Joana Neves

Joana joined CDHN in July 2022 as Community Engagement Officer. Joana has previous experience of participating and running service user groups which have had a key focus on co-production and high levels of service user involvement. They have centered around using young people’s experiences and their voices in order to make positive changes for the services which they use. Joana also works as and when within children’s residential services within the HSC. She graduated from Ulster University in 2020 with a BSc Accounting and Human Resource Management and is on track to complete a MSc Strategic Accounting in December 2022. She is passionate about co-production, building up communities and promoting learning through lived experiences. Joana is a mother of one and is currently constructing a Lego city with her seven year old.