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Professional Profiles:
North & West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust, UK
Bourke, John
Boyle, Tommy
Brennan, Martina
Deane, Hector (local coordinator)
Holmes, Cecil
McCafferty, Mairead
McClure, Anne-Marie
Mervyn, Tom
Mooney, Paddy
Quinn, Edel
(local coordinator back up)
Robinson, Colin
Tierney, Geraldine
Bourke, John
Contact Details:
Tel: + 44 (0)28 90 313162 (office)
Mobile: + 44 07900608892
Fax: + 44 028 90 235297
E-mail: john.bourke@pbni.org.uk
Current Work:
Area Manager, Youth Justice Unit, Probation Board for Northern Ireland. The Unit is responsible for:
- preparing Court reports/assessment for young people under 18 years of age
- supervising young offenders in the community
- delivering programmes for young offenders to address criminogenic needs
- arranging partnerships with voluntary agencies and community groups to work with offenders and young people "at risk".
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Past Work:
Management of offender accommodation
Drafting PBNI organisation strategies for Community Development and Community Service
Manager of Probation Services for adults in North and West Belfast
Education Profile:
- Social Work qualification 1973/1975
- Certificate in advanced social work 1981/1982
- Certificate in Management studies 2001
Professional Areas of interest:
Working with young people, Partnership working with statutory, voluntary and community agencies.
Areas of expertise:
Knowledge of Criminal Justice System, Community Development, Supervision of offenders across jurisdictions
Language:
English
Websites:
Networks:
Brian McCaughey, Director of Operations, PBNI
Louise Cooper, Information & Research Manager, PBNI
David Weir, Assistant Director, Youth Justice Agency
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Boyle, Tommy
Contact Details:
Twinspires Centre
155 Northumberland street
Unit 12 Belfast BT13 2JF
Tel: +44 02890 417450
E-mail: tommy.boyle@nwb.n-i.nhs.uk
Current Work:
Principal Social Worker, Family and Childcare, N&WBHSST. Main responsibilities include Child Protection, Fostering and Adoption services for young people leaving care.
Past Work:
Team Leader for a Multi-disciplinary team (Doctor, Nurse, Social Worker) providing support services to young people Education Welfare Officer.
Education and Professional Training:
BSc Hons. Social Administration, Diploma Social Work, CQSW, Diploma in management
Professional areas of interest:
Child Protection. Services for young people leaving care
Areas of Expertise:
Child Protection system NI
Language skills:
English
Websites:
Networks:
Education Board, Probation Board and housing executive
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Brennan, Martina
Contact Details:
2nd Floor, Gloucester House
Chichester Street, Belfast BT1 4RA
Tel: +44 028 9025 2295
E-mail: martina.brennan@delni.gov.uk
Current Work:
Careers Service Manager (North and West Belfast) - Managing the delivery of quality careers guidance to an all age client group
Past Work:
Careers Adviser, working with adults and young people.
Education and Professional Training:
BSc Occupational Psychology, Diploma in Careers Guidance, MSc in Careers Guidance
Professional areas of interest:
The Careers Service has a policy for social inclusion, therefore, membership of this LAG is of particular interest for networking with key players within the field.
Areas of Expertise:
Careers information, advice and guidance
Language skills:
English
Websites:
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Deane, Hector
Contact details:
118 Ballygarvey Road
Ballymena
BT43 7JX UK
Current work:
Project Manager (2 contracts) Antrim and Ballymena Business Education Partnerships-supporting schools through relevant programmes in equipping young people with the skills and attitudes for adult working life.
Past work:
Teacher secondary sector 32+ years-school vice-principal for almost 13 years-responsibilities variously included direction of whole school pastoral care, business education links and careers education.
Educational and Professional Training:
BA (Mod) Ancient and Modern Literature, Diploma in Education, Diploma in the Advanced Study of Education (Guidance and Counselling with Careers Education), European Computer Driving Licence
Professional areas of interest:
Teacher of Latin, French and Careers Education to 11-18 age groups. Coaching of youth rugby and cricket teams for 30 years.
Areas of Expertise:
Wide experience in team working and negotiating both with colleagues and outside agencies.
Language skills:
English, French (Latin!)
Website:
Networks:
Department of Education for Northern Ireland, North Eastern Education and Library Board, the Business & Education community.
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Holmes, Cecil
Contact Details:
E-mail: cholmes@ccea.org.uk
Current Work:
Council for the Curriculum Examinations and Assessment Accreditation Team, responsibilities for: Regulation of Vocationally-related Qualifications, Enterprise/Employability education and Qualifications development and National Occupational Standards
Past Work:
Civil Servant, then teacher during which time he was seconded to the European Project - Transition to Adult and Working Life (TRAWL).
Professional areas of interest:
For a long time has been a champion of the importance of the role of education in preparing young people for life long learning and work
Websites:
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McCafferty, Mairead
Contact Details:
Newstart Education Centre
Unit 13/1 Blackstaff Complex
77 Springfield Road
Belfast BT12 7AE
Tel: +44 (0) 28 90315674
E-mail: MaireadMcCafferty@hotmail.com or newstartedu@hotmail.com
Current Work:
Manager/Head of Centre
Newstart Education Centre Belfast
I run Newstart Education Centre which is an "Alternative Education Centre" based in West Belfast, working with young people outside the mainstream education system. My main responsibilities are: Managing the day to day running of the Organisation, Curriculum/Timetable Design and Delivery, Management of Staff, Finance, Budgets, Resources etc. Lobbying and campaigning on behalf of our Young People with relevant Government, Statutory and Voluntary Agencies. Working on behalf of the "Alternative Education Providers" Forum to highlight issues and influence policy which impacts on Young People. I am also an Associate Assessor for the Education & Training Inspectorate (Dept of Education).
Past Work:
My past work has been in schools and in Adult Education - acting as Tutor/ Trainer delivering Politics, Personal Development and Health classes for Organisations such as Workers´ Educational Association, Women Into Politics and others, in Adult Education both in informal Community based settings and in formal environments such as Queen´s University Belfast, delivering Politics, History and Literature Courses. I have also worked as a Civil Servant in the Dept of Environment, as a Tutor of Irish, and as an Advice Centre Co-ordinator.
Education & Professional Training:
I have the following Qualifications/Professional Training:
- BA (Hons) Irish Studies (Irish Politics, History, Literature, Sociology etc);
- PGDip: Post Graduate Diploma in English Anglo-Irish Writing;
- Certificate in Community Work;
- PGCE [Teaching Degree] English (Main Subject);
- ADMP Advanced Diploma in Management Practice;
- Certificate in the Teaching & Management of Literacy and Essential Skills
- I am currently studying for a Master´s in Human Rights Law (LLM).
Professional Areas of Interest:
Professional areas of interest include equality and Human Rights work. As well as working to promote the rights of 'excluded' young people and highlighting 'alternative' approaches to education of our young people, I work in a voluntary capacity within the LGBT Community and have been involved for a number of years now in progressing issues, influencing policy and legislation to achieve equality and human rights for all.
I have experience of working with local media to promote our work and highlight progress e.g. Newspaper articles in Irish Times, Irish News, Newsletter as well other journals and Union magazines. We have also had Politicians and local Presenters Carolyn Stewart U105 and Donna Traynor BBC as Guest Speakers at our Presentation Ceremonies.
Areas of Expertise:
See previous
Language Skills:
English, Irish (limited) and French (limited)
Websites www.un.org/, www.deni.gov.ukwww.nicva.org.uk
Networks:
www2.deni.gov.uk/inspection_services/ John Hunter. AEP Forum, Education Welfare Service.
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McClure, Anne-Marie
Contact Details:
E-mail: anne-marie@opportunity-youth.org
Tel: +44 (0) 28 90435810
Fax: +44 (0) 28 90435811
Current Work:
Chief Executive - Opportunity Youth 1993 - present
Developing, managing and leading a regional voluntary youth organisation which delivers services and programmes throughout Northern Ireland to approx. 5000 young people per year. Responsible and accountable for 70 staff, finance, other resources, practice development, programme delivery and governance issues.
Past Work:
Health Visitor 1990 - 1993, Registered General Nurse 1985 - 1990
Education and Professional Training:
Doctorate in Education (EdD) - Queens University Belfast
Successfully completed taught element (45,000 words) and currently commencing thesis (45,000 words)
Post Graduate Diploma in Health Promotion (PG Dip) - University of Ulster @ Jordanstown
Diploma in Health Visiting (Dip HV) - University of Ulster @ Jordanstown
BSc Hons Nursing Studies - (BSc Hons) University of Ulster @ Coleraine
Registered General Nurse (RGN) - Mater Infirmorum Hospital Belfast .
Professional areas of interest:
Working with vulnerable children and young people, Restorative Justice Practice, Community Relations, 'Real' Participation by children and young people in processes that effect and impact upon them
Areas of Expertise/
- Peer Education
- Peer Mentoring
- Peer Advocacy
- Empowering young people to engage and become economically active
- Retention of vulnerable children and young people in education and training
- Developing and managing innovative and creative programmes and services for children and young people
Language skills:
English
Websites:
Networks:
Youth Council Northern Ireland, Health Action Zone, Regional Drug and Alcohol Co-Ordination Teams
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Mervyn, Tom
Contact Details:
E-mail:
tom@esboard.org
Current Work:
Director of the Employment Services Board for West Belfast and Greater Shankill since February 2004. Appointed as a result of the West Belfast and Greater Shankill Task Force recommendations and the Targeted Initiatives Recommendation of the Department of Employment and Learning's Taskforce on Employability and Long Term Unemployment.
Past Work:
Community based economic programme development, management and implementation, including for the Upper Springfield Development Trust, the West Belfast Partnership Board, the West Belfast Task Force and the Task Force Liaison Group. Has also worked in the private sector, including construction, milling and legal costing. Has a background in business planning consultancy.
Education and Professional Training:
Honours Degree in Finance and Post Graduate Diploma in Irish Studies (Economic and Social Policy) from Queens University, Belfast.
Language skills:
English, Irish
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Mooney, Paddy
Contact Details:
The Give and Take Scheme
Alpha House, Belfast BT1 1QA
Tel: +44 (028) 9031 1007
Fax: +44 (028) 9024 4436
E mail: paddy@includeyouth.org
Current Work:
Manager of the Give and Take Scheme. The project aims to improve the employability and increase the self confidence of vulnerable young people aged 16 to 21 who are unable to access mainstream training or employment.
Past Work:
I was manager of NIACRO's Crime Prevention Unit. My responsibilities included the development of community based crime prevention programmes. Before this I was responsible for supporting volunteers who organised play provision in areas of social and economic disadvantage.
Education and Professional Training:
I am a qualified teacher and youth and community worker. I completed a post graduate diploma in Further Education at Queen’s University, Belfast.
Professional areas of interest:
Working with vulnerable young people. Community development in disadvantaged areas.
Areas of Expertise:
Project management. Community Development
Language skills:
English
Websites:
Networks:
Include Youth membership, NICVA, Health Trusts, PBNI and Youth Justice Agency
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Quinn, Edel
Contact Details:
Include Youth
3 Rosemary Street
Belfast BT1 1QA
Northern Ireland
Tel: +44 (0) 28 9031 1007
Fax: +44 (0) 28 9024 4436
Email: edel@includeyouth.org
Website: www.includeyouth.org
Current Work:
Policy Co-ordinator at Include Youth, a regional children's rights NGO in Northern Ireland that aims to promote the best interests of and best practice with young people in need or at risk. I am responsible for public policy development within the organisation, and engage in advocacy, lobbying, policy commentary and analysis.
I am represented on a number of strategic inter-agency fora. I manage a youth participation project called Young Voices for young people with experience of a range of risk factors, including the criminal justice system (all of these young people will typically have had a negative and fractured educational experience with low levels of attainment).
Past Work:
Assistant Caseworker, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Belfast
Development Worker, Women's Support Network, Belfast
Education and Professional Training:
Law Degree (QUB LL.B 2:1) , Solicitor
Professional areas of interest:
Children's rights; Youth justice; Increasing criminalisation of children and young people; Young people and anti-social behaviour - challenging perceptions and promoting effective solutions to make communities safer for everyone.
Areas of Expertise:
Children's rights; youth justice; preventing children from becoming at risk. Link between underachievement in education and children becoming involved in offending.
Include Youth - areas of work:
- Supported work placements project for vulnerable young people aged 16-21 - Give and Take Scheme
- Personal development, support and training programmes for young people
- Young Voices participation project
- Training, seminars and workshops promoting best practice
- Facilitation of regional Practitioner's Forum
- LACE Project (Looked After Children in Education)
- Risky Children or Children at Risk - project aimed at improving policy and service delivery for children who display sexually harmful behaviours
- New Leaf - supported work placement for young people who display sexually harmful behaviours
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Language skills:
English
Websites:
Networks:
1. Children's Services Planning, Southern Board Sub-group on Young People and Offending
2. All-Party Children's Group
3. Children's Sector Bill of Rights Working Group
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Robinson, Colin
Contact Details:
The Bridge Community Association
135 Ravenhill Road
Belfast BT6 8DR
Tel: +44 (0)28 90 221221
Fax: +44 (0) 28 90 221220
Email: kippax@fsmail.net
Current Work:
Director of The Bridge Community Association since February 1999. The Bridge is based in the Woodstock/Lagan Village area of Inner East Belfast, and functions as a neighbourhood community development organisation that helps the local community to identify its needs, and works in partnership with other agencies to meet those needs. I am responsible for management of a multi-skilled staff team mainly composed of youth and community workers. Within the organisation my role also covers property management, fundraising, networking and strategic development.
Past Work:
I was formerly a Community and Centre Development Manager for Castlereagh Borough Council based in Tullycarnet (a large peripheral housing estate in East Belfast), where I provided co-ordination for a multi-agency approach to neighbourhood regeneration; I held this position from March 1995 - October 1997.
From then until I joined The Bridge, I worked as Cultural Enterprise Worker for the Ulster-Scots Heritage Council, where my role involved promotion of economic development within a cultural context
Education and Professional Training:
B.Sc. (Hons) in Psychology from the New University of Ulster at Coleraine, 1984.
Certificate in Community Economic Development from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, 1991.
Professional areas of interest:
Conflict transformation. Restorative justice. Alternative education. Economic development. Men’s health. Cultural development.
Areas of Expertise:
See above! I would also add that I hold considerable experience in the development and operation of partnership initiatives.
Language skills:
English. Ulster-Scots
Websites:
Networks:
Michael Briggs (Director, East Belfast Community Development Agency),Peter Bryson (Development Worker, Save the Children NI), Tom Roberts (Director, EPIC)
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Tierney, Geraldine
Contact Details:
Tel. 00447799867694
E-mail: tierneyg@nwb.n-i.nhs.uk
Current Work:
European Officer, N&W Belfast Health & Social Services Trust
Past Work:
Acting Chief Executive West Belfast Partnership Board - developing and delivering economic and social strategy and programmes for West Belfast area. Acting Director QeC network Brussels, working with and for the members to deliver integrated approaches to urban regeneration and influence European urban policy.
Education and Professional Training:
BA (Hons) French & English
Post-grad Diploma in Social Administration
Post-grad CQSW
Professional areas of interest:
Partnership approaches to integrated urban regeneration to include health & well-being, education, arts & culture & the physical environment.
Areas of Expertise:
Community development, Networking
Language skills:
English, French
Networks Belfast QeC group; Belfast Area Partnerships; QeC-ERAN
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