About Us
The History Behind PoDDSS
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oyce-Lyn has dreamed of owning her own business to pursue her passion of working with people with complex needs because she knows that she can make a positive difference and improve the quality of life for people with disabilities.
Think Big, Start Small, Move Slowly, Grow.
Joyce-Lyn created the name PoDDSS with the assistance of her good friend, Dr John Livingston, Clinical Psychologist. Joyce-Lyn tried to come up with an easy acronym which explains the ethos of PoDDSS.
Servicing Regional Queensland
PoDDSS provides the following services in:
The Right People In The Right Jobs
Joyce-Lyn strives to recruit highly experienced professionals with the aim of providing high quality advice, supports and services.
Joyce-Lyn Smith is a passionate, caring professional with expertise working with people with disabilities having worked in the field for over 25 years.
PoDDSS is growing and needs talented disability support professionals to join the team. Explore our current opportunities.
It is an absolute pleasure to announce that Ann Greer has joined the team at PODDSS as a behaviour support consultant. She has long experience in the delivery of human services sector as well as developing services, delivering training and designing individualised supports to people with a disability and their families.
PoDDSS Welcomes Parimal Reddy, Parimal had studied and completed a degree in Dentistry in his home country being India some years ago and he has now recently completed and achieved his master’s degree in Social Work (Professional qualifying) at James Cook University in Townsville.
PoDDSS Welcomes Shabnam, Shabnam has been facilitating some educational programs, Understanding Sexuality for Teenagers/Adults and Social Skills for Teenagers/Adults.
PoDDSS Welcomes John Futer, John , his wife Lisa, and son Mark have been members of the Townsville community since 1998. John’s professional experience has been in business, legal practice and most recently, public school teaching with the Queensland Department of Education.
PoDDSS Welcomes Jason Carroll. (profile coming soon)
PoDDSS Welcomes Adom D’Amico, Adom has been everywhere. Originally born in the small town of Tom Price, WA, Adom has travelled all around Australia with his family. Adom moved to Papua New Guinea with his family when he was 13 years old and embraced the culture and people with an open mind.
PoDDSS Welcomes Jennifer Heron, Jennifer comes to PODSS primarily from a career within a Child protection environment, working as a therapist/counsellor and creating and implementing Positive Behaviour Support Plans.
PoDDSS Welcomes Nadia Hilton, Nadia has joined the team at PoDDSS as a Positive Behaviour Support Clinician and Counselor/ Art Therapist.
PoDDSS Welcomes Rachel Lilley, Rachel has come to the PODDSS team with a passion for positive behaviour support (PBS), as well as individual therapy.
PoDDSS Welcomes John Edwards, John has joined the PODDSS team as a Positive Behaviour Support Clinician and Counsellor.
PoDDSS Welcomes Theresa Weatherly, Theresa has come to the PODDSS team with a wealth of experience in providing core disability support services…
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