Trish’s main project is the Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan, with a two-year timeframe to implement the commitments laid out in the RAP. Trish has also undertaken Program Evaluations and Client Feedback, as part of Hope Street’s commitment to continuous improvement. Trish currently lives on Gimuy Wuluburra Yidingi Country/Cairns working remotely with trips to Melbourne to join her colleagues.
Following a long and distinguished career, across homelessness and family violence services over thirty years, Trish established her boutique consultancy, Trish O’Donohue and Associates, providing support to female leaders across both sectors. Enabling leaders to take well deserved holidays, knowing their services were in great hands, filling in Executive Leadership positions during recruitment campaigns, leading accreditation reviews and managing projects, when ELT’s needed extra support.
Trish has won many awards in her career, and last year, Trish was one of 50 National recipients of the Elsie, award. Named after Australia’s first women’s refuge, Elsie’s established in Glebe, 1974. The recipients were drawn from a large contingent of women who made a significant contribution to keeping women and children safe.


