Hello! I’m Ruby Awram, I’m Ruby Awram, and I live in the Far North of Australia in Cairns on Gimuy Walubarra Yidinji Country and grew up in Broome on Yawuru Country. These are such beautiful and amazing places to live. I am never far from the natural landscape that makes life in Australia so special. However, sometimes living in these amazing places can also challenge us. Since I was a small child, I have seen the devastating impacts of disasters on the landscape, natural and built, people and communities including my own family. I work as a Child Mental Health Advisor – Disasters & Climate Change at Emerging Minds as part of the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health. We’re a national not-for-profit organisation dedicated to advancing the mental health and emotional wellbeing of Australian infants, children, adolescents and their families. I trained as a mental health occupational therapist and have worked to support children and families for the past decade. Using my personal experience of living and working through floods, cyclones, and bushfires around Australia, I am committed to supporting the younger generation and their families to prepare for and recover from extreme weather events and other disasters.