Youth Development Champions Project

Meet our team of champions

Our team has been selected for their significant knowledge of positive youth development and their wealth of practice-based experience in a range of settings.

They are experts in a range of fields and all highly skilled at communicating complex ideas and supporting others to understand what PYD and the PYDA document could mean in their life and mahi.

Penny Prescott

Youth Development Champion – Facilitator | Waikato Tainui

Penny has worked predominately in youth sector and workforce development, Māori development and Restorative Justice. Throughout all of her mahi she utilises the outcomes and approaches of the PYDA, whether working with young people or with adults.

Currently Penny works for the Youth Development Champions Project in project and training development, as well as delivering the PYDA training. She has been a Restorative Justice Facilitator since 2009, specialising in cases that involve young people or whānau Māori. Penny also contracts as an individual or group supervisor, and in various facilitation and project roles.

Penny has previously worked in Māori student development at the University of Canterbury, and in youth sector development for Rerenga Awa. She lives in New Brighton with her whānau, and volunteers on the Governance Board for her local community preschool.

Angelina Tivalu

Youth Development Champion – Facilitator

Angelina has worked predominately on the East Side of Ōtautahi/Christchurch. Her youth development experience includes working in both faith-based and education settings, with a specific focus on positive outcomes for Maori and Pasifika, wider community development at the grassroots Youth Development Work level. Angelina started and managed a local youth organisation Strengthening Linwood Youth Trust/Kāwai Rangatahi.

Angelina has also worked in Social Services with dual roles of Community Engagement and overseeing Te Ao Māori parenting programmes. Then moved into working in a kaupapa Māori youth development organisation. Angelina also works in the wider youth work sector to strengthen youth work practice with youth work supervision, strengths coaching, code of ethics training and other working groups.

In reflecting on ourselves and our practice we can obtain best practice for the positive development of young people in Aotearoa.

Dame Sue Bagshaw

Youth Development Champion - Facilitator

Sue Bagshaw is a primary care doctor specialising in adolescent/youth health. She has worked in a one-stop community youth health centre (YOSS) for 10-25 year olds, which she helped to set up. She is working with others to set up a Youth Hub of services, creativity and transition housing.

She is a senior lecturer in adolescent health in the Department of Paediatrics at the Christchurch School of Medicine, and she is an educator with the Collaborative Trust (a research and training centre for youth health and development, which she also helped to set up).

She worked for the Family Planning Association for 20 years and worked for ten years part-time on the Methadone programme in Christchurch: which is why she has interests in common with young people – sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll!

Jono Campbell

Youth Development Champion - Facilitator | Ngāti Porou

Jono began his youth work journey as a rangatahi in Te Hou Ora back in the 90s. Over the last 3 decades, he has continued on that journey through his experiences as a teacher, coach and youth worker. Currently, the CEO of Te Ora Hou Ōtautahi he is continues to be passionate about exploring the role of Traditional Indigenous youth development principles in Urban communities.

Lydia Newlands

Youth Development Champion - Facilitator

Lydia has worked in the youth sector since 2011 in a wide variety of areas. She has worked in community youth work, residential youth work, school-based youth work, managed a youth centre and a team of youth workers, as well as working in the youth leadership and participation space.

Throughout her years of working in the youth sector she has seen firsthand both from on-the-ground experience and while supporting and managing others who work with rangatahi, just how important it is to develop and upskill people who work with rangatahi.

John Harrington

Youth Development Champion - Facilitator

I am the Manager of Scope Aotearoa Charitable Trust. I managed the Scope Review tool under Rerenga Awa formerly the Canterbury Youth Workers Collective and the Canterbury Youth Workers Training Forum for 6 years and then founded the Trust so Scope Reviews would be owned and delivered by an organisation that had a national identity so the review tool could be rolled out nationally.

I have been working in the youth sector for the last 46 years as a volunteer/paid Youth Worker and led the establishment of Te Ora Hou in Christchurch, Cross over Trust and the Hoon Hay Youth Centre. I also led the forming of the National Youth Workers Network Aotearoa. For 16 years, I worked for the Canterbury Youth Workers Collective developing Youth Work in Canterbury.

I sit as Chair on the Industry Partnership Group for the WelTech Bachelor of Youth Development and served on the working group that established Korowai Tupu the professional association for Youth Work in Aotearoa.

Emma Peek

Youth Development Champion - Facilitator

Emma has worked in the youth community since the late 90’s. She currently works in a leadership role with the Here Toitū service at Pegasus Health.

She lives with her wife and their dog and enjoys spending quality time with them. Emma is passionate about social justice, inequality, equity, and supporting our rainbow communities.

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