StepWise is StreetDoctors’ longer programme which runs for 8-10 sessions with the focus on youth engagement and social action.
The StepWise project supports young people affected by violence and trains them in life saving skills and social skills, which develops their self-confidence, communication skills, and inspires them to engage in social action.
Through a peer education approach, it enables the young people to learn and share their gained knowledge, to others in their communities.
The StepWise Programme enables young people to:
- Learn emergency life-saving skills so they can become lifesavers in their communities
- Build their emotional and social skills
- Develop facilitation and training skills to be able to co-deliver emergency first-aid training sessions to their peers alongside our healthcare volunteer trainers
The sessions include StreetDoctors core Reducing Violence Programme (bleeding and knocked out training sessions), a nationally recognised First Aid qualification, mental health and emotional wellbeing session, peer education and facilitation training, a specialist session (dependant on the partner e.g. health care careers event) and the planning/ delivery of the social action element (e.g. Training other young people, supporting the co-design work with StreetDoctors etc).
Each project is tailored to the needs of the young people, partner organisation and commissioners.
Get in touch
If you are interested in finding out more about StepWise and how we could deliver it for your young people, contact info@streetdoctors.org and reference StepWise
StepWise taught me a lot of things. Living in a deprived area, it helps to understand that in a [violent] situation you could help the people around you. It also gave me insight into medicine and I want to pursue it as a career when I’m older.