Nicole Hasseldine
Nicole is a bereaved mother to her daughter Isla who lived 6 days in NICU after suffering birthing complication at 38 weeks in 2016. Through this experience she has become passionate about improving the bereavement support provided to maternity staff and parents experiencing child loss.
Nicole has developed ISLA grief & loss, a service offering maternity hospitals a donation of items to enhance memory forming, a resource folder for maternity staff and a series of education sessions covering a wide range of bereavement topics for maternity staff and students.
Her mission is to improve the confidence and capabilities of maternity staff through perinatal bereavement education. Since October 2017, she delivered over 120 presentations face to face and online to more than 1600 health professionals and students around Australia and international. She has also delivered talks at several universities, to O&G registrars, GPs and has presented at a number of hospital-run Perinatal Loss Study Days and New Graduate Orientation Programs.
Nicole is a postgraduate trained physiotherapist and mother to her three living boys. She has completed her Cert IV in Bereavement Support, Cert IV in Training and Assessment, is a trained Peer Supporter with Red Nose co-facilitating a face to face support group and a member of the Red Nose National Scientific Advisory Group.
Barrett Hasseldine
Barrett is a bereaved father to his daughter Isla. He supports ISLA grief & loss from ‘behind the scenes’. He is passionate about improving the care provided to bereaved families and ensuring that dads are not forgotten in the often mother-centric topic of parental bereavement.
As a mathematician, Barrett is always looking for patterns in data with an eye for finding insights with real-world implications. Through analysis of the hundreds of attendee survey responses gathered to date, the insights identified help to inform the material Nicole presents. Through this process guidance from highly experienced front-line staff can be compiled and disseminated to less experienced staff increasing their level of confidence and capability.