StepWise

StepWise is a peer education programme over 3 months which enables young people at risk of violence to learn, share and teach emergency lifesaving skills. Young people are provided with first aid accreditation, career guidance within the healthcare sector and co-facilitate sessions alongside our trainee healthcare professionals.

Step One

1. Young person attends a StreetDoctors ‘what to do when someone is bleeding’ module
2. Young person attends a StreetDoctors ‘what to do when someone is unconscious’ module
3. Young person attends a one day accredited first aid at work course
4. Young person attends a careers day to explore pathways into healthcare professions

Step Two

5. Young person receives training to co-facilitate sessions with StreetDoctors volunteers

StepWise Pilot Cycles

2018: at Wetherby Young Offender Institute funded by Scurrah Wainwright Trust
2018/19: at Voyage and JAGS Foundation in London funded by MOPAC
Late 2019: at Voyage funded by Hogan Lovells and in collaboration with London’s Air Ambulance Charity
2020: further cycles funded by Continuation Funding from MOPAC’s London Violence Reduction Unit

If you have questions about StepWise please contact our Youth Engagement Manager Joanna Vidal, at joanna@streetdoctors.org.