Tracey Hemmerdinger
Manager, Safe Space Qualified youth and community worker and trainer with over 30 years of experience in the field. Currently managing Safe Space, commissioned by the NHS, which offers up to 72 hours of respite to 16- and 17-year-olds in mental health crisis.
About this speaker
Tracey is a qualified youth and community worker and trainer with over 30 years of experience in the field. She began her career as a detached worker on the streets of East London where she became known by young people for the support she gave around housing and homelessness. Since then she has worked as a youth adviser, trainer, manager, advocate and consultant whilst all the time maintaining an element of face to face work. She was founding chair for a youth homelessness charity in Eastleigh in 2014. From 2016-2019 she studied Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh and has worked in this field ever since.
She currently manages Safe Space which was commissioned by the NHS last June and offers up to 72 hours of respite to 16- and 17-year-olds in mental health crisis.
In her spare time she likes to keep active and particularly enjoys open water swimming and hill walking.
