An experienced Manager, Counsellor, Trainer and accredited Social Worker, Rod leads a management team focused on ensuring continual and innovative service provision. Rod joined Centrecare in 2006 after previously practising at the Department of Child Protection and Family Support, Department of Health and Department of Corrective Services and working in a residential facility for men who were abusive within their family relationships.  He has worked extensively with men, women and children to address issues of family and domestic violence, at risk youth, children in care, family separation and homelessness for over 16 years.

Rod has been an Executive Manager with AWS since 2014 and with Centrecare since 2010.  During this time he has been responsible for a diverse range of social services including family and domestic violence programs for men, women and children, parenting support, youth outreach programs, housing and accommodation support, problem gambling counselling, and family dispute resolution.  Rod is a Board member of the Zonta House Refuge Association, Chairperson of the WA Family Pathways Network Steering Committee, National Association for Gambling Studies Committee Member and an Ambassador for White Ribbon Australia’s campaign to stop violence against women.