Joanne King

Project Manager

Joanne is a compassionate and strategic leader with extensive experience in designing, delivering and managing innovative partnership projects which span across multiple sectors such as Criminal Justice, Homelessness, Poverty Alleviation, Mental Health, Substance Misuse, and Domestic Abuse. With a focus on systems change, she specialises in managing complex, multi-stakeholder relationships across local authority areas, driven by her passion for social justice and empowering people and communities to make positive changes, including ending domestic abuse. Holding a Postgraduate certificate in Business and as a highly skilled social entrepreneur, Joanne has secured millions in funding for the voluntary sector, ensuring resources reach marginalised communities. 

Joanne has extensive experience in the domestic abuse sector, managing whole-family projects and perpetrator/behaviour change programmes for clients at all risk levels, including high-risk/high-harm/MAPPA cases. Since joining My CWA as Project Manager in January 2022, she has expanded the scope and capacity of multiple interventions, including Reset, Engage, the Custody Suite project, Bail Support, and Perpetrator/whole family Workforce Development Training, which was commissioned across several local authority areas in Cheshire and Nationally. 

In September 2023, Joanne contributed to the development of our new whole family/perpetrator model, the “Engage Approach” by creating the Age, Stage, and Phase strategic framework which now encompasses all perpetrator/whole family projects. This model has attracted interest from local authorities and Police and Crime Commissioners nationally.  

Joanne holds qualifications as a Level 3 Perpetrator Programme Deliverer, Level 3 Parenting Practitioner, and Level 4 PTTLS Practitioner. She has recently completed training in managing Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs). Her professional curiosity about non-fatal strangulation led to police system changes, meaning automatic referrals to MARAC, enhancing support for victims, as well as systems change in relation to the cross referencing of MARAC and suicide data. She has also successfully managed external evaluations of key projects, consistently delivering results within budget and exceeding KPIs.