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Is Your Skillset Outdated? Featuring Yaleela Torrens
Aboriginal social worker, AMHSW, and MAICD board director Yaleela Torrens joins Anton Guinea to explore how influence, culture, parenting, and leadership intersect in Gladstone, Queensland. She shares her journey from growing up extremely poor and watching her grandmother attend university as a mature-age student to building a social work practice grounded in Aboriginal identity, responsibility, and respect. Yaleela explains why helping professions face burnout and staffing challenges, how giving birth in the country and naming her daughter Ginaby (black swan) express cultural continuity, and…
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