Helena Conibear BA(Hons) MIHPE
Helena is CEO and Founder of the Alcohol Education Trust. Following a long career specialising in alcohol, health and responsible drinking, Helena together with like-minded specialists in alcohol, PSHE and education founded the Alcohol Education Trust in 2009 (established as a charity in 2010).
Seeing a need for practical alcohol education programmes for young people in schools and informal settings across the UK. the Trust’s ethos is built around evidence-based, interactive, feasible approaches that are adaptable to busy lives. Helena understands the importance of positive social norm based, engaging and interactive teaching methods that build resilience and reduce all risk taking among young people.
Helena is an accredited PSHE practitioner (Roehampton), a member of the European Society for Prevention Research, and of the National Health Education Group. Helena has authored many articles and programmes including the top ranking Adepsis CAYT Talk About Alcohol schools programme
http://cayt.mentor-adepsis.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Talk_about_alcohol.pdf
Websites: www.alcoholeducation.org and www.talkaboutalcohol.com
Dr Patricia Owen B.Sc, MPH, PhD, Cert Ed (FE), RN, RSCPHN(HV), MIHPE
Patricia is Director of Undergraduate programmes in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Keele University and has responsibility for all pre-registration nursing programmes. Her clinical background was in elderly care and health visiting, but for the past 20 odd years she has been a teacher and facilitator of students’ learning about health and health promotion, in both the East and West Midlands. This has entailed developing curricula and facilitating learning at B.Sc, Master’s and doctoral levels in nursing, public health and mental health.
She has been involved in a range of initiatives in the past including membership of local Healthy City Partnerships, Family Nurse Partnership and as a past member of a Public Health Network. She has also been a member of the Royal College of Nursing’s (RCN) National Steering Committee for the Public Health and Health Visiting Forum