Doug Faircloth

Doug has more than 20 years pastoral counselling to draw from supporting exceptional one on one and group consultation work. 

Superior outcomes in community or other stakeholder settings are achieved through the provision of principle based conversation points and demographic data that engages community members/stakeholders in discussions based on evidence often resulting impactful contributions of lived experience. 

This approach lifts consultations from a platform for airing discontent or hearsay to informed and extremely valuable contributions. 

A client reported: “your approach not only gave voice to community but it has empowered them to meaningfully contribute to the reform process. This can be very positively contrasted to the way the ‘majors’ conduct consultations".

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Engagement and Projects

Doug is engaged in the development of grass roots support of First Nations people and organisations working though a, ‘strengths based’ lens that includes contributions to:

• Coolamon - a platform to elevate and build first people small to medium enterprises leading to sustainability and self determination

• A Mental Health Report for an grass roots Aboriginal Organisation (not released)

• Doing business together – First Nations peoples’ Inclusion in the Australian co-operative and mutual sector - The Business Council of Cooperatives and Mutuals 

• 17 years of support/engagement to a Shepparton based charity RAD.Com (mainly supporting Aboriginal children and families)

Marginalised People

Doug’s sector expertise is evident in contemporary project work including successive strategic plans for Umbrella, which is a multicultural and LGBTQIA+ community service provider in WA. 

Doug has a deep understanding and sensitivity to social, physical and health issues relating to marginalised people evident in his consulting work and his broader engagement with services and supports for homelessness, drug and alcohol, family violence and marginalised young people. 

Health 

Projects include demographic and business planning in the support of the development of two multidisciplinary GP clinics in WA.

Doug has contributed to major health infrastructure tender writing and the attendant service planning resulting in successful funding allocations of more than $1b from the Commonwealth to the NSW Government. 

Doug also brings particular insights to the intersection between health and aged care that have been an element of report writing and advocacy.

Tender and Submission Writing

Work in tender and submission writing has included the following sectors: aged care (residential and community), carer, disability, family services, victims of crime, family violence, placement prevention, restoration services, health – including health infrastructure, Out of Home Care (Residential, Foster Care and Kinship Care), community and service hubs. 

Our tender writing commonly has includeed researching and documenting the essential evidence required to support the submission, model development, business planning. The evidence supports the preparation of a compliant, competitive and compelling application. 

          View Doug's major projects here 

A sample of conference presentations include:

• Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL) - Residential Out of Home Care: Trauma, Complexity, Failing Up through a system that traumatises 

• The Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM) - Driving Integration and Reform in Regional and Remote Aged Care co presented with Wendy Newman Vice Chair of Western Australian Country Health

• International Childhood Trauma Conference - Data & Practice: Closing the Loop of Understanding to Enhance Practice in a Therapeutic Model of Residential Care co presented with Adela Holmes Practice Leader Therapeutic Out of Home Care, Uniting and Christina Melrose - Manager Therapeutic Services to Residential Care, Uniting

• International Conference on “New Perspectives for Outcome-based Evaluation and Research on Family and Children’s Services” The Chinese University of Hong Kong: Measuring Change – Promoting Healing also a published article in the Journal of New Perspectives for Outcome-based Evaluation and Research on Family and Children’s Services (Published Italy 2017 Emanuela Zancan Foundation Padova)