Talking About Alcohol and Other Drugs

Jo Butcher has extensive experience of working within and in partnership with government and the third sector as well as practitioners and planners across children’s services, NGOs and other stakeholders to bring marginal issues into the mainstream. She has a background in youth work, including facilitating personal, social and health education (PSHE) programmes and developmental group work and providing one to one support to vulnerable young people. Mary Ryan was a youth worker and a sexual health counsellor before becoming a project worker for young people’s health and for then special needs sexual health. Mary is now an independent management consultant working on public health and children and young people services. She has written widely on young people’s health for NCB.