Joanne is a compassionate and strategic leader with extensive experience in designing and managing innovative projects across sectors such as Criminal Justice, Mental Health, Substance Misuse, and Domestic Abuse. With a focus on systems change, she specialises in managing complex, multi-stakeholder partnerships across local authority areas, driven by her passion for social justice and ending domestic abuse. Holding a Master’s degree in Business and a successful career as a social entrepreneur, Joanne has secured millions in funding for the voluntary sector, ensuring resources reach marginalised communities.

Joanne has extensive experience in the domestic abuse sector, managing whole-family projects and perpetrator/behaviour change programmes for clients at all risk levels, including high-risk/high-harm/MAPPA cases. Since joining My CWA as Project Manager in January 2022, she has expanded the scope and capacity of multiple interventions, including Reset, Engage, the Custody Suite project, Bail Support, and Perpetrator Workforce Development Training, which was commissioned across the four local authority areas in Cheshire.

In September 2023, Joanne contributed to developing the new Engage Approach by creating the Age, Stage, and Phase framework, which now encompasses all perpetrator projects. This model has attracted interest from local councils and the Police and Crime Commissioner.

She holds qualifications as a Level 3 Perpetrator Programme Deliverer, Level 3 Parenting Practitioner, and Level 4 PTTLS Practitioner. She has recently completed training in managing Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs). Her curiosity about non-fatal strangulation led to police process changes and automatic referrals to MARAC, enhancing support for victims. She has also successfully managed external evaluations of key projects, consistently delivering results within budget and exceeding KPIs.