The east to west Hospital Project provides pastoral care and support for young people aged 7-21 ( and their families) who’ve attempted suicide, self- harmed and/or facing emotional crisis.

The east to west project operates within St Peter’s hospital in clinical areas where patients with self-harm related attendance may be found. This is primarily in Paeds ,A&E and Ash ward but may extend to other wards where patients aged 7- 21 are admitted.

The project is non-clinical and does not replace or duplicate any other service. Referrals can be made by the young person, parents, professionals or hospital staff

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If you’d like to find out more about joining our team of hospital volunteers you can do this through our volunteer section of our website

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The team also offers follow up support with young people and their families in their local community once discharged from St Peter’s.  These 1:1 sessions mainly take place in local venues such as coffee shop however there is an option for the hospital project to refer to our relational support workers based in the schools and colleges.

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To make a referral for our follow up support for yourself or someone else, please complete the form below:

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

When we're doing follow up support, we arrange to meet young people at times and places that suit them. This could be in a school, or in a cafe or coffeeshop. Unfortunately we are unable to offer home visits.

If a young person is under 18 and has self-referred, we will need a contact number for their parent or guardian and we will call that person before the first follow up meeting to ensure that they are aware of who we are and what type of support we are offering.

If there are concerns for a young person's safety in travelling to and from a follow up session, it will be the responsibility of the parent/guardian to facilitate this

If you are at all concerned about this, please discuss it with us as we want our support to be something that is of help to the whole family during a difficult time.

Please also be aware that when we have a session with the young person the parent/guardian remains responsible for the young person's safety and should only agree to them meeting us if they're confident that the arrangements are suitable .

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