About Us - Our People

Lorna Sullivan

Principal Consultant

Personal Development and Supervision

Lorna is involved in ongoing personal development, supervision and support from Dr Michael Kendrick (over last 10 years).  Lorna's developmental focus is on:

• What constitutes quality in human services
• Family-focused service provision
• Quality in services
• Leadership and change agentry in human services
• Safeguards in human services
• Ethical practice
• Service safeguards
• The prevention of institutional practices in community service delivery
• Right relationships in human service delivery

Tertiary Training & Qualifications

• M. Phil – Rehabilitation – Massey University
• Graduate Diploma (Rehab. Psych) – Massey University
• B.A. Soc. Sci. (Psych) – Massey University
• Diploma Teaching – Early Childhood Education
• Diploma Business Management and Administration

Social Role Valorisation Training and Development

• Optimal Service Design – Model Coherency Analysis
• Reflective Theory
• PASSING ( Programme Analysis of Service Systems implementing Normalisation Goals)
• Human service planning, leadership and change
• Universal realities about human services
• Moral base for human services
• Practical functioning in human services leadership
• Contemporary social developments that have major impacts on human services
• Adaptive strategies for moral service leadership
• Oppression in human services
• Types of intelligence      
• Assistance with integrity in Human Services
• The use and abuse of power in human services
• Working for justice

Sector Experience

NASC

Lorna had a direct involvement with the development of the Needs Assessment and Service Coordination functions from the preliminary discussions around its conceptual development with the Regional Health Authority in 1992. This included:

• Development of initial pilots with Midland Regional Health Authority.
• Participation in the development of Needs Assessment Standards.
• Development of Access Ability NASC as foundation Board member.
• Delivery of NASC services to all age groups as Chief Executive of Access Ability.

Other Sector Experience

• National Executive member, Disabled Persons Assembly of New Zealand.
• New Zealand representative member, Disabled Persons International Asia Pacific.
• New Zealand representative to DPI World Council.
• Steering Group – Independent People First New Zealand.
• Member of the New Zealand Disability Strategy Reference Group.
• Member of National Health Committee.
• Member of NZ Human Rights Commission Working Group – Disability.
• Certified Trainer/Assessor – American Council for Quality & Leadership.
• Member of Standards New Zealand, Health and Disability Standards working group (1999).

Other Relevant Training

• Te Tiriti O Waitangi
• Facilitation skills
• Negotiation skills
• Project management
• Quality management
• Inclusive education – inclusive societies
• Conflict management and resolution
• Problem solving
• Principles and practices of case management
• Managing change