Dr Michael Carr-Gregg - Raising happy and resilient children (Taree)

CatholicCare in conjunction with the Federation of Parents & Friends Association invites: parents, carers and staff of our Catholic schools. 

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is one of Australia's highest profile adolescent and child psychologists. 

He wrote his PhD at the University of NSW on adolescents with cancer and in 1985, and founded the world’s first national teenage cancer patients support group, Canteen. He subsequently moved to NZ where he became a political lobbyist for the New Zealand Cancer Society heading up the Coalition Against Tobacco Advertising and Promotion. Dr Carr-Gregg was the inaugural Director of the NZ Drug Foundation before being appointed Head of Education and Training
at the Centre for Adolescent Health at The Royal Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, where he developed and taught the Graduate Diploma in Adolescent Health and Welfare. In 2015 he was appointed the Managing Director of the Young and Well Co-operative Research Centre and developed an interest in the use of technology for building wellbeing in young people.