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Improving Services for Learners with Mental Health Difficulties
A NIACE/NIMHE(part of CSIP)/LSC Partnership Programme
Meet the Regional Programme Officers – Mental Health
East of England
Catina Barrett (address and telephone t.b.c)
Email: catina.barret@niace.org.uk
Dates of Network Meetings:
 | 23 April 2008 - GO-East, Eastbrook Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge, CB2
8DF |
| 9 July 2008 - Red Lodge Millennium Centre, Lavender Close, Red
Lodge, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP28 8TT |
| 15 October 2008 - Red Lodge Millennium Centre, Lavender Close, Red Lodge, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP28 8TT |
Catina Barrett is the Regional Programme Officer – Mental Health for the East of England region. She has a background in community development and health and she has worked in community and adult learning and higher education.
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East Midlands
Project Officer to be appointed - if you need any further information please contact Sue Rees on 0116 2044256 or susan.rees@niace.org.uk
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London
Victoria Sturdy,
(Working half-time usually Monday to Wednesday) Learning and Skills
Council, Canius House, 1, Scarbrook Road, Croydon, CR0 1SQ
Tel: 07920 788906
Email: victoria.sturdy@lsc.gov.uk
; victoria.sturdy@niace.org.uk
Network Meeting Dates:
| 28 April 2008 |
| 3 July 2008 |
| 14 October 2008 |
(Venues to be arranged)
Victoria Sturdy is the Regional Programme Officer for London and South East. She has most recently been co-ordinating and delivering learning opportunities for people with mental health needs in a College of Further Education, as well as providing cross college support and staff development sessions. She has also worked with adults with learning disabilities and difficulties, developing work placements in the public, business and voluntary sectors
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North East
Dates for Network Meetings:
| 17 July 2008 |
| 16 October 2008 |
Project Officer to be appointed - if you need any further information please contact Sue Rees on 0116 2044256 or susan.rees@niace.org.uk
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North West
Project Officer to be appointed - if you need any further information please contact Sue Rees on 0116 2044256 or susan.rees@niace.org.uk
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South East
Jenny Gartland, LSC Council Sussex, Prince’s House, 53 Queens Road, Brighton, East Sussex,
BN1 3XB
Tel: 07824 691601,
Email: jenny.gartland@niace.org.uk
; jenny.gartland@lsc.gov.uk
Network Meeting Dates:
26 February 2008 (venue to be arranged)
Jenny is the Regional Programme Officer for the South East. She has a background in developing Skills for Life and Learning Support work through partnerships and community provision in both London and the South East.
Dates of Network Meetings
| 25 February 2009, Venue tbc |
| 2 December 2008, Venue tbc |
| 25 September 2008, Highbury College, Portsmouth |
| 11 June 2008, Venue tbc |
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South West
Project Officer to be appointed - if you need any further information please contact Sue Rees on 0116 2044256 or susan.rees@niace.org.uk
The project officer for the South West is Inge Axt-Simmonds. Inge’s background is in mental health social work. She has worked both in urban and rural communities as an approved social worker as well as a Mental Health Act Commissioner. In the last few years Inge’s main work has been in a jointly funded post between a Local Authority and an acute Mental Health Care Trust. She was involved in staff development and joint training initiatives across the two organisations. Inge is particularly keen on engaging learners into the network as well as colleagues from Health.
Dates of Network Meetings
| 4th December 2008 venue to be confirmed |
| 2nd October 2008 venue to be confirmed |
| 17th July 2008 venue to be confirmed |
| 1st May 2008 venue Exeter College - CANCELLED (new date to be
confirmed) |
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West Midlands
Lesley Talbot-Strettle, LSC, Oak Tree Court, Binley Business Park, Harry
Weston Road, Coventry, CV3 2UN
Tel: 024 76446012/07920 493617
Email: lesley.talbotstrettle@lsc.gov.uk
lesley.talbot-strettle@niace.org.uk
Dates of Network Meetings
| 29 May - venue: LSC, Coventry and Warwickshire |
| 9 July 2008 |
| 14 October 2008 |
Lesley Talbot-Strettle is the NIACE Regional Programme Officer - Mental Health for the West Midlands. She has worked in a variety of educational settings, focusing on literacy, language, numeracy and learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. She has worked on a variety of projects including staff training and innovative programme delivery. She is a specialist teacher of the Blind.
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Yorkshire and Humberside
Tricia Clark, LSC West Yorkshire, Mercury House, 4 Manchester Road, Bradford,
W Yorks, BD5 0QL
Tel: 01274 444214; Mobile: 07825 382 272
Email: tricia.clark@niace.org.uk
, tricia.clark@lsc.gov.uk
Dates for Network Meetings
t.b.c
Tricia Clark is the new NIACE Regional Programme Officer for Yorkshire & Humberside. Prior to taking up post in April 2007, Tricia worked for 13 years in a large FE/HE college as a Learning Support Tutor with responsibility for the development of policy and practice to address the additional learning needs of students with mental health difficulties on the full range of the college’s HE, FE and Adult Education programmes in addition to directly supporting the learners themselves on a daily basis. She has also devised and delivered training for a variety of organisations and colleges throughout the region. Tricia is a UK consultant/ delegate for the European Gruntvig 2 mental health project ‘It’s all in the mind’ involving six EU countries. Tricia’s work, some of the protocols she developed and interviews with her learners feature in the training pack, ‘Learning and Mental Health’, commissioned and distributed by West Yorkshire Learning and Skills Council.
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