Suicide prevention online resources and further training
Online resources to read, and regional training offers about suicide and self-harm awareness, prevention and bereavement.
Samaritans
Samaritans is a registered charity aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in emotional 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 suicide bereavement organisations and people with lived experience, to achieve a vision that everyone bereaved or 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.
In collaboration with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council and Westminster City Council, representatives of six faith traditions, front-line workers, and people with lived experience, FaithAction developed a faith resource to support faith-informed conversations about suicide prevention and postvention.
Find out more about talking faith in suicide prevention - produced by FaithAction
Every Life Matters
Every Life Matters is a Cumbrian Suicide Prevention and Suicide Bereavement Support charity, and a provider of a broad range of mental health, self-harm and suicide prevention training.
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) is an alliance of public, private and voluntary organisations in England who care about suicide prevention and are willing to take individual and collective action to reduce suicide and self-harm, and support those 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.
Good Thinking
Good Thinking is a digital mental wellbeing tool that provides safe, proactive and early intervention tools to Londoners.
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.
Call 07715 311891 or email: [email protected].
Zero Suicide Alliance
Zero Suicide Alliance FREE online training courses 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 the London Boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea or Westminster, you may be able to access this training for free.
Call 0333 222 5878 or 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.