Emerge are a voice of hope, providing compassionate support for the recovery of young people aged 10 to 25 in Royal Surrey hospital and in the community following self-harm, a suicide attempt or emotional crisis.
Our staff and volunteers are specially trained and have a passion to help young people engage with support and activities that will help them move forwards. We love to spend time supporting them in hospital and in the months of follow up we offer too, reconnecting young people with a sense of hope in their future and empowering them to take the next steps towards this.
And what we do complements the treatment offered by nurses, doctors, CAMHS, psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners. They don't have the resources they would like to offer the time and reassurance to distressed young people that makes a real difference.
We have the time to chat with them about whatever is most helpful, sit with them, play games, relay information to staff on behalf of them, talk to parents. All this helps them take the first steps towards recovery as they move from totally shutdown to flickering back to life.