Perlin Simon MAICD is the Director of Centacare Family Services. Centacare provides a range of social and family services to the Mid-West Gascoyne Region of Western Australia. Her passion includes social and cultural influences on self-determination, holistic approaches to Aboriginal social and emotional wellbeing, domestic violence primary prevention, community capacity building and development, strategic social enterprise development and innovative out of the box service delivery. Perlin has spent over a decade living and working in some of the most remote communities of Australia. She is continuingly dedicated to understanding the intricacies of remote community life, the link between the individual and country with consideration to environmental changes since colonisation, and how all this affects circumstance for the new generations, with aim to use this knowledge to influence policy development for future generations.