George House Trust Consultancy and Training Services
As the leading HIV organisation in the North West we are able to provide a range of training and advice services to other organisations, including schools, employers, voluntary organisations and healthcare professionals.
Training and consultancy topics include:
- HIV awareness training – basic facts about the transmission, testing and treatment of HIV HIV and the Disability Discrimination Act – training, support and advocacy, detailed case study examples
- Positive speakers programme – trained speakers who are themselves HIV positive, sharing their experiences
- People's right to HIV treatment
- Prosecutions for HIV transmission
- People dropping out of HIV treatment / care
- HIV discrimination and stigma
- Interpreting regional HIV statistics
- Secondary prevention of HIV transmission
- HIV and immigration
All our courses and information support servcies are tailored to meet the needs of your organisation and are reasonably priced. Please contact laura@ght.org.uk to discuss how we can support your work. See below for details for trainer biographies.
Chris Morley is George House Trust's HIV Policy, Information and Publications Coordinator. Chris became passionately involved in HIV in the early 1980s, while working with Citizens Advice Bureau. A dozen years of intensive advice work, half a dozen years as Advice Worker trainer, and as a trainer in peer counselling, 5 years as the director of a HIV community organisation in Leeds and around 7 years lately in HIV information, policy and practice in Manchester, bring a rare breadth and depth of HIV knowledge and professional training expertise. One recent engaging and lively training session for the NW HIV Nurses Association covered - rights to HIV treatment for migrants, prosecutions for HIV transmission, and people dropping out of HIV clinic care.
Lynda Shentall is George House Trust's Director of Services. Lynda is a qualified social worker and her background before joining GHT 8 years ago was in drugs and alcohol work in and around Manchester. Lynda has delivered training to a wide variety of groups in her current and previous roles including drugs awareness, relapse prevention work, and delivering court sanctioned training to convicted drink drivers through a Training Consultancy. Lynda also has a great deal of experience in facilitation of theraputic group work having worked with people with drugs, alcohol and mental health issues as well as HIV.
Daniel Murphy has worked at George House Trust for 6 years and is currently the Service and Development Manager responsible for service users who are or have been subject to immigration controls. He also manages the counselling team. Daniel's background is in nursing and he has seven years experience working with service users with learning difficulties, mental health and physical health issues in both clinical and community settings. Daniel came to GHT from the National Union of Students where he coordinated a national campaign for LGBT equality and had special responsibility for equal opportunities within the organisation.