Michelle Stacpoole is the Head of Communications and Events for Adopt Change and the My Forever Family NSW program. For the past three years at Adopt Change, Michelle has helped drive the increase in awareness for children to have safe and stable homes with supports to thrive. This has included increasing the number of potential carer homes across NSW through research-based communications and campaigns. 

With a passion for creating systemic change for children and young people in out-of-home care, Michelle understands the impacts of impermanency and champions the need for greater trauma awareness. 

A communications professional with extensive experience directing communications, campaigns, programs, projects and events at a senior level, Michelle is also a Dean’s Merit List recipient at Western Sydney University.