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We need to get prevention back on the agenda!
25 July 2018 - 4:38pm
If I’d known then what I know now!
A few of us at MVDA were having one of those ‘I wish I’d known then what I know now’ conversations last week. We, parents of now adult children, were recounting the very real, and unchanging struggle of parenthood in the context of our awareness of the many things we’ve got wrong with our kids. We shared some things we probably don’t admit too often and things we certainly wouldn’t admit beyond the bond of our developing friendship as colleagues.
Guest blog: Keeping all the plates spinning at A Way Out
26 April 2018 - 10:42am
Guest blog by Sarah McManus, CEO of A Way Out
I am a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother… and, for the last 18 months, CEO of an organisation called A Way Out – a charity now celebrating 16 years of supporting vulnerable women, families and young people in Stockton.
Like so many women, life can sometimes feel like a circus - a whirling carousel incorporating the ups and downs of operating under each of these multiple identities. There are plates to spin and hoops to jump through in order to keep everything going!
The strength in Community Connect
2 August 2017 - 3:04pm
As a way of keeping up to date with the transformational changes taking place in Adult Social Care, I’ve read the ‘Strengths-based social work practice with adults’ roundtable report
Collegiate Recovery in the UK?
20 June 2017 - 4:26pm
Guest blog by Mark Gilman, former Strategic Lead for NHS England on Substance Abuse
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