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(Please click for full terms and conditions)SPEAKERS
JOHN REES (PSHE Consultant and former APAUSE Director)
John Rees is an independent consultant specialising in PSHE and school improvement. Until July 2006 John was responsible for developing all aspects of the APAUSE programme, with a particular responsibility for co-ordinating the liaison work with all the different Health and Education authorities across the country.
John's professional background is in teaching. He taught in a comprehensive school in Exeter from 1982 to 1995. He originally trained for Physical Education and Special Educational Needs, but was eventually responsible for PSHE through the school and was Head of Upper School. His professional specialism is developing approaches to teaching and learning in Sex and Relationships Education within the Personal, Social, Health Education and Citizenship frameworks and how these may contribute to improved health, relationships and academic excellence.
LISA BROTHERTON (Glossop Women's Aid and the Freedom Programme)
For as long as Lisa can remember she has helped out with younger children at the local nursery volunteering her spare time for trips and activities in the summer holidays. It was when she started university that she began to work with young people. She began by working alongside others running several junior youth clubs in deprived areas around Oldham, running several projects based on the Every Child Matters Outcomes. She then went on to run a summer play scheme for children that were socially excluded, in certain areas of Manchester. As a graduate, her work became more targeted when she joined the Youth Offending Team and worked in an Inclusion Project. Her focus was working to engage hard to reach young people who were at risk of offending or had been convicted of anti-social behaviour orders. She now works as a child and family support worker at Glossop Women's Aid, and is a Freedom Programme Trainer.
KATY BRIGG (Glossop Women's Aid and the Freedom Programme)
Katy began working with young people over 6 years ago and this led her to complete a degree in Youth and Community Work. Having worked for both voluntary and statutory organisations her role has been extremely varied, ranging from engaging with young people deemed at risk of offending and those who have already been involved with the Youth Offending Sevices, and to generic youth provision, both in centres and on a mobile unit. Katy has delivered several projects surrounding the five outcomes of Every Child Matters, including alcohol awareness and sexual health. Katy has also completed Speak Easy training to facilitate parents groups around sex education with their teenage children. Katy is also a Freedom Programme Trainer.
DARREN JAMES (Young People's Sexual Health Project, The Beacon Centre, Salford)
He started as a volunteer youth worker way back in 1989 and then studies a youth work degree at S.Martins, Lancaster graduating in 1996. He’has been working as Young Person’s sexual Health development worker in Salford now since January 2007. Previously he has been a Connexions worker, Young Men’s worker and ran a sixth form college student support.
He has had an interest in sexual health for a long time and was shocked on how little is still taught in schools and colleges. He was also surprised by the “Victorian Values” that we still have in this country.
His role is unique in the way that he sits in the Youth Service and work alongside the Teenage Pregnancy team, Brook and Sexual Health Services.
He delivers training to staff and young people, information sessions and workshops, A Drop-In “clinic” and is responsible for Salford’s condom distribution scheme as well as updating websites and ways to contact young people.
CAROL ROBINSON (Developer of HYPHOP)
Carol Robinson is a sexual health outreach nurse working with vulnerable, hard to reach young people in Thanet, Kent. Her work involves needs assessment and research to inform the development and provision of sexual health outreach services and educational programmes to young people. The drama and the HYP (Healthy Young People) workshops have emerged from her outreach work. Carol was highly commended in the Nursing Standard Nurse of the Year 2004 Awards for pioneering this innovative approach to teaching young people about sexual health and emotional well-being. She is also employed as a Lecturer in Sexual Health at Canterbury Christ Church University. And her qualifications include BSc (Hons) Community Health, RGN, NDN, Specialist Contraceptive Nurse, PG Cert Ed.
JENNY GANNON (Friends of Londiani - Peer Education - Positively meeting life’s Challenges)
Jenny is a volunteer with Friends of Londiani. She has been involved in the projects in 2005 and 2007. She has helped to update and adapt the programme to the community groups that Friends of Londiani work with. She has given peer education courses in Kenya and has worked with the local trainers. She is a primary school teacher in Newbridge, Co. Kildare.
HAZEL MURPHY
Hazel is one of the Directors of Friends of Londiani. She was a member of the original Harambee 2002 project in Kenya and became a member of the Friends of Londiani on her return. She has been involved in the Peer Education courses and programme development since then. She has been a member of the projct teams in both 2005 and 2007. She is a Montessori teacher and runs her own school based in Ballinlough, Co. Cork.
Friends of Londiani Presentation
The mission of Friends of Londiani is to work in partnership with the people of Londiani, and its surrounding villages to develop and complete sustainable community projects to enable and empower the people to achieve an improved quality of life based on their values and become the authors of their own development. The Friends of Londiani will endeavour to achieve these goals in a spirit of co-operation and mutual respect with one another and with the people of the area. This partnership will enable members of Friends of Londiani to further develop skills and a deeper cultural understanding.
BARBARA HASTINGS-ASATOURIAN (award winning author & developer of SRE resources)
Barbara Hastings Asatourian's Presentation - Poke Someone Now!
On qualifying as B.Nurs in 1975 Barbara worked as a staff nurse, a health visitor and a midwife before her teacher training/ Cert Ed in 1989. There she invented a prototype of Contraception the Board Game®. She began teaching nurses in 1991 and gained her MSc in 1996. In 2001 the University of Salford enabled her to set up Contraception Education to disseminate her resource. She is now Managing Director of the company a post she holds alongside her Senior Lectureship at Salford, and her honorary fellowship at the University of Manchester. She has developed four new sex education resources for the UK and one for South Africa. This work has so far taken her to Brazil, Mexico, the USA, Thailand, Europe and South Africa.
Barbara is regularly called on by the media to comment on sexual health matters, and has had recent appearances on BBC1’s 4X4 Reports, BBC2’s Daily Politics Show, local and national radio including South Africa’s SAFM. She completed, with Julie Wray in 2005, an evaluation of Sure Start Plus in Manchester and Salford, and in 2008 a workforce development project for the Greater Manchester Sexual Health Network.
She has established a training arm of Contraception Education for training professionals working with young people, developed workshops for parents and is pioneering Sex and Relationships Education Masterclasses throughout the UK. This conference is one of the activities of the training arm.
HILARY PANNACK from Straight Talking will also be presenting a session with teenage parents from a peer education project in Trafford.
Hilary Pannack's Presentation - Straight Talking
Hilary Pannack CEO of the Charity Straight Talking qualified as a youth worker and worked with teenage parents in residential settings and support groups for many years. The charity she set up, Straight Talking Peer Education, is now celebrating its 10th year. The charity is currently employing 60 teenage parents and last academic year, educated 5,000 young people. Hilary has 2 daughters.
GLOSSOPDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE Year 12 students from Glossopdale presented their sexual health project to the conference. There were 5 3 minute films, one of which ("Rose") won the Celebrating Excellence Award.
MANCHESTER DIAMONDS A Manchester group of cheer dancers presented their own magnificent award winning themed dance to round off the day.
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