Judith Krahe Edwards

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Judith has worked for the Departments of Health, Education and Community Services. From 1994 to 2003 she was senior manager in charge of early intervention/prevention programs at the Benevolent Society. She is recognised as an authority in the design and delivery of programs to support highly distressed families and has designed and implemented a range of early intervention programs.

Judith has trained/presented on parent/infant relationship issues, on the physical and emotional needs of young children and on support needs of workers in early intervention and child protection programs at national and international conferences. She has tutored in the School of Social Work at The University of Sydney and lectures and supervises students in the Institute of Psychiatry’s Infant Mental Health Masters Degree.

Judith has a reputation for inter-agency networking and was a member of the Prevention Strategy Work Group that developed the NSW Child Protection Council’s ‘Framework for Building a Child Friendly Community’.

Judith convened the acclaimed Early Intervention conference, ‘Inner Worlds, Outer Realities’ in 1998. She subsequently edited and contributed to a book of the same name, which focuses on early intervention in distressed families.

Judith is a member of the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health having completed a second term as NSW president in July 2003.

Currently, Judith has her own consultancy which involves her in private clinical work with survivors of child abuse, as well as supervision of professionals involved in individual, family and child protection work, and in consultation with a variety of teams.

Judith is the Executive Director of PIFA