Meet Us

Network

The LAH Network is comprised of survivor activists, community advocates and multidisciplinary practitioners from various backgrounds.

The Network has four CIC Directors, two operational and two consultants, who work alongside a Coordinating Group (CG) responsible for the management of the Network based on proactive collaboration and co-production between survivors and professionals. Our Network Members also play an important role in developing our activities and resources via consultations, experience sharing and ideas to bring our communities together and make London a truly ACE-aware metropolis.

Learn about our roles, passions and commitments below and get in touch if you would like to contribute to our work.

Coordinating Group

Rebecca White

Network Secretary

Rebecca has a background in public health and psychology. She is particularly interested in how health systems, community-based services and communities themselves can enable the right circumstances for people to thrive. Most recently she has worked in policy and programme management for Body & Soul charity, focusing on embedding trauma-informed practice within and beyond the charity’s doors.
It was through this work that Rebecca came to know the London ACEs Hub (LAH) at its inception. LAH’s aim to promote trauma-informed and resilience-led practices across London connected with Rebecca’s passion for social justice and a desire to create lasting systemic change towards a healthier, more equitable society. Rebecca continues her support of the LAH as Secretary, newsletter editor and active member of the Coordination Group.

Vittoria De Meo

Co-Production Lead

Vittoria is an active campaigner of mental health and is passionate about supporting people to have a say in the mental health services they receive. She is an Independent mental health advisor, workshop’s facilitator and a mentor with coaching skills.
Vittoria works with a variety of organisations including Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS providers and the Royal College of Psychiatrist. She co-facilitates away days, educational sessions and training to hospital staff, particularly emergency department staff and mental health nurses. She has been invited to various Conferences as a speaker. Her main topics: Self-empowerment, how do you define compassion, searching for a meaning and purpose in life and self-awareness.
She is the founder of The Happiness Corner model: ‘The Happiness Corner is the embodiment of my life experiences, the different techniques and modules I learned and the right answer to an unwavering passion for elevating the lives of others and help them make progress’.
In 2019, she founded FOR WOMEN CIC whose mission is to assist and encourage women to strive for wellness in all areas of their lives and to create spaces where women can support and encourage each other through their lived experience. So far, she has facilitated over 100 sessions to over 300 women coming from different cultures and background.
She joined the London ACEs Hub in 2019 as an expert by experience and is now a proactive member of its Coordinating Group.

Learn more about Vittoria's work outside the LAH here:
https://www.forwomengroup.org.uk/

Koya Cassandra Conteh

Racial Justice Lead

Koya is a Therapeutic Wellbeing Practitioner and Dramatherapist who uses expressive forms of psychotherapy through the mediums of therapeutic communication and the Arts.
With over ten years practising within the helping professions in fields such as youth work, mentoring, and therapeutic key working, she specialises in supporting individuals and families who have experienced and been affected by trauma. Koya’s work focuses especially on emotional issues, ACEs, CSA, group related activities and racial trauma. In addition, she is also working extensively with children and young people who are either at risk of becoming involved with or have been in contact with the criminal justice system.
Koya is a womanist and therapeutic cultural activist advocating for the equity of trauma-informed care for the psychological, emotional and physical wellbeing of people of African descent. As a member of the London ACEs Hub, she is actively involved in promoting the ACEs racial justice agenda and awareness in greater London and beyond.