Speaker
Joanna Buckard
Director, Red Balloon Training & Consultancy National FASD experts committee member
Biography
Joanna is a specialist FASD trainer and Health and Social Care Lecturer and has been working within the FASD field for 19 years and within the health, social and education sector for over 25 years. Her education includes BSc Psychology, MSc Developmental Psychology and a PGCE. She founded Red Balloon Training in 2008 to deliver specialist FASD training and consultancy to health, social care and education professionals and has delivered bespoke training and consultancy throughout the UK and Channel Islands. Joanna also works as the Director of Innovation for National FASD and has been consulting on National FASD projects for over 15 years including speaking at conferences, delivering training and the creation of an alcohol and pregnancy toolkit for maternity teams due to launch next month. Joanna has presented research on FASD nationally and internationally and has also spoken in parliament as part of the APPG on FASD. She has been on the steering group for a University of Salford FASD parenting course. Joanna regularly appears in the media about FASD including Sky news, BBC news, Women’s hour and Times radio and has had a book chapter published on Social Care Issues and Complex Family Relationships Intertwined with FASD. She has also recently undertaken research on how FASD is managed in the UK criminal justice system.