Our trainers

After many years working in the events and travel industries, Kristy-Lee began her career in the community services sector seven years ago. She worked with Relationships Australia South Australia in an Intake Officer role, then moved into a crisis management and short term case management role as family advisor and worked as a registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner. Over this time Kristy-Lee also covered leave contracts writing court reports for the children’s contact service. Prior to joining DVRCV as a trainer, she spent six months working in family services at Moonee Valley City Council.

Maryanne brings over 15 years experience in prevention settings and has expertise working in social policy, community planning and advocacy in local government in Victoria. In addition, she has comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the prevention of violence against women sector and has led key projects to address gender inequality in the workplace. Maryanne also worked as a sessional trainer at DVRCV for over twelve months facilitating CRAF, Identifying Family Violence and Family Violence as a workplace issue training sessions.

Monaliza Bucud, known to many as Monet, is someone who has been advocating for social justice since she was 14 years old. Most of her professional experience is around supporting women and children both in the Philippines and in Australia. Her work includes training, project management and case management. She has been working in family violence organisations in Australia for more than nine years.

Rebecca has over three years' experience working directly with women experiencing family violence. She was the first Disability Focused Caseworker at the NSW Women's Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service, and spent a year in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia working with a range of women, including those in Aboriginal communities, as the Pilbara Community Legal Service's Domestic Violence Advocacy Worker. Prior to this Rebecca worked for a number of charities and not for profit organisations supporting vulnerable people.

After working in IT, communication, training, and project management, Solmaz moved to the area of social work and community development. She has four years direct service experience working with culturally and linguistically diverse women and children experiencing family violence and men using violence in crisis response, interpreting, case management and support work. Solmaz was a family violence trainer at the Royal Women’s Hospital in the Strengthening Hospital Responses to Family Violence (SHRFV) project. Solmaz provided training and mentoring to other professionals in identifying, responding and preventing violence against women and children at different roles.

Stephanie has six years of experience working directly with women in the community services sector. Stephanie commenced her career working with young women experiencing homelessness, where the prevalence of family violence motivated Stephanie to move into the family violence sector. Prior to joining DVRCV as a trainer, Stephanie was employed as a family violence outreach worker with the Salvation Army in the western suburbs of Melbourne.