Special Guest Edition - Fay Maxted CEO of The Survivors Trust

Welcome to #BreakingTheCycle #ToStepForward podcast with Chris and Beverley.
30-60 minutes of authentic conversation around awareness and education of trauma from abuse and the journey of recovery, from a lived experience & professional perspective.
Imagine sitting around a table and having an open, honest and transparent discussion with your trusted friend. Nothing is off limits and the discussion is respectful, calm and insightful.
In this podcast episode our special guest is Fay Maxted OBE CEO of The Survivors Trust.
Fay started working in the sexual violence sector in 1996, managing a rape and sexual abuse support service. This role entailed recruiting, training and supporting volunteer counsellors working with survivors of any form of sexual violence/abuse from the age of 13 upwards.
Fay is a trained therapist (TA, NLP and Child and Adolescent Counselling) but not currently practising. She is also a PTLLS trainer for adult learning.
Fay joined the steering group for The Survivors Trust (TST) in 2000, and was appointed Chief Executive in 2003. TST now has 120+ specialist voluntary sector rape and sexual abuse support services member agencies across the UK and Ireland.
Fay is particularly interested in promoting trauma-informed practice and helped establish TST’s quality marks - Trauma Informed Educator and Trauma Informed Employer - which promote best practice in responding to victims/survivors of trauma.
Co-production is something Fay believes needs to be central to policy and service developments. She has worked on a number of projects supporting survivor involvement, including working with survivor focus groups and forums producing resources for survivors.
She is also very keen on research and has participated in a number of research advisory groups, including PROSPER, Making Noise, MiMOS, and We Matter Too.

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I have just listened to your podcast and found it very informative. Especially the project check with me first, of rolling out awareness and training to NHS England around the complexities of the vulnerable position for survivors attending medical appts and hospital dentists etc. I have been putting together a blog all around this as I have at first hand recently and in past around this issue. It is refreshing to know this is being rolled out however it would be good for survivors to know that this is happening to at least inform that changes are trying to be put in place, and it would be good to know where this is being rolled out. It is the first time I have heard of this. I will be making contact with Fay for more info and ask permissions to put some info in my blog. So a huge thank you to Fay and for all she does and is doing..... Thankyou ladies for another insightful podcast.....

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Thank you for your feedback. Its really appreciated.