Tracy Hind - Consultant

Tracy is an experienced youth and community worker with 15 years' experience of working with young people and community groups in inner London.

Her experience includes outreach work and detached youth work on estates, facilitating a weekly group for young mums in Hackney, working with young travellers, young lesbian and gay people and young people with special needs. She has also developed and delivered sexual health and safety programmes in schools and colleges. She has wide experience in the field of regeneration and has worked intensively with Sure Start programmes, SRB programmes and in the field of Neighbourhood Renewal. 

Tracy has worked in the both the statutory and voluntary sectors and has proven experience and skills in: community consultation, group work and facilitation, fundraising, evaluation, development of specialist youth provision, networking, conference organising, training and resource production. Tracy works freelance in youth and community development and is currently contracted to UK Youth co-ordinating the national pilot of the Young Mothers Learning programme. She has also worked for Women's Design Service as a consultant to develop a parents' forum for Sure Start on the Ocean estate in Tower Hamlets, and for Hackney Youth Service to undertake consultation with young people around setting up computer access and IT training. She worked as a Community Development Consultant to Sure Start Park Lane in Haringey developing the parental inclusion programme and was instrumental in designing the guidance for the community chest scheme in Sure Start Haringey. 

She has recently completed an evaluation of PACE Youth Work Services' work with lesbian, gay and bisexual young people and co-organised the July 2004 UK-wide conference for the National Network of LGB Youth Workers. She is currently working for the SexYOUality project in Cambridge developing a local needs assessment. She is a Management Committee member of Allsorts Youth Project in Brighton.