On 5th December our CEO was invited to give oral evidence about men’s mental health and suicide risk to a Parliamentary Select Committee. She drew on the experiences of male clients at our Suicide Crisis Centre over the past decade.... Read More

A article in the Metro newspaper this weekend highlights the increased need for our suicide crisis service in December and January, and explains some of our clients’ experiences of accessing our services. “It’s a place that’s full of hope, because... Read More

Our CEO attended the All Party Parliamentary Group on Suicide and Self Harm Prevention. She spoke about open-access psychiatric crisis services, the training of psychiatric crisis teams, the waiting times for psychological therapy under secondary mental health services and issues... Read More

We have provided another suicide prevention awareness training session for the British Transport Police for their police officers in England and Wales. Next month we will be providing suicide prevention awareness training sessions for staff in an NHS Trust in... Read More

We were invited by the British Transport Police to provide a suicide prevention webinar for their police officers across the UK on World Suicide Prevention Day. We will be providing another suicide prevention webinar for them in January.... Read More

The new “Saving Lives” blog website features articles written by Joy, the founder and CEO of Suicide Crisis. It includes new articles, as well as some of her articles featured in national newspapers including “Men and suicide: what they are... Read More

Joy, our Founder and CEO, was named in the Independent newspaper’s “Happy List” 2019. The list is “an antidote to awards that celebrate wealth or celebrity”. The Happy List celebrates people in the UK who “give rather than take”. Everyone... Read More

Joy, our CEO, was a guest on the BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine show on Wednesday 10th October, talking about trauma, suicide and the work of our Suicide Crisis Centre. Her interview is right at the beginning of the programme,... Read More

At our recent Oxford conference we talked about our work and how we have achieved zero suicide. There was a particular focus on men and suicide, and we are extremely grateful to our male clients who spoke at the event.... Read More

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