1,000 signatures reached
To: David Cameron - Prime Minister
Improve Mental Health Care in Hull and East Yorkshire in Memory of Jarrad Joseph Grainger
We are petitioning to get Child and Adolescence Mental Health Services Reinstated in Hull and East Yorkshire (CAMHS).
We want to improve the Mental Health services available in Hull and East Yorkshire and make them more easily accessible for people in need.
We need more funding for our current Hull and East Yorkshire Mind Charity to be able to increase the services they have to offer, they need more staff to be able to respond to people in need that bit faster, they need more staff to be able to work all hours as Mental Health patients do not just have problems Monday-Friday this is a 24/7 thing and we need more 24/7 help in Hull and East Yorkshire.
We need to raise more awareness and stop the stigma that surrounds Mental Health/Illness.
Why is this important?
This petition is highly important to myself and my family, our friends and the local community. This is because on 6th September 2015 my cousin Jarrad Joseph Grainger took his own life, he was only 21 years old. I am starting this petition on behalf of my auntie Nadine West - Jarrad's mother. We are wanting to stop this from happening to more people as this is an all to common occurrence these days.
We need help in reinstating 24/7 care for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Kingston upon Hull. Vulnerable patients do often need 24/7 care and sometimes need to stay in units for anywhere between a few days and months at a time, the closest unit to Hull is approximately 42 miles away meaning that when children/adolescents need to stay in the units they are kept many miles away from their families making it hard for them to visit making them feel even more isolated.
We need to improve the care that Hull and East Yorkshire currently has to make it ALOT better than it is, patients need better care and for it to be more accessible. People searching for help who contact these Charities are often left for days or weeks without a reply to the shout for help, we need to change this urgently!
The stigma surrounding Mental Health and Illness needs stopping, we need to raise more awareness about this to give people a better understanding, the more people that know about Mental Health/Illness the better chance we have at helping those in need.
We couldn't help Jarrad and we lost him, we were too late. So we will do this in his memory, we will help those we still can. We will improve the services in Hull and East Yorkshire and we will prevent people deteriorating from Mental Health/Illness and we will save them.
Jarrad Joseph Grainger, Forever Young - this is for you xx
