NEWS:Meet the Contraception Education Team (2010-01-01)
How Contraception Education began
For a resume of the history of Contraception the Board Game, click on the You Tube Video to the left. This clip shows contraception the board game as it is played, and the clip includes an interview with Barbara Hastings-Asatourian, Managing Director of Contraception Education CIC and creator of Contraception the Board Game. Barbara speaks about how it all began with a group of students who were hard to engage. Tom Cole, a youth worker from Ordsall in Salford tested the game with a group of teenagers, and a young person who had played the game shares his views about its impact and its effectiveness.
Barbara Hastings-Asatourian has a strong drive to make a difference in the lives of people less privieged than herself. She is the creative influence in Contraception Education, and invented Contraception the Board Game®. She is the founder and Managing Director of Contraception Education and also works as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing at the University of Salford. She has over 30 years experience as a nurse, midwife, health visitor and teacher/lecturer. Her career has included working with teenage parents, developing parenting skills, sex and relationship education in school and delivering maternity care and parentcraft education to young parents. In education she has incorporated sex and relationship education into her programmes. She has become more committed to reducing unwanted teenage pregnancy and promoting good sexual health natioanlly and internationally as her career has progressed. She is also a regular contributor to media about her specialism, and has been featured on national programmes such as "You and Yours" on BBC Radio 4, on BBC television's 4X4 Reports and The Daily Politics Show, and is a regular on local radio and television. In September 2008 she featured in Granada Edition's special on Teenage Pregnancy. Her written publications have recently included a special feature in the Practising Midwife on the Global Impact of Contraception. EMail Barbara
In November 2009 we were happy to welcome Hazel Jones our new business administrator. Hazel is undertaking her NVQ in Business Administration at Chamber Training and her apprenticeship with Contraception Education is 12 months long.
Khachik Asatourian graduated in 1969 with BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering at Manchester University and worked for Fairclough as a Civil Engineer until 1992, where he gained extensive experience in the tendering process. In 1993 he established his own company and became Managing Director of Glosupplies Limited. Glosupplies is a highly successful supplier of Computer Consumables, Office Supplies and Stationery. Glosupplies shares premises with Contraception Education Limited. Khachik´s expertise in business and finance management has been captured in the development of a robust financial management strategy for Contraception Education Limited. Khachik's strengths for Contraception Education lie in his attention to detail, mathematical ability and absolute tenacity until the job is finished. EMail Khachik
Julie Wray recently appointed by the University of Salford as non-executive Director of Contraception Education Limited, has practised across a range of health care settings in England and USA. For 16 years Julie worked as a midwife working closely with young people in the community. From 1995-98 Julie worked on a Department of Heath funded initiative with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists RCOG around quality, guidelines and audit in women’s health care. She has undertaken a number of regional and multi-centred audits in maternity care and commissioned work for the Royal College of Midwives. She is co-author of Midwifery Practice in the Postnatal Period - Recommendations for practice Royal College of Midwives published in 2000 (ISBN 1 870 822 04 8). Julie moved into higher education in 1999 firstly as a Research Fellow developing multi-professional evidence based practice with 8 NHS Trusts in the North West of England, then in nurse education in 2001. She teaches pre-registration and post-graduate students while remaining research active. Julie is a committee member of NICE, a trustee of Brook Manchester, a member of an editorial board for a midwifery journal and a PhD student. References for Julie´s papers can be accessed here. On a personal note Julie has two teenage son’s who constantly keep her entertained and challenged about the realities of modern life! EMail Julie
Stephen Cook began his career as a junior chemist in 1968. He trained as a PE teacher in Leeds from 1971 to 1974 and qualified with Certificate in Education. He taught PE at first, becoming head of year in 1985 and works experience coordinator in 1988 in the secondary sector, closely involved in delivering PSHE (Personal Social and Health Education). Stephen has a professional interest in methods of education which aim to reduce harm and promote self esteem. Since retiring in 1995 Stephen has had various part time roles, including becoming a Reader in the Church of England in 2000. In 2002 Stephen became Operations Manager for Contraception Education, and is responsible for handling all orders, collating and checking materials, as they arrive from Moorland Plastics, prior to packaging and distribution EMail Stephen
Barbara Robinson is a qualified secondary education teacher specialising in PSHE. She has worked for many years as a teacher adviser for Sex and Relationship Education and Drug Education. She is currently a part-time lecturer on the PGCE Secondary Social Science with Citizenship course at Manchester Metropolitan University. In addition she is a National Assessor for the Certification of PSHE for teachers and school health advisors, and continues to work as a freelance education consultant delivering training and curriculum development. Contraception Education is very privileged to have Barbara on board as an associate, working as an advisor and a consultant, and helping us to deliver our training arm activities.
From time to time Contraception Education hosts students from different universities and placement agencies.
Leire Sanchez and Pauline Guedes. Leire came from Spain in 2006 to work as a translator with Linguassist a translation company based in Llangollen in Wales. She was given the project of translating Contraception Education's resources into Spanish and localising the game. Throughout her placement she was able to visit us in Glossop and also made an outstanding Spanish Voiceover for Anticoncepcion El Juego de Ordenador under the supervision of Paul Smith and Ian Roberts Directors of Reactive Audio at their studio in Manchester. Pauline was on a placement via the International Student Placement Office and for part of it worked on the French translation of Contraception: the Computer Game (Contraception le jeu Interactif) and also recorded the French Voiceover during 2006. She spent some of her placement working with Information Plus in Orkney, as they converted the source code for the French Version. Pauline then undertook further studies in France to market the computer game in France, and produced a short promotional video with two fellow students.
We also hosted Thierry Oyhenart from November 2006 - June 2007. During his ISPO placement, because of his knowledge of Spanish, Thierry was able to represent Contraception Education at BETT 2007, at an exhibition in Mexico, helped with the recording of the voiceover for Contraception the Computer Game and made an introduction for us to several organisations in France.
Ilaivato Rakatobe was placed with us via ISPO from June 2007-October 2007 and during his placement represented Contraception Education on a Trade Mission to Spain, and various networking events nearer home. Remi Gandeboeuf and Meline Jallat joined us via the Salford twinning with Clermont Ferrand from April 2008 - July 2008 and together organised Protect and Respect 2008, Sophia Te Velde our first ever Dutch student came to us via ISPO from February until July 2009 to look at international work in Zambia, and again from France Geoffrey Sauvage joined us from April to July 2009 to focus on the marketing of our 2009 Summer Conference, and to engage in other marketing activities. In February 2010 we were joined by Alison Terry for a 12 week placement on her applied community and youth works study degree.
In November 2009 we were happy to welcome Hazel Jones our new business administrator. Hazel is undertaking her NVQ in Business Administration at Chamber Training and her apprenticeship with Contraception Education is 12 months long.
In November 2009 we were happy to welcome 
Barbara Robinson is a qualified secondary education teacher specialising in PSHE. She has worked for many years as a teacher adviser for Sex and Relationship Education and Drug Education. She is currently a part-time lecturer on the PGCE Secondary Social Science with Citizenship course at Manchester Metropolitan University. In addition she is a National Assessor for the Certification of PSHE for teachers and school health advisors, and continues to work as a freelance education consultant delivering training and curriculum development. Contraception Education is very privileged to have Barbara on board as an associate, working as an advisor and a consultant, and helping us to deliver our training arm activities.
