Pauline has over 20 years experience of working in social care settings, namely homeless and alcohol & drug treatment/rehabilitation services, in the UK and Ireland. Since joining Coolmine in June 2004 Pauline has held several management positions within the organisation. Pauline was appointed Chief Executive in 2013 and reports directly to the Chair of Board. Quarterly board meetings are held to ensure the strategic development of the organisation is achieved. Pauline’s qualifications include an MSc in Drugs and Alcohol Policy from Trinity College Dublin. Pauline is currently the voluntary sector representative on the Standing Sub Committee (SSc), Department of Health, Chair of the National Voluntary Drug & Alcohol Sector (NVDAS) steering committee and board member European Federation of Therapeutic Communities (EFTC). Pauline has contributed to various expert groups, sectoral and local forums throughout her career. Pauline’s key skills and areas of interest include change management, evidence based practice, treatment and rehabilitation longitudinal research, best practice quality standards, inter-agency working and service user participation strategies.

Jarlath is a Chartered Accountant with over has over 30 years of experience in senior Finance roles in Ireland and overseas

Julie is the nursing manager in Coolmine TC, responsible for overseeing the acute and chronic physical and mental health support needs of the clients in Coolmine. In addition, Julie is responsible for overseeing complex admissions including maternity transfers, clients with dual diagnosis and methadone detoxes. Julie oversees all training to staff in relation to physical and mental health support needs including naloxone training, medication dispensing and health promotion workshops. Julie is also responsible for overseeing Quality standards , health and safety and alignment of evolving and changing practices are in line with Good Practice standards and National Guidelines.
With a background in general nursing, Julies expertise lies in oncology, haematology, HIV, sexual Health and infectious disease. Julie is also accredited in addiction studies and with a background in both nursing and addiction, Julies expertise lies in managing clients with complex addiction and health needs access and attain treatment. Julies passions lies with assisting clients with multiple physical and/ or mental health access treatment and creating pathways for these clients.

With more than 14 years of experience working in social care settings, Lisa has worked in family support environments, with young people and in addiction treatment services. Lisa’s passion lies in the Therapeutic Community (TC) model and she is an accredited Therapeutic Community Lead reviewer with the Communities of Communities (Royal College of Psychiatrists, London). Lisa has three TC practices published on the Ecett E- Learning Platform and she is a Board member on the ECEtt Networks, a European training by travel exchange initiative. Lisa’s degree lies in Social Studies and she has also studied Leadership and Management in the non-profit sector. Lisa is trained in Servant leadership and she is passionate about developing Coolmine staff to reach their potential as Leaders through a shared approach.

Having worked in the community for over 14 years, David worked initially as a trainer with long term unemployed and then coordinating training in a disadvantaged community. He then went on to manage a community based adolescent service delivering evidence based practices to the Mid-West of Ireland. David believes strongly in supporting people to achieve their potential through a mix of evidence based practices, relationships and empowerment.

Having been involved in the caring professions since 2012, Stephen has a wealth of experience across a number of different sectors of Social Care. Stephen started out in youth work where he worked primarily with young people in diversion, education and drug and alcohol prevention projects in socially disadvantaged communities across the East region. From there he worked as a manager at a Crisis Intervention Service which supported young people who were homeless or were at risk of becoming homeless. Stephen also has a lot of experience in low threshold addiction and homeless services, having managed the largest low-threshold homeless service outside of Dublin, before joining Coolmine as our Regional Service Manager in the South-West. Stephen also lectures and tutors in Social Care and has worked in third level education since 2017. Stephen holds a first-class honours degree in Applied Social Studies in Social Care and a Master’s degree in Research.

Stephen believes in the need for education and lifelong learning for those in recovery, as an agent of empowerment and change.