About Vicki

Vicki is a passionate and experienced facilitator and trainer, driven by her values to improve the world for people who use drugs. Vicki cares deeply about providing excellent support to people, especially women, to help provide choice for people to make positive changes if and when they are ready. Vicki takes a harm reduction approach to this, valuing and meeting people where they are, and supporting them to make the changes they want. Vicki is driven by the need to improve social justice and am a committed anti-racist and intersectional feminist.

Vicki currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Manchester, her research areas are changes to the drug and alcohol sector, women’s access to treatment and harm reduction. Prior to this Vicki have over 20 years’ experience of working within the drug and alcohol treatment sector for medium sized and national providers, and for the past 9 years she was the Chief Executive of the charity Project 6.

Wonderful training. It really challenged my perceptions of women in treatment. Covered some serious topics but it never felt like hard work, a good balance between teaching and small group work