Board of Directors
As of December 2011

Executive Director: Mitzi Dean
Before moving to Victoria in 2005, Mitzi Dean served as a national development manager for children's services with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the U.K.'s largest child protection charity. Her duties in this role included developing a national strategic framework for the NSPCC's 180 programs, including those relating to child abuse and maltreatment, parenting support, education and community development. Mitzi, who grew up in southeast England, has worked in child protection social work and community based social services across Great Britain for over 20 years. Her areas of special interest include child abuse, addictions and intimate partner violence. Her Master's in Philosophy research degree focused on historical aspects of child sexual abuse through comparing incidence and experiences in cases from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This work resulting in a number of papers being presented at international conferences. Her other publications include therapeutic stories for children who have been traumatized and book reviews on child-related studies. Mitzi's voluntary work history extends over decades and different countries, including working in a Romanian orphanage and a transition house in the UK providing refuge for women experiencing relationship violence.

PCFSA Committees

• Executive Committee
• Finance Committee
• Resource Development and Communications Committee
• Programs Committee