Training College:
Training College Instructors
Diane Froggatt, BMus, Bed, Secretary/Public Relations and Development Officer — Diane was Executive Director of WFSAD from 1987-2004 and previously worked as an educator and in public relations. Diane has developed many of the WFSAD's educational materials. She has a 40-year-old son with schizophrenia.
Dr. Grainne Fadden is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and Director of Meriden, the West Midlands Family Programme. The Meriden Programme has trained over 2000 people to work with families and been awarded joint-winner of the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE) 2003 Positive Practice Award for "Modernising Mental Health Services" and winner of the "Social Care Award" (Midlands and East Region) in the Health and Social Care Awards by the Department of Health. Dr. Fadden’s career has focused on the area of family work in clinical practice, research, training and more recently in relation to influencing organisational change to incorporate family work routinely into mental health services. She has also written extensively on the effects of mental health problems on families, the ways in which families can be supported and on the training of mental health professionals to work with families, including books, book chapters and research articles. Dr. Fadden is a member of the NIMHE Service Users and Carers Expert Group and its Psychosocial Interventions Implementation Group.
Bridget Hough spearheaded the complete revision of WFSAD's family education project entitled: Reason To Hope. She is by profession a medical illustrator who came to serve with the Schizophrenia Society (Canada) as a result of her son's illness. She is a trainer in the "Strengthening Families Together" Program of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada, and the President of the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario.
Margaret Leggatt, A M, PhD, B App Sc (O.T.)— former president of WFSAD and founder of the Victoria State Fellowship in Australia, is passionate about improving the lives of families who live with mental illness. Presently, she is working with the Early Intervention Team run by Professor Pat McGorry in Melbourne. During her presidency of WFSAD, Margaret established the Families as Partners in Care Strategy.