The past 50 years has been a time of momentous change in community services, disability, aged care and health services. Dr Tom Keating was at the heart of those changes in supporting young offenders, the management of disasters, protecting children from abuse, reforming intellectual disability services and reforming health care; sometimes leading change, always participating and always observing. Throughout his career he has written about the important things with which he was engaged to further his understanding and that of others. This book is made up of discrete pieces of writing, originally published in a variety of places, that provide a contemporaneous perspective on the events they describe. With only minor edits, they remain as they were written at the time, serving as a historical record of the events themselves, and Dr reactions to them.
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978-1-7640310-0-4 (9781764031004)
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Dr Tom Keating commenced his professional career working with young people in Broadmeadows and Brunswick before establishing and managing Victoria's youth refuge and emergency accommodation Program for homeless young people. He managed disaster recovery efforts following the Ash Wednesday bushfires and was responsible, with others, for establishing Victoria's child protection services. At the age of 27, I took up a Regional Director position in a rural region and progressively became responsible for all health, welfare, disability, aged care and public housing in the Northeast of Victoria and the Goulburn Valley. He was responsible for integrating intellectual disability services into the Department of Community Services regional operations and contributed to the major reforms of intellectual disability services that took place in the 1980s including the closure of one of Victoria's largest disability institutions. He was responsible for defining the roles of nurse practitioners and midwives in Victoria and led the process of merging the acute health services of Albury and Wodonga. More recently, he has worked extensively with hospitals and primary care services to develop models of integrated care.Alongside his professional work, Dr Keating has had a parallel academic career, holding appointments as Pro Vice-Chancellor and Associate Professor at La Trobe University, Associate Professor (Research) at the University of New South Wales, Marie Curie Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, and Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
