Suicide prevention online resources
Below you will find a list of online resources to read about suicide awareness and prevention as well as bereavement.
Samaritans
Samaritans is a registered charity aimed at providing authentic listening 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
- How Samaritans help in prisons
- How Samaritans help in the Military and Armed Forces Community
- Finding your way, a guide for anyone who is struggling to cope
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.
Downloadable resources:
- Safety plan
- Wallet card
- Worried suicide wallet card
- Self-harm: Information for parents and carers
- Self-harm: What you need to know
Zero Suicide Alliance
The 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 resources are primarily aimed at those who work in suicide prevention, health and social care professionals, and other local and national leaders, but they welcome everyone to explore them.
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. The CALM Guides cover many issues and give friendly, practical information to help people understand challenges and how to find support and move forward.
Papyrus
Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide is a UK charity dedicated to the prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing in young people.
Suicide is the biggest killer of people aged 35 and under in the UK.
For help and advice, visit the Papyrus website
People with autism – suicide safety plan
The safety plan is to help plan for times when there are strong thoughts, feelings or urges to end life.
There is also space for the person to set out how people can best support them.
The form can be completed by the person experiencing suicidal feelings or with a trusted friend or family member, health care professional, or support worker.
Find out more about the safety plan
Autistica and NSPA
This 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 London is a citywide public mental health partnership to ensure Londoners have an equal opportunity for good mental health and wellbeing.
They bring together ideas, inspiration and resources to help build resilience, improve wellbeing and learn from community experiences.
Good Thinking
Good Thinking is a digital mental wellbeing tool that provides Londoners with safe, proactive, and early intervention tools. Good Thinking has created this guidance to help you cope with your grief and support others through bereavement.
Find out more about Good Thinking
More training options
The OLLIE Foundation
OLLIE is a charity dedicated to delivering suicide awareness, intervention and prevention training by empowering professionals and young adults in their communities to lead suicide prevention activities.
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Providing confidential help and advice to young people and anyone worried about a young person
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Helping others to prevent young suicide by delivering a number of training programmes
Call: 07715 311891
Email: [email protected]
Find out more about The OLLIE Foundation
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.
Find out more about Zero Suicide Alliance.
Rethink Mental Illness
This session 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.
The session is four hours, plus a one-hour break. They can also deliver this training as two 2-hour sessions on different days. They can provide this training either as an online course or face-to-face.
Delivered through a range of activities and case studies, the modules covered are:
- How to look after yourself
- The stigma associated with suicide and how we can challenge this
- Warning signs of suicide
- How to hold a safe conversation with someone who is having thoughts of suicide
Call: 0333 222 5878.
Email: [email protected]
Find out more about Rethink suicide awareness training
Thrive LDN's trauma-informed practice training
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 to complete. In response to feedback, they have developed a bitesize approach to help the learning process.
In the eight-week programme, you spend 20 to 30 minutes per week engaging with the training.
The training will be finished by week eight, and learners will be awarded the gold-level status 'Committed to Trauma Informed Practice'.
Find out more about Thrive LDN's trauma-informed practice training.