World Suicide Prevention Day

It’s World Suicide Prevention Day today (10^th September).

Why today is so significant…

Suicidal thoughts are unfortunately more common than people realise and it remains the biggest killer of men under 49 and women aged 20-34. It is a really tricky subject to navigate and discuss, so we would like to get involved with the theme this year of “Changing the Narrative on Suicide”, encouraging people to talk and have conversations to allow the stigma around it to change.

Suicide awareness training

So today, or indeed any time that suits you, I hope you will join me in watching the following suicide awareness training. Suicide awareness training (zerosuicidealliance.com). The course is approximately 20 mins long and hopefully gives you some skills and confidence to have a conversation with somebody, that could potentially be lifesaving.

Other tools available

There are lots of other tools available too including on this site Welcome to The Suicide Prevention Hub – Suicide Prevention Hub (suicidepreventionhubblmk.co.uk) which also signposts to other services such as the Samaritans and Bereavement support.

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Sarah Drage, Managing Director