The FRSA Board consists of seven elected members and up to two additional co-opted members, at the Boards’ discretion.

They meet four times annually to discuss governance and long-term goals, approve major actions of the organisation, support FRSA to fulfil its mission and ensure implementation of the FRSA Strategic Plan 2023-27.

Each Board position works on a two year term, and no Board member can exceed a maximum of three consecutive terms.

FRSA is responsible for supporting the Board, and for coordinating the Call for Nominations and ballot each year.

The Call for Nominations will be sent no more than 4 months prior to the AGM.

To nominate a potential candidate, you must be the authorised Member Delegate of an FRSA Full Member organisation who has not nominated any other candidate, and the person you are nominating must be the authorised Member Delegate of a Full Member or Associate Member organisation. All nominators, seconders and nominees must have their fees paid in full by the Call for Nominations date.

Useful Documents

The following documents are available to prospective nominees; please contact us or (02) 6162 1811 for copies:

1. FRSA Position Description – Board Member
2. FRSA Constitution 2016
3. FRSA Policy and Procedures Manual
4. FRSA Annual Report 21-22

Glenda Devlin

B. Social Work (Hons), M. Gestalt Therapy (La Trobe), Cert. Executive Management and Development (AGSM), MAASW, GAICD

FRSA Board Chairperson
Finance, Risk & Governance Committee
Sector Events Committee

Appointed: 24 November 2017
Reappointed: 22 November 2019
Reappointed: 20 November 2020
Reappointed: 19 November 2021
(Current term expiry AGM 2023)

Glenda Devlin has worked for over thirty years in the Family Services sector, with experience as a practitioner, senior manager and senior executive across multiple service types and in regional and major city contexts. Glenda initially trained as a Social worker at UNSW, followed by a Master’s Degree at La Trobe, and has a ground up understanding of the sector with extensive relationships and networks built across the organisations working in the Family Services arena.

Over the last ten years, Glenda has developed expertise in the core areas of board responsibility including change management, strategic planning, financial reporting and risk management through her management experience and support of other organisations, alongside training at the Australian Graduate School of Management at UNSW and as a Graduate of Australian Institute of Company Director’s Course. Particular achievements in Anglicare have included supporting a client centred organisational culture through a number of significant changes including a merger with another organisation in mid- 2016; implementation of a number of new businesses within Anglicare (government and donor funded); and the development of three organisational Reconciliation Action Plans along with a role as ongoing role as co-chair of the RAP Working party.

Glenda has been an active participant in FRSA conferences and Senior Executive Forums. She has presented at FRSA conferences, been a member FRSA conference committees and has been involved in sub-committees looking at both the Performance Framework and Contractual issues.

Teresa Jayet

MBA, Grad FDR, BSocWk, BEd, Dip Financial Counselling

Board Deputy Chairperson
Finance, Risk & Governance Committee
Research and Policy Committee

Appointed: 23 November 2018
Reappointed: 20 November 2020
Reappointed: 23 November 2022
(Current term expiry AGM 2024)

Teresa Jayet is the Chief Executive Officer of the multi-disciplinary Organsiation, Mallee Family Care, and has 25 years experience in the human services sector across rural, remote and regional communities.  Teresa’s career commenced in the education sector where the foundation for her commitment to improve the lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged children and families was established.

In her career, Teresa has had case work experience and held Executive roles, which has included direct oversight of a Community Legal Centre, Family Relationship Centre, Post Separation Cooperative Parenting Program, Child Contact Service, Regional Family Dispute Resolution, Financial Counselling, Communities for Children, Family Law Pathways, Mental Health and Disability Services, Research and Education, Foster Care as well as Family Counselling and Therapeutic Services.

Teresa is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has experience in a number of Non-Executive Director roles which include Chair, Deputy Chair and Treasurer.  Teresa also holds qualifications in Masters Business Administration, Graduate Diploma Family Dispute Resolution, Bachelor Social Work, Diploma Financial Counselling and Bachelor Education.

Serge Sardo

B.A. Grad Dip Counselling, MBA, Registered Psychologist

Board Treasurer
Chairperson of the Finance, Risk & Governance Committee

Appointed: 24 November 2017
Reappointed: 22 November 2019
Reappointed: 19 November 2021
(Current term expiry AGM 2023)

Serge is the CEO of Better Place Australia (formerly FMC Mediation and Counselling and a Board Director for Scope Disability Services and Family and Relationship Services Australia (FRSA). Prior to these roles he was the inaugural CEO of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation where he was instrumental in establishing the Foundation as a world leader in the delivery of counselling, support and prevention programs to over 100 different locations.

Serge has accumulated over 12 years’ experience as a CEO and non-executive director for not-for-profit or government organisations.  As a psychologist with nearly 20 years’ experience, Serge has delivered and managed a wide variety of community based therapeutic and prevention services and has been a member of two Ministerial Advisory Councils at the state and federal level. With an MBA qualification and strong commercial experience, Serge also brings to the role expertise in marketing, social policy and advocacy.

Leanne Strommen

B. Social Work, AdvCert in Human Services (Disabilities), GDip in Housing Management and Policy

Chairperson of the Sector Events Committee
Chairperson of the Conference Reference Committee
Research and Policy Committee

Appointed: 22 November 2019
Reappointed: 19 November 2021
(Current term expiry AGM 2023)

Leanne Strommen is the General Manager Community Services of Centrecare Inc, which delivers a diverse range of social services to the West Australian community and provides 65 programs and over 150,000 community contacts a year. Her involvement in the sector, both paid and voluntary positions spans over 30 years. Leanne ‘s direct experience is through her work in the areas of individual, family and children counselling, family and relationship services, early education programs, homelessness support, housing provision, justice programs, settlement services, out of home care, financial counselling support and family and domestic violence services. Leanne is strongly committed to the recognition of Indigenous people as the original custodians of our land and working towards addressing the barriers that Indigenous people face in getting appropriate services to meet their needs.

Her involvement in the sector, both paid and voluntary positions spans over 30 years. Leanne’s managerial skills and knowledge of community services has helped her develop a deep understanding of the social service sector and government systems in which community service organisations engage. Leanne considers it essential that people from all backgrounds have access to service consistency and service excellence. Further to this, that the sector is central to the future wellbeing of so many Australians and continually seeks through advocacy and lobbying to protect the integrity and quality of social service delivery throughout Australia.

Leanne’s strong knowledge and understanding of the local needs of the community and effective responses pertains to metropolitan, rural and remote areas. Her involvement has been in state government and national committees including being the former chairperson of Shelter WA, Community Housing Coalition of WA and Western Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office, and a former Board Member of the Australian Federation of Homeless Organisations and National Shelter.

Allison Wainwright

M.Social Work (University of South Africa), Psych (Hons) (University of South Africa), BSocSc (Hons)

Chairperson of the Research and Policy Committee

Appointed: 22 November 2019
Reappointed: 19 November 2021
(Current term expiry AGM 2023)

Allison Wainwright is the Chief Executive Officer at Family Life, a specialist family services provider, working with vulnerable children, families and communities.

Allison has worked in both government and not for profit sectors in senior practice and executive management roles in the areas of children, youth and family services in South Africa and Australia. Allison has an extensive range of knowledge and experience spanning over 20 years of social work practice. She has a specialist skill set that focuses on programmatic design of therapeutic systems that provide trauma informed interventions and family sensitive practice including crisis services, residential care, child protection, family support and community based models. Allison has previously managed clinical, case management support teams in family violence, children and family services – in particular clinical mental health, and services for women and children experiencing violence.

She has provided international leadership over collective impact, community change and primary prevention initiatives. Designing place based and community centred models around HIV/AIDS prevention, family violence prevention, sexual health and place based responses to vulnerable families and children.

In South Africa Allison held the position of State Director for Integrated Services for Women and Children impacted by family and sexual violence and led the South African government reform agenda from 2005 to 2011, rolling out community based responses to victims of crime and violence.

Zoe Locke

B. S.Science (Human Services), Grad Dip FDR, FRDP & NMAS Accredited, Child Consultant, GAICD

Finance, Risk and Governance Committee
Sector Events Committee
Conference Reference Committee

Appointed: 23 November 2022
(Current term expiry AGM 2024)

Zoe Locke is the Deputy Director at CatholicCare Social Services in Toowoomba, a not-for-profit organisation supporting families and individuals and servicing 487,000 square kilometres of regional Queensland.  With a strong sense of social justice Zoe has been a consistent advocate for the Family Services sector.

Her professional experience includes two decades of work within the Family Services sector. Her practical grounding as a frontline practitioner, has guided her strategic roles as a Senior Manager and Deputy Director. Zoe has provided organisational oversight of and leadership in multiple jurisdictions, across a broad cross section of programs. Zoe has expertise in Child Protection, Family Law Services and Workplace Mediation with demonstrated success leading and shaping multidisciplinary and diverse teams. She is committed to improving workplace culture and developing and empowering high functioning teams. She commenced her career with a Bachelor of Social Science (Human Services) working in Residential, Foster and Kinship Care Services, before completing a Graduate Diploma in Family Dispute Resolution and transitioning into Family Law Mediation. With a passion for ongoing learning and development, Zoe has completed further training as a Child Consultant and a Nationally Accredited Mediator. Zoe’s commitment to vulnerable children and families with a focus on diversity and inclusion has been cemented throughout her career including spending time volunteering in the sector in India and Vietnam.

With over 15 years’ experience leading teams and organisations and overseeing organisational practice, Zoe has developed expertise in the core areas of board responsibility required including governance, risk management, financial performance and management, organisational culture, Environmental Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) reporting and Strategic Planning. In 2021 Zoe Graduated from Australian Institute of Company Directors Course (GAICD). With a proven ability and experience in developing strategy and implementing governance and compliance frameworks, Zoe has broad sector knowledge, a focus on innovative practice and has successfully implemented and managed pilot funded programs and organisational wide cultural change.

Fallon Roberts

BA (Sociology), LLB, GDip in Family Dispute Resolution, Family Law

Research and Policy Committee
Sector Events Committee
Conference Reference Committee

Appointed: 23 November 2022
(Current term expiry AGM 2024)

Fallon Roberts currently hold the position of Executive Manager, Families, Wellbeing and Justice at Centacare New England North West and has worked in the social services field for the past 15 years. In her current role, she is responsible for multiple state and federally funded programs including seven funded through the Department of Social Services for the provision of family, relationship & parenting based services.

Fallon has tertiary qualifications in law with operational experience in family and criminal law. She has worked in regional, remote and isolated communities in North West NSW for 15 years. She understand the challenges of these communities, especially relating to the social services, health, wellbeing and justice fields. Fallon has unique insight into the cultural worlds of our First Nations people and communities, having Aboriginal children, an Aboriginal husband and a large Aboriginal extended family. This connection exposes her to the beautiful cultural ways and being of our Aboriginal communities and the enduring struggles of our First Nations peoples.

Fallon is experienced in working for the public sector, previously holding the position of Regional Manager, Juvenile Justice for a five year period where she oversaw the operations of community based youth justice offices across the region. Both public sector and non-government roles have given her the opportunity to work with some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities, which has always driven her to identify service needs of communities and work to fill service gaps.

His Honour, Judge Matthew Myers AM

Co-Opted Board Member

BA, LLB, LLM, GDip Family Dispute Resolution

Appointed: 6 February 2015
Reappointed: 17 February 2016
Reappointed: 24 November 2017
Reappointed: 23 November 2018
Reappointed: 22 November 2019
Reappointed: 20 November 2020
Reappointed: 19 November 2021
Reappointed: 23 November 2022
(Current term expiry AGM 2023)

His Honour Judge Myers AM sits as a Judge of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia it its Family Law Division.

Judge Myers was appointed as an ALRC Commissioner in February 2017 to lead the inquiry into the incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Judge Myers was appointed to the Federal Circuit Court of Australia in 2011. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales and holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales, a Master of Applied Law (Family Law) from the College of Law and a Vocational Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution from Bond University.

Prior to his appointment, Judge Myers undertook work as a Notary Public, Accredited Collaborative Family Lawyer and as an Accredited Family Law Specialist with separate accreditation in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.  Judge Myers had additionally worked in the area of family law mediation both as a Nationally Accredited Mediator and as an Accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner with CentreCare and Legal Aid New South Wales. From 1999 until 2010 Judge Myers was a member of the New South Wales Community Aid Panel.

Judge Myers was awarded the NSW Law Society President’s medal in 2011 and received the award of Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2013 for services to the community in the area of welfare and family law.

Judge Myers is a member of the Board of Family and Relationship Services Australia, member CatholicCare Advisory Council (Broken Bay Dioceses), member Law Society of New South Wales Indigenous Issues Committee, member Federal Circuit Court of Australia Indigenous Access to Justice Committee and RAP Working Group, Co-Chair of the Aboriginal Family Law Pathways Network, member of the Central Coast Family Law Pathways Network Steering Committee, member of the Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council, member of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council,  member of the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, member of the Honoured Friends of the Salvation Army, member of the Royal Australian Air Force Specialist Reserves and holds the Commissioned Officer rank of Squadron Leader. Judge Myers is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

Megan Mitchell AM

Former National Children’s Commissioner

Co-Opted Board Member

BA, MA (Social Policy), MA (Psychology), Dip Ed

Research and Policy Committee

Appointed: 1 March 2019
Reappointed: 22 November 2019
Reappointed: 20 November 2020
Reappointed: 19 November 2021
Reappointed: 23 November 2022
(Current term expiry AGM 2023)

Megan Mitchell AM was Australia’s first National Children’s Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission, from 2013 – 2020. She is currently a consultant and part of the research team at the Research Centre for Children and Families at the University of Sydney.

Megan has previous experience in both government and non-government roles in child protection, out-of-home care, youth justice, disability, and early childhood services. Megan also holds qualifications in social policy, psychology and education.

During her time as Commissioner, Megan presented six statutory reports to federal Parliament on the state of children’s rights in Australia, including on: suicide and self-harm among children and young people; the impact of family and domestic violence on children and young people; the oversight of children in correctional detention, the experiences and needs of young parents and their children,  and;  Australia’s performance in meeting its obligations against the articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.