With a strong background in education and an active member of his local community, Ziyad is passionate about working with Culturally Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and faith communities. His experience includes being a high school teacher in a South-West Sydney High school, as well as the Managing Director and Cofounder of Educaid Australia, which focuses on delivering mental health education and suicide intervention training amongst CALD and faith communities. He is currently an accredited suicide intervention trainer and a Master Instructor in the mental health first aid course, delivering over fifty courses to school, community and workplace settings in the last few years.  

Ziyad recently worked as a Senior Mental Health Consultant with Australia’s largest youth mental health organisation, Headspace, where he supported leaders across schools and communities to improve their approach to whole-school mental health and wellbeing, as well as provide suicide postvention support using an evidence based-approach. Ziyad has presented at national and international conferences on his work in the wellbeing and suicide prevention space and ways of incorporating diverse wellbeing views in meeting the needs of communities. He is currently a Training Psychotherapist and Counsellor, undertaking a second Masters in Counselling at Torrens University