Our Staff

Crissy started her career at Yeovil Foyer as the ‘Conflict to Enterprise’ Café Project Manager and has had many years experience working in different settings -  Yeovil Children's Centre as a Residential Social Worker; AshDown High Support Young Peoples Project for 16-25’s with drug & alcohol issues as a Project Worker and with Avon and Somerset Prolific Offenders Unit as a  Probation Service Officer. Crissy has a strong interest in substance misuse work and homelessness prevention and has done voluntary work for Probation, Dorset Drugs and Alcohol Advisory Service and Yeovil Night Shelter.   Crissy is a qualified counsellor and mediator, is currently studying an NVQ4 Diploma in Solvents, Drugs & Alcohol.

Daniel, our most manly team member with undoubtedly the best trimmed beard of us all, joined ReRun in 2006.  A graduate of Politics, he failed to gain a parliamentary seat for the Monster Raving Loony Party (this is Dan’s humour, not fact), and pursued a more rewarding early career working with young unaccompanied asylum seekers in the mid 1990s.  With further experience in children's homes, working with young homeless people, developing a project to take the services of the Citizens Advice Bureau to a younger client group and other housing related work with young people, Daniel brings an energy and enthusiasm to the ReRun team rarely seen outside an 'X Factor' audition.

 

 

 

 Ben joined ReRun with a strong background in youth work, nursery care & early prevention and so is adequately equipped to keep the sprits up of other team members, working with young people & families to prevent offending behaviour. His previous work with Dorset Youth & Community Service has provided many valid experiences, he has spent time organising a Christmas Day celebration for young people unable to be with their families. In his spare time he has a keen interest in horticulture, fishing & the natural environment, in between working towards his Youth work qualification, quite a full on life!

 

Gael is a qualified psychosynthesis therapist and has many years experience of helping individuals, couples and groups to resolve problems and change situations for the better. Before moving to Dorset in 2005 Gael coordinated Bristol MindLine, a helpline for people with mental health difficulties and worked as a counsellor in a secondary school. She then became the manager of the National Bereavement Partnership helpline for several years, before becoming the parenting practitioner for ReRun. Gael has a grown up son and lives in one of Dorset’s many idyllic villages with her artist partner and their adopted eleven year old son. Gael’s passion is writing and she has recently completely her first book, a self help novel for middle aged people.

 

Julie is the team manager for ReRun and has over 15 experience as a Social Worker in Dorset in lots of different settings. She joined ReRun because she appreciates the flexibility that working in the voluntary sector provides and is committed to providing support and services to young people and their families that really make a difference. Julie’s other passion in life is developing her community farm – she grew up on a Dorset farm and is now providing opportunities for young people to learn about the land, caring for animals and the agricultural heritage of our county.

 

 

 

Sarah is the CEO for ReRun but still a youth worker at heart and given any opportunity would rather be working with young people directly or running weekends away with groups. Her background is children’s nursing but having worked in a project for young people who were homeless or in the criminal justice system in New York for two years, she moved into Youth Work almost twenty years ago when she returned to the UK and moved to Dorset. She has worked in several youth centres in Dorset and managed the young people’s advice and information centre in Shaftesbury for four years before leaving to set up ReRun in 2003. She has been a champion for young runaways in Dorset and has been part of the DCSF working parties that have designed the new national guidelines for runaways. She has been a single parent for 14 years and has two teenage daughters.

 

 

 

Suzanne has a wealth of administration experience from sales to book keeping and joined ReRun looking forward to the challenge of keeping the staff on track. Her talents include organising, finding & remembering stuff as well as the usual office duties. When not slaving over a computer, Suzanne has other creative interests to keep her busy.