Steve is the founder and director of Way4ward. He has worked with vulnerable adults and children since 2001. These include children in care, children who are excluded from school or at risk, young people and adults who are engaged with the criminal justice system or released from prison. Vulnerable families, people with mental illness, homeless people and those recovering from addiction.
He has operated at grass roots practitioner level as well as senior executive level. Steve has implemented and managed education and employability programmes for homeless people, ex-offenders, people in recovery and suffering with mental illness. He has developed vocational programmes to support people into various industries.
He is a qualified family mediator, gang’s mediator, life coach, business start up and executive coach, CBT practitioner, specialist mentor, personal development and life skills trainer, NVQ assessor and verifier, fitness instructor, youth worker, Samaritans trainer (suicidal prisoners), practical theologian, lecturer and a criminal justice professional.
Steve delivered building stronger families programmes in the community, prisons, young offenders institutions and detention centres.
He also delivers suicide and self harm prevention resilience programmes for the Samaritans in prisons. He manages some of the most challenging and complex cases in children’s social care and the prison service. These include children and adults suffering from the trauma of abuse, neglect and exploitation.
He holds an Open University diploma in health and social welfare, a degree in social science and psychology, masters degrees in voluntary sector management and an MBA specialising in consultancy and entrepreneurship. He also holds a masters degree in applied theology and missional leadership, and a doctorate investigating the therapeutic impact of faith on the desistance of black male ex-prisoners.
