David Kelly has been involved with the Therapeutic Community (TC) Sector for around 25 years and has been employed in TC’s and Residential Rehabilitation Centres for over 20 years, the last 10 years or more in Senior Management roles. David has been employed in several different TCs in NSW, working for many years in two of the large multi-site TCs, including current role with Odyssey House NSW.
David has held several Board positions in his career, including sitting on the Board of two representative peak bodies in AOD and Aboriginal Residential Rehabilitation.
David is passionate about supporting people with lived and living experience of harms related to AOD use and all the associated issues and impacts that are often present. David is motivated to support staff and organisations to provide the best support possible to those who come to TCs and other associated programs for support and is motivated to support the TC sector to continue to strive to improve in our ability to support those in need.