AMANDA WATKINS BIO PH: 0417250557

Amanda has over sixteen year’s extensive experience with Drug & Alcohol, Mental Health and Sexual Health Promotion. Designing and delivering a variety of training tools and resources to educate about health, social and psychological harms of alcohol and other drug use/misuse to young people, families and the community.

Amanda has taken a proactive approach, determined to make a difference at the coal face with cutting edge ideas and strategies to address the key issues with young people in today’s society. Amanda has an excellent understanding of the range of health issues facing young people and the strategies that can be employed by teenagers, parents and community leaders to promote better-informed and safer decisions about drug and alcohol use. Amanda is a highly professional and self motivated person who has achieved great results within Community Drug Action Teams CDAT’s. Over the past ten years Amanda created and delivered outstanding awareness and educational projects including ‘Stop the Supply’ campaign www.stopthesupply.org.au Her experience has enabled her to create multi-modal approaches to drug and alcohol peer education programs, workshops, development of resources educational campaigns and innovative use of social media and technology. Amanda has won excellence in Prevention and Community Education in the National Drug & Alcohol awards for peer education programs, such as DSP and ‘Reset’ and Australian HIV AIDS Day Award for Innovation – Youth Graffiti Project.

Testimonial - Killarney Heights Secondary School Kelly Parry Head Teacher PDHPE

The Crossroads program is vital in ensuring that students understand and appreciate that they are

valued as individuals. Amanda your assistance allowed us to maximise the positive outcomes for

the course. Your presentation was both insightful and engaging for the students and was also

great professional development for our staff.

I think the students responded well to the delivery of the program and I especially believe that

your personable nature and great presentation allowed the students to feel confident and relaxed

enough to ask questions. Students got a lot out of the day and so did I, so once again I am grateful

support with the program and sincerely hope you will consider being part of the Crossroads

program next year.

Young people have stated…..

“A lot of things we hear and see is really anti-drugs but the facts are given so it’s good to

be able to tell my mates the difference between myths and the truth”

“Personal satisfaction that I learnt that stuff and I made the effort to go and learn about

it share the knowledge I gained

“I was curious about drugs and it was good to have answers and someone who would

answer the taboo questions”