danielle allen

Danielle lives on unceded Wiradjuri lands and has worked in a diverse range of health and education settings in metropolitan, regional and rural areas in NSW. She has extensive experience in counselling, group work, advocacy, training, project and community development roles in the domestic, family and sexual violence in the women’s and children’s’ health sector.

Danielle has previously been involved with service improvement projects with the Western NSW Local Health District Prevention and Response to Violence Abuse and Neglect Service. She has conducted research investigating best practice responses in the area of non-fatal strangulation, and recently completed a Churchill Fellowship.

Danielle leads the Insight Exchange portfolio of work on understanding and responding to strangulation. She is also a co-interviewer in Insight Exchange interviewing victim-survivors of domestic, family and sexualised violence.