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[ BUTTERFLY PATRONS]

Butterfly Patron ................................................................................... Ms Jacinta Tynan News Presenter / Columnist / Author

Jacinta Tynan is a News Presenter with Sky News Australia and worked previously as a Reporter / Presenter with ABC TV.  Her first book, ‘Good Man Hunting’ (2005, Random House), a memoir about looking for love in your thirties, received critical acclaim and spurned a popular weekly column for the Sunday Telegraph about contemporary life and love. Her second book, ‘Some Girls Do. My Life as a Teenager’ (2007, Allen and Unwin) is an anthology of female Australian authors writing the true story of their adolescence. All royalties were donated to SISTER2Sister. Jacinta was a Big Sister in 2006 and is now the Program's Patron. 

..................www.jacintatynan.com

[ AMBASSADORS ]

Public Ambassador ................................................................... Ms Shelley Taylor Smith

Regardless of being tagged with "no natural ability", "disabled" and "nothing above average" 7-time World No.1 Women's Marathon Swimming Champion Shelley Taylor-Smith is the only woman to hold a No.1 world ranking for both men and women in the history of any sport worldwide.

A highly energetic and inspiring motivational keynote speaker, international best selling author, business trainer and success coach, Shelley Taylor-Smith has proven that any ordinary Australian can achieve extraordinary results; that a Champion Mindset® can make a difference in your life and business.

Retired 6yrs, Shelley switched swimsuit for business suit, now creating Champions in all of us with her down to earth, openness & honesty as she connects & engages her audience sharing her personal experiences.

In her business Champion Mindset® Consulting, Shelley works with businesses and individuals to remove the blockages that stop people from achieving peak performance and ultimately success. Shelley holds Bachelors in Education in Physical Education, a qualified trainer in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and currently pursuing her doctorate in Psychology.

Champion Mindset® has provided Taylor-Made Solutions to both blue ribbon corporations, small & medium business and professional athletes & sporting teams including St Joseph's College Head of the River Rowing 1st 8's, Australian Swimming Teams, St. George Bank, Commonwealth Bank, Colonial First State, Cadbury Schweppes, Blackmores, Foxtel, Warner & Roadshow Entertainment and Sheridan all discovering first hand how to become Champions.

Repeatedly, Shelley has demonstrated the power of her mind in overcoming considerable adversity. Triumphing over scoliosis, partial paralysis, benign breast tumor and chronic fatigue syndrome.

As many have said "Shelley will not tell you what you want to hear, she'll tell you what you need to hear!", "Her enthusiasm is contagious and her passion mindblowing!", "A roller coaster ride of emotions that you never want the ride to stop.", "Not in 7 years organising conferences have I witnessed a standing ovation with not a dry eye in the room."

Be inspired, improve morale, motivate your team, celebrate success, inspire performance, embrace change and step-up to the next level of success with audiences guaranteed to leave as Champions of their own world. Author, trainer, speaker or sports person, the underlying message throughout all Shelley Taylor-Smith's endeavors is, "…if you don't quit, you will make it."

.................. www.championmindset.com.au

[ LITTLE SISTER AMBASSADORS ]

I'm really not sure about achievements. I now live out of home, which i think is an achievement, finally being able to become independent and live my life happy and the way i want. I recently started working in a nursing home, gaining some valuable nursing experience and just entering my 2nd year of nursing. 2 more years and i will be a registered nurse. Really exciting. I got my licence and a car and am now driving around as well which helps me get around a lot easier now. I have been able to build friendships and relationships with my family which are a lot stronger now that i live out of home and i can visit and just put aspects of the past behind me. I even talk to dad now. I would love to speak to girls and help. I feel like i'm at a part of my life where i'm out of the darkness, i'm a survivor. I made it through and i'm going to achieve so much more and i have that strength and confidence because that's what you (Jessica) and all foundation gave me. A chance and some help to get through and now i would love to help give back. I know there are girls out there that can become success stories as well and i would just love to be a part of that. I know it will take time before i could become a big sister because of my age, but it's definitely something i want to do.

Since graduating from the SISTER2sister Program, I have been involved with several training and speaking projects. I obtained my Cert 2 in Public Safety (SES Rescue) in February 2007 and have started the Cert 3. I have written, designed and published an information pamphlet for young people who self-injure (October 2006) and gave my first presentation on self injury issues to the Big Sisters at their training program now presenting regularly at their training. In 2007 I presented two workshops on self injury at the Foster Care Conference in Queensland, and co-presented at a community information night on deliberate self injury. I am also helping to make a documentary DVD on Self Injury that may eventually be used to curb the problem of self injury in schools

I completed my Certificate 4 in Community Services Work (Welfare) in 2008 and more recently have spoken about self injury among teenage youth to Lifeline Counsellors, Southern Community Welfare and the Sutherland Shire Partnership Day Conference. I also conduct workshops at the State Foster Care Conference in QLD. I have been nominated for the NSW Mental Health Consumer of the Year Award and the Mental Health Matters Award. In my personal time, I volunteer for the Cancer Council specialising in Relay For Life, and helping with all metro events and the Starlight Children's Foundation on Star Day as a Location Leader of a fundraising site. Recently I was featured along with my Big Sister Jacinta Tynan and Founder of Life Changing Experiences, Jessica Brown in a 4-page article in VIVE magazine.

SISTER2sister has played a very positive role in my life over the last year and I am very happy that I made the decision to be part of it. I was nominated for the program by my Deputy Principal, and I firmly believe that it has been the ongoing support and dedication of the big sisters in the program, especially Jessica Brown and Vicki Condon, which has helped me get where I am today.  I finished my HSC this year, and am looking forward to proving my school’s motto, ‘We are the makers of our own destiny’. As my school life has finished, so has the rest of my life begun.  The SISTER2sister program was never about giving me a better life. It was about developing a support network to help me make that better life for myself.

Grace Whiting became a Little Sister in 2006 and has been actively involved in SISTER2sister ever since. She has done radio and newspaper interviews on behalf of the program, shared experiences at various information days for new Little Sisters and was a guest speaker at the 2007 Fundraising Ball. She was a recipient of a Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) after being nominated by SISTER2sister and was published in Jacinta Tynan’s anthology, Some Girls Do, which gave all proceeds to SISTER2sister.