Director, Employment and Education Partnerships, Orygen
Gina Chinnery is the Director of Employment & Education Partnerships at Orygen and oversees a team developing and implementing innovative projects focussed on improving employment and education outcomes for young people locally, nationally and internationally. Gina has worked in the field of youth mental health and more broadly across the employment services sector for over 20 years. She has been a key contributor to the development and evaluation of innovative vocational interventions for young people with mental ill health including Individual Placement and Support (IPS), youth vocational peer work, international student mental health peer work and the online career support platform, YOTES.
In 2018, Gina was awarded an International Specialised Skills Fellowship to investigate vocational peer work and online career interventions in Canada and the USA and in 2015, was awarded the Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA) Career Practitioner of the Year and Long-Term Unemployment Conference, Employment Officer of the Year.
