Today is Suicide Prevention Day. This year the international theme is ‘Creating Hope Through Action’ to focus on and explore the complicated idea of ‘hope’ in suicide prevention.
Below are some useful resources:
- #AskNowSaveLives
- There is a wonderful app that you can download called Save Lives. Read more about how it can help you and others here.
- You can find lots of useful resources for people we support about this subject here.
- Suicide awareness course in British Sign Language (BSL) here.
To keep up to date with all things mental health, look out for Shirley’s monthly blog. Here is her September blog. Shirley has been a mental health nurse for 28 years and works in Achieve together’s Health and Wellbeing Team. Her main role is to facilitate mental health and related subjects.
