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Bonnie Carter
  • Webinar panellist

Bonnie Carter OAM

Peer Worker / Lived Experience, ACT
Panellists have generously contributed to our CPD webinars. Please note that they are not employed by MHPN, and we are unable to contact them or provide referrals on your behalf. Please do not send us patient details.

Bonnie Carter OAM is an award-winning community advocate & leader, voluntarily working in the infant loss awareness and fundraising space for the past seven years. Bonnie is a wife and a mother of three precious daughters, including two stillborn babies (Grace in 2016 and Matilda in 2017), and now one crazy toddler (Evie born in 2021). Bonnie has also experienced miscarriage and early pregnancy loss.

Bonnie is a member of the Red Nose Community Advisory Committee and has undertaken significant fundraising work for other charities including Bears of Hope, Canberra Hospital Foundation and Lifeline.

Bonnie is recognised as a community leader on both a national and local level, including participation in the 2018 Senate Inquiry into Stillbirth Research and being a key community changemaker, influencing the ACT Government’s introduction of an Early Pregnancy Loss certificate in 2021.

Bonnie honours her precious stillborn daughters in all that she does. She strives to offer a voice for Australian bereaved families, in the hope that it helps other people feel supported and comforted in their times of grief and loss.

Bonnie Carter OAM has presented on the following MHPN activities:

Supporting the mental health of bereaved parents after miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal deaths, 28 Jun 2023

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