Why, amid the uncertainties of the pandemic, to succeed FE needs to be trauma-informed 

Jane Darougar, College Counsellor, Leyton Sixth Form College

Jane has 17 years’ experience of counselling and running a service in both FE and sixth form in north and east London. She is the College Counsellor at Leyton Sixth Form College (since 2012) and a lecturer in counselling at Hackney Community College. Jane has been on the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy UC FE Special Interest Group since 2015 and on the Executive Committee since 2017. She has been the  College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London group facilitator since 2018.  Jane is also a freelance trainer for the Charlie Waller Memorial Trust. 
Earlier this year Jane worked as part of the team supporting staff at the Nightingale Hospital in East London. In July 2020 she published an article in TES (jointly with Start Rimmer, Principal and CEO at East Coast College and Chair of the AOC Mental Health Advisory National Policy Group) about why, as providers, we must equip our staff to manage the psychological impact of the crisis and deal effectively with students.

Catina Barrett, Founding Member of Mental Health in Further Education (MHFE) 

Educator, researcher, equality and diversity specialist, project manager, public health specialist, nurse. Catina's teaching career includes offender, vocational, adult community, and higher education, including postgraduate professional education in public health and high technology nursing and continuous professional development for health and further education professionals. She has worked at local, regional national and international levels; in NHS primary and secondary care, in public health for a strategic health authority; and as a specialist adviser to the World Health Organisation (Europe). 
Catina is the founding member of the Mental Health in Further Education (MHFE) crowd and virtual network, which has more than a thousand members. She is also an active member of the Women’s Leadership Network and the British Educational Research Association (BERA). From January 2015 to March 2018 I led the government’s £20M Community Learning Mental Health research. 23,000 adult learners with mental health problems participated in the research. 

Currently Catina is a commissioner at the Centre for Mental Health Commission for Equality in Mental Health, which is due to report at the end of 2020, and a freelance consultant.