Sally-Anne Clark is an experienced Leader in the Homelessness Sector, with over 17 years experience working in a range of roles and locations in Housing and Homelessness and Domestic and Family Violence. With a Masters in Leadership and an Associate Degree in Community Services, Diploma in Management and Community Services, Sally-Anne is  skilled in Continuous Quality Improvement and Practice Development, Supervision and Coaching, Change Management and Leadership. Sally-Anne demonstrates Values of Collaboration, Inclusion, Integrity, Courage and Hope. Sally-Anne is committed to ending homelessness in QLD and supporting people to lead their best lives.

Jonathan is the Program Manager for the Salvation Army’s Veteran Support Team who provide housing and homelessness support to veterans and their families across Queensland.

Jonathan leads this program supporting and advocating for veterans and their families experiencing homelessness and housing instability both statewide and in national spaces from a defence family member perspective as a child, nephew and grandchild of a veteran.

Jonathan has worked in the community services sector for over 20 years, in a variety of roles including neighbourhood centres, youth, mental health support and family mediation and specifically in the housing and homelessness sector for over 14 of those years.

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Melanie has over 25 years experience as a lawyer, both in Australia and internationally.  She recently completed a Masters of Business (Applied Finance) and received the Dean’s award for academic excellence.  Melanie also acts as Chair for Youth Housing Project and is passionate about the specialist homelessness sector.

Kris Wong is the  Operations Manager of  SERO4’s The MARA Project – Women’s Re-entry Program for SEQ funded by Queensland Corrective Services. MARA commenced in October 2016 and Kris has been managing the project since September 2017. Kris has over 12 years’ experience supporting offenders. Kris holds a Post Graduate Degree in Human Services, Advanced  Diploma in Community Sector Management, Certificate IV in Youth Work and Excellence in Supervision Practice.

Previously working with Offender Re-entry Support Service, the Pathways 2 Employment Prison Employment Program. Kris has a genuine passion for assisting people who are criminalised and justice involved to move forward with their lives by believing in them, walking alongside, creating opportunities and supporting them to make positive changes. Prior to the re-entry space Kris worked in Employment Services, Training, Disability, Youth Justice and with Refugees

Paul has been working in the community sector since the late 90’s, and in the homelessness space since 2002.  He is currently the CEO of inCommunity.  Paul is committed to finding innovative ways to solve some of our biggest challenges.  In 2017, he founded the Tenancy Skills Institute and pioneered working in partnership with the real estate industry at scale to address homelessness.

Steve Simpson is the Chief Executive Officer of Homelessness Queensland, leading policy, funding, and system reform across the Specialist Homelessness Sector. His leadership is grounded in lived experience and a deep commitment to centring the voices of those directly affected by homelessness.

With over 20 years’ experience in youth mental health, family violence, diversionary services, and system design, Steve brings a nuanced understanding of the sector’s challenges and opportunities. His work has spanned remote First Nations communities and regional towns, shaping his people-first approach to reform.

Steve serves on the board of Homelessness Australia and has held national advisory roles on perpetrator interventions and suicide prevention. A former Chair of the Coalition of Men Supporting Non-Violence Alliance, his work champions trauma-informed, culturally safe, and person-led practice.

Driven by his own experience of homelessness, Steve advocates for lived experience leadership — not as tokenism, but as a catalyst for lasting change.

Stephen joins HQ with extensive experience in the design and implementation of human services programs, in addition to holding senior management positions overseeing housing, homelessness, mental health, disaster response, community development and neighbourhood centre operations.

Commencing as a community housing officer in 2008, before moving into case management roles, Stephen then embarked on a number program design roles which included; ‘Integrated Service Response Project’ – working with ‘at risk’ families living in caravan parks (Red Cross & Dept. Child Safety, 2014-15), ‘Mental Health Demonstration Project’ – working with public housing tenants ‘at risk’ of losing their tenancy due to poor mental wellbeing (Footprints, Dept. Housing & Queensland Health (2016-18), and the ‘Service Integration Initiative’ – supporting households with multiple needs address housing and homelessness challenges across Queensland by coordinating integrated, multi-disciplinary service system response’s (Q Shelter & Dept. Housing, 2020-22).

Stephen was also involved in the initial work to establish a transportation system in Brisbane to support the homeless community access services (MissionBeat, Mission Australia, 2015), and project managed the design and initial roll out of the ‘Stand Up, Step Out’ mobile shower, laundry and outreach support service (Footprints, 2017-18). Whilst working within Dept. Housing and Public Works, Stephen was heavily involved in the roll out of the ‘Partnering for Impact’ initiative, including the project management of the Queensland Homelessness Compact Work Plan (2018-20).

Holding qualifications in counselling, psychology, project and business management, Stephen is committed to supporting the community’s most vulnerable through the delivery of an evidenced-based, outcomes focused and effective human service system.

Mandy brings over 35 years of experience across Queensland’s community and public sectors, including leadership roles in housing, homelessness, child protection and domestic and family violence services. Her previous positions include General Manager at Family Emergency Accommodation Townsville, CEO of the North Queensland Domestic Violence Resource Service, and CEO of Althea Projects.

With a strong background in training, practice development, and sector collaboration, Mandy has contributed to strengthening workforce capability and service delivery across regional and metropolitan communities.

Assisting with coordination, communication and information flow across project teams, sector partners and lived experience advisory pathways.

Katie’s work is inherently informed by her own lived experience, spanning multiple intersections, and is grounded in bringing people together across systems to strengthen shared learning and collaboration.

• Place-based and virtual workforce development and A4L
• Workforce wellbeing program design
• Sector engagement mechanisms
• Program, model and framework review, refine and design
• Eco-systems mapping and interaction
• Rights-based, Lived/Living Expertise, Peer and Advocacy
• Sector related research projects
• Project management support