Priority 3: Impact

Our challenge

As decisions are increasingly taken at a local and regional level which impact on suicide prevention, we lack the resources and systems to make effective change at national, regional and local levels.

Our ambition

To make suicide prevention a priority nationally, regionally and locally for governments, public services and businesses, so that fewer people die by suicide.

We'll push harder to make suicide prevention a priority nationally, regionally and locally across the UK and Republic of Ireland, working collaboratively to make changes that saves lives. We will listen to people who have been affected by suicide or suicidal thoughts and identify key areas that need more research, in order to help us make the greatest change.

We will:

• Play a lead role in the implementation of Wales’ suicide and self-harm prevention strategy, Talk to me 2, and in the development of its successor.
• Support the Cross-Party Group on Suicide Prevention in the Welsh Parliament.
• Influence policy and practice relating to suicide prevention in Wales proactively through engagement with politicians, policy makers and practitioners, reports, roundtables, surveys, briefings and consultation responses.
• Influence action on priority issues such as self-harm, at risk groups, poverty mitigation, young people and crisis response.
• Increase understanding of suicide prevention through the promotion of our media guidelines, media work, use of Samaritans service insights and increasing use of the voices of lived experience.
• Seek collaboration with other organisations where this will add value to our work.