Ziyad ZS Serhan
Ziyad is a seasoned leader with extensive expertise in mental health education, suicide prevention, and stakeholder relationship management, with a focus on culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) and faith communities. As the Managing Director and Co-founder of Educaid Australia, he has successfully led large-scale projects aimed at enhancing mental health and wellbeing in CALD communities, demonstrating his strategic and collaborative leadership approach. Ziyad works closely with diverse stakeholders to deliver culturally sensitive mental health education and services, consistently managing complex projects that create lasting, positive outcomes.
With a strong background in education, Ziyad has worked as a high school teacher in South-West Sydney, and he continues to play an active role in his local community. His commitment to CALD and faith communities is evident through his leadership in delivering mental health education and suicide intervention training. He is an accredited suicide intervention trainer and a Master Instructor in Mental Health First Aid, having facilitated over fifty courses in schools, workplaces, and community settings.
In addition to his role at Educaid, Ziyad has served as a Senior Mental Health Consultant with Headspace, Australia’s largest youth mental health organisation. In this capacity, he supported leaders in schools and communities to improve their whole-school mental health and wellbeing strategies, and provided suicide postvention support using evidence-based approaches. Ziyad has presented at both national and international conferences on wellbeing and suicide prevention, and he is an advocate for integrating diverse cultural perspectives into mental health initiatives.
Ziyad is a qualified counsellor, having completed his second Masterss in Counselling, furthering his expertise as a psychotherapist to continue his commitment to mental health education and suicide prevention within CALD and faith communities.
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