Catherine Baulch has almost 20 years’ experience as a practitioner in health, mental health and legal settings and nearly as long in child and family policy and programs.
Catherine graduated from the University of Queensland with a Social Work degree and has a Masters qualification in Human Services Management from Queensland University of Technology. Catherine has a passion for prevention and early intervention and since the release of the Carmody Report in 2013 following a Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Child Protection, has been instrumental in stewarding Queensland’s secondary family support programs to prevent children from escalating into the statutory child protection system.
Catherine has recently transitioned the Intensive Family Support program, an annual investment of $60 million, to outcomes focused performance reporting which is changing the way providers are delivering and reflecting on performance.