Pupil Referral Units
Reaching young people where they need us most.
YourStance teaches young people at risk of serious youth violence the skills of basic life support and haemorrhage control.
It is run by healthcare professionals who see the consequences of serious youth violence in their daily practice.
Workshops delivered via Zoom to teach, BLS, CPR and haemorrhage control in response to Covid-19 restrictions.
If you find someone bleeding, or are bleeding yourself, know how to stop the bleeding and minimise the damage while help arrives.
In conjunction with local outreach teams, we run sessions on the streets to meet young people at risk of serious violence.
We will come and run workshops to your group of professionals – sharing our experience and advice on opening communication with young people
YourStance started in October 2018 with three volunteers and one mannequin teaching life saving skills in Feltham with Catch 22. Since then the project has expanded, now being able to provide the sessions in alternative education settings, youth detachment venues, and young offending institutes. We have a volunteer database of over 100, all of whom are qualified professionals.
As of October 2019, we are now a community interest company, working in collaboration with the Violence Reduction team at the Royal London, St Giles, Catch 22, London Ambulance Service, and Barts Charity, and are developing our strategy to reach as many young people at risk as possible in the coming year. across the boroughs we reach.
We are volunteers, and are all highly trained experts in emergency and trauma, who have had a broad range of professional exposure to serious youth violence.
This allows us to have open and honest conversations with young people. We see the consequences of serious youth violence ourselves every day in our professional lives.
In our professional capacity we have worked with young people who are difficult to engage, and therefore can employ similar communication techniques in the sessions.
We are also able to talk about career opportunities in healthcare and have been able to open doors to different careers that interest our young people.
Reaching young people where they need us most.
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Founder, and Paediatric sister in A&E at the Royal London hospital with experience of Serious Youth Violence and adolescent care, as well as working in the charity sector.
Paediatric A&E sister with experience of managing critically unwell young people and working in the developing world.
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, Founder of Don’t Forget The Bubbles.
We run in four boroughs in London and will expand over the coming year.
Ana Waddington won RCN Nurse of the Year 2020!
A BBC report on some of the work we do.
The story of how YourStance began.
Article about our co-founder, Ana Waddington.
Whether you are looking to find out more about what we offer, or you’d like to partner with us, we want to hear from you.
Please get in touch.
If you’d like to register as a volunteer, please complete our Volunteer Form here.
We are looking for healthcare professionals to join us and help run sessions.
Please complete the form here and we will be in touch.