About Our RRAD Team

Caley Croft - Co-Founder & Coordinator

Bachelor Business (HR)/ Bachelor Arts (Cultural Sociology), Graduate Diploma Education, Diploma Positive Psychology

Caley is a skilled educator with over 14 years’ combined experience in the education and community sectors. Caley’s experience spans across teaching, case management and program coordination. She has a passion for engaging with key stakeholders to develop tailored programs that meet participant’s needs and develops their potential.

Caley endeavours to create a safe and supportive learning environment for participants by applying appropriate strength based teaching principles to her work. She champions a learning environment that is relevant, challenging, dynamic and inclusive. Caley sees this role as a privilege and acts with integrity, passion and commitment to her community.

Caley describes the heart of RRAD as the fusion of ideals from her parent's life passions as she grew up on a family farm surrounded by love, warmth and support from her family and her community in the Lockyer Valley.

Caley's mother, Joan Quinn, is passionate toward small communities and child centered learning with meaning. Caley's late-father, Gary Quinn is remembered for his love of finding the strength in the students that others have left behind. Caley describing him as seeing the good in people and harnessing this, with his belief that everyone deserves a mentor and someone to be their champion to support them.

Grant Maher - Co Founder and First Nation Advisor

Fellow within Engineers Australia; Chartered Engineer (Structural & Leadership and Management); Master of Design Science (Sustainable Design) (Distinction); Bachelor Commerce (Industrial Relations & Economics), Bachelor Engineering (Civil) (Honours)

Grant is an experienced Chartered Engineer with over 16 years of project management experience. Grant is founding Director of Jabin Group Pty Ltd, a 100% Indigenous owned and managed Engineering & Construction Services company.

He hold the honour of being the inaugural Chairman of the Indigenous Engineers Group, a Chartered Professional Engineer (Structural/Leadership & Management) and Fellow within Engineers Australia.

Grant is a proud descendant of the Gumbaynggirr and Biripi nations of Northern NSW. Grant has an innate nature of connecting with people and place, is highly respectful and displays natural leadership capability in communicating with people from all walks of life. Grant will be able to relate with our youth and guide them, particularly those who identify as First Nation and those interested in STEM.

Further to Grant's professional work, he volunteers his time to mentor young indigenous engineers and hopes to develop the Indigenous Engineers Group into a group that provides support, networking and developmental opportunities for current and future Indigenous Engineers.

Jason Croft - Co- Founder & Youth Facilitator

Bachelor Education, Diploma Fitness and Nutrition, Diploma Multimedia and Management.

Jason is an experienced educator with over a decade of teaching experience in the government sector. His areas of teaching are multimedia, health and physical education, and alternative programs.

Jason has a keen interest in working with young people to develop their abilities and excel in life. He has a notable tenure in leadership roles, including Head of Department of Senior Schooling, lead teacher of alternative programs for at-risk youth, year coordinator and leading a well-being program. Jason is known for his ability to work with disengaged youth and reignite their passion for learning.

Jason also has a passion for nutrition and fitness and enjoys facilitating workshops in this area. He is an engaging teacher with an astute ability to design curriculum that is meaningful to the learner.

Elle Maher - Co Founder & Coordinator

Graduate Diploma Chartered Accounting, Bachelor Business (Accounting), Projects in Controlled Environments (PRINCE2) Practitioner

Elle is an experienced Chartered Accountant with over a decade of managerial accounting experience. Elle’s career and foundations started in auditing with Deloitte before gaining commercial experience across a range of sectors including advertising, insurance, education and healthcare. Qualified as a PRINCE2 Practitioner, she embraces change and innovation. She has a passion for unity and collaboration, and enjoys engaging with the capability and diverse experience that each individual brings to drive workplace solutions supporting strategic direction.

Elle has high-level finance and management experience in the higher education and healthcare sector. This experience has led her to work with Managing Directors to monitor business performance and lead change. She is known for her ability to inspire teams to enhance their performance and lead others to do the same. She is a passionate problem solver with a warm heart.

Elle was drawn to RRAD’s initiatives and direction of the organisation and mission toward overall wellness, belonging, empowerment and resilience to the people in our communities. She is always eager to engage and learn about the community she serves and provide leadership on the direction and operations of initiatives. She is highly motivated and dedicated to her role. Elle sees this position as an honour and is proud to leads her team with integrity and passion.

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Jude Hart - Occupational Therapist and Facilitator

Bachelor of Applied Science in Occupational Therapy and Graduate Certificate of Research (Occupational Therapy)

Jude is an OT with 30 years’ experience encompassing general hospital work (Darwin NT),
including remote rehabilitation community work in Queensland - Kowanyama Community, Torres Strait Islands, flying with the Flying Doctor

Bachelor of Applied Science in Occupational Therapy and Graduate Certificate of Research (Occupational Therapy)

Jude has worked in a variety of industries and multi-cultural settings with all ages and across all wards including acute psychology. She successfully ran her own private practise in upper limb rehabilitation, in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and continues to have an ongoing mentoring role for regional hospitals- Swan Hill and Bairnsdale. She also enjoys private mentoring for people in crisis or those wanting to make a shift in their lives, using her occupational therapy skills and holistic counselling. Jude has run programs and workshops in the past in meditation and mindfulness, as she believes these are key elements for developing a deeper understanding of our lives and reaching our own unique idea of a successful life.

Jude is passionate about working with others to facilitate their achievement in meaningful activities, on an individual, group or community level. Overall health is vital to her as it is linked to wellbeing and healthy immersion in life’s activities. As an OT she identifies the strengths and challenges an individual may have in everyday activities and works on solutions: strategies that are meaningful to the person and their sense of self and community. Being inclusive, valuing others and accepting differences are qualities she has developed to a high degree as her range of experiences demonstrates. She is very aware of the significance of the land, and our environment and chooses to tread lightly on this great planet of ours.

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Carrie Morton - Board Member & Facilitator

Bachelor Science (Communication Sciences and Disorders), Graduate Diploma Education

Carrie is an experienced inclusion coach, special education teacher and case manager. Her knowledge spans across both teaching and support coordination, with notable time spent championing literacy and numeracy programs in the Lockyer Valley.

Carrie skillfully works with students to create and implement targeted plans, through the use of goal setting and evidence-based practice.

Her passion for well-being has led her to implement recreational programs in both the government and private sectors.

Carrie is known for her ability to support students to never give up on their dreams, she has high expectations of her students and creates a learning environment where students feel comfortable to reach their potential.

Carrie also has a passion for community well-being and loves to facilitate workshops in this area.

Aunty Therese Webster - Advisor to the Board and Mentor

Certificate Nursing, Cert III Business Management, Mentoring, Adult Literacy and Numeracy, Mentoring

Aunty Therese has over 50 years’ combined experience as a nurse and community leader. She has had a stellar career with many notable highlights including establishing a Nursing Agency on the Gold Coast and being Charity Nurse of the Year for the Gold Coast region in 1994.

After nursing, she used her skills and passion to effectively work as an Indigenous Education Councillor and Indigenous Education Project Officer in and across high schools, universities and the community sector. She also became the visiting Aboriginal Elder for the Queensland Correctional Centres.

Aunty Therese embodies the spirit of a proud community leader, volunteering since the age of 9 years old. She was a Rotarian for 20 years, President of Robina and Gatton & Lockyer Rotary Clubs, presented with the award of Rotarian of the Year 4 times and the receiver of the Paul Harris Fellowship (Rotarian award). She has been Queensland Senior Volunteer of the Year 2010 and the Indigenous Volunteer for Women from Ipswich Council.

She has many highlights including helping others to achieve, being a wife, mother and grand- mother and volunteering for her community. She takes pride in her duties as an Aboriginal Elder and her motto is; CARE SHARE & RESPECT.