What do you do at IUCSF?
I am a Support Officer and I support those who have been impacted by suicide.
Describe why you’re at IUCSF?
I have personal experience of being bereaved by suicide due to my Dad taking his own life in 2017. I didn’t just lose my Dad that day, I lost my hero and my best friend aswell as any sense of who I was and I was unable to see any form of happiness ever again.
Then If U Care Share came along and supported me and I honestly believe that they saved me. Finally I was understood and I didn’t feel alone.
I then went on to be a volunteer before going onto being employed as a Support Officer and join an incredible team.
This isn’t a job to me, it is who I am now and it is my daily mission to give people the hope and a life worth living that I now have.
I am the proof in the pudding that If U Care Share can change and save lives and that there always is a way.
If you could travel to anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Anywhere as long as the sun will be shinning and I can lie around the pool of a lovely all inclusive hotel.
What are some things that make you happy?
- My little Westie Billy
- Long walks on the beach
- Big bubble baths!
- What is your favourite biscuit, and why?
- Millies double chocolate cookie.
Anything else you would like to share with the world?
I completed the Yorkshire 3 Peaks!