been guest lecturer in 11 countires. She is a certified trainer with ICISF. She has brought such luminaries to Australia for the first time as Dr Jeffrey Mitchell, Dr George Everly, Dr Atle Dyregrov and Dr Charles Figley.
Alexina Baldini
 

Alexina Baldini is a psychologist and a Director of Caraniche, a private company specialising in the provision of support services, training and consultation to a wide range of workplaces. She has a background in disability services, child, adolescent and family services and forensic psychology both within the government and private sectors. Alexina has been a trainer with CISMFA for a number of years.

Chris Long
 

Chris has a broad business background, a significant part of it spent in South East Asia.  After graduating in Commerce/Economics in Sydney he joined Rio Tinto in London as a project analyst, before moving with his young family to live and work firstly in Indonesia, then Malaysia and Singapore and finally to Melbourne.

In 1992 he set up his own business in the field of marine instrumentation and engineering which became an international leader in its field. 

Following his retirement in 2007 he became a volunteer with Great Connections, a Melbourne based organisation, which provides a conduit between not-for-profit groups seeking assistance and retired individuals with free time and skills to assist in a range of disciplines, who connected him with CISMFA.

He undertook to review and make recommendations for the strategic direction and financial wellbeing of CISMFA and recently agreed to take over as President and to implement some of these recommendations.

 
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