HDN Webinar: Menopause Support

Housing Diversity Network

Do you feel comfortable talking about the menopause? Is your workplace supportive? What more should we be doing?

<h2>All genders welcome!</h2>We believe everyone should know more about the experiences of those experiencing perimenopause or menopause, and encourage all genders to register for this webinar to increase understanding and reduce stigma. Join a range of speakers as we hear about some of the basics around menopause and perimenopause, what organisations are doing to support colleagues, and what opportunities there are to do even better.<h2>Our panelists</h2>Michelle Gascoine - Associate Trainer, Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace<blockquote>Michelle is a freelance menopause coach and both an Associate Trainer and the NHS &amp; Healthcare Lead for Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace. Henpicked are an award-winning professional services company making it easy for you to get everyone talking about menopause. Their goals are to build understanding, create confidence, allow managers to give clear support, and make change happen – with the belief that organisations need to take menopause in the workplace seriously. </blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>Nina Kuypers - Founder, Black Women in Menopause<blockquote>Nina is founder of Black Women in Menopause. She started this because, as a Black woman, she discovered there was a gap for UK Black women to connect with each other and have a safe space to share their experiences and support each other. </blockquote><blockquote>Her passion stems from her own menopause travels. This has led Nina on a journey during which she has learned (and continues to learn) so much along the way that she wanted to share her experiences in the hope that other black women would not feel alone. Her aim is to make people more aware of the diversity of menopausal experience across ethnic groups to create challenge within the menosphere not recognition.</blockquote><blockquote>Nina regularly speaks at events and for organisations, where she provides an insightful and impactful journey of a Black woman through menopause. Nina has also spoken at the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Menopause, APPG Women’s Health group, and has contributed written evidence to the APPG Women’s’ Health review Menopause at Work.</blockquote><blockquote>Nina also has a particular passion for health and nutrition and has over 25 years of experience, with a focus on evidence-based intervention design, development and implementation. Nina is a board member for Hwupenyu Health and Wellbeing Project, which is a charity based in Glasgow, who provide support for Black ethnic communities in Scotland living with chronic health conditions. Nina is also a trustee for Black Beetle Health who are dedicated to promoting health, wellbeing and equality for LGBTQ+ Black and People of Colour.</blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>Tracy Harrison - CEO, Northern Housing Consortium<blockquote>Tracy Harrison is Chief Executive of the Northern Housing Consortium, which represents the views of housing organisations in the North of England. Prior to joining the NHC in 2006, Tracy held a variety of senior marketing and business development posts in blue chip private sector organisations, including Fast Moving Consumer Goods giant, Robert McBride, and Sage Software. With the housing sector’s ever-increasing focus on driving efficiencies, she has been instrumental in ensuring that NHC offers its members products and services which support them with achieving this aim and developing solutions which can help improve the service they offer to their customers.</blockquote><blockquote>Tracy has also helped to develop NHC’s influencing activities, particularly around addressing decarbonising the North’s homes and housing’s role in the rebalancing. She is also a Trustee of Age UK North Tyneside.</blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>Karen Lawson - Community Investment Manager, Grand Union Housing Group<blockquote>Karen is the Community Investment Manager for Grand Union Housing and has worked within this field for 19 years. In her own words:</blockquote><blockquote>“I fell into community development (as it was then called) and indeed housing. I began my career working under SRB Round V funding (remember that, anyone who’s old enough!) on a regeneration scheme with a two-year fixed term contract. After being made permanent I stayed for 13 years and held several roles comprising neighbourhood regeneration, working with young people, strategy (and completed my post grad in management), and laterally undertook employment support &amp; some money advice – all of which proved great groundwork for my next career move, to Grand Union.”</blockquote><blockquote>“I have now been at Grand Union for six years managing a team of colleagues who work on key themes (youth, employment, wellbeing and the vital health and housing agenda). I love community investment and passionately believe that without these roles, housing would not achieve the great results they do. The 2010 Marmot review said that ‘health inequalities arise from a complex interaction of many factors - housing, income, education, social isolation, disability - all of which are strongly affected by one's economic and social status’. I truly believe this and that what we do collectively &amp; collaboratively matters. So with our collective housing and Community Investment minds, just about anything is possible.”</blockquote>Sarah Hudson - Deputy Chief Pharmacist &amp; Medicines Safety Officer, SW Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust<blockquote>Sarah has been a pharmacist for 26 years and is currently the Deputy Chief Pharmacist at a large Mental Health Trust. She is a member of a menopause support group, and slowly becoming an expert in HRT – due to her age and that of her friends! In her spare time Sarah likes reading, traveling, and theatre. </blockquote>

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