Idea: Young Lifesaverz - empowering young people with first aid skills

 
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  • Created on: 01 Dec 2008
  • Idea status: Underway
  • Town: London
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We are three university students studying in London, part of a three faiths programme called Parliamentors who wish to start a community project. Our aim is to empower and educate young people via equipping them with a first aid qualification. We feel that this is a very valuable skill to possess, one which benefits all in the community whilst also contributing to ones personal development.

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Can anybody offer advice on first aid courses for youth, or tell of personal experience? Any first aiders or first aid instructors?

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  • Avatar Sarah 15:16, 10 December 2008 J49 Staff Thanks for attending the training session with Rachel last week. You can update . That means that you can all edit and update your idea as you wish, as well as add actions and update your diary.

    There are links below to a couple of ideas on the website which may be relevant to your project, so check them out. Ricky (Talk on First Aid idea) is involved with St.John's Ambulance so he may be able to offer you some advice about first aid courses.
    http://www.junction49.co.uk/idea/1874/talk_on_first_aid/
    http://www.junction49.co.uk/idea/768/st_john_ambulance_links/

    Good Luck with setting up this project.

    Sarah     Report Abuse
  • Avatar Alan Sutherland 20:34, 14 January 2009 Hi,

    Have a look at the Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) website: http://www.rlss.org.uk/ They do some Life Support awards which need a Trainer Assessor. If you give them a call, they will be able to advise you on resources in your area.

    Also have a look at http://www.ulu-lifesaving.org.uk/ who may be able to lend assistance.

    Good luck,
    Alan     Report Abuse
  • Avatar Matthew Connolly 02:09, 11 June 2009 just wanted to point out that 'young lifesavers is actually the old name for youth first aid from St.Johns ambulance, I would offer my help but I already spend a lot of my time teaching teenagers first aid anyways, contact your local St'Johns and they are practically guaranteed to lend a hand, the three qualifications you will be wanting to give the kids are as follows:

    Heart start 6 hours of taught material
    Young first aid 8 hours
    Youth first aid 12 hours

    to teach them you will need a recognised 16 hour course equivalent to first aid at work or similair and you can teach up to 12 children at once, but assess only 6, that you have not taught personally. Hope that gets you further along the path to teaching those kids.     Report Abuse
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