Project Manager Embrace
BScs, MPH
Jacinta has a background in nursing and midwifery. She completed a Master in Public Health and has worked on a number of projects in the public health field including, tobacco control, road safety, youth and alcohol and sun protection. Jacinta commenced as a research assistant for the Alcohol and Pregnancy team working on the first project in Australia to identify to prevalence of FASD in the youth justice system. In the Youth Mental Health team Jacinta was responsible for the report, ‘Informing Youth Suicide Prevention for WA’. In June 2019 she commenced as the project manager for Embrace, the collaboration of child and youth mental health research at the Telethon Kids Institute.
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Publications
June 2020
Putting ‘Justice’ in Recovery Capital: Yarning about Hopes and Futures with Young People in Detention
We must celebrate success and hope through a process of mapping and building recovery capital in the justice context at an individual and institutional level
Published research Developmental Pathways & Social Policy Aboriginal Health Alcohol and Pregnancy and FASD Research Youth Mental Health -
Education and Qualifications