Profile Information
Location
Honor Oak Park, ENG
Country
United Kingdom
Postal Code
SE23 1AN
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
I am a nurse, midwife and health visitor, passionate about outcomes for children and families and reducing health inequalities. I have expertise in the delivery of projects that met the needs of vulnerable/socially excluded groups including pregnant women with HIV, pregnant teenagers and teenage parents, families of children subject to child protection plans. My most recent role was as a nurse leader of an integrated health and well being service for young people in a deprived London borough. I am a regular columnist in numerous national healthcare journals, a guest lecturer at several universities and speaker at conferences. I am the author of Tune In To Your Baby: Because Babies Don’t Come with an Instruction Manual.
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
I work independently with The National Health Services and also as a Nurse Consultant for various local authorities and voluntary organisations
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
As a health visitor (Specialist Community Public Health Nurse), I am passionate about prevention and early intervention especially in the early years - pregnancy and the first few years of life and how an understanding of ACES relates to health outcomes later in life. The focus of my Churchill Travel Fellowship was on trauma-informed care and Building Resilient Communities and Organisations.
If you're part of a community-based PACEs initiative, which one?
I am not a part of one