Biography

Diana Birch founded the charity Youth Support in 1986 arising out of work with young people and children in deprived situations and she works exclusively for the international charity. She believes in bringing creative work - drama, art and music to disadvantaged children and has produced many short videos covering these activities.

Diana Birch has wide experience of children and adolescents, of their health and development, psychology and emotions. She believes in working at 'the front line' engaging directly with youth in their own environments and has worked with many ethnic groups in many countries - USA, Europe, Russia, Jamaica, Japan, Afghanistan to name but a few. She traveled 'under cover' in Afghanistan, able to blend in with other mothers and to interact with children on their own level. Diana is a firm believer that we are learning all the time ... 'I have learned a great deal from my young patients and from children and youth all over the world'; she brings inimitable skills to the field of work with youth.

She has bilingual roots, her Italian mother was 'liberated' in world war II by her English father. Trained at the Royal Free & St George's, interest in youth arose on starting advice clinics for schools. The medical side of her work includes child protection, family assessment, family disorder, alcohol and substance abuse as well as work with refugee minors. Research in teen pregnancy earned a Doctorate at London University. She holds Fellowships of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Society for Adolescent Medicine (USA). Author of many books, interests include drama and animal therapies and she has directed film projects for the charity.
- IMDb mini biography by: Youth Support