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Sally Marshall

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Sally Marshall

Keynote: Wellness Through Fortitude; supporting family wellbeing.

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Mrs Sally-Anne Marshall graduated from CSU with a Bachelor of Social Science (Welfare) in 2012, a Master of Social Work in 2015 and a Master of Child and Adolescent Welfare in 2023, has moved on to achieve many social work objectives. None more important that aligning her work with her passion and founding Wellness Through Fortitude, where she advocates for neurodiversity, particularly for families with neurodiverse children. She further founded Wellness Through Fortitude, to support families mange neurodivergent diagnosis, addressing critical issues of published children books around autism. She has authored multiple children’s books and resources and aims to approach supports with lived experience and humour, with inclusion at the core. Sally-Anne was named Port Stephen’s Local Woman of the Year in 2023 and was awarded the Port Stephens International Women’s Day Scholarship in 2024, and is the most recent recipient of Charles Sturt University 2024 Alumni of the year for Innovation, Entrepreneurship Creativity.

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