Family Links Event Pack

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Family Links Event Pack Family Links is a national charity dedicated to empowering children, parents, families, schools and workplaces to be emotionally healthy. We deliver innovative, high quality training to health and social care services, third sector organisations, schools and universities.

Our areas of expertise... Effective parenting support provision

The emotional needs of teenagers

Parental mental and emotional health and wellbeing

Parenting with Islamic values

Working with troubled families

Parents of children with a disability or special needs

Parental engagement

Parents in prison

Practitioner and professional development

Emotional health in the workplace

Children’s emotional health

Social and emotional learning in schools

Antenatal parenting support Perinatal mental health

Addressing the education achievement gap

Working one-to-one with parents

Teacher training in positive behaviour management

Nick Haisman-Smith Nick Haisman-Smith is the Chief Executive of Family Links. He is also a doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol where he specializes in policy and implementation issues relating to social and emotional learning in educational settings. Prior to joining Family Links, Nick co-founded The Institute for Social and Emotional Learning in the United States and taught in primary and secondary schools in the UK and USA. Nick holds Masters degrees from the University of Oxford, Stanford University and The University of Bristol, and obtained Qualified Teacher Status through Teach First. He is also a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Trustee of the Blackbird Academy Trust in Blackbird Leys, Oxford. Nick is an expert in parental mental and emotional health and wellbeing, children’s emotional health, social and emotional learning in schools and addressing the education achievement gap. He has spoken at events and conferences including The Festival of Education and the Westminster Forum on Initial Education.

Gail Allan Gail Allan is Business Development Director for Family Links. She has over 15 years’ experience promoting emotional health for families and schools and is a national trainer for the Nurturing Programme and a parent group leader. Gail has further qualifications in counselling and supervision and has experience working one-to-one with vulnerable families and teenagers as part of the Oxfordshire parenting support provision team. She was part of the start-up team for the child obesity charity, HENRY, negotiating major contracts with the NHS and local health trusts. Gail can speak on effective parenting support provision, parental emotional health and wellbeing, parental engagement, practitioner and professional development, children’s emotional health, emotional needs of teenagers, parenting with Islamic values, skills for learning and readiness for work and social and emotional learning in schools. Gail has previously presented at numerous events including the Growing Families conference and the TeachFirst regional conference.

Sarah Darton Sarah Darton is Director of Programmes for Family Links. She is a qualified health visitor, and has worked as a liaison health visitor and Named Nurse for Child Protection at a busy London hospital. Sarah has a Masters in Child Protection and Family Support from the University of East London and the Tavistock clinic. Before joining Family Links, Sarah worked as the health and outreach manager of a Sure Start centre in London. She has also had direct experience with Home Start, the Lullaby Trust and Netmums. Sarah has taken the lead in developing Family Links’ work with Muslim parents, working in collaboration with the UK Islamic Mission to promote the emotional health of Muslim parents and children. Sarah is available to speak on effective parenting support provision, parental mental and emotional health and wellbeing, working with troubled families, parental engagement, practitioner and professional development, children and teenagers’ emotional health, antenatal parenting support and perinatal mental health, working one-to one with parents and parenting with Islamic values. Sarah has spoken at conferences and events for Parenting UK, Action for Prisoners Families and Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association.

Kathy Peto Kathy Peto is Parenting Programme Lead for Family Links. She began her working life as a teacher and then a youth and community worker, and has been working in the field of parenting education and family support for the last 19 years as a practitioner, trainer, manager and supervisor within both the statutory and voluntary sectors. Her recent focus has been on creating resources and delivering programmes for professional training and development within the parenting sector. She has co-written and delivered a Higher Education Certificate programme in supervision skills, for staff working in the field of parenting support and family work, accredited by Brighton University. For the past two and a half years she has worked as the lead for Parenting Programmes at Family Links. She is currently undertaking an MA in Consulting and Leading in organisations at the Tavistock and Portman Institute. Kathy can speak on effective parenting support provision, parental mental and emotional health, working with troubled families, parental engagement, practitioner and professional development, children and teenagers’ emotional health, parenting with Islamic values, parents of children with disabilities or special needs and parents in prison. She has previously spoken at the CPHVA Roadshow and Parenting Commissioners groups.

Rowen Smith Rowen Smith is Training Lead for Family Links. Initially from a teaching background, Rowen also spent many years working directly with children and families in the social services sector. He has worked in the field of mediation and conflict resolution and is interested in intergenerational work, having managed an organisation bringing older and younger generations together for many years. Rowen has worked extensively with individuals and families experiencing bereavement, within the context of a hospice setting. As well as his role with Family Links – delivering and overseeing the training provided, Rowen also works as a trainer for Relate. This covers areas as varied as team-building, sexual addiction and assertiveness with a wide range of different client groups. At the core of Rowen’s work are his strong beliefs in empowerment, empathy and effective relationship-building. He is an expert in relationships, bereavement, mediation and conflict resolution, empathy, training and education, and intergenerational work. Rowen has previously spoken at various conferences and events including at Children & Young People Now: Child Mental Health conference, Teach First: We Need To Talk About Mental Health and Mediation UK: Conflict in the 21st Century conference.

Shirley Stephenson Shirley Stephenson works for Family Links as Head for Programme Quality and national trainer across the UK, following a varied NHS career in nursing, midwifery, health visiting, research and mental health promotion. At Family Links Shirley has been involved with developing the Welcome to the World antenatal programme and has since trained midwives, health visitors, children centre staff and family practitioners in facilitating the programme for parents across the UK. Shirley also takes the lead on ensuring quality of Family Links’ programmes and evaluation of impact. Shirley is an expert in practitioner and professional development, antenatal parenting support and perinatal mental health, and parenting with Islamic values. Shirley has delivered talks and presentations at events including the Prison Reform and Offender Management conference and Maternity, Midwifery and Baby conference.

Bea Stevenson Bea Stevenson is Head of Social and Emotional Learning for Family Links. From her background in Primary teaching, Bea developed a particular interest in how schools could further support young people’s self-esteem and wellbeing. Whilst working for an Education Business Partnership in Tower Hamlets - building relationships between businesses, volunteers and mentors with local schools and pupils - she co-founded ‘What’s Cooking?’- a charity working with 11-16 year olds in cafes in their communities. She then went on to manage the East London region on behalf of Teach First- training over 200 Primary and Secondary teachers across the area in partnership with schools and Universities. Through this work, Bea came to recognise the central importance of teacher and staff wellbeing to a schools success and, in a new role at Teach First, developed a strategy for empowering mentors in schools to support trainee teachers.

Bea can speak on volunteer partnerships between businesses and schools, supporting mentors in school and a whole school approach to social and emotional learning.

Claire Woodroffe Claire Woodroffe is Head of the Nurturing Schools Network; the education arm of Family Links. Prior to joining Family Links, Claire worked as a primary teacher for 14 years and has extensive experience across KS1 and KS2, having taught in several schools nationally and internationally in the USA and Egypt. For the last several years she worked in a specialised unit for children with autism and social communication difficulties. She has first-hand experience of using the principles of social and emotional health within the classroom and has extensive experience working in partnership with parents and multi-agency services. Claire is an expert in teacher training in positive behaviour management, creating an emotionally healthy learning environment, developing emotional resilience, practitioner and professional development, social and emotional learning in schools, children’s emotional health, parental engagement, the emotional needs of teenagers and skills for learning and readiness for work. Claire has spoken at the Telegraph Festival of Education and TeachFirst Impact conference.

For more information or to request one of our speakers for your event, please contact: [email protected] [email protected] +44 (0) 1865 401 800 www.familylinks.org.uk @FamilyLinksUK Facebook.com/FamilyLinksUK