From the day she graduated from Queens University Belfast, Mary Jo McVeigh OAM has maintained her absolute faith in her social work profession. She established Cara Care and Cara house where she has been working with children who have been recovering from trauma. For that work, she has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia.  For Mary Jo, our imagination is the storehouse of our wisdom, and she learns as much from her conversations with her ‘wee half-pinters’ as she does from her anti-oppressive social work textbooks.

SHOW NOTES

• https://www.carahouse.com.au
• Anam Cara Wikipedia entry:wikipedia.org/wiki/Anam_Cara
• John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World, Bantam Books, London,1997
• Convention on the Rights of the child: https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/convention-text
• Mary Jo Mc Veigh, Are We there Yet? Children Australia, Vol 42,Issue 3 (Sep2017) https://search.proquest.com/openview/ee1ebf5b5b52549b0547c8777542186f/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1586358
• Mary Jo’s most recent publication is a literature review of group work with children over the internet: Beyond the Dawn: A literature review on technology assisted therapeutic group work interventions for children and young people who experienced maltreatment, Social Work With Groups, March 2021 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01609513.2021.1892564

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the land on which we meet.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to Elders of other communities who may be present.