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Our Suicide Crisis Centre in The Independent and “i” newspapers

Our thanks to The Independent and the “i” newspapers for their articles about our Suicide Crisis Centre last week which explain some of the ways in which we differ from other organisations and why those differences have helped ensure that... Read More

Please Don’t Call Us ‘Difficult To Engage’

Joy has written a piece for the Huffington Post about people who psychiatric services sometimes describe as “difficult to engage”. She explains that we need to understand why people aren’t engaging. Services have a responsibility to help people to connect... Read More

Daily Express article about our Suicide Crisis Centre

Thank you very much indeed to Martin Barrow and the Daily Express for this article about our work. It is really helpful in explaining how we work, and it reflects very well our ethos. Martin includes in his article a... Read More

“Suicide Crisis, I owe you my life”

Thank you so much to Gloucester’s main newspaper, the Gloucester Citizen, for their two-page feature about one of our clients: “Suicide Crisis saved my life”. This was to mark our third anniversary of providing services. We are extremely grateful to... Read More

Raising Awareness Of Our Work Across The South-West

In 2015 we gave a presentation to the steering group and reference group of the South West Zero Suicide Collaborative (SWZSC), one of 3 pilot schemes for the Government’s zero suicide initiative. They described our work as “inspirational” and “extraordinary”.... Read More

National Lead On Suicide Prevention

In November the National Lead on Suicide Prevention for Public Health England (Helen Garnham) visited our Suicide Crisis Centre. As a result, she asked us to give a presentation at an event in London this month for Public Health Leads,... Read More

Shadow Minister for Mental Health Visits Our Suicide Crisis Centre

Thank you so much to the Gloucestershire Echo for their coverage of Luciana Berger’s visit to our Suicide Crisis Centre this month. The link to the article is below:- http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Shadow-mental-health-minister-Luciana-Berger/story-28489597-detail/story.html... Read More

Luciana Berger, Shadow Minister for Mental Health, Speaks About Our Suicide Crisis Centre

Thank you very much to Luciana Berger, the Shadow Minister for Mental Health, who visited our Suicide Crisis Centre yesterday, the 7th January 2016. In the interview that she gave to BBC Radio Gloucestershire about our Crisis Centre, she said:-... Read More

Large Number Of Crises At Christmas

Special thanks for everyone who has been working at our Suicide Crisis Centre and our Trauma Centre over the Christmas period. We have had a large number of emergency situations in recent days where we have also needed to involve... Read More

World Mental Health Day

We are massively grateful to the Gloucester Citizen today for their two-page feature on the background to the setting up of the charity and reasons for it, including the founder’s own suicidal crisis in 2012. In the print version they... Read More