• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE2132

Koutsounadis-Germanos, Vivi

  • AO
  • Koutsounadis, Vivi
(1946 – )
  • Occupation Counsellor, Migrant community advocate, Psychologist

Summary

Vivi Koutsounadis-Germanos is a Greek born psychologist and counsellor who helped to establish and now heads the Ethnic Childcare Development Unit based in Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales. She has had a high level of involvement in the Sydney Greek Orthodox Community for several years and served as president of the Greek Orthodox Community of New South Wales in 2000. She helped to establish a national organisation for Greek Welfare Workers. She has also enjoyed an international profile as president of an international organisation of pre-school educators. In 2002, she went to the United Nations, where she lobbied the high commissioner of refugees about the need to tackle the problems experienced by children in detention.

Events

  • 2000
  • 2002
  • 1983

    Services to the community

    Order of Australia
  • 1998

Archival resources

  • Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available)
    • Papers Of Vivi Koutsianidis-Germanos

Published resources

  • Book Section
    • Double Disadvantage: Migrant and Aboriginal Women, Sawer, Marian, 1990
  • Conference Proceedings
    • Records and Proceedings of the Speakout for Immigrant and Refugee Women, 1983
  • Resource

Related entries


  • Presided
    • Greek Orthodox Community of New South Wales (1898 - )
  • Related Organisations
    • Ethnic Childcare Development Unit (1980 - )
  • Featured in
    • Being Seen And Heard: Migrant Women Organising In Australia, A Documentary History (2006 - )