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We enrich and empower the lives of families in many important ways: SPEECH & LANGUAGE: We offer a speech & language service for children with Down's syndrome attending local mainstream schools, providing extra specialist support not always available in mainstream school. Supervised by a Speech and Language Therapist, we deliver sessions by DSA and Symbol Co-Workers. Sessions run on a 1-1 basis or in small groups, depending on the needs of the children. They take place every Monday during term-time. We work in partnership with external educational services and offer support and communication strategies to teachers or teaching assistants with them visiting and being involved in sessions or us visiting the child's school. PRE-SCHOOL: we provide pre-school Conductive Education classes. These form the core of our service and the starting point for all our children & families time with us. Within the pre-school facility we also provide the following activities: - pre-reading and writing - alternative and augmentative communication - eating and drinking Children & their families usually attend one session per week, and a parent comes with their child so that learning is embedded across the family. All sessions are delivered in small groups where children learn with other children of similar age and developmental needs. Pre-School is linked to the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. GYM CLUB: our gym club provides on-going support in the form of a specialised activity club for children with cerebral palsy aged five years and over. As with our speech and language service, gym club provides extra support that might otherwise not be available. Family members attend with their child, and each child has an individual plan which is self-evaluated by the child after every session.

The Community First Responder scheme recruits volunteers from the University of Nottingham student cohort in Nottingham and Derby. EMAS train and award volunteers with a nationally recognised qualification in emergency care over a four day course. The course provides training in emergency resuscitation techniques and lifesaving first aid. On completion of this course, volunteers are deemed competent to respond as a part of our scheme. Our responders volunteer on a rota system in support of the ambulance service, responding to high priority 999 calls potentially anywhere in the East Midlands. By acting as an additional resource to the ambulance service, they reduce the time members of the public have to wait for emergency intervention when every minute counts, as well as supplementing their own experience that will benefit the NHS in the future. We have two dispatch points, one in Nottingham and one in Derby, where our two vehicles are based respectively. We have sixty students from a variety of degree disciplines and have been operational since April 2014. By responding to emergency calls our responders have already had a real and significant impact on the health and lives of residents in the communities of Derby and Nottingam. Responding to patients homes, leisure centres and public places, there really is no limit to where our volunteers can help the community. During our first year, we have provided assistance ranging from early access to lifesaving drugs and resuscitation, to reassurance in peoples most desperate time of need. For every minute that a person in cardiac arrest has to wait for a defibrillator, their chances of survival decrease by 10%. By having people with the right training and the right equipment in the right place as soon as possible, the patient has the absolute best chance of survival. We arrive before EMAS 50% of the time. Our responders have been to a range of calls, including cardiac arrests. Four of our responders have been presented with awards for returning a patient’s heart in cardiac arrest back to normal rhythm before a regular ambulance resource arrived. In other words, as a direct result of our work, four people were brought back to life for at least long enough for their family to say goodbye. Everything use "in anger" whilst attending calls is replaced by the ambulance service, however the scheme is responsible for capital investment in equipment. We are currently fundraising to purchase purchase a new piece of equipment that has been proven to significantly improve the outcome when used on patients in cardiac arrest. It delivers chest compressions to patients in place of manual compressions from rescuers who are only effective for the first two minutes. It allows rescuers to concentrate on making sure other equipment is in place and working effectively maximising the delivery of oxygen to the brain whilst attempts are made to restart the patient’s heart.