Join the call for governments to properly resource, support and train frontline workers in suicide prevention
Any of us who are having thoughts of suicide, and the frontline workers who could help us, are both being failed right now. Frontline staff are overstretched, under resourced, and many don’t have the support or training they need to spot someone in crisis and support them.
This is why we need to call on governments to make sure that all frontline workers have the support and resources they need to get proper suicide prevention training and put it into action to help save lives.
Those of us who are struggling, united with the frontline, have real power to hold governments to account – and let them know that all of us deserve better.
When I started as an A&E nurse out of university, I’d been given no formal suicide prevention training. Mental health was just brushed over.
A&E nurse
We are calling on governments to:
- Pay for and put in place detailed suicide prevention training across their frontline workforces.
- Take action to make sure that frontline services are properly resourced, and staff supported, so that workers can attend training and put into action what they’ve learnt, to help save lives that could be lost to suicide.
No one should be slipping through the net. Sometimes it's difficult to reach out. It takes someone to ask the individual if they are feeling suicidal or are planning to take their life. Frontline workers have the perfect placement to have a conversation to save someone's life, no one should go unnoticed or not be truly seen.
Tim Adwick, campaigner with lived experience
This campaign is focused on frontline workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but we work across all four nations of the UK and also in Ireland to influence suicide prevention policy in a range of ways to achieve our mission that fewer people die by suicide.