On the Wednesday before Christmas, my colleague and friend Laura and I went to help out with the Great Ormond Street and Radio Lollipop‘s Rockin’ Reindeer Christmas parties. Usually we volunteer for Radio Lollipop in Great Ormond Street on a Wednesday evening. We spend two hours after work each week visiting and playing with children on the wards,…
Author: Clare Foster
Using the web to provide peer support for emotional health and wellbeing
This is a write up of my thoughts, experience and findings from the In Petto conference ‘Exploring Online Peer to Peer Support’ in Antwerp. I attended this, along with a volunteer peer advisor last November. Structures and systems for providing online peer support. At the conference we were focusing in more depth on peer support and…
Exploring different types of online support
The concept of ‘types of support’ as a way of understanding the services thatTheSite.org offers. I recently had to give a overview of TheSite.org to a group of business leaders. In order to help the delegates understand how young people use our online services I decided to focus on exploring the types of support we offer. I…