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The great thing about being an askTheSite Online Peer Advisor is that you can do it from anywhere - so long as you have an internet connection. Miriam volunteers as an Online Peer Advisor after work in her office and she finds the scheme offers not just a rewarding experience but transferable skills she finds beneficial in her day-to-day work. Even though Suzanne has a busy schedule, she still finds volunteering as an Online Peer Advisor incredibly rewarding and a fascinating challenge Chau describes how she volunteers her time to be an Online Peer Advisor and the rewards she takes from it. Andy explains how flexible it is to volunteer as an Online Peer Advisor even though he lives and works in Sheffield, miles from where introductory training takes place in London. Welcome to askTheSite, where TheSite.org puts you in direct contact with expert advisors across a range of topics. What is askTheSite? Through our partnerships with well-known information-providers, askTheSite offers free, confidential, answers to your questions within three working days (that's Mondays-Fridays 9:30am-5:30pm). We're currently answering queries to do with general health, drink and drugs, housing, legal and rights, mental and emotional health, money, relationships, and sexual health. Andrea Scherzer (also relationships advisor and mentor on askTheSite) and Katie Hamilton went on GMTV to talk about YouthNet's new project providing online support on the issue of self-harm. Old (bad quality) clip from ITV London News about the peer advisor project when just started in 2005. |
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