Sue Penna Msc., Dip.Couns., Dip. C.O.T

Sue Penna originally qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 1987 and over a 17 year career in mental health worked with adults experiencing organic and functional mental health difficulties in hospital and community settings.
In 1992 Sue gained a post-graduate diploma as a psychotherapist/counselor, and at this time was focusing clinically on working with adults experiencing eating disorders and those that had been sexually abused as children.
In 1994 Sue embarked on a five year stint working alongside GP’s providing Cognitive Behaviour Therapy/Counselling within the general practice setting.
During 2003 and 2004 Sue was the co-coordinator of the Cornwall Domestic Violence Forum where amongst other things she developed training packages for a range of statutory and voluntary agencies.
Since 2004 Sue Penna has successfully developed her freelance work from a small training agency to one that is now providing training/evaluation and consultancy services throughout the South West Region. 

Sue also works for CAADA delivering thier accredited CAT courses to IDVA'S.

Sue is a published author in professional journals in England and Europe and regularly presents at conferences in the Region.

Sue is an Associate member of Women’s Aid and continues to work as a volunteer for a local women’s aid project, supporting women who have just disclosed abuse.

Jez Prins BA (Hons), Cert Ed (PCET)

Jez has experience of delivering half-day, one-day and two-day trainings in the domestic violence area, both with Sue Penna Associates and, in the past, with other trainers. This has involved working with trainees as diverse as police officers, midwives, council front-desk staff, health-visitors, housing officers and lawyers. He works regularly on Cornwall’s MaRs programme, a Duluth-based community perpetrator programme for domestically abusive men.

Jez is also a freelance writer and editor, has experience as a performer and, since moving to Cornwall in 2001, has aquired a Cert Ed (PCET), a a qualification to teach adults.

Jo McAthey

Jo spent nearly nine years in a relationship in which she suffered emotional and physical violence. Jo takes part in training delivery to talk about her abusive relationship and offer insights into her experiences which has proved invaluable for agencies and individuals attending training events. Jo is not only able to talk about the relationship and its impact on her and her family but also to describe the response she received from agencies when she did contact them.

Growing up Jo didn’t have any big career plans or real goals in her life but now finds herself with both a cause and a career. Jo has progressed from volunteer at a refuge to project worker, where through empowerment and support other women are helped to leave abusive relationships.

Jo is passionate about raising awareness of domestic abuse and hopes that by offering her story she will inspire others to help also.

Karen Johns

Karen Johns is the Co-ordinator of a women’s refuge in Cornwall, with overall responsibility of managing a staff team of over 15 paid staff and volunteers, the day to day management of the refuge and fundraising to ensure its sustainability. As a mature student, Karen graduated with a degree in Psychology. During the last 5 years Karen has taken many roles in the refuge including project worker and the child and family worker. She has recently experienced the Supporting People review gaining C’s in all objectives. Karen also represents Cornish refuges at a strategic level by sitting on the Policy and Operational Group of the county Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership. Karen co-facilitates training days with Sue Penna Associates providing a refuge perspective.

Victoria Howard, C.Psychol., ASBPS., MSc.

A chartered psychologist, Vicky has worked with Sue Penna Associates on several projects. Currently she is part of the team evaluating Devon’s ADVA Partnerships ‘Invest to save’ programme.
She specialises in:

• executive coaching
• organisational health audits and structural reviews
• assessment and evaluation
• training and development
• Myers-Briggs team building

And believes in

“applying psychology to work and helping people work to their strengths'

Helen Keel

Helen is a communications and training professional with experience of managing major projects in charity, public and commercial sectors. Helen is skilled in communications, training, project management, copywriting, client liaison, directing teams, initiating and developing projects, writing briefs and proposals, presenting verbal and written reports and negotiating with external suppliers.
She has recently completed a one-year contract with CAADA (Co-ordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse) and is still involved on a freelance basis managing their course moderation. Helen has also worked with BOC Gases, Travelex. Crown Paints, Guinness and Yellow Pages. She also works with Blue i Design and Parragon Publishing on accounts with Marks and Spencer, L’Oréal, Toby Carvery and Bird’s Eye.

Perfect Moment

Perfect Moment is working with Sue Penna Associates as part of the evaluation team on the Invest to safe Project. They are also working with the ADVA partnership to look at options for the future including a strategy to develop a multi agency approach to delivering services addressing domestic violence.

Perfect Moment is a consultancy practice with offices in Cornwall and London. The company specialises in work with the voluntary sector, creative industries and in economic and social regeneration.  We work with a wide range of public, private and voluntary organisations where we offer a selection of strategic, development and support services including:

• Project management
• Building development
• Mapping and research studies
• Feasibility studies
• Business planning and support
• Mentoring and coaching
• Funding strategies and bid assistance
• Organisational developmentPolicy making

We believe that developing successful partnerships and joint ventures is an important way for organisations to develop. We aim to broker relationships between specific communities of interest and public bodies such as local authorities, county councils, funders, statutory agencies and government offices for the regions etc to help support our clients work.

We have developed a strong reputation for quality and customer satisfaction which has led us to working with many long-standing clients over a number of years. After 10 years, we have now established ourselves as one of the foremost consultancies in the South West and London.

Some of our recent clients include:

Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change – Over the past 3 years we wrote the business plan, developed the management structure and helped secure over £1.5million for this new charity set up to work on social inclusion issues with residents of social housing in Cornwall.
The Bishop's Forum – Bishop's Forum provides support and training for disadvantaged young people through outdoor activities. Perfect Moment s helping the organisation to build a new centre that will deliver an exciting range of projects.
Mount Hawke Skate Park – Perfect Moment has supported Mount Hawke SK8 project for 10 years. We helped develop the IT suite and Learning Centre and are continuing to support the organisation with new projects.
Arts Council England SW, Devon CC, and Torbay Council - In 2005/2006 we undertook the research and wrote the report ‘Building Creative Success – The State of the Creative Industries in Devon and Torbay

 For more information about Perfect Moment please call Kevin Brownridge on 01736 332094 or email: kevin@perfect-moment.co.uk. Check out our website – www.perfect-moment.co.uk

Information Technology Ltd

Information Technology Ltd  specialises in data management solutions that assist the delivery of public sector projects.  This focus has allowed usto develop knowledge of the sector that is unrivalled amongst most IT companies and we are as passionate about project delivery as our clients are.  In particular, we are proud to have assisted Sue Penna Associates and the Devon ADVA programme.  By tackling the multiple challenges of information sharing protocol, data protection and security, we developed an innovative programme evaluation database that captures the true costs of Domestic Violence whilst enabling the free flow of risk information between agencies.