About Safety Measures

The Story so Far

We can’t address what we can’t measure.

Ideally, the data captured incidentally through service delivery would be accessible to those responsible for system and service design, delivery and evaluation, across all states and territories, and the rights of all people to exercise ownership over their data would be upheld.

While this is not the current reality, Safety Measures is an initiative set up to develop and test shared approaches across jurisdictions, that could be scaled up to form a national picture.

Learn about what we hope to achieve through Safety Measures.

Our vision

The partnership

Learn about the organisations that have come together to drive this program.

Meet our team

Louise Simms (she/her), National Program Director 

Louise is a pakeha (White) woman, raised in Aotearoa by parents who were both born overseas. She has lived and worked on Wurundjeri Country for more than 15 years, where she specialises in effecting creative and transformative change to shape inclusive policy, systems and services. 

Dr Shaez Mortimer (she/her), Senior Program Officer

Shaez is a researcher and community worker based on Kaurna lands in Adelaide, SA. Shaez has a diverse work history including roles in domestic and sexual violence survivor support, violence prevention, education, research, and LGBTIQA+ community work.

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Stephanie Campese (she/her), Data Advisor

Stephanie grew up on Dharawal land, Sydney and is now living on Wurundjeri country in Melbourne, Victoria. Stephanie is a data analyst and epidemiologist with a background in public health. She’s passionate about addressing the social determinants of health, improving equity in health and social outcomes and using data to drive meaningful, evidence-based change across systems and communities.

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Rebecca Naylor (she/her), Program Officer

Rebecca is a white woman of English background, born and raised on Bunurong/Boonwurrung country in Victoria, now living on Larrakia country in Darwin. Rebecca is a social worker with a background working with children and their families in the youth justice system in the NT since 2016.

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Michelle Prasad (she/her), Program Officer

Michelle lives on Wurundjeri country, where she has worked in project management and research with ACCOs on climate change and community development projects. She advocates for centering lived experience to address systemic barriers, challenge entrenched inequalities and improve access to meaningful outcomes.

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Safety Measures is generously supported by Paul Ramsay Foundation.

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