BIO

Relationships, sex and health educator, Youth and community worker and trained multimedia journalist. Kerry has written a variety of content including educational resources and recently published her first book. She is passionate about developing youth and communities, girls work and sex and relationships education (RSHE) and has featured regularly in the media talking about these topics. She has over 25 years’ experience, working with children and young people and delivering training. The founder of Tough Cookies Education a SME which provides workshops and training, that educates teenagers, teachers and parents about health, sex and relationship topics.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Freelance / Tough Cookies Education

March 2012 – Present

• Youth Work Training (Right to Succeed)
• Delivery Partner RSE workshops (Eve Appeal)
• Course writer, tutor and assessor, Level 3 youth work and EAT (The Training Brokers)
• Social influencer/media management (Laurieelle.com & Dr. Claire Handby)
• Provider of workshops for schools, staff training and consultancy.
• Commission to write relationship education resource for primary schools (Oldham MBC)
• Commissioned to deliver relationships education programmes across Oldham (Standing Together Grant)
• Contract to provide training and consultancy to teachers/schools and organisations delivering sex education (Public Health)
• Content writer sex and relationships curriculum for primary and secondary schools (Public Health)
• Head of sex and relationships education online content (Big Life Project)
• Management of social media campaign for Christmas safe sex (Tameside Public Health)
• Contract and funding to provide sex and relationships education for secondary schools, colleges, community groups, parents and staff training in Greater Manchester (Public Health and Teenage pregnancy fund)
• Contract to provide healthy relationship education for 10 Secondary schools in Greater Manchester (Crime Commissioner Fund)
• Health promotion – social media campaigns (Tameside Public Health)
• Content Writer – Toolkit for Community Radio (Commissioned by Radio Regen)
• Funding to provide ‘ending gang and youth violence’ media projects (Commissioned by Home office)
• Project management and delivery – To increase young men’s participation in sexual health services
• Project management and delivery of youth and community media projects (Commissioned by Media Trust)
• Project management of youth events and media projects (Commissioned by FC United of Manchester)
• Design of lessons and resources, training delivery and online mentoring (Beatbullying)
• Received Excellent Award for media work with young people – Noise Festival 2014
• Provide SRE support for Film Club North West Pilot (Commissioned by Department of Health)

Unity Radio 92.8fm

June 2011 – January 2012

Community Engagement Officer

• Managed a team of creative freelance staff providing workshops for young people.
• Assistant producer youth radio programmes.
• Work alongside the business development manager to successfully gain advertising contracts
• Create, design, write and produce adverts and sound bites for clients.
• Broadcast assistant, admin work assisting in planning, researching and producing live and pre-recorded radio programmes for youth radio shows
• Creative input on the development of new shows/features and club nights hosted by the station.
• Host events

Tameside MBC

June1998 – March 2011

Project Manager Young People’s Health

• Assess the needs of young people, plan and deliver programs of work relating to health, smoking, drugs, relationships, bullying, racism, empowerment, and citizenship,
• Achieved Health innovation award for Young Men’s Health Project
• Managed Youth Work Projects and Young People’s Sexual Health Clinics

The University of Manchester

April 2004 – Sept 2005 (Sabbatical leave from Tameside MBC)

Teenage Pregnancy Research Assistant 

• Research into teenage pregnancy and its impact on bone density

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Training and Qualifications

Year	Course/Qualification	Awarding Body Training Establishment
2018	BA(Hons) Journalism Multimedia 2.1	University of Salford
2014	Personal Employability & Reflective Learning Assessor	GQA Manchester College
2013	AQA Unit Award and Centre Training	AQA
2013	Child Sexual Exploitation Level 3	Sara Swann MBE
2013	Anti – Bullying Children and Young People	Beatbullying.org
2013	Working with challenging behaviour	Peter Hook Associates
2013	Young People and Gangs	M13 Project
2012	Life Coaching and Child Development	COUI Ltd
2012	Delaying First Time Sex	Brook Advisory
2011	Chlamydia Screening	R U CLEAR
2011	CAF Refresher	Manchester City Council
2011	Level 3 BTEC PTTLS Edexcel	Training Brokers
2011	Assertiveness	Manchester PCT
2010	A1 Assessors City and Guilds	Salford College
2010	Core Competencies in Sex and Relationship Education	Staffordshire University
2010	Young people & Parental Substance Misuse	Tameside Safeguarding
2010	Young people & Domestic Abuse	Tameside Safeguarding
2010	Forced Marriage Awareness	Tameside Safeguarding
2009	Sexual Health/Pleasure Principles	Sheffield Centre for HIV
2006	Certificate in Education (1st Year)	University of Huddersfield
2006	Safe Guarding CAF and Jasper	Tameside MBC
2005	Chlamydia Screening	RU CLEAR
2003	Working with Young Men	Trefor Lloyd
2004	Working with Groups	University of Manchester
2001	Sexual Health Trained	TMBC PCT
1999	Youth and Community Work Qualification	NWRA Education Authorities