| ITS YOUR LIFE. TEAM DETAILS. We are a team who specialise in awareness sessions for youths we engage in various youth establishments we are based on Teesside and we are fully trained. Our education and awareness sessions include: Knife culture. Violence. Anti-social behaviour. Hit and run-Twoc. Drugs. Alcohol. Bullying. Anger Management. Diversity. Control. Respect. Street be safe skills. Conflict resolution. Our team are volunteers and we are a none profit making organisation we educate from our own experience of tragedy and we are professionally trained to give our youths some awareness about the dangers in society. We use specialised packages for different age groups. We also do sessions with parents and Adults. Our counselling services cover, grief, complicated grief, depression, drugs and alcohol, eating disorders, self harm, self help and insight into anxiety, relaxation sessions. With a qualified elective counsellor.B.A.C. Also 3 of the team are trained in defence techniques.  Our Aims. We are a service that offers extensive specialised awareness to Schools, Collages, Universities, youth clubs, and youth services across Teesside. We are fully trained and have the appropriate qualifications to work with youths and (CRB). Each of the team will cover certain issues within their field of training and experience. We will work along side other services to present a certain issue from an hostilic angle within our sessions. We are linked to the national and regional crime stoppers. PRESTON YOUTHS ANTI-KNIFE DVD. Our aims are to take our awareness programme into youth establishments and deliver our awareness. Each issue is presented separately so our awareness can be in block session's or a single session where required. We do recognise there are excellent services available our team will enhance these services and keep the awareness consistant. We are saying heres the awareness we offer it to you, Its your Life, its your choice. Ron, Primary age school awareness. Claire Primary age school awareness. Ken knife defence. Ron and Claire.  We are Linked To crime stoppers and promote their website for youths, two of our team are members of the board for crime stoppers and crime stoppers are part of our team(regional). Crimestoppers' youth projects team encourage young people to talk about crimes that affect them. We also encourage them to use Crimestoppers' anonymous phone number, 0800 555 111. The youth section of Crimestoppers' website. Here you will find information about all our youth projects and the resources available for teachers and youth workers, including ourinteractive website, 'ShadowCS', aimed at young people aged 11-16 plus. Crimestoppers is an independent UK-wide charity working to stop crimes. We work for you, your friends and family and your community. You can give information to us about crime anonymously by calling us on0800 555 111. We are not part of the police, but an independent charity. We do work with them, just as we work with business, media, schools, youth groups and the local community for a common goal - a safer, fairer society. - Call 0800 555 111 if you have any information about crime
- We don't want to know your name or where you live
- Your call cannot be traced or recorded
- You won't have to give a statement or go to court
- The only person who knows that you've called is you!
 Did you know...?One in five 16-year old boys admitted to attacking someone with a knife, intending to cause serious harm (Youth Justice Board/Mori Survey) | | THE TEAM. THE FOUNDER. Barbara Dunne. ITS YOUR LIFE website link below. http://lesleyrees.tripod.com/ 
Barbara will be teaching awareness about knife crime she will be teaching teenager's and adult's the danger's of carrying a knife. Also drug and alcohol awareness and anger management. Barbara is a trained psychiatric nurse and a university trained person centred counsellor .She has co-ordinated group work in anxiety,depression,anger management, drugs, alcohol, and behaviour. As a counsellor she is elective within the person centred frame work and specialises in all issues. The tragic death of her son in 2003 who was stabbed in the back led Barbara to lead a national campaign against knife crime and was successful in achieving a ban on replica weapons that serve no purpose in our society. Barbara is C.R.T trained by DFM self protection, Martial arts CRT course. www.dfmmartialarts.co.uk She is also a member of the board for Crime Stopper's. Qualifications: Social sciences N.C.F.E.
Basic Counselling certificate N.C.F.E. Counselling certificate N.C.F.E. Advanced counselling certificate N.C.F.E. Durham UNI advanced skills B.A.C. Durham UNI 3 year holistic counselling B.A.C.
Psychriatric nurse (retired): Trained at Westpark hospital Epsom Surrey. Wards: Acute admission. Intensive care. Geriatric functional. Geriatric organic (dementia). Young peoples centre. Park side inpatient unit. Ward activities co-ordinator.
Personal development: Health and promotions awareness N.H.S. H.I.V and Hepatitis awareness N.H.S. Resuscitation and manual handling N.H.S. Anger and aggression management N.H.S. Dignified control and restraint N.H.S. Relaxation N.H.S.
Previous: Voluntary work: Domestic violence. Drug and Alcohol. Grief-complicated Grief. RON GORDON. M.B.E The chair of the "ITS YOUR LIFE" commitee Ron Is a key skills Placement co-ordinator education other than at schools, Eston centre. Sessional worker South Tees offending service. Y-cap youth crime action plan. Instructor middlesbrough attendance centre. Instructor Durham attendance centre. Chair, Free from pain charity, James Cook hospital. Chair, Marton junior football club. Chair, Middlesbrough over 35's soccor team. Member of the board for Crime Stoppers. RON CARTER - BONSTEEL. The vice chair. Ron is a campaigner against antisocial behaviour and has achieved success in his campaign since the 1980's his experience and training are paramount to our team. His awareness sessions will be antisocial behaviour, drugs, alcohol, and bullying for all ages. 1 Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinators
2 Neighbourhood Watch Exceutive Members.
3 Residents On Patrol
4 Lifeline Interactor
5 Community Crime Fighters.
6 Safer middlesbrough partnership and the clusters.
Previous volunteer work.
1 Erimus Housing Tenant Board Member
2 Chair of Charwood Residents Group.Thorntree.
3 Community Safety Volunteer.
4 Haven Project ( supporting residents of Middlesbrough with Anti-Social Behaviour)
5 S.T.E.M.Stronger Together In East Middlesbrough. steering group.
6 Safer Middlesbrough Partnership East Cluster Representive..
Winners of a Government Respect Award for Taking A Stand In 2006.
S.T.E.M Award Winner 2007.
CLAIRE CONROY. Public relations for the "ITS YOUR LIFE" commitee.
Claire will be teaching the primary age group the dangers of stealing and driving a car underage. She works in a primary area in a school and has produced previous awareness at primary level. Claire tragically lost her 8 year old son in a hit and run by an underage driver in a stolen car. KAY BOYLE. Public relations for the "ITS YOUR LIFE" committee. Kay works with primary children she uses the same techniques as in play with primary age and activities. She will focus on issues such as violence and assault linking the anger. Kay lost her father through violence from anger so she is well aware of the consequences. Kay has worked for 7 years with primary age and 6 years in an after school club her present employment is with nursery children for 2 years. JAMIE HARRISON. Treasurer for the "ITS YOUR LIFE" commitee Jamie is a skills worker Eston centre eotas y-cap/reparation youth crime action plan. South Tees youth offending service. Coach Marton football club. SHARON PROTHERO-CLARK. Alcohol awareness. details to be added. KEVIN HOGG. Custody to Community awareness. Details to be added. Ken is a professional martial arts combat instructor with 40 years’ experience teaching everyone from the military, security personnel and bodyguards to the every day man or woman. Ken, who now lives in Yarm, said: “The first thing I would say to anyone is, if you are facing a knife, run! “But you can’t always run away - what if you are up against a wall?” He has improvised these techniques for youth awareness. "What it will do is arm you with the skills to defend yourself if you are ever in the position where you have no other option." 
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