Pete Townsend
The Rainbow Lodge
Pete has over 40 years’ experience working in the community services sector and holds degrees in theology and nursing qualifications. Pete spent 20 years in the AOD and nursing sectors, and another 20 of these years working with men engaged in the criminal justice system as a senior manager, program writer and trainer with Corrective Services NSW and Corrections ACT.
Pete was instrumental in the success of the Ngara Nura program at Long Bay during his time as manager and the Solaris Therapeutic Community in the ACT at Alexander Maconochie Centre prison. Pete was a previous manager of The Rainbow Lodge and has been a Board member for four. He recently retired from the Glebe House Board after nearly a decade.
