Suicide prevention

Online resources to read, and regional training offers about suicide and self-harm awareness, prevention and bereavement.

Samaritans

Samaritans is a charity that provides emotional support to anyone in distress, struggling to cope, or at risk of suicide.

Resources

• If you're having a difficult time
• If you're worried about someone else
• Support from Samaritans for people working in health and care
• In schools
• How Samaritans can help in the workplace
• In prisons | How we can help
• In the military and Armed Forces Community | How we can help (samaritans.org)
• Finding your way – A guide for anyone who is struggling to cope | Samaritans Cymru

Help is at hand

The Support After Suicide Partnership brings together organisations and people with lived experience of suicide bereavement. Its aim is to make sure everyone affected by suicide is offered timely and appropriate support.

Below is a resource for people bereaved through suicide or other unexplained death, and for those helping them.

Talking Faith in Suicide Prevention

FaithAction is a national network of faith-based and community organisations seeking to serve their communities through social action.

FaithAction worked with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council, Westminster City Council, faith leaders from six traditions, front‑line workers and people with lived experience. Together, they developed a resource to support faith‑based conversations about suicide prevention and support after a suicide.

Find out more about talking faith in suicide prevention - produced by FaithAction

Every Life Matters

Every Life Matters is a charity based in Cumbria that focuses on suicide prevention and support for people bereaved by suicide. It also provides a range of training on mental health, self-harm and suicide prevention.

Resources:

Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA)

Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) Resources website was developed to support individuals, communities and organisations to meet people's mental health needs before, during and after experiencing crisis - to ultimately help prevent suicide in the UK and beyond.

The National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA)

The National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA) brings together public, private and voluntary organisations in England that are committed to preventing suicide. Its members work individually and together to reduce suicide and self‑harm, and to support people who are bereaved or affected by suicide.

Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)

Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is a national charity that stands against suicide.

Papyrus

Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide is the UK charity dedicated to the prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing in young people.

Autistica and National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA)

Autistica and NSPA’s guide aims to help those working in mental health and crisis services, to support young autistic people experiencing a mental health crisis.

Thrive LDN

Thrive LDN is a city-wide public mental health partnership to ensure Londoners have an equal opportunity for good mental health and wellbeing.

Other suicide prevention training

The OLLIE Foundation

The OLLIE Foundation is a charity dedicated to delivering suicide awareness, intervention and prevention training by empowering professionals and young adults in their own communities to lead suicide prevention activities.

Phone: 07715 311891
Email: [email protected].

Zero Suicide Alliance

Zero Suicide Alliance free online training courses. These teach you the skills and confidence to have a potentially life-saving conversation with someone you’re worried about. Many of their training courses are available in British Sign Language.

Rethink Mental Illness

Rethink Mental Illness suicide awareness training is for everyone. They charge for training and take bookings from organisations rather than individuals. However, if you live, work, study or volunteer in one of these London boroughs - Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, or Westminster - you may be able to access this training for free.

Phone: 0333 222 5878
Email [email protected].

Thrive LDN

Thrive LDN has partnered with Nicola Lester Psychological Trauma Consultancy to offer free, pre-recorded trauma-informed practice training to support individuals and organisations.

The training takes five hours in total. They have developed a bite size approach - 20 to 30 minutes per week, over eight weeks.

By week 8, a 'Committed to Trauma Informed Practice' certificate with 'Gold-level' status, is awarded on completion.